Gay Best Friend: Michael in "Billy Elliot" (2000)
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 12:09PM In preparation for the next Smackdown Team Experience is traveling back to 2000.
The face of coming out to your crush, who's also a male ballet dancer.By: Christopher James
What do our interests say about our sexuality? From sports to dancing, so many hobbies carry with them gendered expectations. Set in 1984 rural England amidst the coal miner strike, Billy Elliot follows one boy as he defies his family’s expectations of him and pursues dancing instead of boxing. Claudio recently gave us a beautiful write-up on Jamie Bell’s performance as the title character as part of his Almost There column. Needless to say, I second all the points he made in his article.
For the purposes of this column, we want to look specifically at what the film has to say about sexuality, specifically as it relates to Billy’s best friend, Michael Caffrey (Stuart Wells)...