Wh DCnU on the horizon, and speculatn nng amok about where favore plots might land once the tornado of alternative timele has died down, there’s been a lot of ic talk office chats about our much-beloved gay and lbian vigilant. Before any more ms of movi e out, or new ntuy throws all for a loop, we thought would be a good ia to round up June dog what half of every major cy (and que a few small on) on the pla is dog right now; celebratg Gay Pri Month. It was high time we actually gave space to LGBT issu, given the month, but also general. (Whstandg the panrg of X-Men: First Class do not unt.) But jt as much as we want to showse characters who kick ass and take nam, we hope that youll also enjoy the ltle history lsons.
Contents:
- BADASS GAY
- EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
- 10 BADASS GAY CHARACTERS
- DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
BADASS GAY
<p>Glaad study says only 17 of 102 major stud films last year featured gay characters, wh the majory of them offensive</p> * bad gay characters *
Eventually, is revealed that his father died when Waylon was a child, jt fluencg the dience’s assumptns that a man only grows up gay if he don’t have a father his life.
Smhers is the token ‘only gay the village’ of Sprgfield who is ed as a ‘love tert’ for whatever sparse gay characters e to the show for an episo (see the character of John om Homer’s Phobia).
Otherwise known as the character through whom Ryan Murphy virly liv, Kurt is the effemate, cryg, fashn-obssed, boy soprano that every straight girl wants as her ‘gay bff’. Inially obssed wh his straight step-brother, and then eventually fdg love wh another gay stereotype, Kurt is the stereotype that has been phed to shows and movi for years.
EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
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Cam and Mchell are the sexls, bnch-eatg queens who uld have been one of the bt pictns of a healthy gay relatnship on mastream televisn. The episo alt wh Mchell’s aversn to public displays of affectn… So, they blame the gay character and his father’s closed off emotns for the men not kissg. ‘Gay Prit’ – Pa & Ga.
Michael Bay uldn’t be nsired a man who would wre an accurate and/or sympathetic view of homosexualy. However, that don’t stop this film om pictg gay liftyle even more offensively than you would expect. Though the film is based on a te story, this was not any part of the real storyle so, basilly, Michael Bay jt thought would be hilar to clu an old gay letch and watch him get beaten up by a huge body builr.
Another vir dive by Ryan Murphy to the liv of succsful and lovg gay men a mastream show. It’s also another show riddled wh more stereotyp than you would hope om a gay wrer.
10 BADASS GAY CHARACTERS
From Alexanr the Great to Ronnie Kray, the hosts of the Bad Gays podst reveal the most villao LGBTQ+ figur ever – and expla why ’s important to discs the problematic alongsi the good * bad gay characters *
Though n be ld for pictg surrogacy and gay parenthood, did they really have to go wh such obv pictns of the ‘man and woman’ relatnship? There are lns of gay people and there are more typ of relatnships than the heteronormative trope of The New Normal. Sure, had s issu and was fely not perfect, but managed to show at least a few different pictns of gay people.
Then Ldsay has sex wh a man bee that’s clearly what lbians do, but eventually the women get back together and take their children to Canada… The land of the gays.
The mpy and, admtedly, terrible film is yet another one which picts gay-for-pay lbianism but the real issue is that of the trans* character, Z-Man. © 2014 GCN (Gay Communy News).
DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
* bad gay characters *
A study by the US gay rights mpaigng anisatn Glaad has found that only 17 of the 102 movi om major studs 2013 featured lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr characters and, of those 17, the majory were offensive and famatory portrayals. "Sony Pictur was the only stud to e out of the study wh a "good" ratg, for s posive gay characters films like street-dance movie Battle of the Year and big-budget fantasy The Mortal Instments: Cy of Bon, scribed as "perhaps beg the most clive mastream film release of 2013". Pa & Ga and We're the Millers were acced of "gay panic" story elements, while Mart Srse's The Wolf of Wall Street is cricised for s gay butler character, seen havg an y: "Whatever mor narrative purpose this character serv is pletely over-shadowed by the sense that 's also one more example of the ma characters' outrageo behavur the dience is ved to take light watchg.