Toronto Review: ‘The Dog,’ About Gay Bank Robber John Wojtowicz, Is a Mt-See Documentary For Fans of ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ – IndieWire

Contents:

• SPECT ROBBERI OF 21 MEN HE MET THROUGH GRDR GAY HOOKUP APP ARRTED BY FBI
• TORONTO REVIEW: ‘THE DOG,’ ABOUT GAY BANK ROBBER JOHN WOJTOWICZ, IS A MT-SEE DOCUMENTARY FOR FANS OF ‘DOG DAY AFTERNOON’
• PATRONS OF NYC GAY BAR PACATED AND ROBBED OF THOANDS VIA FACIAL REGNN ON THEIR PHON
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

SPECT ROBBERI OF 21 MEN HE MET THROUGH GRDR GAY HOOKUP APP ARRTED BY FBI

While the ary, he’d had his first gay enunter durg basic trag, urty of “a hillbilly by the name of Wilbur, ” before beg sent off to Vietnam. He separated om his wife 1969 and joed the Gay Activist Alliance addn to takg up wh a strg of male lovers.

TORONTO REVIEW: ‘THE DOG,’ ABOUT GAY BANK ROBBER JOHN WOJTOWICZ, IS A MT-SEE DOCUMENTARY FOR FANS OF ‘DOG DAY AFTERNOON’

He reced Bobby Wtenberg and Salvatore Naturale (whom he had both met prevly at a gay bar) to help him wh the heist, but the tr was far om profsnal.

Wojtowicz also had issu wh the stg of his wife, statg that the film ma Carmen “look horrible and ferred that I left her and wd up the arms of a Gay man bee of her.

PATRONS OF NYC GAY BAR PACATED AND ROBBED OF THOANDS VIA FACIAL REGNN ON THEIR PHON

Met Derrick Patterson March on Grr, the gay sex hookup se, and ved him to his room at the Beverly Hilton Beverly Hills.

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

District Court) Several of the victims told thori they believed Patterson was targetg gay men as a hate crime; one specified a homophobic slur he ed. When he was arrted, however, Patterson was rryg two $20 bills and a $5 bill that were nsistent wh sh taken om the victim’s home, and police found a stun gun near the spot where he was ptured, acrdg to the victim believed Patterson was “targetg gay men and that he is a victim of a hate crime, ” Maloney FBI spects Patterson was workg wh at least one acplice. Workg as both an unofficial “Dog Day” sequel and unnventnal overview of New York gay culture om the past 40 years, “The Dog” b archival footage, still photographs, and ttaments om many of those who knew Wojtowicz well to nstct a vivid acunt of his strange trajectory.

Wojtowicz posns himself as the rare ant activist for gay rights.