Citations:HoYay

English citations of HoYay, HoYay!, and hoyay

Noun: "(fandom slang) homoerotic subtext in a television show, film, etc."

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• 2001 June 28, Mike Zeares, “Re: New writer joins BUFFY staff”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer‎^[1] (Usenet):

  This should really help the HoYay! quotient on BtVS, which was largely lacking in S5, Willow and Tara notwithstanding (it's not as much fun if it's *text*).

• 2002 January 26, Shadowy Moon [username], “Re: Religious groups praise "Lord Of The Rings"”, in alt.gossip.celebrities‎^[2] (Usenet):

  Tangentially, speaking of HoYay! movies, the local movie reviewer here said about "The Count of Monte Cristo" that he's seen less homoerotic subtext in a Village People video.

• 2002 October 23, Carolin, “A few quick Nocturne thoughts (spoilers ahead)”, in alt.tv.smallville‎^[3] (Usenet):

  Clark and Lana friends again. Okay can deal. Very HoYay less episode. Again, Clark and Lex in very few scenes together.

• 2003 August 19, himiko, “Re: Jasmine & Angelus; Buffy & Willow”, in alt.tv.angel‎^[4] (Usenet):

  HoYay, too, is largely in the minds of the beholders...except for Buffy's "there could be some kind of oil involved" which was definitely HoYay subtext if not actual text.

• 2004 February 5, himiko, “Re: Did anyone else liked the fight scene? ** POSSIBLE SPOILERS**”, in alt.tv.angel‎^[5] (Usenet):

  I also loved the sexual innuendo between Lindsey and Angel. That was the most outrageous HoYay ME has yet dared to present...and right under the WB's prudish little noses.

• 2005, Ramin Setoodeh, "Television: Having A Gay Old Time", Newsweek, 23 January 2005:

  Schwartz acknowledges "The O.C." has HoYay!-like moments "from time to time"; the boys' hetero love interests even mock them about their relationship.

• 2007, Christy Carlson, "IS this because I'm Intertextual: Law and Order, Special Victims Unit, and Queer Internet Fan Production", in Queer Online: Media Technology & Sexuality (Kate O'Riordan & David J. Phillips), Peter Lang (2007), →ISBN, page 182:

  A group project in process, the production of hoyay-oriented viewer guides and analyses of SVU and its intertexts (including media reports and photographs of SVU actors), functions not only to critique the show's heterocentrism but also to reveal the extent to which it is built on a thinly veiled homoeroticism.

• 2008, Melanie E. S. Kohnen, "The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville Fandom", in Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom (eds. Sharon Marie Ross & Louisa Ellen Stein), McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, pages 214-215:

  Considering fans' previous seemingly blanket endorsement of everything queer, one has to ask why HoYay! fans don't favor the queer Lex/Lana/Clark triangle.

• 2009 November 9, Brigid Nelson, “Re: BILLY MASTERS 11/09/09 **BLIND ITEM**”, in alt.gossip.celebrities‎^[6] (Usenet):

  Supernatural brings the Hoyay, but I've never heard serious speculation that the boys were batting for the homo team.

• 2010 February 9, Ubiquitous [username], “Re: What Did You Watch? 2010-02-07 (Monday)”, in rec.arts.tv‎^[7] (Usenet):

  What's with the Raj hoyay?