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Contents:
- WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘THE BIRDGE’
- 25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN
- WHAT THE BIRDGE‘S GRAND GAY COMEDY TELLS US ABOUT FAY 25 YEARS LATER
- THE BIRDGE TURNS 25: CELEBRATG ONE OF THE GREATT, GAYT MASTREAM EDI EVER MA
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘THE BIRDGE’
It’s te: 1996 saw the Rob Williams-Gene Hackman-led edy brg gay life and relatnships to the Amerin zegeist…not to mentn some of the bt one-le zgers ever mted to film.
When their son Val (Dan Futterman) gets engaged to Barbra (Callista Flockhart), all Hell breaks loose: Barbra is the dghter of the nservative Senator Kev Keeley (Gene Hackman), one very much opposed to gay rights (or, for that matter, gay people even existg).
25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN
The film touch on a number of major issu–marriage equaly, gay parentg, surrogacy, Right-wg npoopery–that wouldn’t bee major issu for another . In this regular lumn, we’ll look at pictns of queers cema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays?
WHAT THE BIRDGE‘S GRAND GAY COMEDY TELLS US ABOUT FAY 25 YEARS LATER
But more importantly, was good for the gays? Sure, there’s the prevalence of stereotypil gay referenc (drag queens, Speedos, plenty of mcg around, referenc to Madonna, and the notn that gay men love homoerotic art and cha patterns) that are all played for lghs.
THE BIRDGE TURNS 25: CELEBRATG ONE OF THE GREATT, GAYT MASTREAM EDI EVER MA
The Pros: The posiv vastly outweigh the negativ, and, fact, the prevly mentned issu work almost as set-ups for the smart subversn of the typil gay stereotyp so promently displayed on film for s.
(It should be noted that Lane is the only member of the ma st who is gay. Alan Stt, once scribed The Birdge as the first movie about gay people that isn’t a tragedy. The Birdge is one of the most radil Hollywood pictns about gay men particular, bee offers both diversy and humany while acplishg an even more difficult feat: ’s funny as hell.