Coded gay
Ambiguously Male lover
Perhaps you have a male character who is visibly touch-feely towards another male traits, while being similarly open in rejecting the advances of any female characters who come his way. Or when the other male characters ogle the resident Ms. Fanservice, this character hardly bats an eye, but he seems quite interested in what the Walking Shirtless Scene is doing. Other characters in the serve may even interrogate exactly which way this character swings, but never receive an answer. The character's sexuality is simply never made clear within the work.
Yes, this character is Ambiguously Gay—they display much onscreen evidence of exclusive same-gender attraction, but nothing is ever explicitly confirmed one way or another. The ambiguity can range all the way from from blink-and-you'll-miss-it implications to all-but-confirmed.
This trope has taken slightly different
Gay-Coding and Magneto
I believe one thing that’s definitely interesting is the colour scheme - he wears bright pink and/or purple. Now, in-universe that’s not so wild, because let’s be real, most heroes and villains in comic books dress pretty outrageously - in proof, Mags is actually rather subtle compared to some of the 90s’ characters. no one really comments on his style in-universe either. But one thing I noticed is this:
that’s Magneto as nice guy in up-to-date issues. The pink and the purple are notably muted suddenly or completely absent. And yeah,there are plenty of examples of excellent guy Mags wearing his classic stare and there are many examples of his pink outfits being turned red even in his villainous times, but lately, the most drastic changes in his classic uniforms are associated with Mags as a good guy and they erase the pink colour scheme as much as possible. One notable exception is the Age of X-Man look -
(I represent was he a good guy there? or a horrible guy? Or a bad guy believing he’s a superb guy when he’s really not except not in the way Magneto when he’s bad usually thinks he isn’t? except...)
So yeah, I think it’s engaging that of all aspects that they c
Gay Coding in Hitchcock Films
Editor’s note: The following article, like many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, includes references to sex and violence.
Did Martin Landau play a lesbian in North by Northwest? Did Alfred Hitchcock really show queer sex on-screen in Rope, albeit in an unusual way? Was the whole plot of Rebecca driven by the twisted resentment of an evil lesbian? And, most surprisingly, did Hitchcock depict a gay marriage way support in 1938’s The Lady Vanishes?
The famed, late English film director Alfred Hitchcock was a complicated, twisted and mischievous man — characteristics that show up in all his great movies. He meticulously planned each film and knew exactly the effect each detail would have on his audiences. If he wanted to refer to homosexuality, as he did in at least 10 of his movies, Hitchcock would use what are now called “gay codes.” These are subtle references that gay people and their allies would recognize but could pass by most of the audience unnoticed. They are intentionally ambiguous in order to maintain deniability if questioned, especially by the censors.
Hitchcock was exposed to vibrant gay commun
An Enigma: the role of codes in the Gay community
Image Description: Alan Turing
It was the year 2016 and I, a peaceful and awkward sixteen-year-old teen, was trying to serve out how to reveal my mother that I had, since January, been dating another quiet and awkward sixteen-year-old girl. Realising that I was not actually brave enough to tell her outright, I found myself, after many a dedicated hour of trawling the internet for “How to come out to my parents”, taking the path of hint-dropping instead. What I did not realise, until a few months into this venture, was how well-trodden and ancient a track that was.
A conversation between me and my mother: “What’re you watching?” “Maurice.” “What’s it about?” “Gay Edwardians at Cambridge.” “Oh. Right.”
The following week: “What’s that you’re listening to?” “Hayley Kiyoko.” “What’s the song called?” “Girls Prefer Girls.” “Oh. Right.”
The week after: “What’re you reading?” “Shakespeare’s sonnets. I’m trying to decide who I think Mr W. H. was.” “Mr W. H.?” “The man the sonnets are addressed to. I can’t believe we’re never told in school that Shakespeare was bisexual.” “Oh. Right.”
And so on until October when I finally come out in d