Speaking of Frankenstein-like stories that approach masculine™ appropriation of feminine™ creation with a gasp of reverential disgust, I rewatched Jurassic Park the other day and it stood out how Nedry placed the stolen embryos inside of the Barbasol can, of all things. What with explosions of shaving cream being ejaculatory in Homestuck and what not. Computer coding is a mode of “creation” in Jurassic Park’s psychosexual parlance, as indicated by the GCAT sequence projected onto the CGI velociraptor’s face, so Nedry’s proficiency with code would seem somewhat related to the moment when Lex symbolically confronts (?) her dislike of the “other kind” by using her computer skills to hold back the velociraptor head shoving its way into the door. The moment has a rude precedent when the brachiosaur sneezes all over Lex.
Not sure if that makes Lex gay, but the question is certainly on the table… the sequel has a lesbian tyrannosaur couple, and the first film has a joke that foreshadows the discovery that the “all female” dinosaurs started breeding somehow: when the helicopter’s landing, one of the paleontologists tries to secure his seatbelt, but ends up vainly clanking together two receiving-end belt buckles. Rather than futz around looking for the complementary half, he just ties himself in with the straps from the receiving-ends. “Life finds a way.”
You might even say the first film deals a bit with how parents respond to having gay kids? Nedry’s has the fetal shaving cream, but there’s also the fertility imagery of his being surrounded by sweets in his introduction, and his death upon being sprayed in the face… Hammond rejects his son, while Grant comes to love and protect the boy who’s obsessed with him and the girl indicated to have a certain phallophobia? Though it seems off to negatively structure lesbianism around penises like that, the “I don’t like the other kind” comment certainly seems to suggest as much within the movie’s vocabulary.
Another for the pile: I think light/electricity is probably a masculine/phallic signifier in Jurrassic Park, same as Homestuck. Again, the dinosaurs on Jurassic Park are all female; this is ostensibly a measure of population control, but the “control” half takes priority here. The dinosaurs are aligned with the feminine in general, as indicated by the above screen cap, in which Dr. Sattler is seated between bones embedded in the pillars as she speaks to Hammond. In contrast with the dark in which Sattler finds herself, Hammond is aligned with the warm light on the left. This gendering of dark and light carries over to the electric fence: the formal means of restraining the feminine-dinosaur is masculine-electricity. (Also consider the famous shot of shining a light at the T-Rex’s eye, upon which her pupil contracts angrily)
On the periphery of the psychosexual symbolism, there’s a nice little joke that supports the notion that the kids are gay: why doesn’t Tim let go of the masculo-electric fence in time, causing him to get zapped and launch into the trees? Apparently, because he likes boys.