A gay birthday party turns to a night of soul-searchg when the host's straight llege roommate turns up by mistake.
Contents:
- BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
- 'THE BOYS IN THE BAND' STILL HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT GAY MEN'S LIV IN 2020
- ‘THE BOYS THE BAND’ – A ‘GAY AND OUT’ REMAKE OF 1970 MOVIE
BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
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The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer. Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox. There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.
Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. A gay birthday party turns to a night of soul-searchg when the host's straight llege roommate turns up by mistake.
'THE BOYS IN THE BAND' STILL HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT GAY MEN'S LIV IN 2020
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Homosexuals Donald and Michael are discsg a birthday party the latter is givg for their iend Harold, when Alan, an old heterosexual llege acquatance of Michael's, telephon and asks if he n vis.
Michael then acc Alan of beg a "closet" homosexual and goads him to llg a former llege iend whose advanc Alan had once spurned; Alan dials a number and blurts out his love to the person on the other end, but Michael's brief victory is ed when the person turns out to be Alan's tranged wife. The ftivi beg to pall, and the guts start to leave, but not before Harold vastat Michael by characterizg him as a nrotic, unable to live eher the homosexual or heterosexual world. In 1968, an Off-Broadway play about a birthday party attend by a group of homosexual men ma theatril history by beg the first play to al hontly wh gay urban life.
The film versn of The Boys the Band (1970), starrg the play's origal st, has also bee a landmark the history of gays film. Friedk also sisted terviews that the film was "not about the gay world, but about human problems.
‘THE BOYS THE BAND’ – A ‘GAY AND OUT’ REMAKE OF 1970 MOVIE
" That kd of qualifitn may have been necsary at the time, but jt weeks before The Boys the Band went before the meras, an event happened that would change the world's perceptn of gays, and gay attus about themselv. In June of 1969, patrons of a New York gay bar lled Stonewall risted police raids, lnchg the gay liberatn movement. The movement, more than anythg, has turned The Boys the Band, wh s miserable gay men, to a perd piece, albe an entertag one.
Friedk, fact, would later bee a target of protts by the gay muny bee of his film Cisg (1980), a lurid murr mystery set the gay S & M club scene.
Jt the year before, The Killg of Sister Gee (1968) and Midnight Cowboy (1969) had both gotten X ratgs simply bee there were homosexual characters the films. "If the suatn of the homosexual is ever to be unrstood by the public, " Time magaze's cric wrote ponroly, " will be bee of the breakthrough ma by this humane, movg picture. " In the years sce, the cril pendulum has swung back and forth on the film, om Vo Rso's pronouncement his book about gay imag film, The Celluloid Closet (1980), that "The ternalized guilt of eight gay men at a Manhattan birthday party formed the bt and most potent argument for gay liberatn ever offered a popular art form", to the more recent Gary Morris' 1999 re-evaluatn Bright Lights Film Journal: Wrg about a revival of the film 1999, San Francis Chronicle cric Edward Guthmann put perspective: "In the attus of s characters, and their self-laceratg visn of themselv, belongs to another time.