Danny may be our favore openly gay character on the show, but MTV's shirtls werewolf romp is gettg queerer than ever
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GAY WEREWOLF BOOKS TO MAKE ENCHANTG WEEKENDS FOR YOU
Gay werewolf books are on a whole different level. Tst when we say this: we all serve fantastic reads wh characters who intify as part of the rabow. * werewolf gay term *
It is a novel published at the height of the Victorian Gothic Renaissance which, Harry Benshoff not his work Monsters the Closet: Homosexualy and the Horror Film (1997), cid wh the creasg pathologizg of sexualy and troductn of the term ‘homosexual’ mon English parlance (1997: 22). How are people gog to look at me… after they fd out I’m gay.
I’m gay. …I am gay. The signifince of Rem’s lynthropy has been a source of much examatn om fans and scholars, wh his stigma often given disabily studi readgs (lynthropy as a blood-transmted illns beg equated wh HIV/AIDS) and/or readgs that analogize his lynthropy to homosexualy.
This mirrorg was not missed by Rem/Siri fans who had long been pog a readg of Rem and Siri as Harry’s adoptive gay dads/uncl, both wh the ntext of the nonil seri and alternate universe fanfictn. Bernhardt-Hoe pots to morn exprsns like ‘doggy-style’ for rear-entry sexual terurse and ‘the vague siari of this posn to anal sex (whether homosexual or heterosexual)’ to help expla ‘the rather obv and yet ambiguo queer dimensn attached to ne and lupe symbolism a number of cultur’ (2008: 161). This issue, known fandom as ‘queer-bag’, has bee a ntent issue wh shows like the CW’s Supernatural (2005 –) and the BBC’s Sherlock (2010 –) acced of liberately heighteng homoerotic subtext orr to mata the attentn of the show’s passnate slash fans, but never permtg s protagonists to step outsi the bounds of heteronormativy for fear of alienatg general dienc.
GAY WEREWOLV BOOKS
Books shelved as gay-werewolv: Wolfsong by T.J. Klune, The Wolf at His Door by Adrian W. Lilly, Altered Heart by Kate Steele, Marked by Joely Skye, and... * werewolf gay term *
This has, unrstandably, created tensn between slash fans who have been rrectly terpretg homoerotic cu liberately serted by creators to a text, and anti-slash fans who lgh off the queer readgs as ‘wishful thkg’ or ‘polil rrectns’.