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Queer Subtext in Stephen King’s It – Part 2: Richie and Eddie’s Subtle Romance
This guest article is written by Rachel Brands (on Twitter @RachelBrands)
Richie Tozier and Eddie Kaspbrak’s partnership has been speculated about since “It” by Stephen King was published in 1986 and was finally legitimized by “It: Chapter 2” in fall of 2019. Now that I have analyzed each character’s background and behavior, we can explore the gay subtext present in Richie and Eddie’s scenes in the novel.
Richie and Eddie scenes that are both very cute and very gay
Eddie and Richie’s first on-page interaction happens when Richie and Stan display up at the Barrens, and Richie immediately begins teasing Eddie like a boy pulling on the pigtails of a miss he likes.
Richie’s teasing follows a specific criteria: he calls Eddie “Eds,” pinches his cheek, and often calls him “cute,” as shown in later scenes. This creates a extraordinary ritual between the two of them that they both partake in: Richie uses the same language and behavior to joke around with Eddie, and Eddie has the identical exasperated response.
Richie is famous as a jokester and his teasing exasperates Eddie, but he doesn’t experience antagonized by
Some things in the book that may point to Eddie being gay
A bunch of people sent me asks and messaged me asking to make a post about the scenes in the book that code Eddie as queer . Of course, there’s nothing in the book that unbent up says “Eddie is gay,” but there are some things that may indicate it:
- The most talked about thing is Eddie’s meeting with the leper. This scene in the book is a bit unlike than in the movie in that instead of just chasing Eddie looking super gross and disease ridden, the leper in the book offers to give Eddie a blowjob.
This, being Eddie’s biggest fear, can be interpreted in several ways. Of course, the most obvious is the leper itself represents Eddie’s fear of disease and dirtiness. He feels that if he touches it, he will instantly begin to rot from the inside out. However, the offerings of a blowjob at first for a dime and then for free not only shows Eddie’s fear of sex in general (with how much his mother likely repressed him sexually, but also instilled a fear of sex) but also of his fear of sex with men.
- At a indicate in the publication, Eddie talks about how he suddenly began fearing going to church and celebrating communion. He
"eddie isn't queer/gay," you say. "he is straight in canon, so him being gay is just a head canon. it's ok for others to think of him as straight because that's what he is."
let's ignore for a second the fact that eddie has never ever ever ever not even once, said in canon that he is a heterosexual very straight guy. seriously!!! he has never once said it!!! if i am "assuming" he's gay then you are also "assuming" he is straight even though he has never once said it!!
how undertake you think we got bi buck as canon? like i am serious right now, address the question. how do you think we go bi buck canon? evan buckley was never conceived to be a pansexual man at the beginning of 911. the reason we include evan buckley as a canonically bisexual character today is because us, queer fans of 911, interpreted him and headcanoned him as bisexual. i would move even further and say that it was us, BUDDIE FANS, who interpreted him and headcanoned him as bi. even before the writers were explicitly writing him as bisexual. we peruse his actions and his story and his identity and said: "this is a bi character!" and the wr
Eddie Kaspbrak is fucking gay folks
Listen, I know that MLA format is not one that you’re supposed to employ personal pronouns in, but I don’t care. I require to express one thing right from the start: I don’t care what you hc Eddie as, that’s none of my fucking business, do what you want, but as a male lover kid who spent far, far too long uncomfortable with my sexuality because people took it and said shit like, “He’s homosexual but he’s also ace because lgbtq+ sex is ‘icky’” or shit about how “hard they were sinning” because of this male lover ship, I’m fatigued. I’m fucking exhausted. So today, we’re going to dash through all adaptations of It and our main dude, Edward Kaspbrak and why he’s a gay man, a homoromantic homosexual, if you will.
To start, let’s accept a step help to the unique number one bestseller IT by Stephen King. This publication is fucking colossal my guy, a solid 1090 pages, in fact, and you know, that’s a lot of fucking space for queer coding, so let’s get started. Eddie’s first introduction to the audience is 79 pages into the novel in the fourth part of the third chapter, Ed