“Another Gay Sequel”: “Wild,” y — but also pretty lame | The Seattle Tim

Contents:

• ANOTHER GAY SEQUEL: GAYS GONE WILD!
• "I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
• ANOTHER GAY SEQUEL: GAYS GONE WILD!
• ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
• “ANOTHER GAY SEQUEL”: “WILD,” Y — BUT ALSO PRETTY LAME
• ANOTHER GAY MOVIE (15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DIRECTOR'S CUT)

ANOTHER GAY SEQUEL: GAYS GONE WILD!

Andy is your typil All-Amerin seventeen-year-old gay virg. Ni is the pierced alternative-kid gay-cema expert. Along the way, the film spoofs not only “Amerin Pie” and gay movi om “Trick” to “The Broken Hearts Club, ” but also the entire gay liftyle.

Gay Nerd. This strenuoly unfunny follow-up to the uneven but often uproar "Another Gay Movie" duly matas the origal's levels of rnch and gross-out gags, but all feels perfunctory, wh ic spiratn distctly lackg. Even a sequel that mak fun of sequelizg n suffer the dread sophomore slump, as illtrated by “Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!

” This strenuoly unfunny follow-up to the uneven but often uproar “Another Gay Movie” duly matas the origal’s levels of rnch and gross-out gags, but all feels perfunctory, wh ic spiratn distctly lackg.

"I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE

Three of the four lead characters are played by new actors, wh an openg “Wizard of Oz” parody offerg one explanatn for why they “all look slightly different” — perhaps bee certa actors’ agents thk “dog two gay movi a row will make people thk you’re actually gay. At a rort prid over by RuPl and Lady Bunny, the quartet sign up for a “Gays Gone Wild” ntt that awards priz to whoever gets laid the most durg their stay. Perhaps that’s why a film like 2006’s Another Gay Movie feels so taboo, even today.

In a time when “gay g-of-age stori” were still synonymo wh “g out stori, ” Stephens envisned a lorful fantasy world where the closet didn’t even exist and his characters uld stead worry about what any other teen worried about: Havg sex. Fifteen years later, Another Gay Movie is the fn of a cult edy. Tastels or not, Another Gay Movie was groundbreakg s pictn of the msy sex liv of gay men, and s ankns has ma a fg (and tnal!

In celebratn of the film’s 15th anniversary, a “Director’s Cut” re-release provis an opportuny to reach new dienc, which rais the qutn: Will a provotive product of s time like Another Gay Movie still feel relevant today, or will jt feel offensive? What follows is the five oral history of Another Gay Movie.

ANOTHER GAY SEQUEL: GAYS GONE WILD!

All creds refer to Another Gay Movie unls otherwise A. Club also had the honor of rng director Todd Stephens wh his Another Gay Movie st for the first time over 15 years. At the tail end of the , filmmaker Todd Stephens found succs wh the gay g-of-age feature Edge Of Seventeen, which he wrote for director David Moreton.

” Then they’d say, “Well, ’s got this gay element, but ’s not gay enough. ” I was really tryg to fd a wir dience, but, back those days, the feelg was that most gay stori were only seen by gay dienc. I thought, “What do you mean ’s not gay enough?

ANOTHER GAY MOVIE

Fuck you; I’m gog to give them the gayt movie ever ma! ” Another Gay Movie really was born out of feelg hurt and a rejectn, to some extent.

“ANOTHER GAY SEQUEL”: “WILD,” Y — BUT ALSO PRETTY LAME

Todd Stephens on the set of Another Gay MoviePhoto: Chris Stephens/Breakg Glass PicturMch Morris, “Griff”: For some historil ntext, this was the peak [Gee W. There’s Will And Grace, which allowed everybody to lgh wh gay people stead of at them.

From there, there’s this wellsprg of all the gay movi jt croppg up.

Todd Stephens: I was my unrwear foldg lndry wh my now hband, Tim [Kaltenecker]—we’ve been together for a ln years—and somehow the ia jt popped to my head: “What about a gay Amerin Pie? So I knew the genre, and I thought that was a great way , to spoof all the gay films that I loved. At the time, so many gay films took themselv so serly, and so much of the nflict was the very fact of beg gay—cludg Edge Of Seventeen.

ANOTHER GAY MOVIE (15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DIRECTOR'S CUT)

So I wanted to make a movie where beg gay wasn’t the nflict, ’s jt the teenagers tryg to get laid like any other teenager wants to do. I thought there was somethg revolutnary about havg a stupid movie for gay people. Jonathan Chase, “Jarod”: It was the Amerin Pie for the gay muny.

For once, gay kids wouldn’t have to translate that stuff to their lived Stephens: I was fely pullg spiratn om the c humor that was big edy at the time, and that’s a different si of me. I’m a Gemi, so I have that more ser, heartfelt si—that’s where Edge Of Seventeen and [the upg] Swan Song me om—but that’s the part of me that got hurt bee of the Gypsy ’83 rejectn, so that’s why I wrote Another Gay Movie.

Sure, ’s makg fun of our day-to-day gay liv, but also celebratg a very sex-posive way.

Mch Morris: From the begng, I always felt a great sense of fiance Another Gay Movie. We were dog somethg that we weren’t sure we uld get away Another Gay Movie wrten, Stephens and his llaborators ma plans to stage live readgs of the script at queer film ftivals, both as dry ns for the joke-heavy dialogue, and to build buzz among dienc and potential fanciers. At that pot, they were jt askg me to do the live readg at the Philalphia Gay And Lbian Film Ftival 2004.

Todd was tryg to get the muny there— felt like was the whole gay world. ” I probably would have done anyway right out the gate movie, but there was an easg to that ma a big proven self an dience favore, Another Gay Movie was ready to make the move om stage to screen. The creative team worked hard to stretch their funds and build the gay fantasy world of their dreams, all a historic neighborhood south of Stephens: So I had partnered up wh TLA, which still exists; they were this big distributor of gay films, and they were actually puttg the movi to theaters.