When a closeted celebrity proposes to an oblivious woman, he’ll drag friends, exes and a tabloid photographer into a vulgar screwball farce. The gays are evil, the women are gorgons and the straight leading man thinks he’s in a high … Continue reading LGBT Movies: My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (1999)
Promiscuous hunk meets monogamous introvert. The hunk sees a chance to leave the scene and settle down. Can these crazy kids work things out? Turns out they can’t. All the Rage morphs from a romcom into something darker and stranger. … Continue reading LGBT Movies: All the Rage (1997)
“It’s a date movie, like straight people have had for years, and I’m glad to fill that gap. I’m a big romantic at heart.” ~ Writer/Director Brian Sloan. A writer is violently rejected by their college crush. Years later they … Continue reading LGBT Movies: I Think I Do (1997)
A closeted doctor has an affair with a man. Everyone talks about their feelings. A lot. The Celluloid Closet called Making Love one of the first sympathetic films about homosexuality. That may be, but it’s also terribly dull. Want to learn more? … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Making Love (1982)
“I’m unapologetic about what we did in the 70s… We earned it. We faced such strong and harsh discrimination that to be able to completely let go and revel in who we were, I think, was very necessary.” ~ Steve … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Welcome to the Blue Jay Bar where the music is loud, the patrons are sad and everyone’s looking for love. It’s post Stonewall but men still aren’t allowed to dance together without a woman present. The shapeless script jumps from … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Some of My Best Friends Are… (1971)
ABC debuted the After School Special in 1972. A typical special would feature a story about teenagers dealing with a PROBLEM that could be examined within an hour. Other networks soon picked up the formula. In my search for obscure … Continue reading LGBT Media: 80’s After School Specials
Two gay teens plan a fun night out, only to witness a murder. Soon they must escape a gangland assassin, the police, abusive parents and predatory johns. Luckily there’s a friendly dolphin who wants to help them out. Emile Charles … Continue reading LGBT Movies: The Fruit Machine (1988)
Warning: This article features talk about fetishism I’ve got a quite a bit of things to talk about here. First and foremost is the big one. The thing I came out to my parents first before coming out as gay. … Continue reading My queerness and pop culture – A minute of last things and a summation. (Slightly NSFW; graphic heavy)
In 1985, my parents bought our first VCR. To celebrate the occasion they rented three videos – The Wizard of Oz, Annie, and The Godfather. The former two were for me and my sisters and the latter was for them. … Continue reading My queerness and pop culture – Movies
20 years ago, I graduated high school. I almost didn’t, though. My special ed guidance councilor consistently put me in classes that weren’t American history, so I had no choice but to take summer school my senior year. I hated … Continue reading My queerness and pop culture – Revolutionary Girl Utena
A Very Natural Thing follows a New York school teacher on a search for love. He dates two very different men as he struggles to define the kind of homosexual he wants to be. Angst free sex is mixed with … Continue reading LGBT Movies: A Very Natural Thing (1974)
Note: This article contains talk of fetishism and bondage. Reader discretion is advised. I’ve written about these before, I know. However, after the reception I got over the last two articles (in that I didn’t get many comments and I’m such … Continue reading My queerness and pop culture – Video Games 3 (Graphics and text heavy; long)
25 years ago, Final Fantasy VI debuted in Japan and was released in America as Final Fantasy III. Also 25 years ago, my mother found two cassettes – ABBA Grandes Exitos Vol. 2 and Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual. Since … Continue reading My queerness and pop culture – Video Games 2
Don’t know how to approach this as the affect of video games on my sexual identity is pretty minor. I think I’ll talk about my perception of how queer people are represented in video games. In stead of focusing broadly, … Continue reading My Queerness and Pop Culture – Video Games 1
Sitcoms. Situational comedies. Friends, Cheers, The Big Bang Theory, The Office, Seinfeld, How I Met Your Mother. I’ve seen a couple of these and, yes, I do find them funny, but they haven’t grabbed me as the ones I saw with … Continue reading My queerness and pop culture – The sitcoms that shaped me
This article contains discussion of fetishism. Reader discretion is advised. I’m frustrated by this. I’m frustrated and scared about what I have to say. I’m scared about how people will react to what I’m going to write. React to what … Continue reading My Queerness and pop culture – Batman (slightly NSFW; graphics heavy)
Note: The following has a discussion about fetishism. Reader discretion is advised. God, Sleeping Beauty. Yes, it’s one of the most beautifully animated films ever made. Yes, the real stars of the movie are The Three Good Fairies. Yes, it … Continue reading My queerness and pop culture – Disney! 02
Jane Austin wrote: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Another truth universally acknowledged is that gays love Disney and I am no different. I don’t … Continue reading My queerness and pop culture – Disney! 01
Sticks and Stones follows a squabbling gay couple who throw a party at their Fire Island beach house. The guests are a mix of hippies, divas and clowns who sing, chatter and hook up. The half improvised film had a … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Sticks and Stones (1970)
This is going to be awkward for me as I’m going to be talking about myself, sometimes frankly. Here’s goes everything. It’s the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which propelled the Gay Rights Movement into the public eye; it’s … Continue reading My queerness and pop culture – An introduction and the other meaning of queerness
