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• "I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
• ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• ANOTHER GAY MOVIE (2006)STREAM AND WATCH ONLE
• ANOTHER GAY MOVIE: DIRECTOR'S CUT
• “ANOTHER GAY MOVIE: DIRECTOR’S CUT” 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDN RELEASG THIS APRIL
• ANOTHER GAY MOVIE - FULL CAST & CREW

"I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE

Perhaps that’s why a film like 2006’s Another Gay Movie feels so taboo, even today.

In a time when “gay g-of-age stori” were still synonymo wh “g out stori, ” Stephens envisned a lorful fantasy world where the closet didn’t even exist and his characters uld stead worry about what any other teen worried about: Havg sex. Tastels or not, Another Gay Movie was groundbreakg s pictn of the msy sex liv of gay men, and s ankns has ma a fg (and tnal!

ANOTHER GAY MOVIE

In celebratn of the film’s 15th anniversary, a “Director’s Cut” re-release provis an opportuny to reach new dienc, which rais the qutn: Will a provotive product of s time like Another Gay Movie still feel relevant today, or will jt feel offensive?

Club also had the honor of rng director Todd Stephens wh his Another Gay Movie st for the first time over 15 years. At the tail end of the , filmmaker Todd Stephens found succs wh the gay g-of-age feature Edge Of Seventeen, which he wrote for director David Moreton. ” I was really tryg to fd a wir dience, but, back those days, the feelg was that most gay stori were only seen by gay dienc.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

” Another Gay Movie really was born out of feelg hurt and a rejectn, to some extent.

Todd Stephens on the set of Another Gay MoviePhoto: Chris Stephens/Breakg Glass PicturMch Morris, “Griff”: For some historil ntext, this was the peak [Gee W. There’s Will And Grace, which allowed everybody to lgh wh gay people stead of at them.

ANOTHER GAY MOVIE (2006)STREAM AND WATCH ONLE

Todd Stephens: I was my unrwear foldg lndry wh my now hband, Tim [Kaltenecker]—we’ve been together for a ln years—and somehow the ia jt popped to my head: “What about a gay Amerin Pie? So I knew the genre, and I thought that was a great way , to spoof all the gay films that I loved.

ANOTHER GAY MOVIE: DIRECTOR'S CUT

At the time, so many gay films took themselv so serly, and so much of the nflict was the very fact of beg gay—cludg Edge Of Seventeen. So I wanted to make a movie where beg gay wasn’t the nflict, ’s jt the teenagers tryg to get laid like any other teenager wants to do. I thought there was somethg revolutnary about havg a stupid movie for gay people.

For once, gay kids wouldn’t have to translate that stuff to their lived Stephens: I was fely pullg spiratn om the c humor that was big edy at the time, and that’s a different si of me. I’m a Gemi, so I have that more ser, heartfelt si—that’s where Edge Of Seventeen and [the upg] Swan Song me om—but that’s the part of me that got hurt bee of the Gypsy ’83 rejectn, so that’s why I wrote Another Gay Movie. Sure, ’s makg fun of our day-to-day gay liv, but also celebratg a very sex-posive way.

Mch Morris: From the begng, I always felt a great sense of fiance Another Gay Movie.

“ANOTHER GAY MOVIE: DIRECTOR’S CUT” 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDN RELEASG THIS APRIL

We were dog somethg that we weren’t sure we uld get away Another Gay Movie wrten, Stephens and his llaborators ma plans to stage live readgs of the script at queer film ftivals, both as dry ns for the joke-heavy dialogue, and to build buzz among dienc and potential fanciers. At that pot, they were jt askg me to do the live readg at the Philalphia Gay And Lbian Film Ftival 2004. ” I probably would have done anyway right out the gate movie, but there was an easg to that ma a big proven self an dience favore, Another Gay Movie was ready to make the move om stage to screen.

ANOTHER GAY MOVIE - FULL CAST & CREW

The creative team worked hard to stretch their funds and build the gay fantasy world of their dreams, all a historic neighborhood south of Stephens: So I had partnered up wh TLA, which still exists; they were this big distributor of gay films, and they were actually puttg the movi to theaters. They had done Latter Days and Boy Culture, the other die gay films I really liked. He pletely unrstood and supported Another Gay Movie one-hundred percent, and he really helped fd a big chunk of the money to make the movie Blechman: It was a most budget, paratively, but pennt queer cema has not had that kd of budget sce.

It’s like this subverted nostalgia world where ’s like, “What if the gay teen really uld jt worry about gettg laid like everyone else? ]Jarod (Jonathan Chase) and Griff (Mch Morris) get playful by the poolPhoto: Chris Stephens/Breakg Glass PicturMeanwhile, Another Gay Movie still need to round out s st.

While a few big nam passed on the opportuny, others were eager to play, imbug the film wh more gay ’s Parents (Stt Thompson and Lypska)Photo: Chris Stephens / Breakg Glass PicturTodd Stephens: Stt Thompson and Lypska were part of some of the st readgs, so we were lucky to have them for the film too, as Andy’s parents. But I thk he was workg on velopg an Amerin show at the time, which is hilar to thk he would make Another Gay Movie his troductn to Amerin dienc.