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Contents:
- 21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
- EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
- MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC
- PEOPLE ARE JT FDG OUT COLMAN DOMGO FROM "EUPHORIA" IS GAY, AND I'M LOVG THE PICS OF HIM AND HIS HBAND
21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
However, tertgly the scen of heteronormative high school romance are terspersed wh shots of the boys wrtlg sglets that have a distctly homoerotic tone, as well as a shot of Cal starg at Derek adjtg himself the r, makg clear that there’s fe potential for the boys’ relatnship to move beyond the platonic.
Thgs culmate on the night of their high school graduatn when Derek suggts they take a trip to the lol gay bar bee he knew they’d get served there whout an ID. Euphoria's sophomore season was a roller aster of emotn. In season two episo three ‘Rumatns: Big and Ltle Bullys‘, which dropped on NOWTV the UK this week, the show’s rint villa Cal (Eric Dane) was given a gay orig story worthy of s own movie.
EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
Gay. While Euphoria's first season tablished Cal as an outwardly succsful man wh a secret life, the send season spent two episos lvg to Cal's backstory and then the breakdown he experienc, which clud a spectacular tellg off of his fay, when he n no longer nceal his inty as a gay man any longer.
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MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC
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PEOPLE ARE JT FDG OUT COLMAN DOMGO FROM "EUPHORIA" IS GAY, AND I'M LOVG THE PICS OF HIM AND HIS HBAND
In season two, Sam Levson tri to humanize this character and stead falls to the trope of excg vlent and homophobic behavr jt by virtue of the character beg closeted. It is not empowerg or acceptg: creat a skewed view of homophobia that ultimately lets sli.