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THE EVOLUTN OF THE GAY BT IEND ROMANTIC EDI
Love him or hate him, the Gay Bt Friend (GBF) plays a big role pop culture. * gay friend film *
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Here was a film centred on a lbian relatnship but directed by two male movie nerds, a product of the post-Taranto irony boom which a gay relatnship was ed as a shock tactic to make an otherwise tradnal crime flick stand out om the crowd.
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Image John Waters directg a teen take on ‘Cool Hand Le’ and you’ve got a rough ia of this geni pray-the-gay-away satire, which Natasha Lyonne’s pom-pom prcs is sent away to re-tn mp when her parents and iends spect she’s a ltle that way cled. One of the biggt fundraisers was a group of gay and lbian mpaigners London – who saw the harassment of the mers by Margaret Thatcher’s ernment as mirrorg their own persecutn. Callg themselv LGSM (Lbians and Gays Support the Mers), they set off om London two mib and a clapped-out mpervan to a village South Wal rryg buckets of loose change raised gay clubs.