Whatever the reason for the Babadook's aptness and popularity in queer culture, the figure added a lot of laughter, delight, and community to this year's Pride festivities, including through people dressing up as Mister Babadook at pride parades. Credit: The Babadook With June being national pride month in the US, the memes have gone into overdrive.
The monster is clearly meant to be a metaphor for a mother's grief and depression, but it's gained an exciting new life years after the movie's release as a symbol of gay pride. The Babadook, starring Essie Davis as a widowed mum bringing up son Sam (Noah Wiseman). Its existence is defiance, and it seeks to break down the borders of acceptability and establishment.' Slate links the popularity more to the queer tradition of camp, or 'viewing the 'wrong' details and nuances of a given cultural object as more pleasing than the ones the creator meant to foreground.' As explored in Rolling Stone, the Babadook 'represents queerness itself, an invisible threat made real through denial and oppression.' According to Vox, 'Mister Babadook, as the figure is referred to in the movie, is queer in the most empirical sense.
Some people think that this joke caught on because the Babadook is a logical allegory for queerness.
