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Impish:
--- Quote from: Shuggy on May 04, 2006, 07:51:59 am ---Openly gay? She was partner of (married to?) Dashiel Hammett. I never heard a hint she wasn't devoted to him, and he to her. And he was strait enough, wasn't he?
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Strange. I don't know where I got the idea that she was lesbian, but I just googled the issue and I can't find any evidence to back me up.
She never married Hammett formally, don't know why.
I've believed she was lesbian for years and years now. To learn she may have been straight all along comes as quite a shock! :o
Brown Eyes:
Lots of gay/ lesbian people get married (see Jack and Ennis :D ) and even sometimes get along quite well with their "marriage of convenience" spouses. Virginia Woolf was married, obviously to Leonard Woolf, and they had a very interesting (if fraught relationship). But she considered herself a lesbian (she used the word "Sapphist"). I think this (the dilemma of being a closeted lesbian married to a man) is a very subtle subtext to the book Mrs. Dalloway. Virginia's most well-known girlfriend, Vita Sackville-West was also married to a man (he was gay too). And Vita was really, really a lesbian, but I also think she quite liked her husband as a friend, etc.
People can be kooky. :D
Lumière:
--- Quote from: JCinNYC2006 on May 04, 2006, 10:52:03 am ---I loved Priest. I liked that the younger priest's sexuality wasn't the sole focus, but one of the conflicts within the Church. The very last scene always gets me welled up.
Juan
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Agreed! Priest was not solely focussed on Father Greg's sexuality or his battle with accepting his homosexuality - it questioned alot of issues in the Catholic Church in a very evocative manner. I just loved everything about this film - I could see the young priest tearing himself inside because of his attraction to men, his questioning of his faith in God and his responsibilities as a priest. Awesome film, others who haven't seen it should definitely check it out! :)
I just recently bought "Mysterious Skin" and saw it for the first time last night. Great film, very disturbing in many ways - but very well-done!
starboardlight:
Anyone seen "Bostal Boys"? It's a beautiful little film about Irish writer, Brendan Behan, and the time he spent as a teen in reform prison. I'm not sure how much of it is fictionalized and how much is biographical. I believe that in his writing the homosexuality is more overt than in the film.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006SFL3/103-0988545-5373422?v=glance&n=130
TJ:
A historically "fact" based movie which was presented as a "heterosexual" movie was "The Grey Fox," with Richard Farnsworth playing the main true life character, Bill Miner, who was called a "Gentleman Bandit." Miner was a real person who robbed stagecoaches and after he got out of prison, he robbed trains instead.
His biographers, two newspaper men, would only claim that Miner was only "homosexual in prison," but their own research actually shows his sexual orientation as homosexual. I say that because no matter where he went, Miner always ended up with a male companion. One time, he was supposed to have married the daughter of a man who was trying to be a social climber by having her marry Miner, whom he thought owned a gold mine in California. Just before the wedding was to have taken place, Miner suddenly left town with another man.
The movie gave him female love interest in Kamloops, up in Canada; but, she never existed in the findings of the researchers.
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