Bon and All Director Lu Guadagno Interview on Cannibalism, Gay Sex

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Guadagno, who is gay, terwove this queer subtext throughout the story. The one explicly gay scene the film happens when Lee sc and has sex wh a male rnival worker—and then eats him wh Maren afterward. It feels ridiculo hdsight, but then aga, I grew up public schools where the very word “gay, ” let alone “trans, ” was a dirty word.

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