Jesse is obviously ...


... bisexual.

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Not necessarily. He probably doesn't even know himself what he is at this stage in his life.

The first Elm Street movie was about sexual awakening, so is this one, but with the added layer of complexity being that here they deal with the gradual awakening of homosexual urges and desires.

Jesse may not even be explicitly aware of this himself, looks to me like all he is consciously aware of is increasing distance between him and others, his father in particular (nice touch, that), and that he is increasingly becoming more different from anyone else.

Give him a few more years to find himself and come to terms with it, and he'll probably come out as a full blown gay.

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Haven't closeted/latent bisexuals have had to deal with many of the same issues that homosexuals have had to deal with, though? It's not as if gays have a monopoly of issues pertaining to sexual repression/awakening.

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Everything but your conclusion supports the bisexual angle. Not all bisexuals eventually come out as gay.

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BS, he was ready to nail Lisa till Freddy came out w/ the Gene Simmons tongue! He hated Schneider & Grady annoyed him. Plz tell me what guy you believe Jesse wanted? In the 80s most young men wanted a hot girl, not guys like so many today.

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In the 80s most young men wanted a hot girl, not guys like so many today.


I'd say the percentage of young gay men is about the same now as it was back then, it's just a lot more of them are out of the closet.

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Yep, I guess you are correct. Seems like back then people were more personal about their sexuality.

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Straight people weren't. Gays had to be more personal because society was a lot less tolerant.

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The film has gay undertones for sure, but it is only metaphorical. The character of Jesse isn't gay or bisexual. Or at least he wasn't intended to be. The undertones allow one to see those things if they like, but the character himself was clearly just a young man terrorized by Kruger and brought back to reality via his love for Lisa. Don't mix up the metaphors with the actual story.

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This should be blindingly obvious. Definitely makes the most sense given the day is literally saved at the end only by heterosexual love.

But I have a feeling the movie’s champions and detractors would both agree that’s not the case.

I don’t know how anyone can watch this and not see that Jesse is bi.

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