Openly gay director Roland Emmerich talked up a same-sex uple his big budget sci-fi sequel, but why is the film so embarrassgly y about them?
Contents:
- Q&A: FROM ‘BARB AND STAR’ TO ‘Y DAY,’ FORTUNE FEIMSTER IS GIVG THE GAYS SOMETHG TO TALK ABOUT
- WHY INPENNCE DAY: RURGENCE'S GAY UPLE ARE NIED A CLOSE ENUNTER
- AMERIN QUEER LIFE: HOW CULTURE SAVED A LTLE GAY BOOMER BOY: TV
- FLORIDA TEACHER UNR VTIGATN FOR SHOWG DISNEY MOVIE WH GAY CHARACTER SAYS SHE DIDN’T KNOW LGBTQ RTRICTN APPLIED TO HER CLASS
- A NEW DAY FOR GAY PLAYS?
Q&A: FROM ‘BARB AND STAR’ TO ‘Y DAY,’ FORTUNE FEIMSTER IS GIVG THE GAYS SOMETHG TO TALK ABOUT
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Durg our nversatn, Feimster, y, talked some more – this time about how her character “Y Day” might actually be gay, beg drawn to the sany of “Barb and Star, ” and feelg like, at last, Hollywood might be ready for her to go om b part to big part. You’ve played janors, grave diggers, a fairy gay mother…. The movie’s gonna live on gay cult film culture anyways, so every year, actually, should get a theatril release.
It do seem that gay men particular really took to that movie, which mak me so happy.
WHY INPENNCE DAY: RURGENCE'S GAY UPLE ARE NIED A CLOSE ENUNTER
It was spearhead by Jsi Kirson, who’s a very hilar, rpected edian out of New York, who is also gay. And to get to share my story and my journey about g out and figurg out who I was, and beg reprentatn for people and havg be on this worldwi platform, where people who might live plac where they don’t know a lot of gay people or they don’t see themselv another person — was really special to me to be able to do that, and make people lgh at the same time. (Gabriella Wilson) is an Amerin mician who won Bt R&B Album at the 2020 Grammy Awards for her sophomore album, I Used to Know Her.
They’re both openly gay director Roland Emmerich talked up the sequel to his 1996 alien vasn h, he remarked that we would see a same-sex relatnship on screen, a distct rary the world of the Hollywood blockbter.
AMERIN QUEER LIFE: HOW CULTURE SAVED A LTLE GAY BOOMER BOY: TV
We have a gay uple the film, ” he told the Hollywood Reporter 2015. You start small and then you get bigger and bigger and bigger, and one day you have a gay character as the lead and nobody will wonr at no more. Any reference was entirely absent om all publicy materials and as the film progrsed, I was stgglg to fe any of the relatnships as gay.
FLORIDA TEACHER UNR VTIGATN FOR SHOWG DISNEY MOVIE WH GAY CHARACTER SAYS SHE DIDN’T KNOW LGBTQ RTRICTN APPLIED TO HER CLASS
I even started to fd sexual tensn between the aforementned warlord and a geeky acuntant given the repeated alien-killg referenc of “gettg them the back” st and director of Inpennce Day: Rurgence, book-end by the film’s gay uple, played by John Storey and Brent Sper. That’s, I wasn’t expectg graphic gay sex a film aimed at fai, but the embarrassg Hays Co yns of all meant that one uld still watch the film and jt see them as really good iends.
Emmerich’s handlg of gay characters was shaky, even a film solely about gay characters, and he faced cricism for referrg to his twky lead as “straight-actg”, a phrase loathed by many for s suggtn that masculy is a performed tra for gay also wouldn’t be the first film to clu gay characters but then shy away om anythg that’s “too gay”.
While Jonathan Demme’s Aids drama Philalphia might have served plds for broachg an issue that most were too sred to go near, the clost we had to affectn between the lead gay uple was a b of dancg.
A NEW DAY FOR GAY PLAYS?
Fan fictn and Twter petns have yet to rult a blockbter that viat om heteronormativy and gay characters blockbters have remaed virtually visible (the recent onle excement over what appeared to be a lbian uple Fdg Dory turned out to be predictably for nothg). I’m not askg for Le Skywalker to pse Jedi trag to liver a speech about gay rights, or for a clumsily serted scene of Indiana Jon showg off his latt fd a gay bar jt to tick a box, but given that blockbters are naturally filled wh jeopardy and mographic-pleasg romantic rnns, is a same-sex kiss or clear statement of love that much to ask for?
If the gay uple Inpennce Day: Rurgence had been straight, we would have known this was the se. If we n believe an alien queen rampagg across Nevada, then surely we n believe a gay man sharg a small, but meangful, kiss wh his partner.