When iends, cludg mystery wrers, learned that I was pilg my list of the ten bt gay film mysteri, several exprsed surprise that I uld fd that many.
Contents:
- GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS
- THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS
* gay crime films *
When iends, cludg mystery wrers, learned that I was pilg my list of the ten bt gay film mysteri, several exprsed surprise that I uld fd that many.
The new edn of my book The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film (Srecrow Prs, November 2012) lists some 130 tl for me to choose om, 1948-2011, this number cludg only films wh some kd of a gay vtigator. Then there are crime films which gays have rol other than as vtigators, but I cid to abi by the parameters I tablished for my book and elimated all films which homosexuals serve only as weak, hapls victims or as murro crimals. One mt watch through historil lens (among other thgs, was the first time filmgoers heard the word “homosexual” a movie hoe), but largely bee of Bogar, still packs a punch.
THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
But Alex has been brought to the se by gay LAPD tective Milo Sturgis (Richard Masur), and, throughout, Milo, ironilly enough, provis psychic stabily for the volatilely obssed Alex. Supreme Court led stat had the right to crimalize same-sex relatnships and Cardal Joseph Ratzger (the prent Pope Benedict XVI) nmned any church support of the “homosexual ndn. Historilly, the film is important for beg the first to have an openly gay police officer as s protagonist (Milo has a sendary role), but, admtedly, I am dulgg myself listg as one of the ten bt.
Ohrt), a male chvist, through a tortuo cha of circumstanc ends up sharg an apartment and sometim a bed wh a gay r thief, Edgar Sänger (Tim Bergmann). § Screenplay by director Shane Black, based part on the totally non-gay novel Bodi Are Where You Fd Them (1941) by Brett Halliday. Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson), an old-style Southern homosexual ridg the District of Columbia, be a problem when powerful terts try to manipulate a lobbyist’s murr to their advantage.
The heart of the film, however, remas Carter’s nontatn, like that of so many gay slths, wh the tth that the ultimate mystery is his own inty. Nor did any Italian film ma , spe the fact that the first openly gay private vtigator a major film was a meo role Dar Argento’s giallo thriller 4 mosche di velluto grig (Four Fli on Gray Velvet), 1971. Be Gay Do Crime: John Waters, Park Chan-wook and more the new BFI seasonadvertisementreadwatchfashnphotographyartculturefilmtvactivismnewsmipnbetystraight upsmonth photos7 inic looksmagazei-D asialegalabout ntactvice media privacy policyaccsibilyterms© 2023 i-D magaze.