@merry-melody @survivablyso Oh, you know, homophobia is the one thing I hadn't considered there.
I do think @ghost-in--the-room is right about the tattoo, and leading from that if the guy doesn't think he belongs there then it's probably about his interpretation of the performative nature of what Klaus is doing making something of a mockery of other people's pain. (Though I don't believe Klaus is meaning to perform for others at that moment, in spite of how a lot of his existence and survival seems to be performance.) I hadn't thought about Klaus's queerness being a part of that performance though, because grieving is not an inherently romantic act and even though we know who he's missing those other people don't. Kissing/holding memorabilia and looking at pictures are things perfectly straight people also do as they grieve for anyone of any gender. The language of film/television is of course different and very pointed for a lot of reasons, so perhaps.
I mostly didn't think of it because the rest of the show doesn't seem to come down for or against Klaus's sexuality. It just is. Like, his family doesn't care. They mostly react to the fact that he's a tweaky mother fucker who has been super unreliable of late. Diego asks about a woman and when Klaus corrects him he just rolls with it. The response is indulgent and likely what he would have said if it had been a woman Klaus had lost. None of this means there isn't homophobia in the world of the show, of course, just that it makes me think that's not the story the show wants to be telling, even in that moment.
But hey, I've been wrong about these things before, because I am myself but a small queer just trying to get through the media I love without being sad about it ALL THE DAMN TIME.
