From Dog Day Afternoon to The Handmain, the are 10 of the bt thrillers wh lbian, gay or transgenr them.
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
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. * 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.
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.
THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
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.