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• 50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD
• THE GAY DECEIVERS (1969)
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• THE GAY DECEIVERS (1969) - FULL TRANSCRIPT
• THE GAY DECEIVERS'
• THE GAY DECEIVERS (1969) FULL MOVIE
• THE GAY DECEIVERS
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• THE GAY DECEIVERS 1969
• THE GAY DECEIVERS (1969)
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• THE GAY DECEIVERS (1969) TRAILER
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50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD

The last year of the 1960s also broke ground when me to film, wh a movie about a d gay iendship between a htler and a grifter (Midnight Cowboy) wng the Bt Picture Osr the followg year. When me to paradigm-shiftg films of 1969, The Gay Deceivers do not qualify.

Centered on two bonehead straight guys (played by Kev Coughl and Larry Casey) who pretend to be gay to avoid the draft, The Gay Deceivers was a precursor to shows like Bosom Buddi and Three's Company and movi like Mrs.

Doubtfire and I Now Prounounce You Chuck and the jok are broad and stupid, the puns obv (a character brgs a u basket to the tular ceivers), the women eher cluels, lechero, or ceful (but always sexy and ually half-naked), and the antigay slurs ubiquo, the movie has several fun flash of gay culture that mastream Ameri was not at all ed the ceivers rent an L. Apartment lord over by a swishy landlord named Mallm (Michael Greer), 's adorned wh homoerotic art that is still rigur Palm Sprgs and Provcetown.

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Gay men the film ll each other "she" whout a bat of the eye, drag is held up as an art form, and two men even dance together. In one scene, a gay man miserat to Casey's character of Ellt how straight people believe gays are animals and how unfair is that they are routely fired om their jobs.

Of urse, that potential is wasted when Ellt punch the man for g on to the gay men are universally portrayed as sex-obssed, most e off as likable (albe silly).

Greer, an openly gay ic at the time, reportedly worked wh director Bce Ksler to make the movie more sympathetic to the gay characters.

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"While this movie tragilly reflects s era's mastream attus toward queer people, what mak The Gay Deceivers worth watchg for a ntemporary LGBTQ dience is the great Michael Greer as landlord Mallm DeJohn, " says Alonso Dural, a film cric for TheWrap and -host of the podst Lolm Knife. The rt of the movie is an object lson of tablishment homophobia actn, but Greer's performance allows a ltle rebelln and realy to elbow s way . Whout spoilg too much, the screenwrers and Ksler imply that not all gay people are swishy, snarky, and fashnable; anyone your orb uld be queer.

Though that msage don't make up for The Gay Deceivers' many, many fics, was one very seldom exprsed The Gay Deceivers below. The Gay Deceivers is a 1969 Amerin gay-themed edy film directed by Bce Ksler and wrten by Jerome Wish om a story by Gil Lasky and Abe Polsky.

Acrdg to gay film historian Vo Rso his book The Celluloid Closet, -star Michael Greer, who played the flamboyantly gay Mallm and who was himself gay, tried to work wh the screenwrer and director to mimize the negativy of the characterizatn and prent Mallm a posive light.

THE GAY DECEIVERS (1969) - FULL TRANSCRIPT

The Gay Deceivers follows Danny and Ellt, two iends who try to get out of the draft by pretendg to be gay. They move to a gay apartment buildg and try to blend wh the rints, all the while tryg to mata their romantic relatnships wh women and not get ught by the Army.

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The Army vtigators assigned to watch them are themselv gay and are tryg to keep straight people out of the Army.

Two men try to avoid ary service by pretendg to be gay, but they mt act the part when the recg officer don't buy . What if we pretend to be a gay uple to eva the draft... And we nvced everyone our liv that we were gay...

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It don't have any overt pro-gay msag, necsarily, but as a movie also don't nounce homosexualy as evil eher. Sure, a bunch of the characters do but the movie do we have here is a edy about two (very handsome) guys who pretend to be boyiends to dodge the draft and end up havg to move together and actually live like gays so that Uncle Sam don't fd out their dirty ltle secret (the dirty ltle secret beg that they're borg straight people) the entire urse of the movie I was tryg really hard to figure out what the pot of the….

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Succeeds not bee of s silly storyle or eher of s two leads, but bee of the openly gay Michael Greer's hand rhapg the script and givg a performance that's illy swishy, yet not gradg. Try to work posive and polil msag to what otherwise uld've been a gross, homophobic ms.

I’ll still take his ultra-homoerotic Simon, Kg of the Wch over this, though. Ok but they were actually gay, right? Be gay, do crim, avoid the draft.

Dad I swear I'm not gay 's jt a prank to avoid the draft! Obvly the gays were waaay over the top (everyone say thank you michael greer) but was surprisg to see that they weren’t portrayed as evil or bad this one, but warm and iendly (md you ’s the 60’s and homosexualy was still seen as a mental illns).

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I thought I was gonna hate-watch this bee would be super homophobic and I'd have to wre a big thg about how straight ppl suck but like damn this movie is a good time, like the openg creds of them answerg qutns back and forth was hysteril nglThis is the sort of movie that was probably ma for straighti but is absolutely the sort of ntent that gay bch would love bc I know I doLike yeah 's obvly not tellectual cema but sometim you jt have to be a dramatic gay man the 1960's and scream 'LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO MY PEONIES' bee be gay do crim y'know??

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Danny and Ellt avoid ary service by pretendg to be gay, but they have to act the part when the recg officer don't buy .

(lively mic)**Are you a homosexual? **Are you a homosexual?

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Hey, listen, that'sone of the gay barsall the girls have beentalkg we go , please? The Gay Deceivers' ADVERTISEMENTJuly 31, New York Tim ArchivSee the article s origal ntext om July 31, 1969, Page 0Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal the ArchiveThis is a digized versn of an article om The Tim’s prt archive, before the start of onle publitn 1996. "THE GAY DECEIVERS, " which stggl wh the paratively new movie twist of feigned homosexualy as a draft dodgg gimmick, is, unfortunately, neher gay nor ceptive.

And, the producers rate a cred for cludg a gay party thrown by Michael Greer, an amg performer, as the owner of the ttage that should please that divisn of our voters.

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The Gay Deceivers Photos. Complitns arise when two straight iends (Kev Coughl, Larry Casey) go all out their scheme to avoid the draft by posg as homosexuals. Cric Reviews for The Gay Deceivers.

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Danny and Ellt move to an apartment plex that ters to homosexuals. Comedy ensu when the two mt pretend to be gay and nfn reigns among fay and iends. Stream & Watch 'The Gay Deceivers' Full Movie OnleUned StatAtraliaCanadaFranceGermanyIndiaItalyNetherlandsTürkiyeUned KgdomUned StatSubs$1.

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Two men mt pose as gay lovers to avoid gettg drafted.

Danny Devl and his woman-chasg iend Ellt Crane ci to pose as homosexuals to avoid ductn to the Army. Sce Danny is nvced that he and Ellt mt appear to live together as homosexuals to nfirm the Army's judgment, they rent a one-bedroom apartment an area popular wh the gay set. Eventually, Ellt's married and unmarried girl iends, Danny's father, and even Karen herself bee nvced that the men are actually homosexual.

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Amerin Genre Film Archive THE GAY DECEIVERS. “Mak a subtle pot of the difficulti faced by gay men the late ‘60s. In this groundbreakg and ntroversial edy, two young men pretend to be gay when they’re asked to pay a vis to the lol draft board.

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