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- ‘CHUCKY’ IS BACK… THIS TIME WH YOUNG GAY PROTAGONIST, JAKE; IT’S A HORROR CULT-CLASSIC MEETS BURGEONG GAY LOVE ON USA/SYFY TV SERI
- CHUCKY IS BACK & QUEERER THAN EVER THANKS TO HIS GAY CREATOR
- CALCIATORI GAY: IL G OUT è DIFFICILE NEL LC I TABU
- IS DON MANCI GAY? KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS AMERIN FILMMAKER!
- DEBBIE REYNOLDS: ‘EVERYONE I DATED WAS GAY. EXCEPT FOR ROBERT WAGNER’
‘CHUCKY’ IS BACK… THIS TIME WH YOUNG GAY PROTAGONIST, JAKE; IT’S A HORROR CULT-CLASSIC MEETS BURGEONG GAY LOVE ON USA/SYFY TV SERI
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But Chucky has also offered the out gay filmmaker an opportuny to exprs his queer inty his art, by jectg queerns to the films on var levels "dramatilly, subtextually, metaphorilly, [and] stylistilly, " he says. "Once we troduced Jennifer Tilly's character, the Bri of Chucky, Tiffany, that brought a certa edic mp vibe, which I thk is kd of historilly a hallmark of gay culture, " he explas. It's centered around Jake Webber (Zackary Arthur), a gay, bullied teenager who happens upon a Chucky doll at a garage sale.
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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.
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But Chucky is also a PFLAG Don Manci, the gay man who created the Chucky character, “Chucky” (premierg Tuday on USA and Syfy) is more than jt the anchise’s first foray to episodic televisn.