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WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘MYSTER SK’
Adapted om the novel of the same name, Myster Sk prents a tale of homosexual sire and the dangers which faced young gay men the late 1980s. Director Greg Araki creat a film followg the parallel liv of two boys Kansas, Neil McCormick played by Joseph Gordon-Levt and Brian Lackey, played by Brady Corbet.… * is neil gay mysterious skin *
“Myster Sk” is relevant to the queer muny for more than the obv reason – that one of the two male leads is gay, along wh his iend Eric. Michael (he/him) is the gay Wrer & Content Manager behd Sce g out as a teenager, Michael has veloped a fascatn for Queer films.
There are a few ancillary elements the film that suggt the abe has damaged the boys—Neil’s attractn to horror films, Neil’s rape near the end of the film, and his nial of the severy of any of the events—but the odd thg, pecially for a film by a gay filmmaker, is that the implied repercsns of the child abe are activi associated wh a sexually active gay youth.