It’s no secret that, over the years, the LGBTQ+ community has reclaimed queer-coded villains: if society sees us as monsters, then we might as well embrace that otherness, on-screen and off. But even in a media landscape where queerness, whether explicit or implied, is no longer directly tied to a character’s dastardly deeds, we still love a good gay villain. Unfortunately, several of these examples aren’t canonically evil gays. Plenty of Twitter users cited older examples, from the famously homoerotic relationship between original Scream baddies Bill and Stu to the extremely queer-coded backstabbing theater kids at the center of the classic film All About Eve. Of course, loving villainous queers (and their sidekicks) is not a new phenomenon. After four seasons of nuance, the beloved spy drama doubled down on tired tropes.
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