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cinej-177	Rohrs, Lauren	The Homosexual Male Gaze: Normalizing Homosexuality through the Use of Heteronormative Narrative Techniques in Film	2019	18	.pdf	application/pdf	4521	125	35	In Beauty and the Beast, the love interest CINEJ Cinema Journal: Normalizing Homosexuality through the Use of Heteronormative Narrative Techniques in Film Volume 7.2 (2019) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2019.177 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 7 of the gay character becomes the object of the male gaze and undergoes a similar transformation; his desirability is largely communicated to the audience through the use of the male gaze, while the sexual orientation of “the looker” is expressed in a similar fashion to the traditional presentation of attraction from heterosexual male characters – by observing another man as an “erotic object”, the sexual orientation of this character is communicated without the need to announce to the audience that the character is homosexual or to exaggerate the character’s behavior to match a heterosexual audience’s stereotype of what it means to “act gay”. Beauty and the Beast and Homosexuality The example of homosexual male gaze utilized in this paper is that of the 2017 live action film adaptation of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.	cache/cinej-177.pdf	txt/cinej-177.txt