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Contents:
- HOLDG OUT FOR A GAY HERO
- OP-ED: HOLDG OUT FOR A (GAY) HERO
- BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHOS PERFORMS "HOLDG OUT FOR A HERO"
HOLDG OUT FOR A GAY HERO
* holding out for a hero gay *
The film featur Benedict Cumberbatch as a real-life gay hero: Alan Turg, the brilliant mathematician who famoly broke the Enigma and, the procs, helped brg about the end of World War II.
OP-ED: HOLDG OUT FOR A (GAY) HERO
In fact, Turg (who was socially awkward to an extreme) was prosecuted for homosexualy, suffered chemil stratn as a punishment, and was found ad 1954 an apparent suici.
) But still: He was gay!
The rult is an absorbg drama that gays need to might not sound startlg, except for the fact that cema's track rerd handlg gay issu has been splotchier than a twk on a high-gluten diet. English-language movi generally al wh sympathetic gays, as long as they're eher rtoony (Priscilla) or doomed (Philalphia) or both (Kiss of the Spir Woman).
BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHOS PERFORMS "HOLDG OUT FOR A HERO"
Many tim, the likable screen gays have no love liv, sce they're on hand to em snappy one-lers, then fl away (like all those effemate sikicks 1930s Fred and Gger mils). Or gays have been portrayed as victims, psychos, and human punch l, prent to add eher horrifyg anguish or cheap lghs.
Even today, the ia of a gay hero movie seems like a 1950s and '60s were a particularly toxic time for gay-themed films, thanks to a batch of adapted plays that didn't exactly elevate the disurse.
In Tea and Sympathy (1956), a boy who's lled a sissy gets the gay fucked out of him by the ncerned wife of his ach. Stairse (1969) has two old gays bickerg, and The Killg of Sister Gee (1968) shows that dyk n be sadistic too.