When iends, cludg mystery wrers, learned that I was pilg my list of the ten bt gay film mysteri, several exprsed surprise that I uld fd that many.
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HAVG A GAY OLD TIME
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Carter is gay, volved wh - but unable to m to - his lover Emek (Morz Bleibtr), and given to fendg off volvement of any kd wh prottatns of uld almost be the story of Woody Harrelson's persona, that Ordary Joe-ns that has prevented him om takg on rol that would require plete immersn; even gog on a psychotic rampage Natural Born Killers or blowg himself up accintally The Th Red Le, he was still the regular guy, albe an extreme suatn.
I wonr if playg a gay man has helped to liberate him om himself. There's a world of plited experience that simple tablished actors have played gay the past, has all too often felt like a GCSE drama exercise, or a bid for tegry (and, by extensn, a bid for awards).
GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS
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He might jt get an Osr for his 's not my tentn to speculate on actors' reasons for acceptg or refg gay rol, only to observe that lite game of peek-a-boo that seems to arise when a performer puts asi nsiratns of image and bankabily favour of juicy parts, whatever their orientatn. Are we really seeg more of Woody Harrelson The Walker bee he's playg gay, or is he jt liverg somethg rehgly different?
IS MORZ BLEIBTR GAY?
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Perhaps isn't that Al Paco giv more of himself away than ever before Dog Day Afternoon (1975) bee he's playg a gay bank robber - uld be argued that only appears that way bee the character has his fenc down, regardls of whether he prefers a man or a woman to butter his toast the morng.
I don't know how much of a risk is the days for an actor to take on a gay role; few actors will discs the rol they passed on, let alone their reasons for dog so.
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But perhaps 's no cince that two of the most piercg performanc of the year so far - Harrelson The Walker and Judi Dench Not on a Sndal - are om actors playg gay, and offerg themselv a newly illumatg light. When iends, cludg mystery wrers, learned that I was pilg my list of the ten bt gay film mysteri, several exprsed surprise that I uld fd that many.
The new edn of my book The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film (Srecrow Prs, November 2012) lists some 130 tl for me to choose om, 1948-2011, this number cludg only films wh some kd of a gay vtigator. The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film. Then there are crime films which gays have rol other than as vtigators, but I cid to abi by the parameters I tablished for my book and elimated all films which homosexuals serve only as weak, hapls victims or as murro crimals.
One mt watch through historil lens (among other thgs, was the first time filmgoers heard the word “homosexual” a movie hoe), but largely bee of Bogar, still packs a punch.