This is an excerpt from PAPERMAG , published in July 1998
‘Is Godzilla gay? Frankly, that wasn't the first thing that crossed my mind while watching the noisy new incarnation of the famed giant Japanese fire-breathing lizard, brought to us by the same team behind the box-office bonanza Independence Day. (...) But later in the week, I received a call from Professor Harry Balsack, dean of gay studies at Columbia University, who informed me that Godzilla is not only littered with subversive subtext, it may be the gayest film of all time. At first I just rolled my eyes, but since I'm a sucker for crackpot theories, I agreed to meet Mr. Balsack over latte and hear more. He arrived late, rumpled and sweating profusely. "So, professor," I asked, "what leads you to the conclusion that this Godzilla is 'light in the loafers,' so to speak?"
He gulped down the coffee and wiped his mouth with his sleeve. "First, look at the ad campaign: 'Size Does Matter.' A phrase historically attributed to gay males overly concerned with the length of a partner's penis. "Matthew Broderick plays Dr. Nick Tatopoulos, a scientist studying the effects of radiation on worms. First of all, he's Greek. Ancient Greece was the cradle of homosexuality. He studies worms. How phallic. When asked if he has a girlfriend, he hems and haws and says he isn't in a relationship at the moment. He also wears his cap jauntily backwards--in a very Chelsea fashion." He continues, "When Godzilla first sees Broderick, he lowers his massive head and cruises him heavily before breathing right in his face. Later, he chases Broderick all across the city, like a possessed lover. This is clearly not just some monster movie. It's a gay love story." The professor pressed on: “Godzilla represents the post-Stonewall gay man, refusing to remain passive in the face of bigotry and oppression. His rampage through the city shows the straight world that the gay man is no longer the derisively comic figure represented in older films by such effeminate sissies as Franklin Pangborn and Edward Everett Horton. Godzilla is also a step forward from the recent use of a gay man as best friend or sexless comrade, as evidenced in such movies as My Best Friend’s Wedding and As Good As It Gets. But as a bridge to our antiquated gay past, there are concessions. If you tape-record Godzilla’s roar and play it backwards, you can clearly make out Judy Garland singing ‘The Trolley Song.’’ Read the entire article at:
https://www.papermag.com/godzilla-1425143035.html
for Godzilla
7. Assorted New Monsters 6. Millie Bobby Brown 5. King Ghidorah 4. Rodan 3. Vera Farmiga 2. Godzilla 1. Mothra
So I went to see Godzilla: King of Monsters recently (for the record I thought the movie was pretty good), and I’ll admit I’ve ogled Goji for a while, but a number of sexual jokes were made in the movie, some of which were directed at the Kaiju, which REALLY got the smut gears a-turnin in my noggin. So I decided to write a one-off gay smut piece with a male Godzilla and a male M.U.T.O. Just for the lolz. Just in case it isn’t clear, this isn’t a story. This is smut. Pornography. Sex.
as
explicit as w w w . f a n f i c t i o n . n e t will allow. And it’s gay. If that upsets you, then too bloody bad. Go read something else.
This is an exceprt from the beginning of a text written by user XenoRaptor, published on FanFiction.net
in 2019.
Read it all at: www.fanfiction.net /s/13318050/1/ It-s-good-to-be-the-King
1 like =
1 character I think is
LGBT
This is a book about the Queering an MTV lifetime achievement award winning fictional giant monster named godzilla. This is a book about queering your idols and queering their villains. This is a love letter to, fandom and fanart, fanfiction and fanspeak. To deviantart, reddit, tumblr and internet culture. Memes taken too seriously. This is a visual essay on queer twitter. Teenagers reading into absolutely everything, twisting fact and fiction to fit their own narrative. Kaiju twitter. Literally-anything-you-can-imagine twitter. A love letter to the icons who came before us; to mothman, to the babadook. Listicles of Top Ten Queer Icons in Mythology. This is an paper representation of my exhaustion of the 10,000 ‘Queering The ____’ I’ve had* to read in my life. Queering the Void. Queering the Interior. Queering Your Mam’s Hair Cut. (*have chosen to read as I will truly read anything with the word queer in it, and evidently so will you.) It’s a joke I took too far then realised I wasn’t joking one bit.
This is a visual essay on not seeing your queerness within pop divas and drag race. On seeing in within rage. This is a visual essay on reclaiming ‘monster’. On recognising hatred through fear. This is a visual essay on finding it easier to think of gender as something abstract, monstrous, so we big we can’t see all of it. On being Other’d by New York City, San Francisco and your year 7 P.E class. Something is inside of you and it’s building up and up and up and it’s gotta Come Out at some point; whether it’s atomic heat rays or “dad I think maybe i’m trans”. This is a fanzine and a book and a visual essay and what the inside of my brain has looked like since stumbling back into a fandom I had left inside a VHS case in my grandma’s cupboard. I opened it up and radioactive rainbows burst out. I made this book because cheering for the hero always seemed like something straight people do. This is a love letter to finding representation in the strangest of places.
GODZILLA: QUEER
CREDIT: Page 3 Google search result for ‘Godzilla gay memes’ Page 4 Godzilla vs Megalon icon, edited into Netflix’s LGBT section Tweet by Loren Schmidt Page 5 Godzilla vs Megalon (movie poster, 1973) Page 6-7 Godzilla X Jet Jaguar, pride month fanart by @umbrellarts.tumblr Page 8 Miki Saegusa played by Megumi Odaka, from the Heisei (1984-1995) series of Godzilla films. Page 9 Megumi Odaka in Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla (1994) — screen shotted by Michael Callari Page 10-11 Mothra with pride flag by @killpopSC2.twitter Page 12 Mothra pride flags by @killpopSC2.twitter Page 13 Mothra and Godzilla by @curlytsunamiART
Page 14-15 Godzilla Vs. King Ghidora (VHS cover, 2000) Page 16-17 Comment section and screenshot from youtube.com Film Theory: Is Godzilla Secretly GAY? , uploaded by The Film Theorists Page 18-19 Screenshots of Drawing Gay Godzilla, uploaded to youtube.com by LateTube Page 20 Gijinka King Gidorah by @lankylunatic. deviantart Page 21 Trans Rights Baragon by Becca Willy @ GoGoGojirin.twitter Page 22 Godzilla (1998), dvd packaging Page 23 Godzilla (1998), movie poster Page 24-25 Paper magazine article, published in 1998 by on unknown writer Page 26 Guardian News headline, written by Benjamin Lee in 2015 during Toronto Film Festival coverage
Page 27 Photoshopped Guardian News headline Page 28-29 Alice Glass wearing a vintage Godzilla (1998) t-shirt Page 30 ‘We Ranked Every Monster in Godzilla II: King of the Monsters By How Queer They Are’: Junkee Article published in 2019 by Laurence Barber Page 31 Tweet by Michael Varrati Page 32-33 Image that ran alongside Junkee’s article Page 34-35 Ace Godzilla memes by @megatraven.instagram Page 36-37 Exceprt from the beginning of a text written by user XenoRaptor, published on FanFiction.net in 2019. Page 38-39 KOTM icons from instagram story’s GIF feature Page 40 Tumblr posts found by searching “Gay Godzilla” Page 41 Butch Godzilla by @windyflamingo.instagram Page 42-43 Kaiju meme by @saccharine.roses.instagram
Page 44 Kaiju Gay Scale adapted by @umbrellarts. tumblr, unknown original source Kaiju Bisexual Scale adapted by @umbrellarts.tumblr Page 45 Kaiju Futch Scale by @umbrellarts, adapted from the original Scale created by Blogspot user Shinobi Wankenobi in 2011 Page 46-47 Kaiju version of ‘1 like = 1 character I think is LGBT’ by @faemothra Page 48-49 Godzilla & Mothra with pride flags by @faemothra Page 50-51 Text by George Grace Gibson Page 52 Tweet by Bec Shaw
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