Is The Rocky Horror Picture Show good for the gays?

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It’s Halloween, and Logo, the gay—well, gayish—ble work has a very straightforward schle: From 10 a. Sartorial fecundy asi, I’ve never been que sure if the film is good for the gays. Newark is a llege town, and at that time was liberal enough to have a gay stunt unn but nservative enough that intifiable members of that group were liable to be harassed on the street.

And those midnight performanc were as close to a (mostly booze-ee) gay bar that Newark had at the time: It was a fay. See also: Is Hoc Poc the Bt Gay Halloween Movie? 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. … When this me out 40 years ago, the gay scene was sry to a lot of people.