<p>A personal view of gay movi, by Antony Sher.</p>
Contents:
HOLLYWOOD FIRST GAY KISS: SCHLGER’S SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, STARRG PETER FCH, GLENDA JACKSON, AND MURRAY HEAD AS THE GUY THEY BOTH LOVE
* 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.
"Sherman explas there's a divi between this kd of cema, ma by maly straight people, and queer cema, a purer form where the films are not only about gay subjects, but ma by gay people.