The ntroversial bt-picture wner wh Dt Hoffman and Jon Voight arrived at a ght moment not jt the evolutn of filmmakg, but the stggle for visibily of gay liv. An excerpt of a five new book.
Contents:
- DT HOFFMAN WIFE, CHILDREN, GAY, FAY
- HOMOPHOBIC? MAYBE. BUT AT LEAST MIDNIGHT COWBOY SHOWED ME GAY MEN ON SCREEN
- IS DT HOFFMAN GAY?
- IS DT HOFFMAN GAY
- IS DT HOFFMAN GAY?
DT HOFFMAN WIFE, CHILDREN, GAY, FAY
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” But, somehow, very quickly beme associated wh a new era of ankns about homosexualy, an associatn enhanced by the fact, pletely unrelated, that the Stonewall rts, which nventnally mark the start of the gay-liberatn movement, broke out a month after “Midnight Cowboy” opened. He se the movie the ntext of “the rise of openly gay wrers and gay liberatn.
” And Mark Harris, the ler not for the Crern DVD, says that “Midnight Cowboy” is, “if not a gay movie, a movie that at least helped to make the notn of a gay movie possible. You n read an element of homoeroticism to buddy pictur like the, which the women are often treated as expendable accsori. But no one imag that such films give dienc a more enlightened way to thk about homosexualy.
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Schlger did not e out publicly until the neteen-neti, and he said that he did not nsir “Midnight Cowboy” a “gay” picture. His next movie, “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (1971), had a sympathetic gay character, played by Peter Fch.
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”Joe and Ratso are shown to have ltle sympathy for homosexuals, and they e John Wayne’s F-word often. Still, he was fe wh homophobic slurs. Many years later, he claimed that the e of the word by the characters was “a sign of overprottatn, ” but this seems a jtifitn are few gay characters wh speakg rol the movie.
The sexualy is clearly meant to be is te to the novel—whose thor, Jam Leo Herlihy, was also gay, but who did not want people to thk of his book, which was published 1965, as gay fictn.
IS DT HOFFMAN GAY?
There is no suggtn the book that Joe and Ratso are gay self-niers.
Whatever effect “Midnight Cowboy” might have had on attus toward homosexualy, one thg had a negative effect on was attus toward New York Cy. For s, the Co had effectively banned even the e of the word “homosexual.