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Sign up for our weekly newsletter here. With IT Chapter Two now in theaters, we examine the big change to the character of Richie Tozier from book to screen. Bill Hader plays the character in the new movie, and he harbors a secret attraction to one of his best friends.

When Patrick and Henry Bowers are alone, Patrick gives Henry a handjob and offers to go down on him, at which point Henry storms off. Art Read Me All Culture. Style Expand. It Chapter Two takes things a step further. - Make it as you like! When these moments are presented together, the queer subtext seems obvious, but these are fleeting scenes in a novel that tops 1, pages, and King never confirms anything.

Patrick Hockstetter is explicitly identified as a psychopath: he murdered his baby brother as a child, and he kills small animals as a teen. Culture Expand. Between the two of them is something different and sweet that pops up all throughout the book.

Beauty Fashion All Style. Whether his crush was ever reciprocated is unclear. Is Richie gay in 'IT Chapter 2’? It Chapter Two made text what had only been subtext in Stephen King's original book: wise-cracking Losers' Club member Richie Tozier is a gay man, and has romantic feelings for his fellow Loser.

Search Search. When the adult Eddie dies, Richie has the hardest time leaving his body behind, with Richie kissing his cheek before they go. If the love between Richie and Eddie were more clearly defined — or even if Richie displayed any relationship to his own queerness beyond his fear of being outed — then this might gay like more meaningful queer representation.

Get the best of what's queer. One of these moments actually occurs in Italthough the scene has mercifully never been adapted in the miniseries or films. In these books, there is an obvious link between gay sex and violent, psychopathic behavior.

But these are relatively minor characters; making the more prominent Richie and perhaps Eddie queer is still significant. Yet the real surprise of It Chapter Two is that Adrian and Don are not the only queer characters onscreen.

Entertainment Expand. Community Expand. Long before the internet decided evil shapeshifting clown Pennywise was gay and dating the Babadookmany queer Stephen King fans regarded his novel It with a certain amount of dread.

What is the true story behind the homophobic attack in IT Chapter Two? In the film, bullies spot a gay couple together at a funfair in Derry, and target them with homophobic abuse. Rowling announcing that Dumbledore is gay after the Harry Potter series had ended.

Da oltre venti gay ogni giorno le news dal mondo gay: News, Diritti LGBTQ, Pride, Eventi, Omofobia, Forum, Video, Foto. When the author has mentioned or depicted queer sex, it is almost always linked to psychopathy, a likely unintentional subtext that nevertheless refelcts dangerous stereotypes about queer people.

Patrick is killed by It immediately after. And while The Stand introduced readers to a positive bisexual character in Dayna Jurgens, it also gave us The Kid, a sociopath who sexually assaults Trashcan Man, penetrating him with his gun.