lgbtq
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Star Wars Has Been Hiding A Gay Couple In Plain Sight
A lot of fans have been waiting for different forms of representation in Star Wars for a long, long time and, it turns out, at least one has already been there for a little while.
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It Chapter Two’s Queer Subplot Is Too Subtextual To Be Scary Good
It Chapter Two opens with a horrific, homophobic hate crime that Stephen King plucked from the headlines and incorporated into his 1986 novel. After a group of very human bigots attack Adrian Mellon and his boyfriend, they unceremoniously dump Adrian over the side of the bridge, and just as he begins to drown, he sees…
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There’s No Such Thing As A ‘Gay Gene,’ Large Genome Study Finds
A new study seems to firmly bury the idea of a so-called “gay gene.” Scientists looked at the genes of nearly a half million people and couldn’t find any genetic variations that could reliably predict someone’s same-sex behaviour. Rather, they argue, our sexual preferences are influenced by a complex mix of our genes, environment, and…
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It Chapter Two Features One Key Change To Pennywise’s Homophobic Attack
One of the biggest criticisms of Tommy Lee Wallace and Lawrence Cohen’s TV adaptation of Stephen King’s It from 1990 was the way it glossed over a key moment in Derry history when a gay man watches in terror as his partner is brutally beaten by a group of homophobes before they push him over…