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- STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
- A DOLL THAT WEARS SUNGLASS WH ATTU? OH, ‘M3GAN’ IS A GAY MOVIE.
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
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Based on a wild but te story, Potato Dreams of Ameri follows openly gay wrer-director W Hurley's move om Rsia to Ameri when his mother be a mail orr bri and marri a much olr and eccentric man. Wolfe (Ma Raey's Black Bottom), wrten by Dt Lance Black, and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's productn pany Higher Ground, this film is a mt-watch this year, pecially wh Coleman Domgo as civil and gay rights in Bayard Rt.
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But the thg that had crics and viewers buzzg was the film's homoerotic unrton--ballsy stuff for 1948. What isn't well known is that several key people behd the film, cludg the screenwrer, poser, and one of the male leads (Farley Granger), were gay. That was wrten by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perks mak a double-gay bonanza!
Sadly, the MPAA origally rated the film X, apparently on the advice of a psychiatrist who felt the movie's ntral handlg of homosexualy was promotg "mental illns. How uld we have ever been so hated, so hungry--not to mentn so creative--amid the wastelands of 1980s materialism and homophobia? Bis a betiful plot, st, show tun, and all, was ahead of s time the way shed light on everythg om gay-bashg (poor Matthew Brorick) to g out to your fay (love Anne Bancroft!
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