Eric harris and dylan klebold gay

I don’t think Eric was even remotely gay either, however, hating gay people isn’t always a sign that someone’s straight. But with Littleton, that other perennial anxiety-- homosexuality-- came to the fore. Yet whatever their intimacy together, Harris and Klebold's deep disconnect to everyone else also may relate to homoeroticism-- or rather what has been the cleansing of it from the culture of American boyhood.

With palpable relief, they noted that the two boys had girlfriends. But asking whether Klebold and Harris were "really" gay misses the point. Eric David Harris (April 9, – April 20, ) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (/ ˈkliːboʊld / KLEE-bohld; September 11, – April 20, ) were American high school seniors and mass murderers who perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre at Columbine High School on April 20,in Columbine, Colorado.

A lot of intense hatred turns out to be actually internalized homophobia. A gay angle surfaced almost as soon as the shootings hit the news, with rumors circulating that the boys with the bombs and guns were -- variously -- certainly gay, absolutely heterosexual, or self-avowed bisexuals. Whether they had girlfriends or not, Harris and Klebold shared a pact-unto-death that, if twisted horribly, also was romantic.

So far the school-shooters are all white boys. But almost everyone at Columbine High agreed they had been taunted as queer. The theme of braving death together in battle runs through the literature of queer love from Achilles and Patroclus to The Shropshire Lad. In his diary, one of two spun out a fantasy of living on an island alone with the other. I don’t think Eric was even remotely gay either, however, hating gay people isn’t always a sign that someone’s straight.

Eric wrote extensively about homosexuality in his journals.

M ass shootings didn’t start at Columbine High, but the mass-shooter era did. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s audacious plan and misread motives multiplied the stakes and inspired wave after.

Eric David Harris (April 9, – April 20, ) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (/ ˈkliːboʊld / KLEE-bohld; September 11, – April 20, ) were American high school seniors and mass murderers who perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre at Columbine High School on April 20,in Columbine, Colorado. The relationship between Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was very complicated because the two had an extremely strong bond, Eric likely manipulated Dylan, and the pair brought out the worst in each other.

Gay commentators chose agnosticism-- whether the two were gay or not was a fact that could never be firmly established. The right-wing seized on their the killer's possible homosexuality. However, for my own two cents, if Eric Harris was homosexual and had feelings for Dylan, I would not at all be surprised.

From The Guide, June Nowhere else in the world do boys shoot up schools like in America-- not in South Africa, Pakistan, or the former Soviet Union-- places rife with social tension and awash in Kalishnikovs. The relationship between Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was very complicated because the two had an extremely strong bond, Eric likely manipulated Dylan, and the pair brought out the worst in each other.

There've been six mass shootings in 18 months-- enough to be become its own crime category, but still rare enough to remain shocking. Many gay public relations experts thought it best to downplay Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's possible homosexuality. A lot of intense hatred turns out to be actually internalized homophobia. Time magazine dubs them "The Monsters Next Door," but year-old Harris gazes off the cover friendly and fey, his pal, year-old Klebold, looking like an Eagle Scout caught in a goofy grin.

Whatever the truth about Harris and Klebold's sexual orientation, it's clear that "gay" is one of the worst epithets to use against a high school student in Littleton. Like a wick in gasoline, their relationship was soaked with homoeroticism. Whatever homophobic harassment the high school jocks dished out to the two gunmen, however, it would be hard to make over the killers into sympathetic victims of hate speech.

Whatever the truth about Harris and Klebold's sexual orientation, it's clear that "gay" is one of the worst epithets to use against a high school student in Littleton. He hated gay people with a burning passion, this is despite the evidence suggesting that Eric never even encountered a gay person in his life. The mayhem they've wreaked has become a Rorschach for middle-class America's anxieties-- about the young, the Internet, media violence, lax parents, teen culture.

It was not until Augustfully four months after the Columbine attack, that Dave Cullen of Salon reported: "Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had endured repeated harassment due to rumors they. The deadliest occurred April 20th in Littleton, Colorado, where two boys killed 15 at Columbine High School, including themselves, and injured some 20 others.

More PR-savvy, the Christian-right Family Research Council declared simply that mainstream media were deliberately underplaying the killers' homosexuality from deference to the gay lobby.