Beach Rats is a gay movie that dared to be real – here’s why served more

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• BEACH RATS IS A GAY MOVIE THAT DARED TO BE REAL – HERE’S WHY SERVED MORE
• CONSERVATIVE NEIGHBOR TOSS AD RAT ON PROPERTY OF GAY UPLE’S RTRANT AMID FD
• NEWER HARRIS DICKSON MAK WAV GAY G-OF-AGE DIE BEACH RATS
• INTIMATE GAY G-OF-AGE DRAMA BEACH RATS GETS UNR YOUR SK: EW REVIEW

BEACH RATS IS A GAY MOVIE THAT DARED TO BE REAL – HERE’S WHY SERVED MORE

In a tale of tormented youth, protagonist Frankie, a Brooklyn teenager portrayed by Harris Dickson, explor the dark si of gay culture as he fds pism the form of an onle gay chat room. Yet another gay-themed drama about a teen's stggle wh self-acceptance that belongs 20 years ago, wh a silly, nfed plot that don't really go anywhere and the kd of outdated and prejudiced view of homosexualy that you fd hundreds of films alike.

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CONSERVATIVE NEIGHBOR TOSS AD RAT ON PROPERTY OF GAY UPLE’S RTRANT AMID FD

Gay uple William Waybourn and Craig Spldg operate the Front Porch Market and Grill The Plas, Virgia. They first hoisted a pri flag on the rtrant pat 2016 the wake of shootg at an Orlando gay nightclub that killed 49 people.

Waybourn has been an LGBTQ rights activist for s, risg to promence as print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi proper re for AIDS patients. He served as managg director of now-natnal Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, and has owned newspapers for the gay muny New York, Washgton, Atlanta and Hoton.

NEWER HARRIS DICKSON MAK WAV GAY G-OF-AGE DIE BEACH RATS

Mike Washer ni the cint, sayg he has gay iends and fay members. 24, 2017“I don’t really know what I like, ” Frankie (Harris Dickson) says to a man he meets on a gay hookup se “Beach Rats.

” He repeats variatns on that phrase throughout the film, and part of what’s rehg about Eliza Htman’s sophomore feature is that the character’s nfn isn’t limed to g not cisg the web wh a p on and shadows hidg his face, Frankie hangs out wh macho, aimls potheads and around the Coney Island boardwalk. Htman is also assured enough to know n’t be easily R for sex, dgs and homophobic vlence.

INTIMATE GAY G-OF-AGE DRAMA BEACH RATS GETS UNR YOUR SK: EW REVIEW

By day he laz about wh his girliend and crew of shirtls bros; at night he’s cisg for hookups gay chatrooms. ” Yet he dismiss the mon notn, which is easily disproven by Moonlight‘s succs, that Brish actors are more fortable touchg upon homosexualy performance. " Frankie has logged on to a gay chat room om the puter his parents' basement, where he ss virtual darkns, furtively clickg through potential hook-ups.

By scriptn, Beach Rat sounds a ltle like Moonlight, another gay g-of-age story about secret pa and reprsed sire, and Htman's hyper-sensual, imprsnistic style puts the same athetic ballpark. But closer antecents are films like Mean Streets and Saturday Night Fever, which aren't about growg up gay, but articulate the macho ruals and quiet speratn of a particular speci of New York Cy male.