Are They Gay? - Nick and Gatsby from The Great Gatsby

A video series tackling the one question facing many same gender couples throughout history: Are They Gay?
In this episode we explore the relationship between Nick and Gatsby, a subject of much debate. Do you think they're in love?
Suggest more pairings in the comments!

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[melissakaleka]

My favorite part of sophomore English class was my teacher straight up telling us that Nick was gay, so that we didn't confuse this for a straight story.

[panickedshears]

My school was gonna do this for our play and I find it highly ironic that they cast me, a gay man, as nick, a bisexual man as gatsby, a bisexual woman as Jordan, and a straight woman as daisy. The guy who was cast as tom literally got so pissed off that he got cast as tom and rage quit. If that doesn’t scream tom energy-

[lucvalor]

“straight” and “nick” don’t go in the same sentence. unless the sentence also has the word “not”

[laurarowen]

The most shocking part of this video is that it does not mention the "Goodbye" scene, where Nick is leaving Gatsby's house and they keep repeating "Goodbye" to each other. It's basically the 1920's version of "No, you hang up first."

[redacted]

Flashbacks to my sophomore English class when literally everyone was calling the book “The Great Gaytsby”.

[scaleonkhan]

16:33 "Queer people are mocked for supposedly 'reading too much into' a scene, and then they get erased from a narrative that they were already laughed out of."
You are so right. People can make excuses all they want (cut for time, irrelevant, etc.), but they KNOW why that McKee scene isn't in any movies.

[xiavertatertots]

I went to a catholic high school and my lit teacher straight up said, "you realize its all gay, right?"

[ajaxshusband]

my english teacher skipped over the entire "yeah nick slept with a guy" scene and brushed it off, presumably because it was a utah high school where "mormon church" is an elective you can take, but the moment nick carroway saw jay gatsby for the first time and spent an entire page describing his smile, i knew what was up

[MariAnimates]

My teacher made a point to explicitly state the characters were gay before we read. She said, and I quote, "I don't want you to get confused, though the subtext is obvious."

[MB-ogdw]

I read Great Gatsby junior year, but my teacher was a fucking legend. He straight up said that what Nick wrote about Gatsby was like a teenage girl kicking her legs back and forth on the bed in a disney movie writing in her diary about her crush, and he not only didn't mince the elevator scene but put it on a quiz. Massive respect for that guy, one of the best teachers I ever had.

[annabethchase]

“are they gay?”

honestly, alex, they always are

[dreamgirlfriendevil]

This is my (straight) sister’s favourite book. When I told her there was a lot of textual queer evidence, she laughed me off. And then she sat there and thought about it. And she thought about it some more... and went ‘holy shit!’ I literally saw her whole emotional journey on her face lmao. It just goes over straight people’s heads, even if they’re allies.

[Chchommi]

Nick was literally a cottage core lesbian for the entire movie.

[afox]

Honestly I didn’t read the book when I read it in school, I read fanfics of Nick and Gatsby and passed the test easily

[drsykopharm]

Are we also gonna forget the random Owl Man that Gatsby just... let live with him and read in his library and drink all of his liquor for no reason other than because "he was lonely"? He easily could have let random women stay with him as a make-shift harem, but he chose a very drunk and questionable man? Very Questionable lol

[clementinekitten]

as someone who wrote a solid five paragraph essay about how nick lies to himself last year for gatsby and my best point was about his sexuality, i'm excited

[aliceh]

I'm British and studied this in sixth form. My favourite moment being when I said Nick is an unreliable narrator because he has feelings for Gatsby and my teacher said "Yes! Finally!"

[pilvilinnoitus]

When I watched the 2013 movie with my mom, the scene where Gatsby and Nick met for the first time came and my mom literally said "Oh so Nick's gay?"

[scootscoot]

Even my extremely straight low-key transphobic mother who taught English 3 honors knows that Nick was absolutely head over heels in love with Gatsby and whenever a student would ask if Nick was gay, they would become her favorite student

[totallyoutofit]

i was rereading it recently and literally barely one page in, nick had called gatsby "gorgeous"