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.
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 *
“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.
I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
SiegedSec, a group of gay furry hackers, took their skills to US ernments June, breachg agenci across five stat and to release data. * 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.
Pixar employe allege that Disney executiv have mand cuts om "nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn" their films. * gay movie reaction *
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.