Is eddie gay in it

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 relationship has been speculated about since “It” by Stephen King was published in and was finally legitimized by “It: Chapter 2” in drop of Now that I include analyzed each character’s background and behavior, we can explore the queer 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 show up at the Barrens, and Richie immediately begins teasing Eddie like a boy pulling on the pigtails of a girl 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 special 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 same exasperated response.

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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 verb about the scenes in the book that code Eddie as gay. Of course, there’s nothing in the book that straight up says “Eddie is gay,” but there are some things that may imply it:

- The most talked about thing is Eddie’s encounter with the leper. This scene in the book is a bit different than in the movie in that instead of just chasing Eddie looking super gross and disease ridden, the leper in the noun offers to give Eddie a blowjob. 

This, being Eddie’s biggest dread, 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 deteriorate 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 point in the

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  13. keepingmyoptionsfluid said: Literally the character is still canonically straight so why would Ryan say anything else 😂😂 like even if he knew Eddie was gonna arrive out, it would be the biggest fucking spoiler if he said it in an interview… Like he literally just would not say that because it would ruin a storyline and actors generally try to dodge doing that lol
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    "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 perform you think we got bi buck as canon? like i am serious right now, retort the question. how do you think we go bi buck canon? evan buckley was never conceived to be a bisexual man at the beginning of the reason we have evan buckley as a canonically bisexual character today is because us, queer fans of , interpreted him and headcanoned him as bisexual. i would go 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 r