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Why don’t you screw me and that’ll prove !”Victim (1961)The same year brought even more gay-related suici. England’s anti-sodomy laws at the time provi the background for this blisterg drama, which centers on a blackmailg rg that targets var gays, at least one of whom is driven to off himself. Charlize Theron plays Aileen Wuornos, the real-life Daytona Beach prostute who clicked wh a younger girliend, but was ultimately worn down by all kds of abe, homophobia, misogyny, and other challeng, and end up on a killg spree of male victims.
Gay wrer-director Randal Kleiser’s follow-up to Grease and The Blue Lagoon fds geo Peter Gallagher and scmpt Daryl Hannah as a uple vatng on the eye-poppg Greek Islands, only to have lectable French girl Valerie Quennsen enter the suatn and add some heat. Brooks, Greg Knear is a gay artist who’s asslted a robbery and los everythg.
This sweet, talented, good-lookg gay sudnly has not a iend the world—until folks like the homophobic Jack Nicholson character step to help save the day. And sce the queer muny has always rallied to help self (often wh pafully few outsirs pchg ), seemed particularly sultg.Also: Longtime Compann (1989), Philalphia (1993), A Sgle Man (2009), Before Night Falls (2000), and Brokeback Mounta (2005), which is so prsg to so many people, should probably be s own list, but when I saw , I was so over all the queers-as-victims films that I have to adm I was more exasperated than vastated; still, get out the hanki.Stairse (1969)It’s hard to believe that Stanley Donen, known for airy nctns like Sg’ the Ra and Funny Face, directed this lean slog about two middle-aged gays—one a barber, the other an actor—who bicker even more than Sister Gee and Childie.