Pee Wee Gay: It appears Reubens, who in the 1980s adopted as*exuality to quell cultural outrage, can now embrace the LGBT undercurrent even if the movie is promoted as a buddy romp. The character nevertheless exudes a sense of innocent wonder, and Pee-wee is addressed as a boy by everyone in lovely Fairville.
But Big Holiday does, in a very small way, demonstrate his maturation. Pee-wee has always been as*exual on purpose. With Pee-Playhouse wee’s and his frantic leaps to the big screen, Reubens was able to retain the childlike “aw shucks” tone that won over countless admirers while simultaneously allowing leeway for scholarly and cultural interpretations of Pee-wee to go amok.
But in this case, a relationship serves as the basis for the story. Pee-wee, in this instance, embarks on a perilous journey and, despite all chances, arrives at his target and is reunited with a love interest (Manganiello). After arriving on a motorcycle, Manganiello settles down at the counter to order a milkshake at the Fairville diner where Pee-wee works, prompting Pee-wee to make one in the act of affection.
Manganiello croons, “Mmmm.” Pee-wee watches in astonishment as he describes the shake as being in the “top five, all time.” In a possible double entendre, Pee-wee responds, “I have little experience on a motorcycle,” when Manganiello asks him to ride a motorcycle with him.
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Pee-wee later has a hallucinatory dream about his birthday meeting with Manganiello with sparks flying behind them, which is depicted in a sequence of slow-motion scenes after he finds himself in the company of a farmer brandishing a shotgun and boasting nine eligible daughters.
One of the three outlaw women he earlier managed to escape (played by Alia Shawkat) shares the same name as him, and just like Dottie before her, she starts to develop feelings for the one wearing a beanie.
Critics could point out that Pee-wee merely has a platonic friendship with Manganiello, who is married to the actress Sofia Vergara. They would overlook that Pee-wee has always been a part of queer culture and that we now live in a time when it is not necessary to use a code to go on television.
Reubens initially called the friendship between his character and Manganiello in a New York Times Magazine story on the character’s comeback “a bit of a bromance,” but he subtly changed his mind. When questioned about the character’s homoeroticism, Reubens responded, “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” but later added, “It’s a movie about friendship, and ‘bromance’ is a way to take a friendship and give an undertone to it that’s superfluous.”
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We refer to this as subtext, yet it is hardly discernible. According to writer Jonah Weiner’s description of Pee-wee and the TV show in the same issue of the New York Times Magazine, “it created a place where desires are not policed, otherness is not demonized, gender roles are juggled, and erotic energies attach where they will,” adding that Reubens later told him, “I’ve had so much feedback from people saying, ‘I was so confused as a kid, and your show helped.'”
Pee-s*exuality Wee and the way he subverted hetero-normative culture have been the subject of sophisticated cultural critique over the years.
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Although interviews with publications like The Advocate over the years demonstrate that Reubens was most definitely not discouraging the notion, it is almost irrelevant whether Reubens intended for the character to be gay or not. Now, despite the lack of complete evidence, he may be even franker.
Manganiello pouts in his bedroom and ignores his party attendees when Pee-wee finally makes it to New York only to discover that he will perhaps miss the party because he is stuck in a well in Central Park. Manganiello never cared about anything other than his grey-suited significant other. But eventually, it is resolved, and before Pee-wee once again rides off into the sunset with Manganiello in tow, the two salute “to friendship.”
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