"Gossip Girl" goes gay for its upcoming return ... but which character?

They all ping off the meter as it is.

Okay, so I do watch the show.... It's a guilty pleasure and has great sense of style. Not to mention the whole thing being riddiculous.

 

But.

 

Yes, we know Dan is a switch hitter or at least will be if the show is going to mimic the

books (I havent read them, because there;s just that much of bad writing I can handle)

But if I was to judge, I'd say Chuck, he's so sex oriented he might as well expand his

chances of getting laid. 

UGH! I hate admitting I even watch this show! But, like "Greek", it's a show I thought I'd hate that I actually really enjoy.

 

It's not Dan because the show wouldn't make it's lead male gay. I just don't see that happening. It's not Chuck because his 'forbidden' relationship with Blair is one of the most best stories on the show, though it would be fun to have a gay characters who is a bad boy instead of the sweetest, nicest, most wholesome character on the show (blech). I don't think it's Nate, though it would be the only thing that might make him remotely interesting. I agree with the posters on the TV Guide board who think it's Erik, which would make sense since the show has said he's had a bunch of problems that caused him to try and kill himself, though they never really got into what those problems were. And since Erik is so sweet and nice and wholesome.... of COURSE he's gay.

 

 

I have absolutely no shame in admitting i've read all the books, and people can sneer at the writing all they want, but at least the characters aren't all relentlessly pretty. (And the book had this interesting thing where you simultaneously sided with the rich kids and Vanessa and Dan, who hated them. (To start with, at least) That seems to have gone, for the most part.) My major problem with the writing was largely that von Ziegesar reproduced teh exact same characters over and over again, which was even more evident in the spinoff series. However, you can level exactly the same accusations at Schwartz - most of the Gossip Girl characters map seem to have almost direct antecedents in the OC, and he's completely changed half of the characters to make them fit this. Dan is by far the most irritating character in the book, yet he appears to be the hero of the show, as well as basically a carbon copy of Seth. (Vanessa, his long term on/off girlfriend of the books, was bald and refused to wear anything except black - which has been ditched o she can be the new Anna.)

Anyway, my point, such as it is, is that clearly the show isn't following the books very faithfully, so the original characters' sexuality needn't have any relevance to this revelation.

I also wanted to point out that you have Dan's sexuality completely wrong. He isn't gay, or bisexual (I had to look up switch hitter. Etymology, anyone?). He kisses a boy in one book and goes through a period of confusion, and it's all very awkward. The reactions of his family and friends are all very accepting, although the joke is more on how excited people are to have a gay son and so on, to the point that his mother flies back from Prague to give him a cake shaped like a penis. (I could never make my mind up what i thought of all this - whether the author was mocking the existence of stereotypes or condoning them) But after about two whole books of him whining to himself (And good lord, is he whiny, and pretentious, and irritating.) that he fancies girls, not boys, without cottoning onto tyhe fact that OMG HE'S STRAIGHT, he finally works it all out and gets back together with his bald, androynous girlfriend.

Chuck is gay though. I think. Possibly bisexual. It's hinted at throughout, and although there's no official coming out, he does end up going out wityh a boy. However, he's so horrific, i really don't think we want him. (Which is why i find his elevation to main characterhood (In the books he just hangs around in the background annoying everyone wth his pink hats and his monkey. ("Sweetie" - ew)) rather alarming, even if a lot of his grossness seems to have been toned down.)

In the show, it does kinda look like it'll be Erik. (Serena's older brother in the books. (Sorry to go on.)) Not that i worked it out myslef, but those comments make some pretty compelling arguments.

I've not read the books, so I can't speak to them, but it's got to be Erik - make it the sensitive guy with a suicidal history on American television. I'm happy that gay youth will get a role model on TV, but it's kind of cliche. Chuck, I feel, would sleep with anything, but I don't they'd mess up other relationships he has for it. Dan offers little drama there - his family would just accept it and move on. Nate, well, we can dream, and it would even make sense, because his character barely exists, and it would explain a lot, as well as give the character texture. But I don't think they're going to mess with Hollywood's new IT boy. If they did it would be a coup, and a wet dream come true for the gay community, but it would hardly match up with their demographic. It's fun to dream, and to draw weird conclusions by all the gossip site innuendos about his relationship with JC Chavez, but it just doesn't make sense. So we get the suicidal, sensitive guy for our camp by default. Here's to hoping they flesh out the character of Erik to something gay youth can look to in a positive light, and not have some associate being gay with needing to attempt suicide.

I agree, it will probably be Erik, which I'm cool with. I've been hoping they would show more of him because he's much more interesting than Nate or Vanessa. Although I do think Erik and Jenny would make a good couple, but that would just be too much Humphrey/van der Woodsen hooking up going on, since Dan is with Serena and Rufus and Lily want to be together.

Out of Dan, Chuck or Nate, I think it would be Chuck. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually he ended up with guys. I hope they follow the Dan is gay storyline from the book too, but it's too early for that.

...it'd certainly explain the feeling I got in the past few episodes that he and Blair were fighting over Nate, but only Chuck realized it. And, while I feel mixed on the idea, I could see GG using a coming out as a semi-redemptive thing for Chuck, making his bad behavior a "Is he really that terrible or just lashing out/overcompensating?" thing.

I'm having a hard time with Erik, if only because he's such a non-entity and I'd like to think GG is better than taking a character who already is "barely there" into a barely there gay. Then again, the episode with Blair's dad was one of the series' blandest, so maybe where GG exceeds my expectations with female characters, it follows the usual pattern with gay ones.

He has been mostly in the background.  We have no sense of his acceptance at school, the reason for his drug addiction, and, most importantly there is a high percetage teen suicides due to there homosexuality. Add an absensce of a father and his closeness to his sister and mother and he becomes the number one candidate --he's gay.

On the subject of Jenny she would certainly become his BFF.  Many men, myself among them, first came out to their best friend in high school long before they came out publically.

At this point they have established Dan as a heterosexual, Since the network has promoted him as such I doubt they will go with him switching teams even later in the series.  I find Penn Badgley a big question mark in real life.  It is odd that he and Blake Lively are long term friends in real life and yet he is not dating anyone.  Just curious.

Weak! Totally weak. It's gonna be Erik...of course. This is nothing more than a token jesture to the gay community...nothing ground-breaking and really not even interesting. Sure, he'll have all the emotions of your average teen -- who lives in a mansion, whose family is surrounded by gays, who has a very supportive sister...it's the common coming out story...done to death!

God forbid that the producers of GG could remain true to the story...actually build off it's foundation. Nope...that would require the main character to actually have a relationship with a guy. It would have to be shown with the same openess that all the straight character's relationships are being shown. God this is weak!

I bet it want be Chace. He and JC are denying those gay rumors everywhere.

 

i hope it is not chuck i think that would be so typical and play off as the gay who wnats sex no matter what