Are thelma and louise gay

Geena Davis. Susan Sarandon. Brad Pitt. Dancing, sex, robbery, blowing up big rig trucks with misogynistic drivers. Thelma and Louise decide to go on a girls' trip under the guise of simply getting away for a while, but it's clear to audiences that Louise is trying to get her friend away from her misogynistic, demanding husband Darryl Christopher McDonald in his breakout role , and trying to avoid her own mysterious obligations at the same time.

Thelma & Louise is a Queer Love Story...You Just Have to Look For It

Once watching the film through an analytic queer lens, however, it is easier to see how a lesbian viewer for example may fill in the subtext to feel more connected to the film. Queer identities are rarely featured in the mainstream film so it is understandable why queer viewers would want to reach for subtext that they can relate to and see themselves in.

Susan Sarandon Thinks Her 'Thelma & Louise' Character May Have Become a Lesbian If She Had Lived

Rejection is often associated with lesbian women. In the film, both Thelma and Louise leave their male partners. Throughout the film, Thelma and Louise become increasingly closer to the point that in the end right before their deaths, the two share a loving kiss with each other.

The Outdated Limitations of Queer Subtext

There were a couple of screeching brakes. People ask me, 'Is there going to be a sequel? Women have guns,'" Davis said of the cultural reaction to her character. Then it turned out my very next movie was League [of Their Own] , and I had teenage girls coming up to me and saying, 'I play sports because of that movie!