There was already tractn wh the LGBTQ+ rights movement Ameri when The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released. It was released jt six years after the Stonewall uprisg. At the time, many people still believed homosexualy to be a mental illns, and beg gay was illegal many parts of the untry. Exprsg queerns
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Much of s “midnight movie” succs n be attributed to LGBTQ dienc, who intified wh s embrace of sexual eedom, s objectifitn of men for a gay gaze and, of urse, s unfettable song-and-dance sequenc.
“A lot of doctors still nsired homosexualy a mental illns. Beg gay was illegal large parts of the untry, ” he explas the vio above.