Young Woman With A Hoyay

If you've ever seen the 1950 jazz drama Young Man With A Horn, you'll know that Lauren Bacall plays a daring-for-the-time subtextual lesbian.

What's really daring for the time, though, is that we (very briefly) get to see her subtextual girlfriend:



Yeah. Not very subtextual, is it?

Wings. And Hoyay.

Have I gone six months into a blog on homoeroticism without mentioning the Oscar-winning 1927 silent film Wings?


Not sure how I managed that.

The Hoyay of the Opera

Oh, Emmy Rossum. You can be my slightly-butch-but-not-really page boy any time you want.


And I will very happily be your Minnie Driver.

One Tree Hoyay

I can't be bothered to watch One Tree Hill since they wrote out their one canonically non-heterosexual character, Anna (Daniella Alonso), so I don't know the particular situation that led to this "hilarious fake-gay spooning!"

But - if for no other reason than that it involves Chad Michael Murray - it is kind of hilarious. And, awww, kind of cute.

Storm Hoyay

Remember that lovely old romance Storm Warning from 1951, where Ginger Rogers and Doris Day fall madly in love? Well, except that the film was actually a dark drama about racism, Day's character is married to a brute, and, oh, all right, you got me - Day and Rogers were playing sisters. But looking at the picture, you can see how I got slightly confused.

The H.O.Y.A.Y.

One of the many disappointing things about the later seasons of The O.C. was the near-squandering of all the Seth/Ryan subtext set up in the first.

But then it's true that when your opening image is this, you don't leave yourself much place to go hoyaywise:


Still, I think we all know that the show would have been better if it had ended on the note proposed in a Newsweek interview by Ben McKenzie (who played Ryan):

Will Ryan pop the question to Marissa?
I've always pushed for the big marriage that the whole entire audience has always seen coming. Ryan and Seth walk down the aisle hand in hand.

Gossip Hoyay

We don't as yet get Gossip Girl over here. But if the rumours I hear concerning the Blair/Serena hoyay are true - and these pictures very strongly seems to indicate that they are - then I may have to consider watching it.