'The Whe Lot' Knows How to Skewer Whe Gay Privilege

Contents:

• MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
• FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
• WHAT HAPPENS TO QUN IN THE WHE LOT? IS HE GAY?
• JENNIFER COOLIDGE ON FIGHTG ‘EVIL GAYS’ AND SEASICKNS ‘THE WHE LOT’ SEASON 2 FALE
• WHE LOT'S JENNIFER COOLIDGE LOV BEG A GAY IN
• THE WHE LOT KNOWS HOW TO SKEWER WHE GAY PRIVILEGE
• ‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
• 'THE WHE LOT' KNOWS HOW TO SKEWER WHE GAY PRIVILEGE
• GAY DATG MOSW
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’

Edor's note: this post ntas spoilers for episo five of The Whe Lot season 's givg a weeks-long tease, we fally got a gay sex scene on season two of The Whe Lot. In a classic Whe Lot twist, though, a gay sex scene me om somewhere else entirely.

Introduced episo three, wealthy gay man Quent (Tom Hollanr) is at the Whe Lot hotel Sicily wh a group of gay iends. Though most of them are rich olr gays, there are a few younger men their pany, cludg Jack (Leo Woodall), a charmg and sexy guy om Essex who refers to Quent as his "uncle. Quent's personaly, accent, and tast f the archetypil "proper wealthy Brish gay man, " whereas Jack looks and sounds like a future st member of Love Island.

Sendly, if a rich gay man like Quent were to hire a few younger guys to "enterta" him and his group of iends durg a trip to Sicily, stands to reason that someone like Jack would lie to Portia about Quent beg his uncle, not his "employer. Both feature a character walkg on gay sex behd closed doors, and both occur two episos before the fale. “There’s a pleasure to me as a guy who is gay-ish to make gay sex transgrsive aga, ” Whe said.

FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?

Edor's note: this post ntas major spoilers for the season two fale of HBO's The Whe Lot."The gays, they're tryg to murr me."For many s Hollywood, characters were queer-d as a tool to highlight that they were evil, dangero, mean, and/or villao. Though we n acknowledge - and appreciate - the urse rrectn of not always featurg queer characters who will only lie, cheat, murr, and steal, is equally jarrg to watch so many movi and TV shows now beg clive of queer people who are only portrayed as perfect ltle angels, heart-wrenchg tragic figur, or Mary Sue archetyp.In The Whe Lot season two's Quent (Tom Hollanr) and his gaggle of rich, olr European gays. They prent as the stereotypil gay bt iends (GBFs) to Tanya that are there to save her vatn, spill some hot tea, and help her turn the beat around.

The gays weren't rich eher - they had nothg but an old and yg villa to e as a fa for wealth.No, The Whe Lot isn't the only mastream TV show wh villao gays, but do feel like the seri ma a pot to highlight what dienc have e to expect om the characters only to then reveal much darker sis to them over the urse of the season. Not realizg that the gays were first-class smmers wh plans of their own, not jt sikicks.We do need Fire Island, Bros, Heartstopper, and LGBTQ-led holiday movi om Hallmark as reprentatn.

The endgame of The Whe Lot is a perfect example of how characters n be villao and gay - not villas bee they're gay, but villas who also happen to be gay.When Tanya asked, "Do you know the gays?" to the non-English-speakg yacht pta, there was some poetry there.

WHAT HAPPENS TO QUN IN THE WHE LOT? IS HE GAY?

She didn't know those gays, after all, and neher did the dience. We hope more movi and TV shows give that full breadth of gay reprentatn, om the bt people the world to some of the absolute worst -- jt like our straight unterparts.All episos of The Whe Lot season two are now available on HBO and HBO Max.RELATED | The Are the LGBTQ+ 2023 Goln Globe Nome We're Rootg For.

(Photo: Courty HBO/Warner Media)Warng: This story ntas the wake of the shockg, juicy Whe Lot fale on Sunday, social media has been flood wh great mem, mostly featurg the inic Jennifer social media has not been flood wh, however, is outcry about the show’s e of a variety of age-old gay trop — om the evil queen and the sad/psycho lbian to the “bury your gays” trope, aka the offg of gay characters, the end. They’ve also mourned Tanya and have excedly looked forward to another season, hopefully wh more Portia outfs to lgh though such well-worn LGBTQ plot pots have riled crics the very recent past — cludg wh Killg Eve and Hoe of the Dragon, both lled out for the “bury your gays” trope — barely anyone seemed triggered by Whe Lot. Perhaps ’s bee they were prepped by Season 1’s fale, which saw Armond (Murray Bartlett), as the “praved gay, ” also killed off, promptg jt the slightt b of outcry on the Redd thread lled “a cliché trope that needs to die.

JENNIFER COOLIDGE ON FIGHTG ‘EVIL GAYS’ AND SEASICKNS ‘THE WHE LOT’ SEASON 2 FALE

Over on Twter, “brown queer artist/activist” and filmmaker Leo Herrera ved his bed 35, 000-pl followers to “talk about the e of gay trop” on the seri recently, gettg not much tractn.

”Further, he says, “I don’t want to be the ‘angry brown guy’ … but somethg we need to be aware of is that some of the gay whe show-nners may believe we are past certa stereotyp or trop — which brgs up issu of race and privilege.

(Photo: Courty HBO/Warner Media)On Facebook, a few of this wrer’s acquatanc sound off, wh one llg Whe a “lazy wrer, ” addg, “’s gross to portray gay men as predators, addicts, transgrsive and dirty before killg them. It’s typil old textbook Hollywood to kill off the morally rpt gay characters, if you know your cema history … yet BOTH SEASONS of Whe Lot rely on the tired old trope. ”Over on a Whe Lot Redd thread, meanwhile, one viewer wonred, “What gay men f***ed wh Mike Whe for him to always make them tragic, vic, and stereotypil?

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” That prompted a few to agree, cludg one who noted, “The thg is gay villas is actually a thg … We still want reprentatn so of urse ’s a double-edged sword and impossible to please the entire dience. First, some background on gay tropGLAAD lls gay trop “harmful and tired, ” and the recent exampl have helped refuel old anger about how LGBTQ characters are so often killed off TV dramas — a tradn actually stemmg om the 1934-1968 Motn Picture Productn Co, aka the Hays Co, a set of self-imposed dtry guil that banned (along wh nudy, ltful kissg and more) onscreen homosexual pictns. That prompted filmmakers to skirt the l by makg sure any even vaguely gay characters were tragic, lonely, doomed or topic was explored pth the 1996 documentary The Celluloid Closet, based on the landmark book by Vo Rso.

THE WHE LOT KNOWS HOW TO SKEWER WHE GAY PRIVILEGE

“I said, you know, if you talk to 10 gay men and ask what they thk, three will love him, three will hate him and four will be jt like him, ” she rells. ”Now, 2022, “we live a culture where people look [at gay Whe Lot characters] and shg … People are not takg as an offense. ’”Further, Whe, who is bisexual and whose father is a gay activist, touched upon aga wh Terri Gross on NPR recently, tellg her, “this whole season of the show is … gog to a certa, like, nstellatn of trop and try to, like, play wh those trop a way that hopefully feels h.

On that Redd thread, not one menter, “I’m pretty sure mike whe is bisexual, and his father is gay. The ‘evil gays, ’ as they’ve been lled, I’ve never really seen that explored.

‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD

”Regardg the “bury your gays” trope, Katz believ the way Whe handled was “a subversn. ”“You had this credibly loved queer figure [Tanya] who’s the one buryg the gays — and this stance, the gays are evil.

So we had to sacrifice the gays orr to keep the queen of the gays.

'THE WHE LOT' KNOWS HOW TO SKEWER WHE GAY PRIVILEGE

” He even qutns the morn existence of the “bury your gays” trope. “I thk ’s a wonrful we n have gay people die on Whe Lot. … They’re evil, and gay people should be able to die, ” he explas.

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“The ia of ‘bury your gays’ was when we get a seat at the table was sudnly taken. ”As for Coolidge’s part, when asked by Variety, “How do feel to be a gay in who ends up murrg a bunch of ‘high-end gays’ who plotted to kill her? ” she said, “Gay men n be tty, but mostly they are the good guys a lot of films that I’ve seen.

He told me, ‘You end up gettg taken by this group of — well, let’s jt say they’re evil gays.

”“I worked at an LGBTQ magaze NYC for 24 years, me of age growg up on a small farm Pennsylvania — and also durg the AIDS epimic and Reagan — moved to NYC at the age of 26, voured any/all films alg wh gay pictns/exprsn, and bore wns to the cln of LGBTQ characters mastream televisn and film. “A gay villa and a sad lbian is gog to h very differently for an olr queer, a younger queer, an olr straight person.

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… Younger gay people may not be aware of those trop at all — and olr gays may not want to pla anymore, and jt be happy to have somethg juicy to watch. “There’s a pleasure to me as a guy who is gay-ish to make gay sex transgrsive aga, ” Whe told Variety. Furthermore, there were hts dropped about how Qun uld be gay, and the fale answers the qutn by not exactly answerg , I gus.

*Tryg to build up the hype is all*So what exactly happened to Qun at the end of The Whe Lot fale, and is he gay? Qun is not gay.

While we mourn the crown jewel of “The Whe Lot” — who the Season 2 fale tak out a few “high-end gays, ” falls off a yacht, knocks her head on a dghy and drowns to ath the Ionian Sea — the ter is ablaze wh Jennifer Coolidge mem. While Tanya fend off “evil gays” the Season 2 fale, Coolidge herself battled seasickns.