16 Mt-See Classic Gay Movi From Before You Were Born

old movies with gay subtext

Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time.

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GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI

In typil Hchck-ian fashn, the "Master of Spense" often employed his films subtle referenc to gay culture, fyg nservative attus of the late '50s. * old movies with gay subtext *

I was readg a book about Stanley Kubrick, and said that he wanted one of the male characters The Killg to be love wh the Sterlg Hayn character, but the censors ma him tone downCan you thk of any other productn era movi wh gay unrton? In DESERT FURY (1947), the gay subtext practilly be 's how gangster Eddie (John Hodiak) tells of meetg his "partner" Johnny (Wenll Corey): "It was the tomat off Tim Square at two the morng.

The year he hosted the Osrs was the year of Brokeback and they had a montage of wterns where there appeared to be gay subtext all the clips and I saw him later an terview claimg to have jt remembered wterns beg the gayt thgs ever and that's where he'd gotten the ia. I have a strong spicn Kubrick was a reprsed homo, and I thk also plays a not nsirable role the appeal his movi have to certa "straight" guys (as is the se wh ntemp movi like Fight Club) Anonymoreply 15April 9, 2020 2:41 AM.

15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)

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I remember he grouped any characters played as sissi as necsarily clearly gay (which i don't thk is te) and therefore a homophobic prentatn of gay men, and he thought whenever a rtoon character like Bugs Bunny got up drag to fool someone like Elmer Fudd or Yoseme Sam by beg a sexy female rabb, that meant the wrers were beg homophobic. My favore gay subtext movie, which is practilly text, is Howard Hugh productn of the outlaw, where there is a love triangle between Doc Holliday, Billy the kid and Pat Garrett, where Pat Garrett is bt iends wh Doc Holliday until Billy the kid the picture; Billy and Doc flirt like crazy, leavg Pat madr than a wet hen.

GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS

Sir Ian McKellen, who played the olr Mago X-Men: Days of Future Past, said, “As a gay man, some people thk that ought to be cured and ma normal aga, and I fd as offensive as someone sayg that they have a cure for the lor of their sk. From 1955, the gay subtext was kept pretty much on the down-low, but actor Jam Dean, who played Jim, was known to be bisexual and actor Sal Meo, who played Plato (ntug wh the ancient Greek theme), was known to be gay. Back 1994, the late Roger Ebert said his review, “The ial meetg between Louis and Ltat tak the form of a sctn; the vampire seems to be urtg the younger man, and there is a strong element of homoeroticism the way the neck is bared and the blood is enged.

16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN

Parallels between vampirism and sex, both gay and straight, are always there all of Rice’s novels; the good news is that you n dulge your lts night after night, but the bad news is that if you stop, you die.

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