Gravity Falls and LGBTQ+ subtext: Decoding the Queercoding | A Video Essay
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0:00 - Intro and explanation of concept
7:39 - Thematic open and Summary of Gravity Falls
12:51 - Section Blubs and Durland
17:21 - Section A side note about Grenda and Toby
23:28 - Section 2.1 Wendy Corduroy
29:56 - Section Bill Cipher
32:04 - Section A history of queer villainy
36:45 - Section 2.3 Stanley Pines
48:57 - Section 3.1 Pacifica Northwest
56:10 - Section 3.2 Dipper Pines
1:01:18 - Section Stanford Pines, and a queer analysis of Weirdness
1:05:41 - Section Stanford Pines, and a queer analysis of Monsters
1:14:05 - Section Stanford Pines calls Fiddleford McGucket
1:27:57 - Section Stanford Pines and the nature of aromantic queer analysis
1:36:26 - Section Stanford Pines, and a queer analysis of abuse
1:45:23 - Section Stanford Pines, Bill’s aftermath, and 80s synth pop
1:54:20 - No longer traveling alone (My Journey)
1:56:15 - Conclusion
2:06:13 - Credits and Ending Notes
I recently discovered that another YouTuber has covered this topic first!!! Check out their (much more concise) video here:
Referenced videos, resources and podcasts:
Disney S&P emails:
Mystery Shack Lookback podcast:
Kat Blaque’s video:
Rowan Ellis’ video:
Matt Baume’s: video:
Insider’s video:
La’Ron Readus’ and Lindsay Ellis’ collab videos:
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard’s video:
Comphet Master Doc:
(^^^SEE DISCLAIMER AT 53:49 - this document may be helpful in some regards, but should be approached with nuance, and with the perspective of trans/pan/bi people in mind)
The Queer connection to cryptids:
The History of queer conversion therapy:
Music:
All Star cover is an arrangement by williamcreamer3
audio is from the PianoMan333 Youtube Channel:
Song Ol’ Shoshone was used with permission. I just… emailed the guy who made it, Chris Remo, and asked if I could use it and he said it was cool. Wild shit. I guess you can do that?
Royalty Free Music:
Enigmatic by Benjamin Tissot
Mysterious Celesta by Ashot Danielyan
Scifi - Bensound
Consternation at the Disco - Wax Lyricist
CallingTheDemon - NewNeko2000
Tic Toc Suspenso - Slicebeats
In Search of Solitude - Scott Buckley
Gravity - 16047
Cinematic Cello - Lexin Music
Scary Forest - Serge Quadrado
Gravity Falls related Tweets/Reddit/Streams referenced:
A lot of clips from the show were sourced from compilations by the channel Dipper and Mabel, and I found that helpful for having footage on hand of specific characters and sequences:
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