Bette Midler said her new film 'Hoc Poc 2' don't add or subtract om her "gay in" stat.
Contents:
- DISNEY IS GIVG THE GAYS WHAT WE WANT WH HOC POC 2 AND NEW PRI SERI
- ‘HOC POC 2’ OFFICIALLY STARTS FILMG
- WHY THE SANRSON SISTERS OF 'HOC POC' ENDURE AS GAY INS
- NO, BETTE MIDLER DON’T THK SHE NEEDS ‘HOC POC 2’ TO RENEW HER GAY IN STAT: ‘THIS IS GLOBAL, GIRL’
DISNEY IS GIVG THE GAYS WHAT WE WANT WH HOC POC 2 AND NEW PRI SERI
Disney is givg the gays all we want wh a new six-part documentary seri about the history of Pri and a long-awaed Hoc Poc 2. * hocus pocus 2 gay couple *
Hoc Poc is an inic Halloween film and the book is likely to garner a wi dience ( currently tops the Amazon chart for YA Gay & Lbian Fictn). The 1970’s helped fe a natnal movement, om the first Gay Pri march, to the rise of artists like filmmaker Barbara Hammer and poet Audre Lor, to the nontatn of tersectnal femism and the backlash and opposn om the relig right.
New York Cy the 1980’s, revigorated by the prr era’s sexual revolutn and the ascendance of the Gay Liberatn Front, saw an flux of queer people to downtown Manhattan and the rise of the unrground ball scene.
‘HOC POC 2’ OFFICIALLY STARTS FILMG
Wh plenty of mp and whimsy, the Sanrson Sisters of Hoc Poc ntue to endure as ins for the gay muny. * hocus pocus 2 gay couple *
At the same time, the AIDS epimic vastated the gay muny as Ronald Reagan and his Moral Majory refed to tervene. Episo 6 – 2000’s: Y2Gay. The 2000’s hered a new age of queer visibily where gays and lbians were gag acceptance the mastream media.
Wh blk-and-you’ll-miss-them gay characters appearg their Marvel movi, Pixar movi and film blockbters – isn’t time we took centre stage?
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WHY THE SANRSON SISTERS OF 'HOC POC' ENDURE AS GAY INS
It also serv as an important b of queer cema — important many ways bee of the young dience Hoc Poc isn't particularly gay, wh no LGBT characters, s queerns is prent nearly every element. The stg alone is imprsive, wh Midler, Najimy and Parker each enjoyg a sizable gay fanbase. Hoc Poc 2 is more diverse a way that's not credibly obv, other than a tokenized gay uple who got a sgle send of cuddlg on the uch.
The pic follows a group of queer bt iends who gather Fire Island P for their annual week of love and lghter, but a sudn change of events might make this their last summer gay paradise. It’s the bewchg rnn that gays fans have been wag for sce the origal Hoc Poc was released 1993. Hoc Poc 2: A Gay Movie?
Gay bloggers have been llg for Hoc Poc 2 for years, dubbg the 1993 movie as “Bt Gay Halloween Movie” and a “queer inography. ” There is also a full le of merchandise around “Hoc Poc Ma Me Gay.
NO, BETTE MIDLER DON’T THK SHE NEEDS ‘HOC POC 2’ TO RENEW HER GAY IN STAT: ‘THIS IS GLOBAL, GIRL’
While Hoc Poc isn’t particularly gay, wh no LGBT characters, s queerns is prent nearly every element. “The actual story of Hoc Poc als wh male sexualy a fascatg way, ” wrote gay journalist Kev O’Keeffe 2015. Wnie, Mary, and Sarah are mp queens embodied by gay ins.
Though nearly everyone mak Hoc Poc a part of their annual spooky season viewg, no one gags as hard for the film’s tr of villas que like the gays. But jt what is about the famo sisters that mak them the five queens of Halloween for gay fans? The mp sensibily, though sometim attributed to var popular culture artifacts, is a specifilly queer athetic traced to gay men’s relatnship wh classil Hollywood cema.