The Birdge at 25: What Mike Nichols and Elae May’s Gay Comedy Tells Us about Fay

Contents:

• THE BIRDGE TURNS 25: CELEBRATG ONE OF THE GREATT, GAYT MASTREAM EDI EVER MA
• WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘THE BIRDGE’
• WHAT THE BIRDGE‘S GRAND GAY COMEDY TELLS US ABOUT FAY 25 YEARS LATER
• 25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN
• NEW YORK MAN FATALLY STABBED POSSIBLE ANTI-GAY HATE CRIME
• HOW ‘THE BIRDGE’ MARRIED JEWISH AND GAY CIVIL RIGHTS
• BIRDGE RORT GAY LIFTYLE HOTEL

THE BIRDGE TURNS 25: CELEBRATG ONE OF THE GREATT, GAYT MASTREAM EDI EVER MA

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WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘THE BIRDGE’

As a closeted 12-year-old, who had told no one he was gay, I was terrified. She had said our mutual love of Rob Williams — who at that pot was jt g off a strg of child-iendly much ls (overtly) gay hs like Aladd and Mrs.

WHAT THE BIRDGE‘S GRAND GAY COMEDY TELLS US ABOUT FAY 25 YEARS LATER

We didn't talk about how was the gayt thg eher of had surely ever seen. But for the first time, I saw a big star-filled movie wh multiple happy, healthy gay characters which none of them died. And this was really my first clatn ever that my mother uldn't be homophobic.

If she loved The Birdge, she mt have the pacy to love gay people! Absolutely, bee I have a csh on Dan Futterman (even his turn on Sex and the Cy when he played the pastry chef Charlotte saw briefly and thought might be gay). PK: Anne, you are preachg to a one-man choir, who has been sgg about the snubs to the gay hilltops sce 1997!

Eher way, at least warms my heart that the Osrs of both our hearts, jtice was served to one of the gayt, greatt mastream edi ever ma.

25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN

In this regular lumn, we’ll look at pictns of queers cema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays?

NEW YORK MAN FATALLY STABBED POSSIBLE ANTI-GAY HATE CRIME

But more importantly, was good for the gays?

HOW ‘THE BIRDGE’ MARRIED JEWISH AND GAY CIVIL RIGHTS

Sure, there’s the prevalence of stereotypil gay referenc (drag queens, Speedos, plenty of mcg around, referenc to Madonna, and the notn that gay men love homoerotic art and cha patterns) that are all played for lghs. The Pros: The posiv vastly outweigh the negativ, and, fact, the prevly mentned issu work almost as set-ups for the smart subversn of the typil gay stereotyp so promently displayed on film for s.

(It should be noted that Lane is the only member of the ma st who is gay.

BIRDGE RORT GAY LIFTYLE HOTEL

Alan Stt, once scribed The Birdge as the first movie about gay people that isn’t a tragedy.

The Birdge is one of the most radil Hollywood pictns about gay men particular, bee  offers both diversy and humany while acplishg an even more difficult feat: ’s funny as hell. It’s te: 1996 saw the Rob Williams-Gene Hackman-led edy brg gay life and relatnships to the Amerin zegeist…not to mentn some of the bt one-le zgers ever mted to film.