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Also: Sramucci is followg all the gays! * campy gay films *
Anthony Perks is along for the ri as a crazed gay photographer (a real stretch), and the whole thg is so ridiculoly offensive, I've seen 5, 000 Conr... The Boys the Band (1970)Mart Crowley's landmark play about a bchy birthday party that turns extra ugly was an early look at gay men and their mararie and tts.
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* campy gay films *
Whether they clu gay characters and them or are simply over-the-top, they hold a special place a gay film buff's (1985)The agels murr mystery board game to mpy life wh licly daft performanc by Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Male Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Mart Mull -- and Lley Ann Warren as Miss Rz (1976) In this gayer-than-gay sex farce, Jack Wton is on the n om a Mafia h man and his what he disvers is a gay bathhoe. David Hy Pierce is a hoot the type of prissy, proto-gay role played by Tony Randall the origal First Wiv Club (1996) The three great ic actrs of their time, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, and Goldie Hawn, star as recently dumped middle-aged wiv who nct masterful schem of revenge agast their ex-hbands -- wh the help of a gay rator and a lbian dghter. The huge st clus Sarah Jsi Parker, Maggie Smh, and Eileen Heckart fe ic Birdge (1996) Rob Williams and Nathan Lane brought gay mp and drag to the movie mastream director Mike Nichols's update of the 1978 French classic La Cage x Foll.
Gene Wilr and Peter Boyle lead a stellar ic st cludg Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, and the fabulo Male Kahn (who appears more films on this list than anyone else -- for good reason) & Out (1997) Kev Kle is hilar this spired farce about a small-town high school teacher who's outed as gay by an Osr-acceptg former stunt on the eve of his weddg.
Male Kahn ma a spectacular screen but as an uptight fiancee, and the streets of San Francis provi a glor backdrop for the film's uproar chase Mame (1958) Rosald Rsell re-creat her Broadway role as the madp, inoclastic Auntie Mame, who's been a favore of gay fans ever sce gay wrer Patrick Dennis troduced her his 1955 novel. On the plete oppose end of the queer mp spectm is the sweet documentary, Camp Out, which filmmakers Larry Grimaldi and Kirk Marla follow the liv of 10 mpers at the first-ever gay Christian bible mp ral Mnota. Keram Malicki-Sánchez plays the lone gay among a group of randy llege hman who are way over their heads as unselors at Camp Bleedg Dove, where they’re much more foced on losg their virgi than keepg the young mpers om hurtg themselv.