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Contents:
- WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR’
- DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
- BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR REVIEW – A IC TAKE ON GAY-NVERSN PRACTIC
- “BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR” TGHT ME IT’S OK TO BE GAY
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR’
In this regular lumn, we’ll look at pictns of queers cema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays?
Gay nversn therapy has been a hot-button topic lately, even if ’s not as popular of an issue as same-sex marriage or other civil rights issu related to the queer muny. — that would make procr like “physil pa, such as electroshock or electronvulsive therapy, touch therapy, pornography exposure or vom-ductn therapy” perfectly legal practic for therapists (I e that word loosely here) to exert on their patients, many of whom are mors that are forced to the so-lled gay rehabs by their parents.
DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan, an all-Amerin, girl-next-door type whose life is turned upsi down when her parents and iends stage an terventn and acce her of harborg homosexual tennci.
BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR REVIEW – A IC TAKE ON GAY-NVERSN PRACTIC
But that don’t stop her parents om sendg her to Te Directns, a reparative therapy mp n by Mary Brown (played by the always wonrfully terrifyg Cathy Moriarty), who teach her charg they n overe their homosexualy by admtg their transgrsn (even if they have not acted out on ), performg genr-normative behavrs (such as hoework for the girls, yard work for the boys), fdg their “root” (i. The trmatic moment that ma them gay), and, eventually, simulatg terurse wh a member of the oppose sex. You might pare this revelatn to the siar climactic reveal Frank Oz’s In & Out, which, I prevly argued, reli on silly stereotyp of gay men that sentially bas Kev Kle’s sexualy entirely on his effemate nature.
“BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR” TGHT ME IT’S OK TO BE GAY
You have the jocks, the femm, the goth lbian, even a girl who is not gay, but only appears to be bee of her mascule look.