wherever the wind blows

the entity is a really tidy piece of symbolism in this regard. it communicates this notion that queer desire and queer relationships are not an appropriate avenue for connection or tenderness. it reduces queerness to sex (violent sex at that!) and removes any possibility for these kids to continue to think of their queer identity as something which brings them joy or comfort. as OP says, these encounters are engineered to be traumatising, and as i’ve gotten at in a previous post, the entity is wholly concerned with lulling these kids into a sense of security, making them let their guard down, and then violating them at their most comfortable. it reflects cultural anxieties about gay men and trans women inhabiting public spaces—especially bathrooms.