House gay

Me: In S6 E15, “Black Hole” Residence tells Wilson to buy furniture for their shared condo and after Wilson has a decorator pick all the furniture for him House returns it and tells Wilson to pick something himself, one single piece of furniture which says something about him. Wilson agonises over this, spending a whole day trying to find something and then bemoaning his inability to accomplish so to Cuddy, who tells him it says more about him that he’s letting Property make him think this much about it. In the cease he pays another decorator to furnish the condo, but does pick out one thing for himself....... For House. He buys House an organ piano, Wilson cannot play the piano himself and bought it specifically for House, admitting to himself, Property and the audience that Cuddy was right; Wilson defines himself by his relationship to Dwelling and wants House to perceive this, and House accepts it as Wilson having picked that to be the thing Wilson wants to say about himself, it’s as good as a marriage proposal, And in this essay I will

I’m pretty confident in saying that House changed my life.

A bit uninspiringly, House didn’t change my existence with any life lessons. What changed my experience was House and Wilson’s dynamic, and its undeniable gay subtext.

Is it queerbait? Queerbait is defined as cis, straight creators manufacturing a relationship between two people of the similar gender that seems to be going beyond friendship as a way to attract an LGBT audience, but never committing to it, as it would alienate the cis, direct part of their audience.

There were plenty of unbent cis people involved in the creation of Home and Wilson’s dynamic, which never goes anywhere beyond two dysfunctional best friends But there are also two writers, Liz Freidman and Sara Hess, both of whom are women-loving women and who wrote some of the most subtext-heavy episodes in House. The actor who played Home, Hugh Laurie, spoke favorably of a romantic understanding, and one of the producers, Katie Jacobs, was known in the LiveJournal days as the patron saint of House/Wilson.

So what happened there? Was it all a ploy to attract a ga