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Contents:
- REVIEW: 'LOVE, SIMON' CHARMS BY GIVG GAY TEEN ROMANCE THE JOHN HUGH TREATMENT
- ‘LOVE, SIMON’ REVIEW: GAY TEEN ROMANCE IS ‘JOHN HUGH FOR WOKE AUDIENC’
- PRETTY PK DIRECTOR NFIRMS ONCE AND FOR ALL WHETHER DUCKIE WAS GAY
- COMG OUT GETS JOHN HUGH TREATMENT GAY TEEN ROMANCE 'LOVE, SIMON'
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- ‘LOVE, SIMON’ IS A RARE, FEEL-GOOD GAY MOVIE
- MIKO HUGH – B, GAY, WIFE, NET WORTH, WHERE IS HE NOW?
- IS STEVE HUGH GAY?
REVIEW: 'LOVE, SIMON' CHARMS BY GIVG GAY TEEN ROMANCE THE JOHN HUGH TREATMENT
The director of 1980s teen classic Pretty Pk has fally given a five answer on whether or not the character Duckie was actually gay. * john hughes gay *
Director Greg Berlanti’s g-of-age tale about a closeted Atlanta high schooler is the first teen film om a major stud about a gay romance, and Love, Simon (★★★1/2; rated PG-13; theaters natnwi Friday) is not only historilly signifint but also tly excellent. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, Simon Spier (Nick Robson) is a 17-year-old senr untg down the days to graduatn wh daily iced ffe and Waffle Hoe hangouts wh iends. Wrtlg wh his homosexualy, Simon reads a post on his school’s unrground gossip blog which a classmate wh the pen name “Blue” out.
‘LOVE, SIMON’ REVIEW: GAY TEEN ROMANCE IS ‘JOHN HUGH FOR WOKE AUDIENC’
* john hughes gay *
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As a gay filmmaker, he’s brought an idyllic thenticy to Love, Simon, where a boy g out is a normal yet dramatilly heightened part of the teen-movie experience, jt like pickg the right person your love triangle or fdg love before the big 'Every Day' is your new YA movie obssnAlso:10 books to read before they bee movi 2018Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker’s screenplay offers a wi variety of personali, even antagonists, that are all treated wh a realns and rpect. She chronicl the hardly veiled racism and homophobia of Hugh’ films, rearch to Hugh’ problematic pre-Breakfast Club works, and wonrs how she uld jtify any of this for her teenage ’s a remarkable piece of film cricism, hardly the only to rensir Hugh’ reer but the first to be wrten by his star-makg me. ”She’s exced for the Chloe Grace Moretz-starrg The Mistn of Cameron Post, a g-of-age-dramedy set at a gay nversn therapy mp, and was polely enthiastic while we ghed about Bo Burnham’s Eighth Gra, both of which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Ftival.
“I know they were kd of settg out to make a gay John Hugh film, which I thk that alone to me is jt great, ” she says. “There are no gay characters his movi, like I talk about the article that I wrote.
PRETTY PK DIRECTOR NFIRMS ONCE AND FOR ALL WHETHER DUCKIE WAS GAY
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” Then, lghg, “But there’s no gay them. ‘Love, Simon’ Review: Gay Teen Romance Is ‘John Hugh for Woke Audienc’. Given the recent high pots of gay cema on the die circu – the Osr-garland Moonlight and Call Me By Your Name beg the most high-profile exampl – ’s a surprise to learn that director Greg Berlanti’s extraordary drama is the first mastream stud release to put a closeted teen ont and center.
The Homo Sapiens Agenda go gentler to the topic than you might expect – or perhaps want. But the safe, PG-13 approach uld w a wir dience for a movie that gay teens, raised on straight roms, have been longg to see for generatns.
COMG OUT GETS JOHN HUGH TREATMENT GAY TEEN ROMANCE 'LOVE, SIMON'
The director of 1980s teen classic Pretty Pk has fally given a five answer on whether or not the character Duckie was actually gay. Fans of the film, wrten by John Hugh, have long sce speculated that the character – played by Jon Cryer – was gay. Molly Rgwald, who played Andie Walsh the cult classic, has said she always saw him as gay too.
But the film’s director Howard Dtch has put the speculatn to bed, sayg he never saw Duckie as gay.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Pretty Pk director Howard Dtch don’t thk Duckie was gay.
‘LOVE, SIMON’ IS A RARE, FEEL-GOOD GAY MOVIE
When asked if the character was gay, Dtch told Yahoo Entertament: “I don’t thk that, but I mean I n see where some people uld perceive like that. The character’s sexualy was brought to sharp foc 2012 when Rgwald told Out magaze that Duckie was gay, but didn’t know .
“I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me, ” she said. Actor Jon Cryer said the character was not tend to be gay. Jt e the gaydar is gog off, don’t mean your stments aren’t flty.
The groundbreakg twist here: The hero is a gay teenager stgglg wh the ia of g out to his parents and iends. So, y, “Love, Simon” should get some praise for beg the first major stud teen edy wh a gay lead character.
MIKO HUGH – B, GAY, WIFE, NET WORTH, WHERE IS HE NOW?
Even more rehg: Bis some vague worry about social acceptance, Simon (Nick Robson) is portrayed as well adjted, smart and not particularly tortured about beg gay. And apparently, Simon is the only 21st Century (gay or straight) male adolcent who is never tempted by ter wrers and crics who (wrongly) knocked 2017’s gay teen romance “Call Me By Your Name” for beg too tame when me to sex scen will probably scend to fs of apoplexy here.
BOTTOM LINE: The first major movie stud gay teen romance featur charmg performanc and a sweet story. Thk a John Hugh movie, only wh a gay leadg character.
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IS STEVE HUGH GAY?
Openly gay experimental artist/filmmaker Kenh Anger di at 96 2023-05-24 - Experimental filmmaker and artist Kenh Anger has died at age 96.