The 1999 film 'But I'm a Cheerlear' is beg re-released wh a special Director's Cut and featurett that will make your nostalgia gay heart flutter.
Contents:
- DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
- WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR’
- “BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR” TGHT ME IT’S OK TO BE GAY
- BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR REVIEW – A IC TAKE ON GAY-NVERSN PRACTIC
- ’90S GAY CLASSIC BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR GETS A DIRECTOR’S CUT WH NEW SCEN AND COMMENTARY
DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
” The movie centers on a lbian high school cheerlear (played by Natasha Lyonne), whose parents send her to a nversn therapy mp to cure her homosexualy.
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR’
And I thk the muny was so vastated by AIDS that there wasn’t a lot of edi gog on gay cema. I wanted to skewer not only my muny, but also jt the absurdy of gay nversn.
“BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR” TGHT ME IT’S OK TO BE GAY
It’s ridiculo to say that jt bee you bee more feme means you’re gog to be ls gay. I loved “Cluels, ” and I wanted to make a gay “Cluels. For sure — and sexism and homophobia.
I read that your first choice for the lead role turned down for relig reasons, and other st members were utned by their agents agast playg gay characters.
BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR REVIEW – A IC TAKE ON GAY-NVERSN PRACTIC
Are gay actors still beg dissuad om playg gay characters?
I thk ’s better, but there’s a lot of homophobia the actg realm and that agents would still advise some of their clients not to take gay rol, pecially if their clients is gay and the closet. As someone who mak a lot of queer ntent, I still see a lot of closeted actors who don’t want to play gay rol bee they feel like they won’t pass or somethg.
’90S GAY CLASSIC BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR GETS A DIRECTOR’S CUT WH NEW SCEN AND COMMENTARY
In this regular lumn, we’ll look at pictns of queers cema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays? Gay nversn therapy has been a hot-button topic lately, even if ’s not as popular of an issue as same-sex marriage or other civil rights issu related to the queer muny.
— that would make procr like “physil pa, such as electroshock or electronvulsive therapy, touch therapy, pornography exposure or vom-ductn therapy” perfectly legal practic for therapists (I e that word loosely here) to exert on their patients, many of whom are mors that are forced to the so-lled gay rehabs by their parents. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan, an all-Amerin, girl-next-door type whose life is turned upsi down when her parents and iends stage an terventn and acce her of harborg homosexual tennci. But that don’t stop her parents om sendg her to Te Directns, a reparative therapy mp n by Mary Brown (played by the always wonrfully terrifyg Cathy Moriarty), who teach her charg they n overe their homosexualy by admtg their transgrsn (even if they have not acted out on ), performg genr-normative behavrs (such as hoework for the girls, yard work for the boys), fdg their “root” (i.