25 years ago Rob Williams and Nathan Lane h the screen "The Birdge" and helped put lovg gay relatnships to the mastream.
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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Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia1996R1h 57mA gay baret owner and his drag queen pann agree to put up a false straight ont so that their son n troduce them to his fiancée's right-wg moralistic parents. A gay baret owner and his drag queen pann agree to put up a false straight ont so that their son n troduce them to his fiancée's right-wg moralistic parents.
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘THE BIRDGE’
25 years ago Rob Williams and Nathan Lane h the screen "The Birdge" and helped put lovg gay relatnships to the mastream. * birdcage gay *
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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
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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. In this regular lumn, we’ll look at pictns of queers cema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays? But more importantly, was good for the gays?
25 YEARS AGO, GAY FAI JT WEREN'T TALKED ABOUT. THEN 'THE BIRDGE' H THE SCREEN
Aimed at gay men, the 4-star Birdge G aye Rort men only Liftyle Hotel is 5 mut’ walk om the Yumbo Center Playa l Inglés. * birdcage gay *
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.
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.
NEW YORK MAN FATALLY STABBED POSSIBLE ANTI-GAY HATE CRIME
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When their son Val (Dan Futterman) gets engaged to Barbra (Callista Flockhart), all Hell breaks loose: Barbra is the dghter of the nservative Senator Kev Keeley (Gene Hackman), one very much opposed to gay rights (or, for that matter, gay people even existg). The film touch on a number of major issu–marriage equaly, gay parentg, surrogacy, Right-wg npoopery–that wouldn’t bee major issu for another .
The movie self is a warm hug of queer edy, divg unabashedly to South Beach culture and the flashy liv of ‘90s Floridian gay showbiz. Cue the lghs as the Goldman hoe is transformed om gay art paradise to Catholic severy.
HOW ‘THE BIRDGE’ MARRIED JEWISH AND GAY CIVIL RIGHTS
A bevy of gay men stream through the door, whiskg away nu art and replacg wh ccifix and stacks of aged Nancy Drew books. The Keeleys may have some of the funnit l the movie, but ’s hard to overlook the fact that they speak about Rh Limbgh glowg terms and thk that homosexualy is rponsible for the cle of the untry.
This week marks the 25th anniversary of "The Birdge, " the smash h directed by Mike Nichols wh a screenplay by Elae May, starrg Rob Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wit, Hank Azaria, Dan Futterman and Calista years ago, gay marriage was not only illegal, was banned most stat.
BIRDGE RORT GAY LIFTYLE HOTEL
But on March 8, 1996, dienc flocked to see somethg unual movie theaters: a lighthearted movie where openly gay men were the hero and a fay wh gay parents was lovg, happy and film not only gave Lane, Flockhart and Azaria their first big Hollywood breaks, may have helped make mastream the ia of a non-heterosexual plot of "The Birdge" is simple.