Supernatural gay
Gay characters on SUPERNATURAL? And some thoughts on the show post-S3
Hi all, I have started to receive back into this display after giving up on it in Season 4--I found the mythology as it developed too cumbersome. Personally, while I really like consistency and ethics building, I also really like stand-alone episodes. For example, I also much prefer the first several seasons of Smallville to the later years.
Anyway, I am enjoying watching S3 properly, which Ive always heard mixed reports on, due to the writers' strike at the time. But I discover the ongoing tension about Dean's inevitable death and descent into Hell a compelling hook for the whole season, and overall the stories are attractive good, though "Jus in Bello," despite its appealing homage to Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, was quite flat.
Anyway, "Ghostfacers" was appealing to me for having a homosexual character who was also heroized in the narrative as a daring and winning member of the admittedly crackpot team. (Do we see them again?)
I am wondering--are there other gay characters who come up before or after on the show?
Supernatural and queerbaiting — The only thing truly spine-chilling was how Supernatural treated its queer characters
A month ago, I awoke to a frankly bizarre turn of events. Amid the chaos of the US election, the last thing I expected to flood my social media was Supernatural. The longest-running US fantasy entertainment in history has always been my guilty pleasure. With its mainstream popularity having steadily declined over its sprint, seeing it trending was surprising. After watching the antepenultimate episode of the final season, aptly named ‘Despair’, it made gut-wrenching sense.
If you’ve somehow managed to make it through the past 15 years without hearing of Supernatural (in which case I applaud you and encourage you to stop here), here’s some background:
The show centres around Sam and Dean Winchester, brothers who travel around America hunting fantastical monsters. In typical CW-style, it begins a red-blooded dramatic move fest, with monsters of the week, an intriguing plot, and clunky dialogue paired with one-dimensional characterisation. Over the seasons, it evolves into a character-driven phenomenon. The introduction of the angel Castiel in Season 4 marks a striking tr
In Media Res
Supernatural appeals to audiences from diverse sexual identities and orientations. While the main protagonists, Sam and Dean Winchester, are portrayed as primarily heterosexual men (in spite of various attempts to rewrite them as queer through fan fiction), other human characters are explicitly labeled as gay or lesbian. Some of the most fascinating representations in terms of sexuality are found among angels and demons who, as supernatural beings, are not gendered and can inhabit both male and female bodies. The centrality of supernatural beings, who are inherently non-normative, appeals to polysemic readings of sexuality.
The most developed of these characters is the undeniably queer angel, Castiel. Castiel inhabits a male body, but flashbacks reveal that the angel once inhabited a female body. Raphael, Hannah and Michael are also shown inhabiting both female and male bodies, solidifying the notion that angels have no distinct sex. Angels are typically depicted as incapable of, or unwilling to, fall in love. The few exceptions all command to tragic endings and portray falling in love as transgressive.
Castiel’s love for Dean defies the laws of Heaven and Ea
Queer and Gender Diverse Characters
This entry documents characters of gender and sexual diversity, and its portrayal on Supernatural.
Charlie Bradbury a queer woman geek girl who becomes a seeker, is the only queer character to appear in multiple episodes, along with Crowley whose sexuality is probably optimal described as "complicated." God aka Chuck Shurley was revealed to be double attraction (or possibly pansexual) in 11.20 Don't Call Me Shurley—"I dated. Yeah, I had some girlfriends. Had a rare boyfriends."
There include been, to meeting, no transgender or non-binary characters. Both angels and demons have been seen to switch between vessels of alternative gendered appearance, although it is often not known by which gender a vessel's owner identified. For example both of Raphael's vessels may have identified as female, or nonbinary. The intent of the writers appears to be to show angels and demons possessing vessels of distinct genders, although this does involve a rather binary and cis view of gender. In scenes where angels are in vessels of different gender than their original vessels, the show generally doesn't clarify the pronouns to be used. In 6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much, Crow