The characters’ queerness, sublimated by the strict production codes of the time, is hinted at by Hitchcock throughout: the two lead actors, John Dall and Farley Granger, were both secretly gay; when Granger sits down at the piano to play a little waltz, it’s a piece by Francis Poulenc – a gay composer.
Pete Buttigieg, now Secretary of Transportation in the US, comes to mind, as do the characters in Andrew Haigh’s series” lasted only two seasons because, as it turns out, good gays in checked shirts are, among other things, extremely boring to watch. After all, it wasn’t Oscar Wilde who coined the famous term “the love that dare not speak its name” but Lord Alfred Douglas, or Bosie – his evil lover who helped set off the legal case that led to Wilde’s imprisonment and death. After his involvement with Wilde, Bosie became an infamous anti-Semite and fascist.
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