Ho Yay / Good Omens

"Can we get on?" said Crowley. "Goodnight, miss. Get in, angel." Ah. Well, that explained it. She had been perfectly safe after all.

It isn't exactly nice and accurate to say that Good Omens has homoerotic subtext, since angels and demons are sexless unless they "make an effort". But we are only human, and our vocabulary isn't designed for angels.

Note that this is for the book only.

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Examples

• Anathema thinks they're a couple, after hearing Crowley call Aziraphale "Angel." She later thinks of them as the "Mutually Consenting bicycle repairmen". (The decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK was only for "mutually consenting adults in private", a phrase which underwent Memetic Mutation).
• There is a particularly ship-worthy line towards the end of the book: "And perhaps the recent exertions had had some fallout on the nature of reality because, while they were eating, for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square." Nothing is specified about the nature of said "exertions". One would assume it refers to Adam remaking reality, but "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is an old love song; and Adam is pretty clearly still at the cooties stage.
  • The scene also takes place smack in between two scenes featuring canon couples that confirm the continuation, or beginning, of their own relationships.
  • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square contains the line "There were angels dining at the Ritz". Aziraphale and Crowley dine at the Ritz regularly. Mentioning the song is probably not for the sole purpose of creating subtext. The line "was it a dream, or was it true?" probably refers to the characters forgetting what happened.
    • This is not the only time a love song that involves The Ritz is mentioned. Well, it's indirect, but hear me out: There is a song by Queen called "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" [1]. For the unfamiliar, it contains the line: "Dining at the Ritz we'll meet at nine precisely (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine o'clock)/I will pay the bill, you taste the wine / Driving back in style, in my saloon will do quite nicely / Just take me back to yours that will be fine (come on and get it)" Sound familiar?
  • The Bentley is a saloon car, which was rather more rare at the time it was built than these days.
• Aziraphale refers to Crowley as "Dear" and "my dear". Crowley calls him "Angel". Aziraphale is literally an angel, but not everybody knows that, so some people think it means something different. And it's entirely within the realm of possibility that Crowley knows full well what he's doing.
• It doesn't help that Aziraphale comes off, in the words of the text itself, as "gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide".
• When Satan is about to burst through the crust of the earth, we have this lovely scene:
  He smiled at Crowley.
  "I'd just like to say," he said, "if we don't get out of this, that . . . I'll have known, deep down inside, that there was a spark of goodness in you."
  "That's right," said Crowley bitterly. "Make my day."
  Aziraphale held out his hand.
  "Nice knowing you," he said.
  Crowley took it.
  "Here's to the next time," he said. "And . . . Aziraphale?"
  "Yes."
  "Just remember I'll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to be worth liking."
  • It is not clear when—or if— they let go.
• Regarding a different supernatural pair, in Hastur and Ligur's introduction they're sharing one cigarette, despite the fact that both of them can conjure up as many cigarettes as they want from nothingness, and Hastur seems to take it personally when Ligur is killed.