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MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL

In (homophobic? ) Greece, has been viewed as a ser study of urban angst, volvg immigrant Rsian Greeks avoidg any mentn of the film's overkill gay ntent. In ntrast, the film's ternatnal exposure up to now, prr to the Osr nomatns, has been almost exclively at Internatnal Gay Film Ftivals: San Francis and, particularly Verzbert, which tours Germany's largt ci, cludg Berl where I saw .

The Amerin-accented openly gay director of the film (one of the few Greek profsnals who has dared e out of the closet) ma a pot of explag this to the all-male sold-out crowd Berl late November. Add to those nflicts, the homoerotic overton of the teenage guys' physil ntacts, realizatn and open discsn of their liv as homosexual prostut, and the film exceeds any fn of a gay film. He and his iends move om dgs to petty crime to crimal volvement wh prostutn (of both gay and straight forms).

Both the men and women volved are eye ndy and while this film is beg marketed as a gay movie, there is very ltle ntent to rank as such - as though the Greek homophobia would not ndone a popular movie to dwell on that eye ndy for everyone, but not a lot of substance.

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