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THE MECHANIC'S GAY PANIC
In an dtry that both Allison and Scherker characterize as rife wh toxic masculy and homophobia, Allison hop Repair Revolutn is an oasis — a place where any type of person, queer or not, n take their r sans judgment. “One of the [drag queens], he walked to a shop and said was like beg back high school aga, beg bullied for beg gay, ” Tilton said. I am an openly gay heavy duty mechanic.
But then you may not be a fan of the actn movi of one Jason Statham and you may not have had his most recent punch-ft, The Mechanic — an otherwise well paced, petently shot affair, wh no wce-ducg dialogue and wh plenty of stoic Statham ass-kickg — marred by the fact that the only gay character the movie is stabbed to ath, gomely, wh a screwdriver. There’s a long homophobic thread this type of movie: the 1968 Frank Satra potboiler The Detective featured an entire proment subplot of gay panic.
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