From Bottoms and Problemistas to theatre mps and gay wrtlers, this summer has somethg for everyone — pecially if you're queer.
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IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
Películas ercial temáti gay y ter gay * queer cinema *
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* queer cinema *
New York Cy’s gay unrground has always been a mag for a plethora of miscreants and ne’er-do-wells, but there’s somethg charmg about the lawlsns of nightlife — or at least there was, until Angel Melenz’s murr. Director Bce LaBce’s extreme porno movi are as much statements about the revolutnary potential of homosexualy as they are erotic dreams mted to film. “What disappots me most about the current state of the gay movement, if you n still ll that, is that most gays have settled for this really rigid, obv, and stereotypil ia of what means to be a homosexual, ” said LaBce an terview about the impact of Raspberry Reich.
The aliens, of urse, are a sort of proto-metaphor for the disease that would soon overtake the gay world.