Gaydar O'Reilly

The thing that makes Hawkeye read as queer isn’t so much his jokes about getting pregnant etc but rather in his open disdain for a lot of displays of masculinity (and lack of concern about having typically feminine hobbies) and his disinterest in conforming to heterosexual ideals of relationships - the way he (usually) seemingly has no desire for a relationship, and doesn’t really try to influence the women he sleeps with’s view of him to seem more masculine or in control the way that, like, Margaret’s partners do. Like, people at my work will say “we are going into this room together to kiss and fuck”(direct quote) but if I say “I don’t care about any sports, I’ve read at least one book in my adult life, and I don’t plan on getting married”, THAT’S what gets clocked as maybe gay. If you want to make a joke about being gay, you have to display signifiers of heterosexuality, and Hawkeye kind of doesn’t.