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BE GAY DO CRIME: ON LGBT REPRENTATN DOG DAY AFTERNOON AND THE NEW HOLLYWOOD ERA
Between the real robbery and the release date of Dog Day Afternoon, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn classified homosexualy as a mental disorr. Homosexualy (or any sexualy or genr inty outsi of the norm) was rarely portrayed film.
Also Midnight Cowboy, which was rated X at the time for “homosexual ame of reference” which is much more unrton than outright pronouncement). Although Sonny is referred to as homosexual by the news outlets, he is really bisexual. Sonny not only mataed his gay relatnship but is also prented as beg, at the same time, a ‘fay man, ’ wh a wife and children.
Sidney Lumet says the DVD terview “No major star that I knew of had ever played a gay man. A homosexual character (or rather, the ia of a stereotypil homosexual character) was the plete oppose of the imper Corleone lear. He plays an unrver p who has to fd a serial killer the gay S&M unrworld.