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When I first decided to do this analysis, I wasn’t sure if I would find much – particularly in the first few seasons. A scant gay jokes here and there, some silly innuendos. But the deeper I went, the more I found myself saying, “This is the gayest thing I’ve ever seen.” The title for this plan, “Gay Subtext in Supernatural”, is something I pulled directly from an episode (S5E9) in which an announcer says the line “homoerotic subtext of Supernatural”. Claiming that there’s nothing gay about this display is like staring at Mount Rushmore and saying, “Crazy how nature act that.” Some highlights of my journey include conclusion 16 metaphors for Dean being afraid of lgbtq+ sex in “Yellow Fever” (S4E6), looking up the lyrics to “The French Mistake” (S6E15), and explaining the historic gay erasure of Cole Porter in relation to Dean tap dancing (S15E10). In statistics, it takes 3 points of data for something to be considered significant. I’ve collected several hundred examples of subtext that suggest Dean was written to be bisexual and in love with Castiel.

Dean is a famously macho character, but his rugged persona is often implied to be a mask that he wears to hide his insecurities (S2E

In Media Res

Supernatural appeals to audiences from diverse sexual identities and orientations. While the main protagonists, Sam and Dean Winchester, are portrayed as primarily heterosexual men (in spite of various attempts to rewrite them as gay through fan fiction), other human characters are explicitly labeled as gay or lesbian. Some of the most interesting representations in terms of sexuality are set up among angels and demons who, as supernatural beings, are not gendered and can inhabit both male and female bodies. The centrality of supernatural beings, who are inherently non-normative, appeals to polysemic readings of sexuality.

The most developed of these characters is the undeniably gender non-conforming angel, Castiel. Castiel inhabits a male body, but flashbacks reveal that the angel once inhabited a female body. Raphael, Hannah and Michael are also shown inhabiting both female and male bodies, solidifying the notion that angels have no clear sex. Angels are typically depicted as incapable of, or unwilling to, fall in love. The few exceptions all lead to tragic endings and portray falling in love as transgressive. 

Castiel’s love for Dean defies the laws of Heaven and Ea

Dean Winchester - Bi

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    'Supernatural's' queer fandom kept it alive for 15 years, but the show never gave them what they really wanted

    "Supernatural" was never supposed to last this long. 

    After 15 years, the 15th longest-running scripted primetime series in US TV history is finally coming to an end. On November 19, the last episode of "Supernatural" airs on the CW, closing the book on a historic piece of horror television and internet fandom. 

    Initially, "Supernatural," a show about two brothers who roadtrip around the US and track monsters, was supposed to last for five seasons. Series creator Eric Kripke's vision for the show concluded in 2010. 

    But at the same time that Sam and Dean Winchester were concluding their season 5 narrative arcs, a massive online fandom for "Supernatural" was exploding in popularity on Tumblr, where a young, LGBTQ-heavy demographic was watching the "Superwholock" TV trio of "Supernatural" and the BBC shows "Sherlock" and "Doctor Who."

     

    "If you go back to the early 2010s when 'Superwholock' was a thing, you could not travel anywhere on Tumblr without touching a 'Supernatural,' 'Doctor Who,' or 'Sherlock' fan," Amanda Brennan, Tumblr's r