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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.

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

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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. 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.

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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. ” 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.

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

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