Contents:
- “STILL NOT AS GAY AS TWILIGHT”: POSTMORN AFFECT, NOSTALGIA & QUEER TWILIGHT RENAISSANCE DURG THE COVID-19 PANMIC
- TWILIGHT’S ASHLEY GREENE ON ALICE CULLEN BEG MANY FANS’ ‘GAY AWAKENG’
- HALSEY WANTS TO MAKE A GAY "TWILIGHT" SEQUEL WH KRISTEN STEWART
“STILL NOT AS GAY AS TWILIGHT”: POSTMORN AFFECT, NOSTALGIA & QUEER TWILIGHT RENAISSANCE DURG THE COVID-19 PANMIC
As the Twilight novels and rpective film adaptatns were released om 2005 to 2012, however, the public receptn of the saga faced a homophobic backlash. Although blatant heterosexualy is non Twilight, meang that heterosexual relatns are the official narrative the story, the saga generated a lossal moral panic and homophobic rhetoric. Die-hard fans of Twilight—or, Twihards—were met wh an extreme gree of unpopulary that was herently characterized by homophobic unrton (Bernard 2017; McFarland 2013a).
TWILIGHT’S ASHLEY GREENE ON ALICE CULLEN BEG MANY FANS’ ‘GAY AWAKENG’
Acrdg to “Know Your Meme, ” a webse that talogu viral ter mem, one of the most proment anti-Twilight mem was the “Still Not as Gay as Twilight” meme (2011). Agast the backdrop of this mass homophobic shamg the early 2000s, there has been a rurgence of the Twilight fandom across social media spac, cludg Twter, Tumblr and Facebook.
Not only do a signifint portn of the Twilight Renaissance fans intify as a part of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng, and others (LGBTQ+) muny, but many of the origal characters the seri have been d as queer by mass Twilight Renaissance members (Dishmon 2018; Silva 2019). Dpe Meyer’s (2005) aggrsive heteronormativy, there has been a rurgent tert ‘gayifyg’ Twilight as a re pillar of the onle Twilight Renaissance phenomenon.
HALSEY WANTS TO MAKE A GAY "TWILIGHT" SEQUEL WH KRISTEN STEWART
I then nceptualize the Twilight Renaissance as an exemplar of Butt and Millner-Larsen’s (2018) “queer mons, ” where queer Twihards nstct a space or this se, fandom, an attempt to revive and repair a historilly homophobic narrative.
One of the most memorable anti-Twilight mem is the “Still Not as Gay as Twilight” (2011) meme seri, which dismissed homoerotic imagery and same-sex activy as pable of ever beg as gay as Twilight. Neverthels, agast the backdrop of homophobic anti-Twilight shamg durg the early 2000s, openly engagg the queer readgs of Twilight outsi of the fanbase was que embarrassg. In extrapolatg Williams’ (1977) nceptn, the Twilight Renaissance n be read as a symptom of an emergent unterculture that dispts the prevly-domant misogynistic and homophobic stcture of feelg, of which the anti-Twilight hatred of the early 2000s is a symptom.