It was complicated - and sometimes it took the sort of creative thinking that might be called “reaching” today - but these are the sorts of pretzels LGBTQ+ viewers still sometimes twist our minds into if we want to find queerness where there is none. Given the absence of openly LGBTQ+ action heroes in the big-budget blockbusters many of us grew up seeing, we often resorted to our individual headcanons instead, queering films that eschewed, avoided, or even villainized people like us. (Occasionally, of course, Hollywood made room amid that sameness for the occasional woman fighting an inhuman force, à la the Aliens franchise, but often without confirming the obvious queerness of characters like Ellen Ripley.)Īnd yet one person’s hetero sex symbol is another person’s gay sex symbol. Especially during their 1990s peak, American action heroes were big, beefy, cigar-smoking “no homo” kind of guys. Or at least they’re meant to be seen as such, with predominantly male leads rescuing female romantic interests from evil, often effete supervillains. Big-budget action films are traditionally heterosexual affairs.
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