Is Richie gay 'IT Chapter 2’? Bill Har plays the character the new movie, and he harbors a secret attractn to one of his bt iends.
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IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?
)Is Richie gay 'IT Chapter 2’? Is Richie gay IT Chapter 2?
Details on the secret the character has throughout the film, and how Pennywise tri to e agast Richie gay IT Chapter 2? The movie slowly reveals hts of him beg gay, and he even mentns several unsuccsful relatnships wh women the movie. The ia of Richie beg gay is not pletely absent om the book versn of IT.
Watch what the filmmakers had to tell about Richie the vio Chapter Two ma text what had only been subtext Stephen Kg's origal book: wise-crackg Losers' Club member Richie Tozier is a gay man, and has romantic feelgs for his fellow Loser Eddie character's sexualy had been hted at the book, and over the years many fans theorized that he had more feelgs than jt iendship for Eddie. The film's openg sequence picts a btal hate crime agast a gay uple, which sets the stage for how unwelg this Mae town is to the LGBTQ+ muny and the chillg effect such open homophobia and bigotry would have had on Richie, who cid to stay the closet even after movg away and fdg fame and fortune stand-up Har wanted the film to m fully to makg Richie gay or to not even brg up. "Har also poted out that the perds that the book was set were very different tim for gay characters than what morn dienc would expect this film to portray.
IT CHAPTER TWO REVEAL: IS RICHIE GAY IT CHAPTER TWO?
In this scene, set Derry's ar, young Richie (Fn Wolfhard) has homophobic slurs hurled at him by the bully Henry Bowers after a game of Street Fighter between Richie and Henry's .
My unrstandg om readg the book s ago was that Rchie is possibly gay. This "dirty ltle secret" don't hold up morn social norms, and the most recent movi he was portrayed as havg a fear of beg perceived as gay or bi. In the morn movi they are fairly clear about his feelgs for Eddie, and he is portrayed as closeted gay or bi.
He gets bullied out of the ar by Henry Bowers, who homophobic slurs. The nnectn between his young ar csh, the homophobic slurs, and Pennywise's mentn of his "dirty ltle secret" seems like a liberate cematic thread ditg that his secret was beg attracted to a boy, or boys general.