Good Omens shownner Neil Gaiman rponds to fans' qutns over whether Michael Sheen and David Tennant's Aziraphale and Crowley are gay.
Contents:
- AT HEART, AMAZON’S GOOD OMENS IS A GAY SMIC ROM-AT HEART, AMAZON’S GOOD OMENS IS A GAY SMIC ROM
- WHY GOOD OMENS BOSS NEIL GAIMAN WON'T LABEL AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY AS GAY
- GOOD OMENS EP ADDRS WHETHER AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY ARE GAY
AT HEART, AMAZON’S GOOD OMENS IS A GAY SMIC ROM-AT HEART, AMAZON’S GOOD OMENS IS A GAY SMIC ROM
Fans of Good Omens have been shippg Aziraphale and Crowley as a gay uple for years, but thor and shownner Neil Gaiman ref to label them this way * good omens book gay *
Meanwhile, Crowley is perpetually followed by a soundtrack of on-the-nose Queen songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody, ” which blar om the Bentley he driv to the fal Omens is, at s heart, a smic gay rom-, wh bad-boy Crowley temptg Aziraphale to get out of his fort zone and enjoy life, while Aziraphale simultaneoly lur him to beg a better, ls selfish person. When asked directly if Crowley and Aziraphale are a gay relatnship together, Gaiman told a fan onle that, "They're an angel and a mon, not male humans.
Gaiman has nfirmed more than once that Crowley and Aziraphale are love, but labels like gay, bi or even pansexual don't que f this stance. However, if Gaiman ever did ci to fe the central love story as gay or trans or ace, then that would also trample over other readgs which actually mean a lot to more margalised members of the queer muny. At the same time, those who want to label them as gay are not beg exclud, eher.
In fact, terpretg Aziraphale as flat out gay even ma to the books:.
WHY GOOD OMENS BOSS NEIL GAIMAN WON'T LABEL AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY AS GAY
This publisher's first novel is a gay, mented chatologil farce which the Antichrist don't really have his heart years before the end of the world foretold by accurate but obscure Agn Nutter's propheci, Sister Mary Loquac—the Satanist charged wh swchg the fant Antichrist wh another fant—flubs the job when a third fant is troduced to the scenar, and the Lord of Darkns gets shunted asi favor of Adam Young, who grows to boyhood wh an unfortable sense of missn. Awaed wh fear by angelic Aziraphale and monic Crowley—iendly rivals who don't want their worldly tug-of-war to end—wh zealo hatred by Wchfr Sgt. Shadwell and harlot-massse-medium Madame Tracy, and wh ecstatic anticipatn by latter-day Nuttere Anathema Device and Newton Pulsifer, who bounc om Shadwell's employ to Anathema's bed, the apolypse looms—drippg wh throwaway allns, giggly footnot, and broad swip at the cle of the Wt. It's the ultimate Saturday night bummer, fueled by a miraculo thoand-ton theft of nuclear fuel and the termatn of Adam's gang Them to follow the trail of the Four Bikers of the Apolypse. Hilarly nghty, and jt what you'd expect om a llaboratn between ics-veteran Gaiman and fantasist Pratchett (Strata, 1981; The Light Fantastic, 1983). A bt-seller England, and a book to watch uld tch on wh the Douglas Adams crowd. * good omens book gay *
“Many people, meetg Aziraphale for the first time, formed three imprsns: that he was English, that he was telligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nro oxi.
So ll them trans gay men.
GOOD OMENS EP ADDRS WHETHER AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY ARE GAY
While he never nfirms what some rears have long spected—that Crowley uld be gay or bisexual—Gaiman has some advice for those takg the fan fictn game a b too serly: "Make fun fan fictn.
"If I were to Pronounce on thgs that are not explicly stated the book, I still wouldn't be tellg you if Crowley was Canonilly Gay, " Gaiman nclud.