John Logan's 'They/Them' n't ci if wants to liver a queer twist on 'Friday the 13th' or challenge the clichés of gay victimhood.
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- ‘THEY/THEM’ REVIEW: PEACK’S GAY CONVERSN CAMP SLASHER SUFFERS FROM AN INTY CRISIS
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
‘THEY/THEM’ REVIEW: PEACK’S GAY CONVERSN CAMP SLASHER SUFFERS FROM AN INTY CRISIS
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Set at a janky gay nversn mp, this Blumhoe-produced, Peack-released LGBT empowerment exercise prents self as a cross between “Friday the 13th” and “But I’m a Cheerlear. “I wanted my favore genre to celebrate who I was, so I wrote this movie, ” openly gay wrer-director John Logan told the closg-night crowd of Outft — the first dience to see his well-tentned feature directg but. In an effort not to treat gay and genr-nonnformg characters as victims, the movie giv no reason to fear for their safety.
Wh this personal project, Logan — a thrice-Osr-nomated Hollywood screenwrer who unts “Gladiator, ” “Skyfall” and “The Aviator” among his creds — seized the opportuny to challenge the genre’s heteronormative (and often aggrsively homophobic) formula. “Scream” wrer Kev Williamson (who is also gay) set the template for such meta-horror, but the world wasn’t ready for queer protagonists at the time.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
That's right — not every gay movie has to end wh heartbreak. * gay movie reaction *
“They/Them” jos a growg subgenre of gay nversn movi (e. G., “The Mistn of Cameron Post, ” “Boy Erased”) that harshly crique those backward-md enough to believe that homosexuals n be “cured. The trouble is, that preachg-to-the-choir approach fails to acknowledge what is so pernic about the programs — namely, how they weaponize vulnerable (and sometim suicidal) participants’ ternalized homophobia and sire to be “normal.
“Gay people are A-OK wh me, ” he says.
Once that pattern emerg, “They/Them” stops feelg like a horror movie at all, but some kd of gay vigilante fantasy — which giv LGBT dienc a chance to cheer, perhaps, but effectively elimat what ltle tensn the film had tablished when we thought the kids were danger. While there’s almost no chance that homophob will take “They/Them” as evince that they (the gays) are g for them, s very existence is sure to eak some people out — and maybe that’s some kd of succs.
I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
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A Gay Happy Endg for All.
That's right -- not every gay movie has to end wh heartbreak.
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He fears what will mean to be gay a small town, but the people of Big En might jt surprise him. Alim, a closeted gay man livg Canada, has his life turned upsi down when his nservative mother pops to town for a vis.