"The Gay Gatsby"

The question of whether or not Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are gay is very controversial because it is left unanswered and therefore open-ended. I think that Nick is, though he may be unaware, gay and has a major thing for Gatsby.

I read a Lit. Crit. on The Great Gatsby through a "queer lens" as the author puts it; the author of the text very strongly believed that Nick was gay and provides a lot of evidence. Although some of it is a stretch, some of what it said would support my stance. For instance, Nick wipes Mr. McKee's face with a cloth and winds up in his bedroom where McKee is naked...then leaves at four in the morning with no memory of what happened. Tell me that doesn't scream, "I JUST DID NAUGHTY THINGS WITH ANOTHER MAN!" Now of course, this is just my opinion, and just one interpretation. 

 Now there were also rumors that Fitzgerald was gay; Zelda even accused him of having an affair with Hemingway, his best friend. Zelda may have been right however; not only did Fitzgerald cross dress later in his life, but Fitzgerald and Hemingway liked to joke about "pederasty, anal eroticism, and other forms of perversion." (Mayfield 133) I think that Fitzgerald was using his writing as a way to express his homosexual feelings.