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'FRIED TOMATO' DOWNPLAYS THE GAY ASPECT
Bh office and a disease killg gay men while the ernment stood by and watched, felt like another example of shame-filled erasure to some.
IS IDGIE GAY IN FRIED GREEN TOMATO?
"Dpe cricism om some the gay muny that "Tomato" sisteps the issue, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn nohels plans to honor the movie for s "lbian ntent. But the book mak clear that Idgie was gay and that she and Ruth were together (or would be) when Ruth sent Idgie that biblil verse. I am old enough to rell a time--not as far back as this was set, md you--when beg gay was nsired by mastream US culture to be almost as unnatural as sex wh farm animals.