Director Jonathan Demme faced down Silence of the Lambs’ gay backlash.

Contents:

• WHEN GAYS DECRIED SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, JONATHAN DEMME BEME AN EARLY STUNT OF MORN BACKLASH
• OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

WHEN GAYS DECRIED SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, JONATHAN DEMME BEME AN EARLY STUNT OF MORN BACKLASH

When Gays Decried Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme Beme an Early Stunt of Morn Backlash.

Breathls reports that gay groups like Queer Natn and ACT-UP had filtrated the productn and would dispt the ceremony wh “some sort of guerrilla tactic” were the talk of Hollywood. Organizers mand the dtry pict regular gay liv, not lunatics wh yappg poodl.

His only petn was dark horse Oliver Stone, for JFK; the gays also weren’t happy about that one, bee of the whole Tommy Lee Jon b.

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

Ever sce gay groups had first seen Silence of the Lambs Los Angel more than a year before, there had been steady outrage. Although today the objectn to the movie has been rest as ncerns about transphobia, at the time, the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) and gay crics were actually prottg homophobia.

“The killer the movie is a walkg, talkg gay stereotype, ” one GLAAD lear told the prs. He pletely promot homophobia.

In 1991, he told Film Comment, “We knew was tremendoly important to not have Gumb misterpreted by the dience as beg homosexual.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

And a disservice to gay people.