Out director Ira Sachs slams his new queer film’s NC-17 ratg, llg the MPA “anti-gay” - LGBTQ Natn

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• DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME
• STEPHEN L GAY STATVILLE, AGE 57, MALE
• OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME

"I went up and troduced myself, and asked if he'd been to Chemistry before, " he, turned out, was makg his main voyage, not only to Chemistry, but also to the gay scene. C., 's easy to miss the sgle-level buildg, which looks more like a BBQ rtrant than one of the cy's most popular gay clubs. Chemistry Nightclub is a n-of-the-l spot that uld be Anytown, USA, but for Gupton was somethg else: his first time explorg a gay bar.

Their subject was that most reliable of gay nversatn starters: g was closg down the ont bar for the night and stood close by. "As wh many gay men, Whe's fear of beg perceived as weak or effemate had phed him to overpensate for years -- leadg him to act out a versn of hypermasculy as a disguise. Before 'don't ask, don't tell, ' gays the ary didn't have relatnships.

STEPHEN L GAY STATVILLE, AGE 57, MALE

They didn't tell people they were gay. I asked him if he was gay, straight, bi -- 'what are you? ' And he said, 'I don't really follow labels, but I have never been out to a gay bar.

"[Gupton] chose to go wh a gay man who he knew was gay and have nsensual sex, " Snyr says. "Maybe he never planned that, but that's what he told Stephen to get him there, and then he took Stephen's life bee he was gay.

"An alternative theory is that Whe was killed not bee he was gay, but bee Gupton was gay. There is no evince that Gupton went out that November night wh the tentn of killg a gay man.

OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

Instead, appears that he went out to his first gay bar alone and was nonted wh somethg he wasn't yet ready to pe wh.

"My fear is that bee we are the South and there is so much anger about [the legalizatn of same-sex] marriage, there is even more passn to hate gay people now, " says Snyr. "People are sayg that this is what happens when you [legalize same-sex marriage], " he LGBT people I terviewed agreed: Outsi of gay bars or tablishments, they fear showg affectn wh one another.

Snyr, who has had a partner for many years, thks the strikg down of the ban on same-sex marriage has only aggravated hostily toward LGBT 2014, six gay men were murred circumstanc siar to those which Whe found himself, acrdg to the Natnal Coaln of Anti-Vlence Programs, which refers to the homicis as hookup-related. He rells a letter that Whe once received om his sister, which she blamed his problems on beg gay. "And she told him he needs to get rid of me bee I am the vil, bee I am gay and there is no hope for me.