Absolutely! There's obviously a lot of explicit homophobia (although I'm obsessed with this article from the Advocate doing a bit of an early reparative reading) and I think it's worth looking at the dynamic. JD's insults are primarily 'you're fake, I made you, my band's bigger, I pay your bills"
Asserting dominance by flexing his material success. Fred's responses seek to re-other JD, and queerness and poverty are treated as equally outsider identities. There are as many references to having bad teeth as there are f-slurs, and the whole back half is hillbilly incest jokes
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