Home again home again!

Back! Still need to eat and unpack and whatnot but the plane flight was fine and there was no traffic from JFK which was amazing when you consider we got back during rush hour.

Spent the flight reading Fast Food Nation which I'm now almost done with (had pauses for catnaps here and there). Good, good book. Highly recommended. May blather about it at some point.

Anyway, trying to get caught up and whatnot but wanted to let everyone know I arrived safely =)

The dead, gay stereotype

A recent discussion about an episode of Smallville brought up the "dead!evil!gay stereotype" and what, exactly, it was (Fans of Buffy may remember similar discussions from when Tara died and Willow went evil).

The discussion prompted me to check The Celluloid Closet out of the library. I'd seen the documentary many times before but I'd never had the chance to read the book.

And let me stop right here and say that if you are a fan of slash, the book and movie should be on your required reading/viewing list. They chronicle the history of gays in the movies and, amongst other things, point out that we slash fans are not insane. The subtext is there on purpose. Read the book and watch the documentary (often shown on Bravo) both. Reason being, they were done about a decade apart, so the documentary covers movies that weren't out when the book was written, but on the flip side the book goes into greater depth on some topics than the movie could manage.

Anyway, as I promised in the thread I tried to find some good examples of the dead/evil gay/lesbian stereotype and honestly it was hard. Not because of a lack of examples, but because there were too many. I can't isolate a single quote - or even two - as the definititve statement on the subject.

( But I'll try to at least mention a few )

Whew. Okay, now that I've got that typed out, I'll get started on a few essays re: do Willow and Tara bear out the dead!evil!gay stereotype, and how does Wes factor in to all this. =)