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Other gay-themed movies
JCinNYC2006:
--- Quote from: rightstar on March 21, 2006, 12:17:42 pm ---Boys in the Band--yikes! I saw that one on stage when I was 18 and dealing with being gay and boy did it depress me. Everyone I was open to was telling me it was look into my future, and I believed them, at the same time knowing that there was nothing I could do, or would do, to avoid it. I am sooooo thankful everyone was wrong.
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I didn't see the play on Broadway and I caught the movie years later, so maybe it didn't have that same effect on me. It wasn't my first exposure to "how things could be": I had read "The Lord Won't Mind" and "Giovanni's Room" by then. A few years ago, I actually saw a version of the play in a theater in Spanish. I was surprised by how much it held up, though they did update the play to make it modern time and changed some of the characters to lesbians!
But the first gay movie I saw in the theater was after I had come out, an 80s indie flick called "Parting Glances", which did have the effect of making me think about what my life in the big apple might be like. Would I be the cute young guy who's adored? The homebody who fights to keep his marriage going? It's still a really good watch.
Juan
Impish:
--- Quote from: JCinNYC2006 on March 22, 2006, 06:43:55 pm ---But the first gay movie I saw in the theater was after I had come out, an 80s indie flick called "Parting Glances", which did have the effect of making me think about what my life in the big apple might be like. Would I be the cute young guy who's adored? The homebody who fights to keep his marriage going? It's still a really good watch.
Juan
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"Parting Glances" is on my wish list at my favorite online DVD store. I use its wish list feature to keep track of movies that I have already decided to buy someday.
Curiously, there was an column in a recent issue of "The Advocate" in which the writer talked about the importance of "Parting Glances" in his own "coming-of-age" story.
JCinNYC2006:
Yeah I think it was influential for a lot of people my age. It had a cool diversity of characters in it, the gay married couple, the straight married couple (with the husband with a penchant for boys on the side), the pretty boy college student (ah those were the days), the hipster gal friend. It's a shame that writer/director Bill Sherwood died a few years after making the movie. Who knows what he could have gone on to do....
Juan
iristarr:
"The Wedding Banquet," an early Ang Lee film, I highly recommend: a gay- themed film with a happy ending.
rightstar:
Two more I just remembered: Love...Valor...Compassion, which I didn't flip over but my partner loved,
and a Cuban film called Strawberry and Chocolate that was quite good, I think.
there was also an old British film with a very young Dirk Bogarde playing a gay guy being blackmailed. Maybe in the 50s? Anyone know it?
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