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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
Ever sce gay groups first saw Silence of the Lambs, there was steady outrage. But Jonathan Demme reacted a surprisg and evolvg way. * gay director jonathan *
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.
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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.
OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
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“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. And a disservice to gay people.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
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” He scribed the killer as “someone who is so pletely, pletely horrified by who he is that his speratn to bee someone pletely other is manifted his ill-guid attempts at transvtism, and behavr and mannerisms that n be terpreted as gay.
In 1991, amid a rash of anti-LGBTQ vlence, Hollywood ntued s para of gay weaklgs, perverts, and killers, and Silence of the Lambs’ visceral pictn beme an easy flashpot. But stead of turng ward, he did a cur thg: He bet his Osr succs on a high-profile movie about a gay lawyer wh AIDS, Philalphia, wh megawatt stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washgton to e on board. Philalphia, which got no more gay than chaste same-sex dancg, found angry public tractors Stt Thompson, the gay Kids the Hall edian, and Larry Kramer, the firebrand wrer and activist.
In a fur Los Angel Tim op-ed, Kramer wrote, “I brg up the paful remr that Demme also directed The Silence of the Lambs, which many gays nsir one of the most vilently and sidly homophobic films ever ma. “Jame Gumb isn’t gay.