The Gayt Movi That Aren’t Explicly Gay: 28 LGBTQ Cult Classics – IndieWire

Contents:

• MOVIE BLOG: 10 ESSENTIAL GAY CULT CLASSICS
• THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
• ‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY
• INSI NYC’S SECRET CULT THAT ‘FORCED GAY PEOPLE TO NVERSN THERAPY’ & BRAWASHED HIGH-ACHIEVERS TO MANUAL LABOR
• THE GAY CULT (WHY I DON’T SUPPORT LGBT)
• GAY HISTORY: BUDDHAFIELD – A DARK STORY OF A GAY, SPEEDO WEARG GU, AND EXPLOATN!
• GAY CULT

MOVIE BLOG: 10 ESSENTIAL GAY CULT CLASSICS

The church, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexualy is a s and an abomatn which God punish wh the ath penalty. Among those exampl are a parison of same-sex marriage to a marriage between “a man and his horse”; llg the “It Gets Better” project, an iative signed to help LGBTQ young people pe wh bullyg and margalizatn, “disgtg” and a “ncerted effort” to rec kids to the gay “liftyle”; and claimg that the “blood” of “young Mar” would be on the hands of lawmakers who voted to repeal the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” Fay Rearch Council did not rpond to a requt for ment. Another “anti-LGBTQ hate group” named the report is the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a nservative Christian legal group wh attorneys across the untry and a long track rerd of ligatg agast LGBTQ a lawsu that ma natnal headl last year, ADF reprented Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay weddg, a narrow victory at the Supreme Court.

THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’

”Wtboro Baptist Church, known for s public protts that nsistently feature signs wh homophobic msag like “God Hat Fags, ” also appears on the SPLC’s list. Regardg homosexualy, “ is an abomatn, ” Phelps said SPLC stands by s “hate group” signatns and dismissed cricisms that the anizatn disproportnately foc on relig groups. Acrdg to Ta Fetner, a soclogy profsor at Canada’s McMaster Universy, anti-LGBTQ activists began anizatn “not too long after Stonewall, ” the 1969 uprisg at the Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay bar.

‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY

“Along the same l that you see today, they put forward stereotyp and vilify, pecially gay men, as predators and predators of children, and e that to jtify the tactics of takg rights way om LGBTQ people, ” Fetner ced as an early example the activism of Ana Bryant Florida.

The sger-turned-anti-gay-activist was behd the “Save Our Children” mpaign, which 1977 helped overturn a newly passed lol ordance Miami-Da County that prohibed discrimatn based on sexual orientatn employment, hog and public servic. Reached a tippg pot for acceptance of homosexualy, acrdg to a Pew study, and by 2016, LGBTQ advot had solidified many civil rights gas, such as the legalizatn of same-sex are we seeg a surge? “I thk that anti-gay activism is swept up as part of this new social embrace of tolerance and right-wg attus of all kds, ” Fetner said.

I've whtled down the list of my favore gay cult classics to jt the ten, which I tend to ver a wi range of bas. Some movi didn't make the cut bee their appeal is arguably too limed (Kenh Anger's legendary short film Fireworks), and others bee their appeal extends well beyond the parameters of gay cultdom (David Lynch's Mulholland Drive).

INSI NYC’S SECRET CULT THAT ‘FORCED GAY PEOPLE TO NVERSN THERAPY’ & BRAWASHED HIGH-ACHIEVERS TO MANUAL LABOR

Not every movie the list is explicly GLBT that shows a romantic, same-sex relatnship, but tst me, every movie on this list (which is prented alphabetil orr) is totally gay. John Waters is arguably the preement gay director, and Female Trouble was reportedly his own favore film.

THE GAY CULT (WHY I DON’T SUPPORT LGBT)

No really, David Fcher's barnstormg adaptatn of (gay) thor Chuck Palahni's cult novel is teemg wh gay unrcurrents, for those tapped to s shall we say unique worldview.

On the surface, there's nothg herently gay about this documentary peek to the cmblg tate of Big and Ltle Edie Bouvier, nt and to former First Lady Jacquele Kennedy.

GAY HISTORY: BUDDHAFIELD – A DARK STORY OF A GAY, SPEEDO WEARG GU, AND EXPLOATN!

This movie may be to this list what the Gay '90s is to Mneapolis: an obligatory tourist stop. Rob Epste's Osr-wng 1984 doc tak a clear look at the signifince of San Francis cy uncilman Harvey Milk's legacy as one of the pneerg openly gay policians.

GAY CULT

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Cast a few top-shelf gay ins there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playg Joan Crawford — and pecially have them reparteeg bchy l tearg each other to piec, and have an athetic that’s outre and unironilly mp, and you’ve got the wng-formula starter-pack for somethg licly fabulo and queer, even if not by tentnal sign. But settg a precent for movi now nonized by gay culture that don’t technilly have any (non-d, anyway) gay characters were some of Hollywood’s most all-time legendary actrs: Bette Davis “All About Eve” ma “’s gog to be a bumpy ri” an idmatic quip, while Elizabeth Taylor then ma Bette Davis’ “what a dump” even more inic aga the openg le of “Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf, ” livered while gnawg down on a chicken wg. Ed Bianchi’s 1981 “The Fan, ” meanwhile, livered perhaps the greatt gift to gay film fans of a certa era stg Lren Ball as an agg actrs stgglg to hold onto her legacy while beg stalked by, what else but, a psychotic gay fan.