Yterday at Salon, Caleb Cra, thor of the highly praised novel Necsary Errors, talked a b about beg a gay novelist and the effects non-heterosexual subject matter has on the chanc for a novel’s publitn. In rponse to a qutn…
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- GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
- REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED
- REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED
- I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
A page for scribg HoYay: Casablan. Who knew a movie this old uld have so much gay subtext? This vio [1] sums all up. Many viewers and crics … * casablanca gay subtext *
The gay subtexts.
REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED
* casablanca gay subtext *
Also strong gay subtexts, at least the movi I've seen:. The Malte Faln (1941): Detective Sam Spa (Bogie) wrts the myster statue om the hands of a gay crimal.
There is also, apparently, a gay nnectn real life.
Due to his lisp, sophistitn, and feme mannerisms, Bogie was often assumed gay. Was he gay?
REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED
Rebel Whout A Cse boasted some pecially groundbreakg them for the era which was ma, and here’s the movie’s gay subtext explaed. * casablanca gay subtext *
Wa -- he had no problem wh gay people, yet grew suicidal over the thought that he might personally be gay. But 's unniable that Bogie was a gay ally -- or as allied as you uld get that era. He equented gay bars and had close iendships wh gay men throughout his life, cludg Charl Farrell, Spencer Tracey, William Ha, Noel Coward, and even a young Tman Capote (who beat him at arm wrtlg).
Who knew a movie this old uld have so much gay subtext? Is he pretendg to obss over women bee he's a closeted homosexual?
Louis is often terpreted as Ambiguoly Gay, spe his hab of pullg the Srpia Ultimatum on women. Even Roger Ebert lled him "subtly homosexual" his review of the film - apparently he has never heard of bisexuals.
I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
Renlt's virtual admissn of love for Rick suppli the film wh a startlg gay subtextThe film has so many rich undimmed by age, however.
Then there is the magnificent supportg st: above all, Ras, oozg bonhomie as Renlt, whose virtual admissn of love for Rick and fal parture to “a betiful iendship” wh him suppli the film wh a startlg gay subtext; Lorre, sweaty and crgg as Ugarte, whom Rick spis ls than he adms; and Sydney Greenstreet, airily Machiavellian as Ferrari, Casablan’s top wheeler-aler, who unexpectedly shows a cent si when, unpaid, he tells Lazslo and Ilsa somethg they need to know. I was readg a book about Stanley Kubrick, and said that he wanted one of the male characters The Killg to be love wh the Sterlg Hayn character, but the censors ma him tone downCan you thk of any other productn era movi wh gay unrton?
May I direct you to THE encyclopedia of gays film, "The Celluloid Closet, " by the late, great Vo check out the documentary of the same name. " Two of the bad guy characters played by Earl Holliman and Lee Van Cleef were clearly gay.