Orson Scott Card is in hot water over his outspoken homophobic views on gay marriage, and Geeks OUT (Why is "OUT" capitalized?) want to boycott the film adaptation of his novel, "Ender's Game." Which is surprising, because his novel is incredibly gay. Not just gay as in it's basically Harry Potter in space, (it is), but gay as in there's a huge level of homo-eroticism in the novel (about children).
The aliens in the book are called, "Buggers," because they're bugs. "Buggery," though, is the act of sodomy, which is super-sweet. From that correlation I'm not certain if we're supposed to think that the Buggers are a metaphor for homosexuals. The entire plot to the novel is that Ender has to kill all the, "Buggers," and Orson Scott Card is a homophobe. So I'm guessing, "Yes."
For a supposedly heterosexual boy, Ender gets into a lot of gay situations. In one scene, there's a fight in a shower room with some sweaty, naked boys, which you'll recognize as being gayer than anything ever shown on, "Glee." Ender murders the boy who started the altercation (while naked) by kicking him above the dick, which still fits into the whole anti-gay thing. Audiences can look forward to seeing that cut or altered from the film because the film-makers don't want to be arrested.
There's also the "bromance" between Ender and Bean, (Ender's the top and Bean's the bottom). Bean idolizes Ender, but Ender uses him. Ender also gets up to some gay shit with his brother and there's a scene where Peter sits atop Ender and threatens him with his crotch near his face (Peter's a top too).
There's also a scene reminiscent of the South Park episode where Lemmingwinks the gerbil crawls inside Mr.Slave's ass. It's actually a mouse eating it's way through a giant's eye, but I'm certain he would have gone into the ass if that option was available.
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