American psycho gay

Patrick thinks he's a psycho because he hasn't forged any true connections with people. But he's failed to make genuine connections with guys because he's afraid of revealing his true self and not fitting in, and he's failed to make connections with girls because he's never been all that into them.

Yes, the main character from American Psycho is gay, and I have proof. Okay, maybe not proof, but a supported hunch. I read the book in early and was entertained but annoyed by Patrick as a narrator.

To Harron—and to many queer viewers from the jump—the satire has always been clear: American Psycho is “a gay man’s satire on masculinity.” The source novel’s author, Bret Easton Ellis, wrote from the vantage point of someone who understood the homoerotic pageantry of power and performance.

I want to examine three of them. On the way to Wall Street this morning […] I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. Watching a gay parade triggers such anxiety that to cope he must torture to death a small dog.

To Harron—and to many queer viewers from the jump—the satire has always been clear: American Psycho is “a gay man’s satire on masculinity.” The source novel’s author, Bret Easton Ellis, wrote from the vantage point of someone who understood the homoerotic pageantry of power and performance.

This Halloween, dig into ten classic Horror stories, in print and on film, that hide their queer themes in plain sight. Sometimes infuriating, sometimes liberating, all these works rely on a queer-coded villain… some of them are seductive enough that you end up rooting for them. Daphne du Maurier was a notorious bisexual after all.

Patrick thinks he's a psycho because he hasn't forged any true connections with people. But he's failed to make genuine connections with guys because he's afraid of revealing his true self and not fitting in, and he's failed to make connections with girls because he's never been all that into them.

Curious about whether this book would shed light on the turmoil now, I found a third theme — the book is a cryptomorph, its subject neither mass murder, or a metaphor for the financial world, but about being gay and closeted during the first years of the AIDS outbreak. This is not a case of a symbolic undercurrent; almost all the male characters, including Patrick Bateman and Timothy Price are gay closeted men, with that aspect of their lives, off-stage and unspoken directly of, but most certainly there. Though almost all the men are gay, they all try to hide their orientation from others.