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.
TWILIGHT’S ASHLEY GREENE ON ALICE CULLEN BEG MANY FANS’ ‘GAY AWAKENG’
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). 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.
HALSEY WANTS TO MAKE A GAY "TWILIGHT" SEQUEL WH KRISTEN STEWART
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. 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.