Making An Effort: The Queer Masculinity of Ethereal and Occult Beings in Good Omens
“[A]ngels are sexless unless they really want to make an effort.”
How should we as readers look at and understand the gender and sex of ethereal and occult beings in Good Omens? Both Aziraphale and Crowley make repeated ‘efforts’ to not only assimilate into human society but to specifically exist in the socially constructed genders of the society in which they live. More specifically they exist, live, and experience the world as men and that conscious choice should be acknowledged and respected by readers.
I could just says ‘in this essay I will’ and leave it, but this is important to me and I actually am going to write this essay so, in this essay I will argue that both Aziraphale and Crowley make an effort to be gendered and should be considered men and more specifically, in the language of 2019, should be considered trans men.
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