Can’t a guy gab with the gals without being called gay? The groundbreaking ’52 drama explores masculinity
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with a new school year beginning, we’re revisiting the 2001 boarding school-set romance Lost And Delirious.Queerness comes in many forms, flavors, and identities, and that’s what makes our community so beautiful.
However, throughout time, as mainstream society has pushed us to the margins, we’ve frequently found ourselves sorted into certain labels and boxes (sometimes by our own doing) based on rather broad, surface-level traits: The way we move, the way we look, how we sound like, or the types of activities and interests we enjoy.
There are many behavioral patterns that we have all come to collectively understand as “queer coded”.Whether we’re born with these behaviors in us or we develop them as some sort of survival instinct is an altogether different conversation.
But what’s true is that there are many traits that we as queer people have in direct opposition to our straight counterparts.
