Yterday at Salon, Caleb Cra, thor of the highly praised novel Necsary Errors, talked a b about beg a gay novelist and the effects non-heterosexual subject matter has on the chanc for a novel’s publitn. In rponse to a qutn…
Contents:
- OFFICIAL LIST OF GAY SUBTEXT FILM
- REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED
- 15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
- GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
OFFICIAL LIST OF GAY SUBTEXT FILM
Disney films have always ronated wh queer and trans dienc. Here are the gayt films the non. * gay subtext film *
Disney, wh s famo reticence toward pictg openly gay characters almost certaly didn’t tend to produce an overtly gay narrative Mulan.
As Sean Griff’s book Tker Bells and Evil Queens not, Disney has long targeted gay dienc — and partly bee queer dienc are experts at -optg ostensibly straight narrativ for themselv.
“The ia that lbians and gay men uld be watchg Disney and g the texts (films, TV shows, theme parks, rerds, etc. “Historil evince dit that lbians and gay men have read Disney artifacts om a non-heterosexual viewpot throughout the pany’s history...
REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED
A list of 425 films piled on Letterboxd, cludg The Servant (1963), Kamikaze Girls (2004), Women Love (1969), The Sger Not the Song (1961) and The Browng Versn (1951). About this list: Very loosely ranked. The on near the top are personal favor of me I already have my honorary gay movi list but I ma that before I really got ser about gay subtext so I mixed them together wh movi that I claimed to be gay culture jt by nature of the them athetic etc. SO I cid to make a dited list of actual gay subtext (characters/relatnships) sce people kept askg me for recs Feel ee to leave recs but I want to keep this as solely my own list of movi that have my stamp of approval sce I n only tst myself wh the thgs. gay subtext watchlist here though! * gay subtext film *
As long as evince showed that homosexual dienc were unrstandg Disney through a ‘gay sensibily, ’ then a relatnship existed whether Disney approved of or not. The one notable exceptn to this le is Bety and the Beast’s Gaston, a villa tentnally signed to be so manly that he be herently homoerotic.
15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
Rebel Whout A Cse boasted some pecially groundbreakg them for the era which was ma, and here’s the movie’s gay subtext explaed. * gay subtext film *
Villas regularly bee gay ins; Disney prc are equently reamed as gay men; and so many people have read Frozen’s Elsa as queer that the ph to give her a girliend has bee a proment media narrative around that anchise.
GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
It’s probably not a cince that several of the films volved Howard Ashman, a gay mil lyricist who -wrote the sr to The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast and shaped the story ncept of Aladd before his ath 1991.
There are a few characters the Disney non, like Bety and the Beast’s Gaston, who are seen as homoerotic paragons. But perhaps the most heartbreakg gay readg of Bety and the Beast volv the story of the Beast himself. ” That isn’t unlike the prejudice felt by gay men like Ashman, who was alg wh AIDS plitns while wrg the lyrics for the songs of the origal animated movie.