The meang of ROUGH TRADE is gay men who are or affect to be gged and potentially vlent; also : such a gay person.
Contents:
- ROUGH TRA : [DANGERO GAY EROTI]
- FOXTCHER’S GAY SUBTEXT BRGS “ROUGH TRA” TO THE MOVI
- GAY ‘ROUGH TRA’ SEX: TWO BIG BEEFY BEARS BTAL, FIRST TIME PIG PLAY
ROUGH TRA : [DANGERO GAY EROTI]
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: gay men who are or affect to be gged and potentially vlent. also: such a gay person.
FOXTCHER’S GAY SUBTEXT BRGS “ROUGH TRA” TO THE MOVI
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Foxtcher’s Gay Subtext Brgs “Rough Tra” to the Movi. To unrstand the disfort that many gay viewers are undoubtedly feelg screengs of Foxtcher—the dreary b of Osr ba jt out om director Bent Miller—you need to unrstand a few thgs about gay archetyp and how they have historilly functned.
This is important, bee I nnot thk of another recent movie that so clearly reli on homo-anx, dog-whistle shorthand for both s characterizatn and plot; and yet, save for Armond Whe’s sthg piece OUT, the film’s largely posive reviews have avoid real examatn of the issue. To be fair, some crics have wonred aloud about the film’s “hts” at homoeroticism, but they have ultimately shied away om gog further.
GAY ‘ROUGH TRA’ SEX: TWO BIG BEEFY BEARS BTAL, FIRST TIME PIG PLAY
Those elements are probably there somewhere, but ’s the gay subtext— this se, the age-old story of a wealthy, effete fairy gog after rough tra—that feels most central, most necsary for the movie to make whatever narrative sense do. But then, none of the read as crypto-gay eher.
Schultz wr his memoir that “I had my spicns [that du Pont might be gay], but I never observed … anythg that would e me to say he was a homosexual. The term will be faiar to many gay rears, but perhaps ls so to others, so here’s a quick troductn.