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At first Jack tries to keep up the facade of heterosexuality. He tries to care for Wendy and Danny, but over time comes to realize he can't stand them, Wendy in particular. When he freaks out and curses at her for disturbing his writing, he is letting years of frustration out. She's his female ball and chain that the outside world demands he be shackled to. And to have her here, in this place of supposed freedom from the world, is unbearable to him. He wishes her gone unconsciously, as she is the physical presence of the oppression he has felt. Danny, as his son by her, is simply another manifestation of the painful relationship he has had to maintain. He loathes them both.

The memorable Room 237 scene is a two minute summary of Jack's sexual orientation. When Jack goes in to investigate Danny's claim of someone being in there, he comes across a beautiful woman. Nude in a tub, this is a fantasy of a straight man. Wordlessly, she approaches Jack, and he does what society expects him to and embraces her. However, as soon as he sees themselves in the mirror, something changes. She is not beautiful; she is hideous, old, rotten, and grotesque. This is how he feels about women. To him, even the most beautiful of girls is no more attractive to him than this corpse. He accepts this personal truth and flees the room.

We see Jack spending more time in the Gold Lounge, where he is able to interact with men, men who we are led to believe are the spirits of the hotel of the past. In an early conversation with Lloyd, the bartender, he mentions how he can't stand his wife, to which Lloyd answers, "Women, can't live with them; can't live without them." in an almost mocking fashion. In another significant ballroom interaction, a formally dressed waiter spills a tray of drinks on him. These drinks suspiciously resemble semen in color and texture, and the two of them end up in a bathroom to clean it up. Look at this scene. We''re informed that the Overlook has been meticulously maintained in its historic condition. Why does the bathroom not look like a bygone resort, but rather a place that would have been at home in a contemporary gay club? The cleaning is oddly sexual, as we see the waiter gingerly wipe the creamy liquid he has spilled on Jack off. We're voyeurs watching two men clean up after an anonymous hookup. All of this, I must reiterate, is Kubrick's invention.

It's revealed that the waiter is Grady, a former caretaker. In future conversations, he informs Jack about how the women in his life, his wife and daughters, held him back and detested the Overlook. He ultimately had to kill them, and he encourages Jack to do the same. It is not mere happenstance that at one point he literally frees Jack from a closet. He wants Jack to embrace his homosexuality and live the lifestyle that the Overlook represents.

Perhaps the most iconic creation of Kubrick is the "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" reveal. This is simply Jack writing out his inner thoughts. He detests the work of being in a heterosexual relationship and wishes to engage in homosexual behavior, which in the real world is often referred to as "play" by the gay community.

There's also the mysterious bear scene, where Wendy encounters a man fellating another man. They are dressed in period-appropriate costumes for the Overlook's parties. Bear is an obvious homosexual reference here. We, the audience, are once again shown the sexual escape that the Overlook allows, namely men to have sexual relationships with men. Wendy freaks out and flees. This is her, and heterosexual society at large, reacting to Jack's orientation.