"The gay dience has been urted by almost every medium, even when has not been openly acknowl at the movi, very ltle has changed."
Contents:
- STONEWALL 1979: GAYS HOLLYWOOD
- WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
STONEWALL 1979: GAYS HOLLYWOOD
Bt Gay Scene: Murray Bartlett, Las Gage 'The Whe Lot'. Bt Sp-Roastg a Gay Married Couple: Jake Weary 'Animal Kgdom'.
In January 1969, Variety screeched: HOMO N’ LESBO FILMS AT PEAK — DEVIATE THEME NOW BOX OFFICE. It was the year of The Boys the Band, the culmatn of a which Hollywood seized upon homosexualy as a seamier si of the Amerin dream. In one year, 1968, there were more films alg wh homosexualy than the three s sce the g of sound.
Lbians and gay men the movi were pathologil, predatory, and dangero; we were villas and fools, but never hero. Homosexuals were prime spects The Boston Strangler, rapists Rt, and hairdrsers or queens No Way to Treat a Lady and Valley of the Dolls. Homosexualy was the dirty secret the last real.
WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE
” The ethic of the closet is also advanced The Boys the Band, which cid neatly wh the birth of the activist gay movement Ameri. Ten years later, the gay dience has been urted by almost every medium, even when has not been openly acknowledged. Plays, books, magaz, and even televisn shows have prented a steady stream of real and fictnal gay suatns.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Durg the ’70s, gays died vlent aths Diamonds Are Forever, The Day of the Jackal, Freebie and the Bean, The Eiger Sanctn, Swashbuckler and even Tfft’s Day for Night.
In Jackson’s novel the hero’s alholism is the rult of a father fixatn aggravated by false accatn of homosexualy.
The nsummatn of a homosexual affair which Hay scrib his book is halted the film by a gentle but manly rejectn. “I ma that cisn, ” says Parker, “bee I uldn’t afford to have my dience thk my hero was a homosexual. Gay fictn is big bs, but not one homosexual hero has reached the screen.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Ray Agayhari tried for three years to get a film versn of Lra Z. The story of a mother who mt e to terms wh her son’s homosexualy “was turned down by all the major studs wh enormo promptns, ” acrdg to the thor. Hobson uld sell Jews to Hollywood 1947 when she wrote Gentleman’s Agreement, but she uldn’t sell them gays 1979.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
The most celebrated failure to produce a film om gay fictn volv Patricia Nell Warren’s btseller, The Front Runner. ” Most actors are as reluctant as ever to play homosexuals for fear that the dience will nfe them wh their rol. When Perry Kg was about to accept the role of a gay man A Different Story, he was warned by his iend Sylvter Stallone, “Don’t play no faggots.
As Paco says the film when John Cazale plas that the TV is llg him a homosexual, “It don’t matter, Sal.
“Men never ed to be able to have emotnal liv on film; now they do, ” says Ron Gold, media adviser for the Natnal Gay Task Force. As we move to a refn of rol the movi, gayns will bee more acceptable. Yet, the fact that heterosexuals are more vulnerable on the screen has produced a hancy about homosexualy.