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Netflix’s ‘Baby Reindeer’: A Dark, Haunting Story Bungles its Depiction of Queerness
But it does want us to believe — in fact it entirely depends upon us believing — that Donny, for one, experienced homosexual desire only after his abuse — desire it goes out of its way to depict as filthy and degrading. It does, too, want us to believe that Donny failed to make any amorous connections with women or men after his abuse — until he met Teri (Nava Mau) on a transsexual dating site.
Gadd himself identifies as pansexual, which makes it all the more puzzling and frustrating that, again and again, the series takes absurd pains to present Donny as someone who is not at all like the kinds of lgbtq+ folk who (shudder!) willingly have sex with each other and (shock horror!) use recreational drugs and (gasp!) see porn.
Rest assured, linear audiences: Donny’s gay sexuality was something forced upon him — a reality that his stoic father (Mark Lewis Jones) understands and underscores because, as he tearfully explains to his son, “I grew up in the Catholic Church.”
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Jessica Gunning, the breakout star of the latest Netflix hit Baby Reindeer, has come out as gay in a recent interview. Gunning spoke about her sexuality publicly for the first day during a Reign with Josh Smith podcast episode.
On the podcast, in addition to describing her relatable memories of watching The L Word, Jessica described her same-sex attracted awakening as a process that began when she was prosperous enough to kiss Cate Blanchette during a National Theatre production.
Looking back at those nightly on-stage kisses during When We Own Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Gunning said: “I should have acknowledged then.”
The Baby Reindeer star came out to her family and friends as gay in November 2022. She explained that while many of her friends are queer, for a long occasion, she didn’t think she could be.
While she said she always felt different, she wondered if that feeling had to execute with her body size, and she didn’t attribute the difference to her sexuality for years, until she finally realised she was: “a big, old gay.”
She said the realisation was “the most liberating thing” and a “massive moment where everything compassionate of clicked and I made sense of myself.”
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Baby Reindeer Star Jessica Gunning Comes Out as Gay
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Jessica Gunning is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.
The Baby Reindeer star recently came out publicly as gay and common the story of how she told her family.
"A big thing happened to me, and maybe I'll just talk about it," Gunning said on the June 4 episode of the Reign With Josh Smith podcast. "I came out actually in November '22….And that was a mega, mega thing for me."
Once she realized her sexuality, she felt like she create her true self.
"I'm surrounded by gays. Like, all my friends are gay," the actress continued. "So it wasn't like I was repressing anything. It was just that I didn't think I could be, and I still can't articulate it in the best way. But I realized I was a big old homosexual. I was like, 'That's what it's been. That's what it is.' And that was a huge moment where everything nice of clicked and I made sense for myself then."
Before coming out, Gunning explained, she felt appreciate there was a piece missing.
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“Have you watched Baby Reindeer?” I texted an actress confidant of mine. “He's getting bad apply pressure for exposing his stalker,” she responded, referencing the series writer, creator and star Richard Gadd and some ancillary press he’s gotten around the series, which is based on his have life. There’s a particularly bizarre media fixation on figuring out who the characters in the series’ real-life counterparts are. My comrade, who hadn’t yet seen the reveal, continued: “I saw a producer on Instagram talking about how that gal will never be able to hold a normal life.”
I did my finest to not be dismissive, but it bugged me a bit that this was the larger chatter around a show that I feel deserves far more critical thinking as a perform of art rather than a media circus fixation. I think this is the consequence that comes with something as blatantly and unapologetically transgressive as this show becoming part of monoculture, which exists to flatten complex ideas so they are consumable by the largest amount of people possible. That, and the evidence that many audiences today seek explain conclusions and thus pieces of media like Challengers and White Lotus, which seek to inquire questions more