Another Gay Movie: An oral history

Contents:

• "I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• 'IT'S NOT A GAY MOVIE'
• ANOTHER GAY MOVIE - FULL CAST & CREW

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

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.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

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.

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.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

” 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? 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. 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.

'IT'S NOT A GAY MOVIE'

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.

ANOTHER GAY MOVIE - FULL CAST & CREW

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.

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.