The boys gay characters
Hello and welcome to this review of The Boys Season 3. This review will contain spoilers; mostly just about the lgbtq+ parts of The Boys aka the parts featuring bisexual super Queen Maeve, but also the season finale (I’ll warn you before we get to that part.)
At least once during every episode of The Boys, I speak to myself, “I can’t believe I watch this show.” What’s more, I can’t believe I like this show. I wouldn’t shout from the rooftops about it or anything, but I find myself genuinely fascinated by it. I was interested in the concept of “what if superheroes existed in present-day America” with all its racism and capitalism and the high value corporations put on famous person and social media standing. Basically, what if Captain America, Wonder Woman, and other superheroes were authentic, but not in the glossy ways they’re portrayed in the movies. Or maybe even, what if the actors who portrayed our favorite shiny superheroes actually had the powers they had on screen; what would their off-screen lives look like?
I also have a thing for women with swords.
I, of course, was always entranced by sardonic, bisexual, re
The Raven Boys - The Dream Thieves, Maggie Stiefvater
Rating: Amazing Read Genre: Fantasy, Romance Representation: -gay? main character (one of ensemble) -gay? side character Note: no sexual content Trigger Warnings: suicidal ideation, (past) suicide attempt, violence, guns, death
I’ll be assessing the books in this series in twos for the sake of brevity, since there are four books in The Raven Cycle, but also because you have to get through the second book in the series to learn that one of the main characters is non-straight. I use “gay” very loosely because he never identifies himself with a particular label—in evidence, neither non-straight ethics does.
I’m uncertain whether or not to call this a flaw—The Raven Boys has nothing gender non-conforming about it. You may be qualified to dig up some hints about who of the four boys, in the next guide, is shown to be queer, or you may at least be fit to use process of elimination to get very near, but that does not a lgbtq+ book make. No, The Raven Boys is definitely not “queer,” but that is not to say it’s linear, either. There is a lot to it that attracts a queer readership despite the nigh unbearable subtlety regarding
When The Worst, aka Homelander, finds out Maeve is secretly homosexual with a girlfriend, he posthaste uses it against her while outing her as a female homosexual (which she isn't) and using her girlfriend's life to maintain her in line and doing what he wants.
A chilling situation to be in on its own, yet that is only a bit of the terror that Maeve experiences through Homelander. Most of it has nothing to do with her queerness, but the parts that carry out often ring closer to our modern world than you'd await in a show about people with superpowers.
Vought, the overlord business they all work for, doesn't make a fuss over her queerness, instead using it as an opportunity to promote themselves as inclusive and sell rainbow merch everywhere.
Sound familiar? It's not June anymore, so you might not be aware of the rainbow capitalism that permeates by queer-phobic corporations for the month of June, but the exhibit gets that, in a way the largest brands on World still don't.
The show also is pretty good at understanding ways to include Maeve's queerness and LGBTQ+ themes while not making it seem forced or out-of-place while still following the first comic, somewhat. However, the reveal had a secret "bury
Cast Occupied of Gay
Now with Walking Shirtless Scenes!
Ethan:I aspire you'd stop shoving your lifestyle in our faces.
— Shortpacked!
The overwhelming majority of fictional works center around heterosexual characters, with anyone else being a token minority or nonexistent. Some gay-themed media, however, does the exact other side by making most (if not all) of the characters gay or otherwise non-heterosexual. As such, it will generally have a wider variety of Homosexual as Tropes instead of pigeonholing the characters into one particular stereotype, sometimes making the characters into sort of a gay Five-Token Band. The several token straight characters that appear will usually be fag hags, dyke tykes, token homophobes, or family members of the main characters. Predictably the mortality rate of lgbtq+ characters tends to drop