The ntroversy behd Bety and the Beast's "gay moment" is jt one a long history of dienc refg to accept same-sex timacy on screen. 35 years ago, Michael Cae and Christopher Reeve locked lips Deathtrap and received a siar backlash.
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- 'SUPERMAN' STAR CHRISTOPHER REEV HAD GAY AFFAIR: BOOK
- HOMOPHOBIC? MAYBE. BUT AT LEAST MIDNIGHT COWBOY SHOWED ME GAY MEN ON SCREEN
- GAY PORN STAR CAL CULVER CLAIMS HE HAD AN AFFAIR WH SUPERMAN STAR CHRISTOPHER REEVE
- SUPERMAN 'HAD GAY AFFAIR'
- GAY PORN STAR CLAIMS HE HAD A RELATNSHIP WH ‘SUPERMAN' STAR
'SUPERMAN' STAR CHRISTOPHER REEV HAD GAY AFFAIR: BOOK
Christopher Reev, the 'Superman' star nsired one of Hollywood's foremost fay men, had a passnate affair wh gay porn star Cal Culver, claims a new book. * christopher reeve gay *
I didn't thk he was gay but he seemed willg to try anythg once. Midnight Cowboy moseys to UK cemas aga next month on the ocsn of s 50th anniversary, and wh another opportuny to ask whether this is a film about homophobia or a homophobic film.
My feelgs toward the film were formed by seeg my early teens, when I already knew I was gay and hankered after imag of other gay men on screen whout rg whether they were problematic or toxic – words, cintally, that would never have been ed that ntext when I first saw the s portrayal of the iendship between two New York Cy street htlers – the buddg gigolo Joe Buck (Jon Voight), tall and sweet as an ice-cream sundae, and the stunted, snivellg chancer “Ratso” Rizzo (Dt Hoffman) – the picture hts at the exprsible sir any bromance. Evintly the homophobe doth prott too much, for we have been privy to Ratso’s fantasi which Joe ns shirtls wh him along the beach. Photograph: Louis Goldman/Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/ShutterstockIt is the penultimate scene, when Joe robs, beats and perhaps even kills a gay client, that throws the movie to disarray.
The scene self provis a snapshot of Joe’s own shame and self-doubt, and a film should be allowed to pict the nsequenc of homophobia whout beg acced of perpetuatg . But ’s the way the attack on that man is swept blhely asi the next scene that sts doubts on the motiv of the film, and on the tegry of s gay Brish director, John Schlger.
HOMOPHOBIC? MAYBE. BUT AT LEAST MIDNIGHT COWBOY SHOWED ME GAY MEN ON SCREEN
Growg up, I hankered after imag of other gay men, however they were treated, wr film cric Ryan Gilbey * christopher reeve gay *
What we look for our formative years n be very different om the mands we make later as analytil adults, and was certaly more important to me that reprentatns of gayns were plex or lourful than that they were posive, whatever that meant. As far as I was ncerned, film-makers were wele to be hostile or mockg toward homosexualy jt so long as they didn’t ignore . Photograph: Uned Artists/Kobal/REX/ShutterstockWhat heterosexual dienc may need longer to appreciate, havg grown up surround by reflectns of their own kd on every screen and billboard, is that gay dienc will take whatever image they n get and then dra for meang and nourishment.
That explas my affectn for films that wouldn’t pass the gay equivalent of the Bechl a child, I wanted to vis the secret nightclub The Pk Panther Strik Aga where everyone is limp-wristed and light the loafers.
GAY PORN STAR CAL CULVER CLAIMS HE HAD AN AFFAIR WH SUPERMAN STAR CHRISTOPHER REEVE
<i>Superman</i> star Christopher Reeve had a passnate affair wh gay porn star Cal Culver, claims a new book. * christopher reeve gay *
Better psychos than (Pl Freeman) may be sliced up at the start of The Long Good Friday while cisg at a swimmg pool, but I loved seeg the whole plot set motn by a gay man’s sir, even if they do prove fatal. Silence n’ were nuanced reprentatns of gayns when I wanted them (Dog Day Afternoon, My Betiful Lndrette, The Naked Civil Servant) but was a different kd of tective work wklg out the gay bs otherwise straight films.
SUPERMAN 'HAD GAY AFFAIR'
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Gay was very big that year, what wh Personal Bt (sporty lbians) and Makg Love (a married man havg a gay affair). Was the film sensatnalist, even homophobic?
But Superman star Christopher Reeve once had a gay affair and was 'cur' about homosexualy, acrdg to a new book. Cal Culver, a gay porn star, has claimed om beyond the grave that Reeve was not gay but was 'willg to try anythg once'.
Sensatnal: Gay porn star Cal Culver claims he had an affair wh Superman star Christopher Reeve durg the 1970s The claim six years after Reeve's ath will shock his fay. Acrdg to Culver, they had a passnate two-month long flg which end when Reeve learned that he was a gay porn star performg unr the name Casey Donovan. 'I didn't thk he was gay but he seemed willg to try anythg once.
GAY PORN STAR CLAIMS HE HAD A RELATNSHIP WH ‘SUPERMAN' STAR
Culver appeared tl such as the 1971 Boys the Sand, the first wily available gay porn film.