They/Them Film Review: Sharp Script Giv Be to Gay-Conversn-Camp Horror Story

Contents:

• THE WARRRS: WHY THE SCRIPT'S GAY GANG WAS CUT FROM THE FILM
• EQUIVOTN AND THE EX-GAY SCRIPT
• ‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY
• SEARCHLIGHT SETS LU GUADAGNO TO HELM, SETH ROGEN & EVAN GOLDBERG TO SCRIPT ADAPTATN OF GAY HTLER DOCU ‘STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD’
• THE SCRIPT FOR HOW TO BE GAY

THE WARRRS: WHY THE SCRIPT'S GAY GANG WAS CUT FROM THE FILM

The two characters were scribed as “a nservative gay uple their 40s, ” and they had two scen wh Ron Woodroof. His iends had said he told the lol prs he ntracted HIV om jectg dgs, thkg that rried far ls stigma than gay sex, at least as I read on, didn’t take long before my jaw was my lap. Another Hollywood addn to Woodroof’s story brought more strange twists: Rayon, Ron’s fictnal bs partner who would end up beg played by Jared Leto, is scribed the origal script as “a cross-drser his early 30s, ” and serv as a nstant challenge to Ron’s pervasive homophobia—a character tra that, by most acunts, the real Woodff never DALLAS BUYERS CLUB APARTMENT — LIVING ROOM — NIGHTMic plays.

EQUIVOTN AND THE EX-GAY SCRIPT

One of s earlit ancillary theori was that gay men were dyg om AIDS bee our immune systems uldn’t handle all the party dgs we were g, cludg poppers.

To drive this pot home, another scene has Ron pickg up a pamphlet om a lerature table durg a mostly gay muny meetg on AIDS that says, “POPPERS STUDY: POSSIBLE CAUSE OF AIDS. ”By the end of the script, McConghey is ridg bulls aga, happier and healthier, havg empowered Dallas’s gay muny to live longer liv by buckg FDA advice and g alternative therapi. Havg your lead gay character hangg around wh a iend, jt snortg poppers, then beg shed to the hospal where he di, is an offensive scene.

If you sist on havg your only lead gay character rema a cross-drsg effemate dg er whose life sps out of ntrol—and the only character to die the film—then how about a le of ke that scene stead?

‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY

Wallack had offered up her most homophobic nialist theory to their baffled host after beg asked about any rearch done to portray the physil signs of AIDS:Melisa Wallack: The rearch that we did about the—’s lled Kaposi’s sara, when you get the lns on your face... This is classic AIDS Denialism claptrap and om their non of eply homophobic theori around HIV/AIDS (namely that gay men died bee of all our recreatnal dg e, cludg poppers, and not bee of HIV). You are dishonorg the memori of hundreds of thoands of gay men that died om AIDS wh a KS diagnosis.

The Warrrs director Walter Hill says the origal screenplay for the 1979 cult classic clud a gay gang lled the Dgos that was never shot. The Warrrs origally featured a gay gang lled the Dgos, but they were cut om the film due to budget nstrats.

The 1979 cult classic, directed and -wrten by Walter Hill, was supposed to feature a leather-clad gay gang lled the Dgos. they are the grandfather of the gay male choral movement, and have stayed. the shows, they jt support and they don't re how gay is or how gay-themed.

SEARCHLIGHT SETS LU GUADAGNO TO HELM, SETH ROGEN & EVAN GOLDBERG TO SCRIPT ADAPTATN OF GAY HTLER DOCU ‘STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD’

This blog post is adapted om Greg’s forthg book Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy (Zonrvan, 2021).

THE SCRIPT FOR HOW TO BE GAY

And while the movement self officially died wh the closure of Exod Internatnal 2013, the movement still walks unad the form of the ex-gay script.

Though a relic of nversn therapy, this script remas enforced wh a vengeance nservative relig spac filled wh well-meang people who don't even know what the ex-gay script was or why was veloped.

In 2007, Christiany Today observed, “Sce s begngs the 1970s, the ex-gay movement has engaged gay advot a battle of ttimoni.