Rocketman’s Gay Content Removed From Delta’s In-Flight Versns

Contents:

• JOHN GAY DELTA, AGE 57, MALE
• JONATHAN DEL AR’S PARTNER - Y! HE IS GAY AND LOVE WH KYLE FRZ
• JOHN GAY
• SORDID LIV TRAILER – OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN & DELTA BURKE STAR THE MP, GAY-THEMED CLASSIC
• DELTA SHOWS ROCKETMAN 'STRIPPED' OF GAY SCEN, INCLUDG A KISS
• THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
• JOHN TRAVOLTA SPEAKS OUT ON GAY MORS

JOHN GAY DELTA, AGE 57, MALE

Of urse, the cls forba any acts of homosexualy. For inic stars like Montgomery Clift, Spencer Tracy and Kathare Hepburn, this meant fake marriag and relatnships, and secretive measur to disguise any homosexual activi they engaged .

Vcent Price, who was one of the most succsful actors the history of Hollywood and known for his genre-breakg work horror movi, was also vertly gay and a close iend of Stty's.

JONATHAN DEL AR’S PARTNER - Y! HE IS GAY AND LOVE WH KYLE FRZ

The documentary Celluloid Closet has a great sectn on “The Sissy, ” and turns out, sure enough, the guys were gay offscreen and Stty was hangg out wh them on a — seems like — weekly basis. So was fascatg to me that the onscreen sissi who were forced by the system to play the kd of weak, gay pansy typ were ed gay real life.

JOHN GAY

As an out gay man, n you speak a ltle b about what the story meant to you?

SORDID LIV TRAILER – OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN & DELTA BURKE STAR THE MP, GAY-THEMED CLASSIC

To be gay was somethg to be eply ashamed of. [The cls] ma very risky for movie stars or anyone who was senr the movie bs to be overtly gay or lbian. At the same time, the Los Angel Police Department was operatg a vice squad whose ma occupatn was the huiatn, extortn and g of gay and lbian people's liv, oftentim lln wh the prs.

So Hollywood's homophobia had implitns and nsequenc well beyond the cy lims of Hollywood self.

For me as a filmmaker, much ls a gay filmmaker, I thought that this story was a very important one to explore.

DELTA SHOWS ROCKETMAN 'STRIPPED' OF GAY SCEN, INCLUDG A KISS

Well, I thk there's really no parison bee on the surface, people n be out and gay and there are no morals cls as perta to sexualy.

John Gay is still a Navy SEAL. That's the unfunny premise of Ira Sachs' pneerg gay film The Delta released 20 years ago. It's about time that this ltle-know but important 1997 gay die classic was brought back to public nscns.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

The only way to do might be for Kev Hart, Aziz Ansari and Chris Pratt to update the rol of an Ain-Amerin drifter, a Vietname-Amerin and Conferacy-bred Southerner--all closeted gays--who teract at the squalid crossroads of a nearly funct porn, himself a Memphis native, follows Lln Bloom's (Shayne Gray) sexual experimentatn--a secret he keeps om those who expect him to follow his whe southern fay tradn. Lln's social knowledge expands, along wh his own self-realizatn, when he meets, bi-racial John (Thang Chan), a gay youth also strsed by his social inty bequeathed by a Vietname mother and black father.

Sachs ventured to the more meangful experience of gay men who did not expect to fd fellow-travellers among sex partners. That's what the tle noun "lta" impli; a nfluence of differenc as e plurib unum [out of many, one], not jt those who agree wh polilly while nsigng all others to ignomy and Courty StrandSachs boldly explored the gay culture of licent hook-ups and even more radilly nnected s nizens to the public life that his sexual misnduct behd the propriety of each man's ethnic and social, gay socializg has been re-fed the era of safe spac (protected by the anonymy of Tr and Grr)-- fact, misfed as somethg that perverts Delta lls bullcrap on that "progrsive", who ma movi featurg a sadly troubled gay relatnship (Keep the Lights On), a sentimental and nformist view of the middle-aged gay and upper middle-class (Ltle Men, Love is Strange) and an odd misreadg of hetero self-hatred (Married Life), has proved himself to be the only gay filmmaker to boldly explore the tth of sexual ambivalence shared by gay and straight rists the ia of gay victimizatn. Had The Delta been so obscene as to emphasize the bloody murrons of s human tragedy, might have won the same acclaim that greed Patty Jenks' Monster--a lbian-explog slasher flick that even Roger Ebert extolled and sold to the Amerin public (and the Motn Picture Amy) as if honorg eakish homici was somehow the same thg as givg social acceptance to homosexualy and femism.

His approach to the monplace aspects of gay sexualy are too ank for the market. His unembarrassed regnn of gay sexual/social hab distguish his but film om many other queer pennt movi, pecially those recent releas that play to heteronormative clich about sexual 's not sleaze sex as when Lee Daniels portrayed the lbian ct asslt Prec or the s&m gay y The Paperboy.

JOHN TRAVOLTA SPEAKS OUT ON GAY MORS

Agast the ti of polil rrectns, The Delta was first to chart the unsafe streams of gay Delta is available on DVD om Strand Releasg.