Gay alien
Seeing the Xenomorphs return in Alien: Romulus feels prefer a warm (face) hold. Well, for fans appreciate us anyway. For the young miners who stumble across everyone's favourite aliens, it's not exactly a burst of joy, unless you count the minute monster bursting out of your chest.
The story picks up between Ridley Scott's original Alien film from 1979 and James Cameron's action sequel, Aliens, which arrived seven years later. Director Fede Álvarez connects the two with a few not-so-subtle references, but what Romulus fails to deliver on compared to these two classic movies is queerness. Over four decades on, the latest Alien film is arguably the least queer yet, although even the straightest Alien movie is actually pretty damn gay when you take a closer look.
Ridley Scott didn't technically throw the first brick at Stonewall, and neither did original Alien script writer Dan O'Bannon, but together, what they did do was create one of the best and arguably gayest sci-fi horrors of all time.
But lgbtq+ how? No one's exactly queening out with the Xenomorphs, although Cameron's sequel did introduce an actual Xenomorph queen. Ripley too is a queen, or at le
Ranking every Alien film by how queer they are
Edited 29/1/21 because I forgot about Johner and Vriess
Alien
- Lambert is retconned in the next film to be a trans woman.
- According to Ridley Scott, everyone on the Nostromo is bi and fucking each other.
- In the script, Ripley and Lambert are lovers.
- Everyone except Kane was written as gender neutral.
Queer score: 2
Aliens
- Lambert, as mentioned above, is revealed to be transitioned (if you pay super close attention).
- Frost mentions having sex with a male Arcturian.
- Vasquez was queer-coded by Jenette Goldstein.
Queer score: 3
Alien 3
- Nothing gay happens in this one, unless you count Golic being obviously attracted to the (presumably) male runner-xenomorph
- The prisoners probably fucked each other at some point, though
Queer score: 1
Alien Resurrection
- Call and Ripley 8 are definitely lesbians, there is literally no other interpretation.
- Ripley 8 sticks her fingers in Name, which is pretty gay.
- Johner also kisses Vriess on the mouth
Queer score: 8
Prometheus
- Millburn and Fifield basically act enjoy space boyfriends
- David models himself after Lawrence of Arabia, who is gay as fuck
Michael Fassbender’s Gay Kiss With Himself in Alien: Covenant: An Appreciation
This post contains spoilers for Alien: Covenant.
In Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott pulls a sneak assault. Prometheus, his first Alien film since the 1979 original, was a comically ambitious origin story of both the franchise’s monsters and of humanity itself. To open Covenant, his new follow-up, Scott presents a dreamy conversation about existence accompanied by an android on piano—before promptly reverting to the series’ genre DNA, which bleeds from the victims in buckets.
Yet that isn’t the sneak attack. Old fans may initially find Alien: Covenant to be a restore to the series’ elemental horror roots, but it isn’t long before it’s clear that Scott and his team of writers are up to … something else. Something that involves Michael Fassbender seducing Michael Fassbender with a flute lesson. Something that includes deep serpentine stares, existential cooing, and the line “I’ll do the fingering.” Something that begins as WTF subtext but, to my great delight, quickly reveals itself as all-out text. By the time Fassbender plants a kiss on his control doppelganger, Alien: Covenant has taken
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