Jason voorhees gay

They are so heteronormative. If it was a slow news day, I’d bury the lede, but it’s Halloween, and there are about eight million articles published. These were films that stayed in my conscious since the first time I witnessed the beheading of Mrs.

Voorhees at the age of five with my older brother, watching from a couch with amusement at the little monster he was creating by supplying me with sequel after sequel. As a slasher film fanatic and a hardcore Friday the 13th lover, I quickly took offense to this notion.

These words were spoken once by an ex-boyfriend as we sat watching Friday the 13th Part II. It was more like I was forcing him to watch it, and he was just doing it to appease my nerdy obsession. The clues were there: mother issues and the lack of a father figure or presence not just Jason and Mrs.

I did not grow up with a Mrs. My mother had been a stay-at-home mom for close to twenty-two years until I was born and then decided to go into the workforce. This was the basis of our brotherly relationship. In this essay, I aim to address these questions of queerness in the Friday the 13th franchise, zeroing in on the first eight films under the Paramount Pictures banner I would think about this conversation with my ex-boyfriend years later as I made my way through the machete-wielding canon while writing my own PhD dissertation.

Just like the hundreds of deaths I watched unfold in these Friday the 13th films, I was witness to the eye-gouging death of my very own relationship.

Jason Voorhees Is Gay

Jason is so gay. As a cisgender, queer, Mexican man, what stock did I have in a franchise that seemed to ignore queer representation? Those questions my ex-boyfriend so fierily exclaimed bubbled up to the surface, and I finally had to dissect a franchise that I cherished so much.

With a father that worked 4 PM-Midnight on the railroad, I was alone a lot.

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

Jason Voorhees, iconic villain from the Friday the 13th series, is gay. Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) Jason is basically similar to our other, lower-ranked “man with weapon” entries, but his mask is fruitier and has some mild graphic design, and his machete is bigger than Mr Myers’.

Jason is not gayI fired back. Characters who are confirmed to be Gay,Lesbian, or Bisexual within the Friday the 13th Universe. With a lack of queer characters in the franchise, was I able to queer the Friday canon? I felt that he was reading too much into these films.

Where is the queer POV of these films? The ex would not let up: Why do you like watching these films? Jason is so gay! After years of studying Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, and observing the lack of queer representation in mainstream horror films, the lights finally came on.

I made a list.