He also describes a man one page later and does so in much more glittering language than the girl he’s meant to love. Of course he’s 11 and falling in love at 11 is never real and doesn’t ever base itself on personality, but nonetheless, adult him is the one telling us this, and at no point does he ever mention anything but her looks. At no point in the following paragraph does he note anything about her other than her looks. Now just reading through this it may just seem like a child’s crush, but from a gay person’s perspective, it reads very clearly of internalized homophobia and compulsory heterosexuality. The novel reads, “He fell in love with her a little that day- her shining blonde hair falling to her the shoulders of her culotte dress, which was a cool blue.” (525, King). One argument that could be stated is that Eddie had a crush on Greta Bowie in the novel, but if you read the section that mentions his crush, you can see some obvious queer coding. Of course nicknames are often not related to the gender of who they name but nonetheless, this is an odd little bit that King includes. On the subject of nicknames, in the novel Eddie also calls Myra “Marty” which is very clearly not a female name. I’m not trying to sway this towards Reddie because that’s not the point here, but teasing or not, Richie calls him that and King is an author, he knows that writing Adrian and his boyfriend the same way he writes Richie and Eddie will be read the same way. Adrian is described to be a small, asthmatic, gay boy, and more than that, his boyfriend even calls him “my love,” on page 27, the way Richie does to Eddie several times. In the novel as well, there’s an obvious comparison to Eddie early on, before we even meet him, and that character is none other than Adrian Mellon. If Eddie isn’t around his wife, there’s no proving it, all he has to do is wear his wedding ring and say he loves his wife. It was alright to love the guys I “loved” when I wasn’t around them because it didn’t take work, I didn’t have to prove it. This one is a bit more of a personal gay experience, in that when I was trying to be straight, it wasn’t that hard honestly, but it was easier when I didn’t actively have to do it. On his way out of the house to head back to Derry King states, “Was that what he meant? That he had finally decided it was all right to lover her?” (92). It was convenient to him, a habit and nothing more.
Myra is compared to his mother many times and each time it makes it more clear that this isn’t something he really wanted, but he had gone back to his mother three times before marriage and Myra was the next best thing to his mother. This quote clearly states that more than anything, marrying his wife had been out of habit. In the end the old ways and the old habits had simply been too strong.” ( 87, King). Soon after his introduction we get this fucking gem of information, “But in the end he had married Myra anyway. Eddie’s first introduction to the audience is 79 pages into the novel in the fourth part of the third chapter, Eddie Kaspbrak Takes His Medicine. This book is fucking huge my guy, a solid 1090 pages, in fact, and you know, that’s a lot of fucking space for queer coding, so let’s get started.
To start, let’s take a step back to the original number one bestseller IT by Stephen King.
So today, we’re going to run through all adaptations of It and our main man, Edward Kaspbrak and why he’s a gay man, a homoromantic homosexual, if you will. I need to express one thing right from the start: I don’t care what you hc Eddie as, that’s none of my fucking business, do what you want, but as a gay kid who spent far, far too long uncomfortable with my sexuality because people took it and said shit like, “He’s gay but he’s also ace because gay sex is ‘icky’” or shit about how “hard they were sinning” because of this gay ship, I’m tired. Listen, I know that MLA format is not one that you’re supposed to use personal pronouns in, but I don’t care.
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