Urban Dictnary: Gayrope

Contents:

• WHEN HCHCK WENT GAY: ‘STRANGERS ON A TRA’ AND ‘ROPE’
• GAY SLANG 101
• GAYROPE
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

WHEN HCHCK WENT GAY: ‘STRANGERS ON A TRA’ AND ‘ROPE’

The gay duo Aled Hchck's 1948 Rope are told, "Md your p's and q's. Rope's pictn of whe upper-class Manhattan gays displays that Old Hollywood knack of turng a popular dience to sirs and took a mischievo geni to make a post-WWII movie wh subtle queer characters.

Brandon, Philip, and Rupert take turns as leads Hchck's dance; they play hi-and-seek wh a homosexualy that the middle of the 20th century was still forbidn.

GAY SLANG 101

)Rope is based on a Brish stage play by Patrick Haton, adapted by actor Hume Cronyn om a screenplay by gay theater legend Arthur Lrents. Philip and Brandon are snobs, that age-old gay fense mechanism.

Their crime repeats that of the famo gay duo Loeb and Leopold, whose actual 1920s Chigo "thrill killg" beme the basis of such later movi as Compulsn (1959), wh Dean Stockwell's great gay performance, and the 1992 die film Swoon. It is a pet mort the middle of a murro afternoon threome, but the gayt moment Rope may be when Rupert nonts the all-but-out Philip: "I wish I uld e straight wh what I want to know. The scene's most gay flectn surpass the trigue Neil LaBute brgs to ntemporary theater, where gayns and sex are always dirty and certaly treats murr a ghoulish way (the weapon self be a fiendish joke), but s story of one-upmanship and tellectual warfare among a particular class of gay men is ultimately universal; shows extraordary sight, subtly observg mid-20th-century gay behavr.

GAYROPE

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