Brideshead revisited gay

To be sure, one should never count on rainbow capitalism or fictional Hollywood queers to save the day, but the existence of both served as a reminder that queer people were part of the fabric of American life. I agreed with right-wing gasbag Andrew Breitbart about very little, but I do think he was right when he said that politics is downstream of culture.

Brideshead revisited: Classic literature and the power of LGBTQ+

The story becomes a much more conventional love across the divides of class and religion sort of plot, with a sad Sebastian dying of a broken heart in the background — rejected by Charles. In the book and the TV series, Charles loses Sebastian — to drink, to addiction and to his extreme crisis of faith?

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Sebastian was the forerunner, he says, and she wonders if she, too, is a forerunner. Brideshead Revisited is a book with unquestionably gay characters. The most serious of these efforts came in , when an Alabama politician proposed legislation supporting its censorship on the grounds that its characters were gay.

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I just could not stand the dysfunctional characters and had no interest in finding out how their affairs of the month turned out. I totally concur with your impression of the novel just from reading cliff notes and watching some of the series. Waugh himself must have been a tormented person, but we can at least pray for his soul.