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Contents:
- IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
- THE UPG ‘CHUCKY’ REBOOT IS SO GAY IT’S SRY
- JENNIFER TILLY EXPLAS HOW 'CHUCKY' BEME THE QUEERT SHOW ON TELEVISN: 'IT'S A GIFT TO THE GAY MUNY'
- HOW DID CHUCKY GET SO GAY? LGBT IN JENNIFER TILLY DISH ON HORROR SAGA’S QUEERNS & WARNER BROS.’S RISTANCE TO THE LBIAN LOVE IN ‘BOUND’
- ‘CHUCKY’ SPOFF CENTERS A GAY TEEN LOVE STORY THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU CRY
- CHUCKY’S TV SERI JT FEATURED S FIRST-EVER GAY KISS
IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
The posssed doll basilly shouted "gay rights" the new SYFY seri, and fans nnot handle . * chucky that is so gay *
Chucky is changg the horror game once the latt, fifth episo of the Chucky TV seri, Jake, the 14-year-old gay protagonist got his first kiss, and uldn't have happened a better and his iend Devon have been gettg closer all season, dancg around their feelgs. The two actors are perfectly adorable, brgg to life a young first gay kiss. 1634695696The Chucky TV seri, which airs on Syfy and the USA work, is created by Don Manci, the gay man who origally started the Child's Play movie anchise.
He wanted to make the star of this new Chucky seri gay orr to brg some much need reprentatn to the horror genre. Christe is another a bullied kid gets supernatural revenge, you know, none of those movi has a sgle gay character them.
THE UPG ‘CHUCKY’ REBOOT IS SO GAY IT’S SRY
The new seri will feature a gay teen disverg his inty — and hangg wh a serial killer doll. * chucky that is so gay *
chucky-gay-in. The story centers Jake, a gay teen bullied by his classmat and fay, who stumbl across the Good Guy Doll and tak him home.
JENNIFER TILLY EXPLAS HOW 'CHUCKY' BEME THE QUEERT SHOW ON TELEVISN: 'IT'S A GIFT TO THE GAY MUNY'
Tilly says there's been no "backlash" to the show's storyl volvg gay and genrfluid characters. * chucky that is so gay *
"If a supernaturally posssed murro doll n say 'gay rights' so n you! " wrote one this make Chucky a gay in?
Chucky seri stillThe ongog panmic may be puttg a damper on gay Halloween this year, but the good news is if we have to stay this year, the new Chucky seri is g to save the season bee 's, well, super gay. Created by out gay filmmaker Don Manci, the anchise has long fed a queerns to s films, whether that's the high mp of Jennifer Tilly’s character Tiffany Bri of Chucky, a meo om gay in John Waters, or troducg Chucky’s nonbary child Glen/Glenda Son of Chucky.
Wh this latt entry the seri, however, a gay character tak center Comic-Con@Home, Manci revealed that Jake Wheeler, the character who happens upon a Chucky doll at a garage sale, is a gay teen who’s stgglg wh his sexualy and bullyg while growg up a small town. ”The show also offers Manci the chance to explore the experience of a gay teen disverg his sexual inty. So, 's safe to assume the mp and humor that has ma this anchise a gay fave isn't gog anywhere this time new seri will foc on how an idyllic Amerin town is thrown to chaos after Jake disvers the doll and begs s killg spree.
HOW DID CHUCKY GET SO GAY? LGBT IN JENNIFER TILLY DISH ON HORROR SAGA’S QUEERNS & WARNER BROS.’S RISTANCE TO THE LBIAN LOVE IN ‘BOUND’
Chucky, wh his fiery red hair and ightengly loyal pledge to be "your iend till the end," was never gay by sign. But 1998, four films to the * chucky that is so gay *
In his new seri, Chucky go out of his way to show his allyship, gog so far as to murr our young hero Jake Wheeler's (Zackary Arthur) homophobic father Le (Devon Sawa) at the end of the first episo. Chucky killg Jake's homophobic father and tellg Jake that he has a queer kid of his own who he's ol wh (bee he's "not a monster") are jt scratchg the surface.
" So the fale, when Chucky Prime lash out one fal time by cricizg Devon and Jake for beg "so gay" before Jake strangl him to ath, 's not as hateful as uld be. "When he says 'That's so gay, ' 's almost like I n say that to one of my gay iends bee we're both gay, " Manci explas. "I love tryg to keep h, but also jt the rponse to that I've heard om young gay horror fans, and that's who we did that for, was to give young queer horror fans reprentatn the lead a show, " Manci says.
His protagonist, Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), is a 14-year- old gay boy and doll llector who fds Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) at a yard sale.
‘CHUCKY’ SPOFF CENTERS A GAY TEEN LOVE STORY THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU CRY
* chucky that is so gay *
So I thk 's good to give kids who are horror fans someone to intify wh, " he for his film reer, Manci, 58, found the horror genre to be "a hospable place" for him as a young gay man startg out his 20s -- although he adms he was "relatively discreet" around stud executiv about his inty. Particularly as a gay guy, " he says. RELATED | Syfy's Chucky Will Have a Gay Protagonist.
Sce s premiere on Syfy and USA last month, Chucky has emerged as arguably the queert seri on mastream televisn, wh multiple storyl featurg gay and genrfluid example, the show's teenage hero, Jake (Zackary Arthur), has a ser csh on another boy at school, Devon (Björgv Arnarson) — feelgs that turn out to be reciproted. "I thk 's a gift to the gay muny, " she tells Yahoo Entertament, notg that Child's Play creator, Don Manci, is an out gay screenwrer.
Chucky and Tiffany's child was origally glimpsed the closg moments of Bri of Chucky, but the next film officially tablished them as genrfluid — one of the many elements that ed the stud to reject Manci's script as "too gay. I happen to love , but was so mpy and so gay; I mean, we had John Waters playg a pervy paparazzi!
CHUCKY’S TV SERI JT FEATURED S FIRST-EVER GAY KISS
As the first Child’s Play stallment wh a gay lead, the new TV seri Chucky, airg now on Syfy and USA, is reclaimg a trope that’s dogged the slasher genre for s: that of the queer-d villa. * chucky that is so gay *
"I have a iend wh tw boys that are eighth gra, and one of them is gay, " she says. "He thks I'm the greatt person on Earth, bee I'm on a show where the lead character is gay! And 's jt treated as a matter of fact thg: the whole show isn't about Jake beg gay.
"Chucky has a huge gay dience, a huge straight dience and a huge kid dience... Chucky, wh his fiery red hair and ightengly loyal pledge to be “your iend till the end, ” was never gay by sign.
But 1998, four films to the “Child’s Play” anchise, the undyg slasher flicks centered on a ghastly ’80s-era talkg doll took a mpy, gay turn wh the sequel “Bri of Chucky. Doublg as Tiffany and herself is lbian fave and voice of the plastic assass Jennifer Tilly, who returns for the Good Guy doll’s seventh film, “Cult of Chucky, ” to wreak havoc on the patients and staff at a mental stutn, among them a gay nurse named Carlos (Zak Santiago). Tilly, gay-adored star of screen and stage (and also an Osr nomee for her memorable role Woody Allen’s 1994 black edy “Bullets Over Broadway”), spoke wh her tramark kid-like nce about the extreme gayns of the Chucky movie and the latt film’s clever homag to her groundbreakg lbian classic “Bound.