The ntroversial bt-picture wner wh Dt Hoffman and Jon Voight arrived at a ght moment not jt the evolutn of filmmakg, but the stggle for visibily of gay liv. An excerpt of a five new book.
Contents:
- HOMOPHOBIC? MAYBE. BUT AT LEAST MIDNIGHT COWBOY SHOWED ME GAY MEN ON SCREEN
- MIDNIGHT COWBOY, ANDY WARHOL, GAY HTLERS, AND ONE LBIAN FEMIST
- QUTN ABOUT MIDNIGHT COWBOY - WAS RATSO RIZZO SUPPOSED TO BE GAY?
- MIDNIGHT COWBOY AND THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT OF 1960S AMERI.
HOMOPHOBIC? MAYBE. BUT AT LEAST MIDNIGHT COWBOY SHOWED ME GAY MEN ON SCREEN
* is joe gay in midnight cowboy *
”“Twenty mut to that movie, Jon Voight has a gay sex scene the balny wh a kid who was played by Bob Balaban, and people would get up at that pot and jt walk out of the theater, ” Hoffman told Larry Kg.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY, ANDY WARHOL, GAY HTLERS, AND ONE LBIAN FEMIST
Growg up, I hankered after imag of other gay men, however they were treated, wr film cric Ryan Gilbey * is joe gay in midnight cowboy *
“He had the fantasi that if he were openly gay on a film set, that if he tried to give the crew an orr, they would turn on him. ” So is wh Midnight Cowboy, one of the classics of the short-lived New Hollywood era and the only X-rated film ever to w an Amy Award for bt long-standg myth is that the Motn Picture Associatn of Ameri’s pdish ratgs board, repelled by Midnight Cowboy’s scen of fellat, sodomy, homosexualy, and sadomasochism, slapped an X on the film before s release May 1969.
QUTN ABOUT MIDNIGHT COWBOY - WAS RATSO RIZZO SUPPOSED TO BE GAY?
Fortunately, the tth is a better st of characters clus one of the film dtry’s preement power brokers, who got squeamish over the sex scen and generally rnchy subject matter of the movie; a gay film director who was still the closet even while he sought to make a movie that alt openly and ankly wh sexualy, straight and gay; a polilly nnected former ai to Print Lyndon Johnson who tried to steer the motn picture dtry around the shoals of ntroversy; and a clever psychoanalyst wh a passn for power who provid the phony ratnale that allowed the stud head to do exactly what he wanted to story tak place at a pivotal moment Amerin cultural and polil history, when homosexualy was still wily viewed as a ntag disease and a dire threat to Amerin youth, while filmmakers were stgglg for more eedom to tell adult the storm ro Midnight this is a Hollywood story, let’s start wh the man wh the most money and power. ” Adultery, premaral sex, homosexualy, and abortn for any reason were not allowed, nor was anythg else that might “lower the moral standards of those who see .
MIDNIGHT COWBOY AND THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT OF 1960S AMERI.
Hollywood was even more squeamish when me to homosexualy. Still, jt as other adult them started to seep to mastream Amerin films, homosexualy took s first baby steps out of the closet, but only films that picted gay people as praved, unhappy, and self-stctive.