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Contents:
- 25 YEARS LATER, 'IN & OUT' REMAS A GOOD-HEARTED GAY FILM AHEAD OF ITS TIME
- AM I GAY?
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
25 YEARS LATER, 'IN & OUT' REMAS A GOOD-HEARTED GAY FILM AHEAD OF ITS TIME
Image a world which the movie wasn't about gayns but about masculy. * in and out i'm gay *
“Well, you’re about as gay as Tom Selleck In & Out! The implitn here, of urse, is that Will and Grace are no more gay or Jewish than actors playg rol wh those intifiers, who are not those thgs real life.
AM I GAY?
It’s a plat still lodged agast mastream queer films today—why do Hollywood still sist on nsirg straight actors for gay rol when there is an endls list of eligible queer actors? Box office succs, no doubt, but the mentaly that an creasg number of queer moviegoers tend to hold where they won’t support films starrg straight actors as gay characters n also cloud our visn of enjoyg gay films that hold up spe their flaws.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
Released 25 years ago this week, In & Out stars Kev Kle as Howard Bracken, a high school English teacher Greenleaf, Indiana who is outed as gay by a former stunt, Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon), durg his acceptance speech for the Amy Award for Bt Actor. The film’s edic premise was based on Tom Hanks’ real-life Osrs acceptance speech 1994, where he won for playg a gay man wh AIDS Philalphia.
Referrg his speech to a former teacher and classmate as “two of the ft gay Amerins, two wonrful men that I had the good fortune to be associated wh, ” In & Out imag a fictnalized acunt om the perspective of one of those men, who didn’t believe himself to be gay until that very moment. I watched In & Out for the first time about a month ago and would be lyg if I said I didn’t watch wh bated breath for all the ways this gay edy film that was so obvly ma for straight dienc didn't age well.