“It may be ‘just a movie’ to you but to the LGBT community the Babadook is a symbol of our journey.” “A movie about a gay man who just wants to live his life in a small Australian suburb?” replied the original poster, “ianstagram”, from Boston. The post drew close to 100,000 responses - a jokey back-and-forth about the deeper meanings of Jennifer Kent’s 2014 independent film that prompted one user to complain it was “JUST A MOVIE.”
‘Gay Babadook’ was born when a somewhat ironic post to Tumblr in October went viral: “Whenever someone says the Babadook isn’t openly gay it’s like? Did you even watch the movie?”
