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• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• DON’T ASKETH, DON’T TELLETH: ‘PRIVATE ROMEO’ IS A GAY ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ SET A MILARY AMY

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

While some people may easily be bothered by a gay terpretatn of Romeo and Juliet, I had no issu/problems wh at all. )I did not pick up on any homophobia; might have been there or allud to or assumed, but I did not thk that specifilly was the love between the two boys, AS two boys, that was, self, a problem, and if I am right, then this unqutned acceptance of that add que a b to the dream-like qualy or maybe ialized atmosphere of the film.

(People who see elements of the funct "don't ask - don't tell" policy of the US ary are projectg their own issu onto the movie, which ntas not even the slightt ht of homophobia.

Any gay person will tell you that one of their ma problems (granted that they survived adolcence unsrred and are reasonably well-adjted--that's a big "granted") is that there is no real "language" for romance between two men, or two women.

DON’T ASKETH, DON’T TELLETH: ‘PRIVATE ROMEO’ IS A GAY ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ SET A MILARY AMY

Gay people generally hi their sexualy durg the perd when others are learng how to exprs , and once a gay person has termed to strike out on his or her own, there isn't much the culture to let them know how to approach another person of the same sex--what the l are, what to say, what signals to send and how to read the other person.

And most "gay movi" that try to fulfill this functn are gimmicky and/or mdl--people them don't talk like human begs. None of the other stunts react nventnally "homophobic" ways--Tybalt (Bobby Moreno) is jt another young men left charge who has gotten full of himself, and who thks that Sam and Glenn's liaison will dispt orr at the amy. And Hale Appleman's Mercut is the most ambiguo readg of that role que a while--durg the Queen Mab speech, we n't tell whether he is utng Romeo agast the "dream" of gay love, or whether he has a thg for him to have gone on for so long, but this movie affected me a very personal way, pecially durg the balny scene--or, for that matter, any scene which Romeo and Juliet are together.

And not even the sternt Shakpeare purist uld disavow this endg--pecially not one who has seen too many screen homosexuals end suici (or too many real-life gay teens dog the same. The film is able to show a gay Romeo and Juliet story whout gettg ught up the tl that we believe everythg should f to. Importantly, there are no rival ho, they are mentned but they are not the e of the tragedy here, that role is taken up by the unrcurrent of homophobia and standard high school pack you accept this nstct then the world of Private Romeo matas a ncrete ternal logic.

Brown's cisn also sistepped the propensy of gays to die at the end of films, a ment SSPOILERS There are of urse choic that didn't work pecially well; a seri of lip-synced YouTube vios filmed by the ts were effective but oddly placed and a song by 'Juliet' over the films creds needs to be hacked off the end (and will be once reach my DVD-r). Raw Shakpeare (let alone wh a st not-traed--Shakpeare) pull everyday Gay viewers around the world?

It actually featur two boys the ary who have a gay romance.

Their love is forbidn bee this was a time where we qutned whether or not gays should be the ary. Don't judge gays, thg that weighs this down is how the executn is really off.