I have tried - sadly, he seems to have vanished.Have you tried looking him up on Facebook? Maybe you could rekindle a special friendship with him?
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I have tried - sadly, he seems to have vanished.Have you tried looking him up on Facebook? Maybe you could rekindle a special friendship with him?
Yes, I too always thought that Henry Bowers was gay. Unfortunately, he's just one in a string of negative gay male characters SK has written. He's been better as of late though.
Splain, please ..
I think definitive examples would be appropriate at this time.I know my argument will look week because I don't have any concrete examples to give you right now, but much of SK's early writing is populated with peripheral male characters who are either questionably gay or outright gay and the way he writes them is not very nice. They are usually perverts, weak or criminals. Also, words like "f****t" are liberally used in his earlier writings. All I know is that having read SK since pretty much the beginning, there are many times as a gay male I had to cringe at the way he wrote gay males. I will try to find some definite examples, but you'll have to give me time.
I dunno, but considering that what you were used to thinking was going on got blown way, way out of the water, in yer face...I just wonder what that was like.I'm very much like you - I thought I was dating someone in college - we went everywhere together, had the best time, I thought he was just taking it slow. And then he kissed his boyfriend in front of me and introduced him. Classic. How'd I miss that?
-Bill McGovern in Insomnia
-Uncle Tommy in The Talisman
- Tom McCourt in Cell...to name but a few, and King seems to have been less harsh and more supportive of lesbian characters in his writings...possibly due to his daughter being gay?...kinda curious if he will incorporate a transgender/transsexual in any way, shape or form as a lead character...
I just finished reading that scene last night. I think maybe even one of the cops may have used it. It doesn't offend me because the way King is using it in this context is to show how ignorant these characters are.Tom's not a bad guy. I loved Tom.
carrie's younger brother (I think it was you mentioned the use of the word f****t) that was used by nasty horrid people. Off hand, I don't recall any decent characters using it. It's the people who I think would use it that use it. The one that really comes to mind is at the beginning of IT, when the gang beats up a guy, or is it a couple? And that gang of guys uses it.
I just finished reading that scene last night. I think maybe even one of the cops may have used it. It doesn't offend me because the way King is using it in this context is to show how ignorant these characters are.
I also agree about his early works, I see the n word and the f word a good bit, but think he was using them as impact words - trying to cement his place as the main guy, who is not afraid to write the controversial characters....I agree with the assessment of King's earlier works...never felt he was homophobic, maybe a little uncomfortable-but never a hater...and as with most of his characters, he puts them out there-flaws and all...I also have no issues with the LGBTQ community....only way I have a problem is the men and women who feel it necessary to perpetuate the stereotypes of the lifestyle I,e. flamboyance and over-manliness....just be yer damn self!!!!...
..."Queer or Questioning"....I also agree about his early works, I see the n word and the f word a good bit, but think he was using them as impact words - trying to cement his place as the main guy, who is not afraid to write the controversial characters.
Forgive me if I'm being stupid here, but: Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transsexual, Q???
..."Queer or Questioning"....
Me neither. What did I miss? As for sK's use of certain derogatory terms, such as f****t and the N-word, he always does so in character and never personally. It's not sK speaking; it's a fictional, realistic, antagonist character.Never thought he was gay.
Before writing his serious novels, SK made some bucks writing male gay porn short stories for a magazine specialized in such stories. Maybe this helped him write the gay pages in his famous novels, by already having some expertise on the gay world.Thanks GNT. It's been my personal experience (and it no way am I saying this is a universal truth) that straight men are more comfortable with lesbians since they pose no "threat" to them.
And just to be clear, SK has written favorable gay male characters. Again, it's just been my personal experience that much of his earlier writing was peppered with negative gay stereotypes and derogatory language towards gays. I'm still with SK almost 40 years after I first read him, so obviously I am able to distance myself from it.
Before writing his serious novels, SK made some bucks writing male gay porn short stories for a magazine specialized in such stories. Maybe this helped him write the gay pages in his famous novels, by already having some expertise on the gay world.
There's nothing wrong with gay porn , I once read a funny story with gay vampires (and I am Romanian , so the vampire thing hits home !). About SK's stories for men's magazines: maybe I didn't correctly recall some facts ? I read about it frome some autobiographical pages written by King himself.Stephen wrote and sold short stories to men's magazines, but he most definitely did not write gay porn.