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Contents:
- DISNEY IS GIVG THE GAYS WHAT WE WANT WH HOC POC 2 AND NEW PRI SERI
- WHY THE SANRSON SISTERS OF 'HOC POC' ENDURE AS GAY INS
- KATHY NAJIMY KNOWS SHE’S A GAY IN
- 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. * gay character hocus pocus 2 *
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.
WHY THE SANRSON SISTERS OF 'HOC POC' ENDURE AS GAY INS
Wh plenty of mp and whimsy, the Sanrson Sisters of Hoc Poc ntue to endure as ins for the gay muny. * gay character hocus pocus 2 *
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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KATHY NAJIMY KNOWS SHE’S A GAY IN
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.
To ll the Sanrson sisters mpy, then, is to attribute their appeal to gay fans, part, to their larger-than-life quali. Of urse, the mpit scene the film, and therefore the one that most exemplifi the Sanrsons’ gay appeal, is Wnie’s “I Put a Spell on You” mil number. It is impossible to discs the mp appeal of “I Put a Spell on You” whout addrsg the extratextual ronance for gay fans found watchg Midler sg and dance.
NO, BETTE MIDLER DON’T THK SHE NEEDS ‘HOC POC 2’ TO RENEW HER GAY IN STAT: ‘THIS IS GLOBAL, GIRL’
This troduc the send reason for the film’s populary among gay dienc: the actrs who embody the Sanrson sisters are embedd gay pop culture.