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[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And even then, there wasn’t much gayness to his acting.

Care to elaborate?

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is there to elaborate? Other than a brief embrace shown on screen, he didn't appear to play the role in any stereotypical gay manner. That's all...

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would the character be a stereotype?

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't say he was. That's the entire point. They briefly showed some gay characteristics on screen, but otherwise he just played the character plainly.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

Someone didn't read the Hays Code or anything. He didn't die (kill your gays trope), he's not portrayed as a "for ever" bachelor (but has a same sex partner, very ungay). Only thing is crossdressing. He wears the same standard uniform that women do in Starfleet.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He wasn't a Hollywood camp gay stereotype character.

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would anyone think he would be?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Because usually when Hollywood includes a gay character they're doing it to villainize them, make fun of them, or show them off to cynically virtue-signal diversity. Having a character that's just a normal character who happens to be gay, without making a big deal about it or using it as a plot point, is rare.

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 0 points 9 months ago

Having a character that’s just a normal character who happens to be gay, without making a big deal about it or using it as a plot point, is rare.

I don't know if that's as true even in 2016 when the movie came out, as it once was.