Stereotyp of the Gay Male Communy Philalphia: A Cry for Change · Genr and Sexualy om the 18th to the 21st Century: Media, Race, and Culture

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• GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
• TOM HANKS SAYS ‘PHILALPHIA’ WOULDN’T GET MA TODAY WH A STRAIGHT ACTOR A GAY ROLE
• STEREOTYP OF THE GAY MALE COMMUNY PHILALPHIA: A CRY FOR CHANGEBY ANONYMOPUBLISHED ONAUG 10, 2022CESOCIALDOWNLOADCONTENTSLAST RELEASED1 YEAR AGOSHOW TAILSSTEREOTYP OF THE GAY MALE COMMUNY PHILALPHIA: A CRY FOR CHANGECONTENTS·THIS CHAPTER WILL EXPLORE THREE STEREOTYP ABOUT GAY MEN OM THE FILM PHILALPHIA.1 THE STEREOTYP CLU:INDIVIDUALS WH AIDS POSE A THREAT TO SOCIETY.AIDS IS A GAY PERSON’S DISEASE.GAY MEN ACT/DRS A FEME MANNER.STEREOTYPE: INDIVIDUALS WH AIDS POSE A THREAT TO SOCIETYIN THE FILM PHILALPHIA, THERE IS A STEREOTYPE THAT DIVIDUALS WH AIDS POSE A THREAT TO SOCIETY. THIS STEREOTYPE APPEARS MULTIPLE SCEN THE FILM. FOR EXAMPLE, THIS OCCURS THE SCENE WHEN ANDREW IS THE LIBRARY, AND A LIBRARIAN BRGS HIM THE SE LERATURE HE HAS REQUTED ABOUT DISCRIMATN SUS PERTAG TO AIDS. AS THE LIBRARIAN HANDS ANDREW THE DOCUMENT REARCH, HE NOTIC A LN ON HIS FOREHEAD. HE THEN QUIETLY ASKS ANDREW IF HE WOULD BE MORE FORTABLE A PRIVATE REARCH ROOM. HE WANTS TO ISOLATE ANDREW OM THE OTHER REARCHERS BEE HE SPECULAT ANDREW HAS AIDS, AND HE FEARS ANDREW POS A THREAT TO THE RT OF THE PEOPLE THE LIBRARY. HE ASKS THE QUTN A LOW MONOTONE VOICE BEE HE DO NOT WANT TO BRG ATTENTN TO THE TOPIC. IT IS EVINT THAT THE CULTURE DURG THIS TIME DISURAG OPEN NVERSATN ABOUT AIDS. IN ADDN, WHEN THE GENTLEMAN STG NEAR ANDREW REALIZ WHAT IS OCCURRG, HE GETS UP AND LEAV BEE HE FEARS BEG CLOSE PROXIMY TO ANDREW MAY EXPOSE HIM TO AIDS. THE PEOPLE THE LIBRARY ARE SHOWG SIGNS OF FEAR AND DISFORT BEE THEY VIEW ANDREW AS A POTENTIAL DANGER TO THEIR HEALTH AND TO SOCIETY. AS A RULT, THEY PRACTICE PREJUDICE AVOIDANCE.THIS IS A POWERFUL SCENE BEE HIGHLIGHTS THE MISPERCEPTNS PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT DIVIDUALS WH AIDS. BY ALLOWG THE PROTAGONIST TO FEND HIS GROUND AND REMA THE MA AREA OF THE LIBRARY, THE SCREENWRER SENDS THE MSAGE THAT DIVIDUALS WH AIDS ARE TIRED OF LIVG THE SHADOWS OF OTHERS. IN ADDN, WHEN ANDREW ASKS THE LIBRARIAN IF WOULD MAKE HIM MORE FORTABLE IF HE WENT TO A PRIVATE ROOM, ANDREW IS TRYG TO OPEN THE FLOOR FOR OPEN DISCSN ABOUT THE TOPIC OF AIDS. HE IS TIRED OF THE STAR AND THE PREJUDICE HE FAC, AND HE WANTS THE LIBRARIAN TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS FEARS. THIS IS IMPORTANT BEE STEREOTYP NNOT BE DISPELLED UNLS ACTIVE NVERSATN AND TN OCCURS ABOUT THEM. THROUGH THE DISVERY OF TTH AND KNOWLEDGE POSIVE CHANGE N RULT.AN ADDNAL EXAMPLE OF THIS STEREOTYPE OCCURS WHEN ANDREW IALLY GO TO JOE MILLER’S OFFICE FOR A NSULTATN. JOE IMMEDIATELY REGNIZ THAT ANDREW HAS AIDS, AND HE IS TAKEN BACK BY THE SUATN. HE REFULLY OBSERV EVERYTHG ANDREW TOUCH BEE HE NSIRS ANDREW’S NDN A THREAT TO HIM AND HIS FAY. IN ADDN, HE EVEN VISS HIS DOCTOR TO ENSURE THAT ANDREW’S PRENCE HIS OFFICE DID NOT PLACE HIM AT RISK FOR POTENTIALLY NTRACTG THE DISEASE.THIS SCENE HIGHLIGHTS THE IGNORANCE THAT JOE EXHIBS ABOUT THE AIDS DISEASE, AND PORTRAYS HOW THIS IGNORANCE N FUEL THE NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE THAT THOSE WH AIDS POSE A DANGER TO SOCIETY. AT THIS POT THE FILM, JOE LACKS THE URAGE TO OVERE HIS FEARS ABOUT AIDS. HE IS NSUMED BY TRYG TO REMEMBER EVERYTHG THAT ANDREW TOUCH STEAD OF MUNITG WH ANDREW ABOUT THE TRICI OF HIS SUATN BEE HE NSIRS HIM A THREAT TO HIM AND HIS FAY. AS A RULT, JOE SUBNSCLY FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ANDREW’S PRENCE.THIS FILM HIGHLIGHTS THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE DIVIDUALS HAVE ABOUT AIDS, AND HOW THE FEAR OF AIDS MANIFTS SELF THE FORM OF DISCRIMATN. THE FILM SENDS A POWERFUL MSAGE THAT MORE TN IS NEED ABOUT THIS DISEASE ORR TO END THE NEGATIVE STEREOTYP AND THE HUMANIZATN THAT THOSE WH AIDS FACE. IT IS A STRONG CRY FOR EVERYONE TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE DISEASE AND NOT TO JUDGE OTHERS BASED UPON IGNORANCE. THROUGH THE SCEN, THE VIEWERS N APPRECIATE THAT IGNORANCE ABOUT THE DISEASE MANIFTS SELF C REALI.STEREOTYPE: AIDS IS A GAY PERSON’S DISEASEADDNALLY, THE FILM PHILALPHIA THE STEREOTYPE EXISTS THAT AIDS IS A GAY PERSON’S DISEASE. DURG THE URT TRIAL, THE FENSE ATTORNEY ASKS ANDREW IF HE WENT TO A THEATRE TO HAVE GAY SEX, AND SHE IMPLI THAT HE NTRACTED AIDS DURG GAY SEX. SHE SUAT THAT ANDREW WAS RECKLS BEE HE PUT HIS PARTNER, MIGUEL, AT RISK AS WELL. IN ADDN, A DIFFERENT SCENE, WHEN THE PARTNERS WALK THROUGH A HALLWAY TO STRATEGIZE THEIR PLANS, ONE OF THE PARTNERS STAT THAT HE WANTS RMATN ABOUT ALL BARS AND VIANT GROUPS ANDREW IS ASSOCIATED WH. HE IMPLI THAT ANDREW’S GAY ACTS/ASSOCIATNS ARE WHAT LED TO AIDS. BY REFERRG TO THE GAY GROUPS THAT ANDREW ASSOCIAT WH AS BEG VIANT, HE FERS THAT NOT NFORMG TO “SEXUAL NORMS” PLAC DIVIDUALS AT A GREATER RISK FOR NTRACTG AIDS. YET ADDN, A THIRD EXAMPLE OF THIS OCCURS WHEN JOE VISS HIS DOCTOR TO GET RMATN ABOUT AIDS. THE DOCTOR ASSUM THAT JOE IS ASKG FOR RMATN BEE HE ENGAG GAY SEX. AS A RULT, HE BELIEV THAT JOE IS KEEPG A SECRET THAT HE IS GAY, SO HE OFFERS TO TT HIM FOR AIDS. IN EACH OF THE SCEN, THE FERENCE IS MA THAT AIDS IS A DISEASE THAT IS PRIMARILY ASSOCIATED WH GAY BEHAVR.THIS STEREOTYPE CREAT THE MISNCEPTN FOR SOME THAT AIDS IS ONLY NTRACTED BY GAY SEXUAL ACTIVY. AS A RULT, SEVERAL NEGATIVE NNOTATNS ARISE THE HEALTH ARENA. FOR EXAMPLE, IF IS A WILY HELD OPN THAT ONLY GAY PEOPLE NTRACT AIDS, THEN DIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT GAY MAY PASS ON G PROTECTN DURG THEIR SEXUAL ACTIVI. THEY MAY BELIEVE THEY ARE IMMUNE TO NTRACTG AIDS BEE THEY ARE NOT GAY, AND THIS N LEAD TO A MORE RAPID SPREAD OF THE DISEASE. IN ADDN, THIS N CREATE THE PERCEPTN THAT ONLY GAY PEOPLE NEED TO BE TTED FOR AIDS. JOE’S DOCTOR EXEMPLIFI THIS BEHAVR WHEN HE TELLS JOE HE DO NOT RE WHAT HE DO HIS PRIVATE SPACE. THE ASSOCIATN OF AIDS PRIMARILY WH GAY DIVIDUALS LIMS REARCH AND TREATMENT FOR THE GREATER POPULATN. IN ADDN, IF DIVIDUALS BELIEVE THE STEREOTYPE THAT AIDS IS A GAY PERSON’S DISEASE, THEY MAY GO UNDIAGNOSED BEE THEY MAY TEND TO IGNORE THE IAL SYMPTOMS OF AIDS. FURTHERMORE, THIS STEREOTYPE SHIFTS THE BLAME FOR THIS DISEASE TO GAY DIVIDUALS, AND AS A RULT, THIS GROUP IS SUBJECTED TO AVOIDANT PREJUDICE AND NEGATIVE TREATMENT OM OTHERS SOCIETY.THIS STEREOTYPE IS PROMENTLY DISPLAYED THE FILM TO SEND A MSAGE THAT THERE IS A LOT OF MISRMATN ABOUT AIDS SOCIETY. IT IS A PLEA FOR PEOPLE TO TE THEMSELV ABOUT THIS DISEASE AND TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT S EFFECTS AND HOW IS NTRACTED. IT IS VERY EASY TO PRACTICE TACHMENT OM THE DISEASE BY ASSOCIATG TO GAYS. HOWEVER, THIS CREAT SYSTEMIC PREJUDICE TOWARDS A GROUP OF DIVIDUALS BY STG THE BLAME UPON THEM FOR NTRACTG/SPREADG THE DISEASE. IN THE FILM, THE CHARACTERS ARE RELATABLE TO A WI RANGE OF DIVIDUALS CLUDG PARENTS, IENDS, PARTNERS, AND PROFSNALS. THEY CROSS MANY SOCLOGIL AND ENOMIC BARRIERS TO SEND THE MSAGE THAT AIDS N TOUCH A VARIETY OF LIV, AND DO NOT DISCRIMATE. HOLLYWOOD IS SENDG A MSAGE THAT SOCIETY MT TACKLE THIS DISEASE HEAD ON. THERE IS NOT ONE GROUP THAT IS RPONSIBLE FOR AIDS. IT EXISTS MANY DIVERSE CIRCL, AND N AFFECT ANYONE.STEREOTYPE: GAY MEN ACT/DRS A FEME MANNER
• GUI TO PHILALPHIA'S GAYBORHOOD
• 1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
• FILM COMMENT : WHY I HATED ‘PHILALPHIA’ : A PLAYWRIGHT AND GAY ACTIVIST GO TO SEE HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST MAJOR AIDS MOVIE AND AWAY BTERLY DISAPPOTED
• GAYBORHOOD

GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®

Gay activist and The Normal Heart playwright Larry Kramer spoke out agast the film, sayg, “Philalphia don't have anythg to do wh the AIDS I know, or wh the gay world I know. ”In Febary 1994, not long after the film was released, Print Bill Clton hered "Don’t ask, don’t tell" (DADT), a policy that prohibed gay ary members om disclosg their sexualy. In one of the most famo Osr speech of alltime, Hanks thanked his high school drama teacher, Rawley Farnsworth, and classmate John Gilkerson for beg “the two ft gay Amerins, two wonrful men, that I had the good fortune to be associated wh.

TOM HANKS SAYS ‘PHILALPHIA’ WOULDN’T GET MA TODAY WH A STRAIGHT ACTOR A GAY ROLE

Standg directly across the street om Inpennce Hall, a historic marker honors the Annual Remrs, the monstratn held at this se led by gay activists on July 4 om 1965 to 1969, the last of which occurred jt days after the history-makg Stonewall Rts. Philalphia was the first cy the Uned Stat to lnch a major marketg mpaign (“Get Your History Straight and Your Nightlife Gay®”) to wele LGBTQ+ tourism, and reprents a trove of cultural, culary, artistic and ethnic diversy. Don’t miss a vis to the Gayborhood, a Center Cy neighborhood that sets self apart wh rabow street signs as well as rtrants and bars owned by and terg to LGBTQ+-intified clientele.

Tom Hanks, who won an Osr for his role as a gay man wh AIDS the film “Philalphia, ” said that if the film were ma today, a straight actor wouldn’t be st that role, and “rightly so. ” PGN reached out to CBS Philly news anchor Jim Donovan, who is openly gay and has been wh the statn sce 2003, to ask about the alleged ments as well as the realy of beg LGBTQ the broadst news dtry.

STEREOTYP OF THE GAY MALE COMMUNY PHILALPHIA: A CRY FOR CHANGEBY ANONYMOPUBLISHED ONAUG 10, 2022CESOCIALDOWNLOADCONTENTSLAST RELEASED1 YEAR AGOSHOW TAILSSTEREOTYP OF THE GAY MALE COMMUNY PHILALPHIA: A CRY FOR CHANGECONTENTS·THIS CHAPTER WILL EXPLORE THREE STEREOTYP ABOUT GAY MEN OM THE FILM PHILALPHIA.1 THE STEREOTYP CLU:INDIVIDUALS WH AIDS POSE A THREAT TO SOCIETY.AIDS IS A GAY PERSON’S DISEASE.GAY MEN ACT/DRS A FEME MANNER.STEREOTYPE: INDIVIDUALS WH AIDS POSE A THREAT TO SOCIETYIN THE FILM PHILALPHIA, THERE IS A STEREOTYPE THAT DIVIDUALS WH AIDS POSE A THREAT TO SOCIETY. THIS STEREOTYPE APPEARS MULTIPLE SCEN THE FILM. FOR EXAMPLE, THIS OCCURS THE SCENE WHEN ANDREW IS THE LIBRARY, AND A LIBRARIAN BRGS HIM THE SE LERATURE HE HAS REQUTED ABOUT DISCRIMATN SUS PERTAG TO AIDS. AS THE LIBRARIAN HANDS ANDREW THE DOCUMENT REARCH, HE NOTIC A LN ON HIS FOREHEAD. HE THEN QUIETLY ASKS ANDREW IF HE WOULD BE MORE FORTABLE A PRIVATE REARCH ROOM. HE WANTS TO ISOLATE ANDREW OM THE OTHER REARCHERS BEE HE SPECULAT ANDREW HAS AIDS, AND HE FEARS ANDREW POS A THREAT TO THE RT OF THE PEOPLE THE LIBRARY. HE ASKS THE QUTN A LOW MONOTONE VOICE BEE HE DO NOT WANT TO BRG ATTENTN TO THE TOPIC. IT IS EVINT THAT THE CULTURE DURG THIS TIME DISURAG OPEN NVERSATN ABOUT AIDS. IN ADDN, WHEN THE GENTLEMAN STG NEAR ANDREW REALIZ WHAT IS OCCURRG, HE GETS UP AND LEAV BEE HE FEARS BEG CLOSE PROXIMY TO ANDREW MAY EXPOSE HIM TO AIDS. THE PEOPLE THE LIBRARY ARE SHOWG SIGNS OF FEAR AND DISFORT BEE THEY VIEW ANDREW AS A POTENTIAL DANGER TO THEIR HEALTH AND TO SOCIETY. AS A RULT, THEY PRACTICE PREJUDICE AVOIDANCE.THIS IS A POWERFUL SCENE BEE HIGHLIGHTS THE MISPERCEPTNS PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT DIVIDUALS WH AIDS. BY ALLOWG THE PROTAGONIST TO FEND HIS GROUND AND REMA THE MA AREA OF THE LIBRARY, THE SCREENWRER SENDS THE MSAGE THAT DIVIDUALS WH AIDS ARE TIRED OF LIVG THE SHADOWS OF OTHERS. IN ADDN, WHEN ANDREW ASKS THE LIBRARIAN IF WOULD MAKE HIM MORE FORTABLE IF HE WENT TO A PRIVATE ROOM, ANDREW IS TRYG TO OPEN THE FLOOR FOR OPEN DISCSN ABOUT THE TOPIC OF AIDS. HE IS TIRED OF THE STAR AND THE PREJUDICE HE FAC, AND HE WANTS THE LIBRARIAN TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS FEARS. THIS IS IMPORTANT BEE STEREOTYP NNOT BE DISPELLED UNLS ACTIVE NVERSATN AND TN OCCURS ABOUT THEM. THROUGH THE DISVERY OF TTH AND KNOWLEDGE POSIVE CHANGE N RULT.AN ADDNAL EXAMPLE OF THIS STEREOTYPE OCCURS WHEN ANDREW IALLY GO TO JOE MILLER’S OFFICE FOR A NSULTATN. JOE IMMEDIATELY REGNIZ THAT ANDREW HAS AIDS, AND HE IS TAKEN BACK BY THE SUATN. HE REFULLY OBSERV EVERYTHG ANDREW TOUCH BEE HE NSIRS ANDREW’S NDN A THREAT TO HIM AND HIS FAY. IN ADDN, HE EVEN VISS HIS DOCTOR TO ENSURE THAT ANDREW’S PRENCE HIS OFFICE DID NOT PLACE HIM AT RISK FOR POTENTIALLY NTRACTG THE DISEASE.THIS SCENE HIGHLIGHTS THE IGNORANCE THAT JOE EXHIBS ABOUT THE AIDS DISEASE, AND PORTRAYS HOW THIS IGNORANCE N FUEL THE NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE THAT THOSE WH AIDS POSE A DANGER TO SOCIETY. AT THIS POT THE FILM, JOE LACKS THE URAGE TO OVERE HIS FEARS ABOUT AIDS. HE IS NSUMED BY TRYG TO REMEMBER EVERYTHG THAT ANDREW TOUCH STEAD OF MUNITG WH ANDREW ABOUT THE TRICI OF HIS SUATN BEE HE NSIRS HIM A THREAT TO HIM AND HIS FAY. AS A RULT, JOE SUBNSCLY FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ANDREW’S PRENCE.THIS FILM HIGHLIGHTS THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE DIVIDUALS HAVE ABOUT AIDS, AND HOW THE FEAR OF AIDS MANIFTS SELF THE FORM OF DISCRIMATN. THE FILM SENDS A POWERFUL MSAGE THAT MORE TN IS NEED ABOUT THIS DISEASE ORR TO END THE NEGATIVE STEREOTYP AND THE HUMANIZATN THAT THOSE WH AIDS FACE. IT IS A STRONG CRY FOR EVERYONE TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE DISEASE AND NOT TO JUDGE OTHERS BASED UPON IGNORANCE. THROUGH THE SCEN, THE VIEWERS N APPRECIATE THAT IGNORANCE ABOUT THE DISEASE MANIFTS SELF C REALI.STEREOTYPE: AIDS IS A GAY PERSON’S DISEASEADDNALLY, THE FILM PHILALPHIA THE STEREOTYPE EXISTS THAT AIDS IS A GAY PERSON’S DISEASE. DURG THE URT TRIAL, THE FENSE ATTORNEY ASKS ANDREW IF HE WENT TO A THEATRE TO HAVE GAY SEX, AND SHE IMPLI THAT HE NTRACTED AIDS DURG GAY SEX. SHE SUAT THAT ANDREW WAS RECKLS BEE HE PUT HIS PARTNER, MIGUEL, AT RISK AS WELL. IN ADDN, A DIFFERENT SCENE, WHEN THE PARTNERS WALK THROUGH A HALLWAY TO STRATEGIZE THEIR PLANS, ONE OF THE PARTNERS STAT THAT HE WANTS RMATN ABOUT ALL BARS AND VIANT GROUPS ANDREW IS ASSOCIATED WH. HE IMPLI THAT ANDREW’S GAY ACTS/ASSOCIATNS ARE WHAT LED TO AIDS. BY REFERRG TO THE GAY GROUPS THAT ANDREW ASSOCIAT WH AS BEG VIANT, HE FERS THAT NOT NFORMG TO “SEXUAL NORMS” PLAC DIVIDUALS AT A GREATER RISK FOR NTRACTG AIDS. YET ADDN, A THIRD EXAMPLE OF THIS OCCURS WHEN JOE VISS HIS DOCTOR TO GET RMATN ABOUT AIDS. THE DOCTOR ASSUM THAT JOE IS ASKG FOR RMATN BEE HE ENGAG GAY SEX. AS A RULT, HE BELIEV THAT JOE IS KEEPG A SECRET THAT HE IS GAY, SO HE OFFERS TO TT HIM FOR AIDS. IN EACH OF THE SCEN, THE FERENCE IS MA THAT AIDS IS A DISEASE THAT IS PRIMARILY ASSOCIATED WH GAY BEHAVR.THIS STEREOTYPE CREAT THE MISNCEPTN FOR SOME THAT AIDS IS ONLY NTRACTED BY GAY SEXUAL ACTIVY. AS A RULT, SEVERAL NEGATIVE NNOTATNS ARISE THE HEALTH ARENA. FOR EXAMPLE, IF IS A WILY HELD OPN THAT ONLY GAY PEOPLE NTRACT AIDS, THEN DIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT GAY MAY PASS ON G PROTECTN DURG THEIR SEXUAL ACTIVI. THEY MAY BELIEVE THEY ARE IMMUNE TO NTRACTG AIDS BEE THEY ARE NOT GAY, AND THIS N LEAD TO A MORE RAPID SPREAD OF THE DISEASE. IN ADDN, THIS N CREATE THE PERCEPTN THAT ONLY GAY PEOPLE NEED TO BE TTED FOR AIDS. JOE’S DOCTOR EXEMPLIFI THIS BEHAVR WHEN HE TELLS JOE HE DO NOT RE WHAT HE DO HIS PRIVATE SPACE. THE ASSOCIATN OF AIDS PRIMARILY WH GAY DIVIDUALS LIMS REARCH AND TREATMENT FOR THE GREATER POPULATN. IN ADDN, IF DIVIDUALS BELIEVE THE STEREOTYPE THAT AIDS IS A GAY PERSON’S DISEASE, THEY MAY GO UNDIAGNOSED BEE THEY MAY TEND TO IGNORE THE IAL SYMPTOMS OF AIDS. FURTHERMORE, THIS STEREOTYPE SHIFTS THE BLAME FOR THIS DISEASE TO GAY DIVIDUALS, AND AS A RULT, THIS GROUP IS SUBJECTED TO AVOIDANT PREJUDICE AND NEGATIVE TREATMENT OM OTHERS SOCIETY.THIS STEREOTYPE IS PROMENTLY DISPLAYED THE FILM TO SEND A MSAGE THAT THERE IS A LOT OF MISRMATN ABOUT AIDS SOCIETY. IT IS A PLEA FOR PEOPLE TO TE THEMSELV ABOUT THIS DISEASE AND TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT S EFFECTS AND HOW IS NTRACTED. IT IS VERY EASY TO PRACTICE TACHMENT OM THE DISEASE BY ASSOCIATG TO GAYS. HOWEVER, THIS CREAT SYSTEMIC PREJUDICE TOWARDS A GROUP OF DIVIDUALS BY STG THE BLAME UPON THEM FOR NTRACTG/SPREADG THE DISEASE. IN THE FILM, THE CHARACTERS ARE RELATABLE TO A WI RANGE OF DIVIDUALS CLUDG PARENTS, IENDS, PARTNERS, AND PROFSNALS. THEY CROSS MANY SOCLOGIL AND ENOMIC BARRIERS TO SEND THE MSAGE THAT AIDS N TOUCH A VARIETY OF LIV, AND DO NOT DISCRIMATE. HOLLYWOOD IS SENDG A MSAGE THAT SOCIETY MT TACKLE THIS DISEASE HEAD ON. THERE IS NOT ONE GROUP THAT IS RPONSIBLE FOR AIDS. IT EXISTS MANY DIVERSE CIRCL, AND N AFFECT ANYONE.STEREOTYPE: GAY MEN ACT/DRS A FEME MANNER

Look, I know that beg openly gay probably closed some doors for me; I know that some people may have had rervatns about hirg me, but fortunately my work stood for self and I got the jobs.

Have fah that the ocsnal bigot or homophobe that tri to cut you down and block your path, is outnumbered by many more people who will want to help you and lift you up. And one feature film, the penntly fanced Partg Glanc 1986, starred Steve Bcemi a lovely supportg performance as a gay man livg wh AIDS, but played jt a ty handful of prejudice had only jt started to ggerly thaw the 1970s, but the hysteria over AIDS the 1980s had leralized the lie that LGBT people were diseased and herently dangero. But as far as Hollywood studs and TV works were ncerned, an openly gay lead character still felt practilly impossible, let alone one wh a termal that hostile environment, makg the first mastream movie about a gay man wh AIDS uld have seemed exceptnally dntg.

GUI TO PHILALPHIA'S GAYBORHOOD

Tom Hanks won the Osr for Bt Actor for playg the film’s hero, Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer wh AIDS, and Bce Sprgsteen won an Osr and multiple Grammys for his hntg song “Streets of Philalphia, ” which opens the years later, ’s abundantly clear that Philalphia is a landmark movie, signalg — and even talyzg — the untry’s progrsive evolutn wh LGBT equaly and the plight of those wh HIV/AIDS.

1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE

After Andrew (lled Andy by pretty much everyone) is sudnly fired om his prtig law firm, he spects ’s bee the managg partners realized he’s gay and has AIDS, two facts he’d hidn om them.

He ially begs off workg wh Andy out of his fear of AIDS and loathg of gay people, and only agre to take the se after he wns Andy experiencg the kd of sual discrimatn a law library that Joe knows all too well as a black man tryg to build a reer as a lawyer. But if I were to say, ‘Hey, I have this great police show, and ’s about this guy who unvers rptn, oh, and he’s gay, ’ I will be asked, ‘Why are you makg him gay?

’”Nyswaner relayed an experience he had workg on a limed seri about Rock Hudson’s relatnship wh agent Henry Willson, a gay man who plucked (the closeted) Hudson om total obscury and turned him to the biggt box office star the world. Amerin attus about LGBT civil rights have unrgone such a radil transformatn the last 25 years that ’s bracg to rell a time when was such an accepted tth that gay people were universally rejected by their fai that portrayg otherwise me off like a prepostero fantasy. ”If the pictn of Andy’s fay has ught up wh the tim, the element of Philalphia that feels the most of s own time is the character of Joe — namely, his flagrant homophobia.

FILM COMMENT : WHY I HATED ‘PHILALPHIA’ : A PLAYWRIGHT AND GAY ACTIVIST GO TO SEE HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST MAJOR AIDS MOVIE AND AWAY BTERLY DISAPPOTED

In one early scene, Joe spells out to his wife how much the ia of gay people and gay sex repuls him, wh the nfince of a man who knows he’s firmly the majory, generoly throwg around the word “faggot” (among other slurs) whout flchg. By way of potg out the ntext behd Joe’s homophobia, Nyswaner related a story Washgton told the filmmakers when shootg began about what happened after he mentned on a rad show that he was about to make a movie about AIDS. “But there are untri where your homosexual act gets you imprisoned and tortured until you give up other nam of other people who are then round up and tortured.

And today, Philly visors n easily explore s where LGBTQ+ history was ma and where queer life ntu to thrive, pecially the cy’s Gayborhood and durg annual events like Philly Pri 365.

GAYBORHOOD

The center of Philalphia’s gay rintial life and culture sce World War II, the blocks between 11th and Broad streets and Pe and Chtnut streets earned their nickname — the “Gayborhood”— durg an October Outft event 1995.

The group’s LGBTQ and Trans History tours reunt the stori of Gay Liberatn Front – Philalphia founr Kiyoshi Kuromiya, explore morn history and current social issu the neighborhood, and stop at important muny s like the Attic Youth Center, which supports LGBTQ+ youth experiencg homelsns. In 1965, the Universy of Pennsylvania expelled Fryer om his psychiatric rincy program on the basis of his homosexualy, which was then classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA).

In 1972, Fryer, a faculty member at the Temple Universy School of Medice, offered an electrifyg anonymo ttimony that rulted the APA’s 1973 classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Philalphia Gay News Marker: This marker stands ont of the first office of the Philalphia Gay News, one of the natn’s most award-wng weekly newspapers.