GAY PRIDE MONTH: Based on Penelope Gilliatt's sharp script, the movie holds important place film history, offerg the first posive image of homosexual lead role mastream movie--and the first gay kiss!
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HOLLYWOOD FIRST GAY KISS: SCHLGER’S SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, STARRG PETER FCH, GLENDA JACKSON, AND MURRAY HEAD AS THE GUY THEY BOTH LOVE
<p>A personal view of gay movi, by Antony Sher.</p> * was peter finch gay *
For a few weeks seemed that the whole world was gay-iendly.
And both films have gay characters at their centre. In Capote he's not jt gay but, let's face , a real old-style screamer. So is this the moment when gay cema go mastream?
"Well, I'm not sure that Brokeback Mounta and Capote really qualify as gay films, " says Mart Sherman, wrer of gay films like Bent and Alive and Kickg ( which I played one of the leads). "Brokeback Mounta is about two straight men who happen to have a gay affair, and Capote is about an thor, who happens to be gay, gog to any lengths to get his story.