This is the podst where we watch a movie om our past that had a lastg imprsn on our ltle gay liv. If we had no bs watchg - we stole our parents VHS py and watched unr the ver of night. If a diva gave a rog speech - we memorized and lip-synced at a talent sh…
Contents:
- LARRY DUPLECHAN - MOVI THAT MA ME GAY
- THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
LARRY DUPLECHAN - MOVI THAT MA ME GAY
We like to joke that movi like the “ma gay, ” but at the risk of explag the humor behd that phrasg, the tth is that media often helps regnize sir and unrstandgs that were long fomentg beneath the surface. From the kiss Cel Intentns to the blatant homoeroticism of ’90s actn movi, we often don’t pick our queer talysts; rather, they fd , tchg unaware and plantg seeds that sprout down the le. Only later do we realize how eply Prce Eric affected the spir of intifyg our own gay “roots, ” as the nversn therapy mp But I’m a Cheerlear lls them, I asked Them staffers and ntributors to pick the films that ma them queer.
From Y2K classics to old screwball edi, our choic prove that basilly every movie is gay if you’re readg right. Eris, godss of chaos wh sultry ey and hands the size of a Suba Forter, swam through the murky pths of the ocean and right to my gay ltle heart. Years later, I was surprised to fd other gay men who had the same affy and obssn wh The Brady Bunch Movie at an early age, cementg the film as unsung queer mp classic.
THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
Also, the scene which Beth almost kiss Kate left a very gay imprt on my bra.
— Sara ClementsBatman Returns (1992)As I’ve said before, no matter how much prent-day Marvel and DC projects try to ny , drsg up latex and havg homoerotic tensn wh your nemis is herently queer. Behd s recurrg gay panic jok and barely ntaed racial anxiety, The New Guy is about Dizzy’s (DJ Qualls) search for his own inty and how he learns to be himself, no matter what others thk of him.
” Wh all that, a classic Simple Plan mic vio, and some tly inic scen om the in Lyle Lovett on offer (not to mentn an appearance om baby-faced Zooey Dchanel), The New Guy still holds a eply problematic place my gay trans heart two s after s release. — Samantha RielBrgg Up Baby (1938)I don’t believe a sgle cultural artifact turng me gay. ” When terrogated as to why he’s such a daty outf, his exasperatn boils over, eptg wh, “Bee I jt went GAY all of a sudn!