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‘CHUCKY’ SPOFF CENTERS A GAY TEEN LOVE STORY THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU CRY

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 gay pride *

“As a gay guy, ’s somethg that’s creasgly important to me. Longtime seri star Jennifer Tilly, who voic fan-favore character Tiffany, agre wh Manci's sentiment, sayg, “I thk a lot of the Chucky movi have been very gay iendly. In 2017, Cult of Chucky add another LGBTQ+ character wh Zak Santiago's Nurse Carlos, who intifi as gay.

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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.

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Longtime seri star Jennifer Tilly, who voic fan-favore character Tiffany, agreed and said, “I thk a lot of the Chucky movi have been very gay iendly. 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.

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.

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Chucky is no Harvey Milk, but the killer doll wh fire-red hair om openly gay creator Don Manci is, at least, a good queer-affirmg dad.  Dad, you * chucky gay pride *

Particularly as a gay guy, " he says. RELATED | Syfy's Chucky Will Have a Gay Protagonist.

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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.

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