Al Paco's Gayt Movie: The 'Cisg' Controversy Of 1980

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• PLAC TO GAY CISE NEAR ME
• SGAPORE GAY VENU: NTEMPORARY
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• AL PACO'S GAYT MOVIE: THE 'CISG' CONTROVERSY OF 1980
• GAY CISG SPOTS

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Craig told reporters today that he did nothg appropriate and said his guilty plea was a plac like men's rtrooms, airports and tra statns, tck stops, universy librari and parks, have long been plac where gay and bisexual men, particularly those the closet, ngregate orr to meet for anonymo time, people faiar wh cisg told, gay men began g a dified system of signals to dite to others that they were terted sex. In an effort to curb lewd acts public — or as some gays argue, an effort to persecute gay men — unrver police began stg operatns plac known for sex solicg and employed the same s.

Bee much of the signalg is self benign behavr, some gay rights activists and lawyers have admonished police partments for arrtg men who have done ltle more than tap their feet. If a se like this went to trial, police officers would have to produce evince to say here is how we n say wh certaty this is was really a lewd act, " he plead guilty to the charg and therefore opted agast a, Craig nied beg gay and said he ma a mistake by pleadg officers, for the most part, only vtigate an area after members of the public have plaed about beg ed for sex, said Rich Gregson, executive director of the California Peace Officers Associatn. "Wh many other optns available for gay men to meet each other, Gershen Kfman, a profsor emer of psychology at Michigan State Universy and thor of the book "Comg Out of Shame, " said public cisg is practiced maly by eply closeted men.

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More recently, he had wrten about a seri of unsolved killgs New York's gay muny, and his work had advertently end up tchg the murrer of Addison Verrill, a reporter for Variety. Filmmaker William Friedk wasn't terted directg a film based on Gerald Walker's 1970 novel about a serial killer preyg on New York's gay muny until after he'd read Bell's articl. Burns tak a small apartment the Village, mak iends wh Ted (Don Srdo), the iendly gay playwright next door, and starts feelg his way to the leather scene at night.

AL PACO'S GAYT MOVIE: THE 'CISG' CONTROVERSY OF 1980

Although the film was ma well before the AIDS epimic that would ravage the cy's gay muny jt a few years later, is eerie watchg now wh full knowledge of the g storm. " The movie still stks, but some morn crics, cludg gay on, have begun warmg to s portrayal of a specific time and place and argug agast s perceived homophobia. "This was not a film that monized the gay muny, nor tied murr or psychopathy to , but a film about a margalized, stigmatized muny at the mercy of bigoted law enforcement and dangero homophobia, both ternal and external.

I certaly do not blame Arthur Bell or the New York gay muny of 1979 for their harsh and prumptive attacks on Cisg, for they were a muny only ten years removed om the Stonewall rts, and still facg heavy prejudice and a lack of rights, which would only crease wh the g AIDS epimic. For a group so wily hated, seems unrstandable that a film, which on the surface seems to nnect beg gay wh beg an evil killer, would roe their temper and prompt retaliatn. Nowadays, when the nghtit thg you n do a New York gay club is light a cigarette, 's bracg—and, let's adm, pretty f***g hot— to travel back to a moment when gettg your a** plowed public was as blasé as orrg a Red Bull.

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Startg wh s productn 1979, and on through s release the followg year, this sweaty p thriller, set the world of wateront leather bars, would bee the fol pot of a heated bate that raged throughout New York Cy, s gay muny, and the pag of this very publitn.

Friedk, who also penned the screenplay, based the film on three primary sourc: a 1970 novel of the same name by New York Tim reporter Gerald Walker, about an unrver p vtigatg a serial killer of gay men; Friedk’s nversatns wh Randy Jurgensen, a former NYPD tective (and a nsultant on Friedk’s The French Connectn) who spent several months unrver the cy’s s&m clubs and proclaimed the experience “msed up his md”; and a seri of Voice articl by Arthur Bell tailg several grisly, unsolved killgs of gay men picked up leather bars. ) But Friedk remaed an aloof observer of gay life, and Cisg was unniably a script wrten om a straight, Other-g perspective — a fact that sound alarms when news of s existence leaked to gay activists jt as the film’s productn menced New York durg the summer of ’79.

In the July 16 edn of his “Bell Tells” lumn, Arthur Bell wrote that Cisg “promis to be the most opprsive, ugly, bigoted look at homosexualy ever prented on the screen, the worst possible nightmare of the most uptight straight and a validatn of Ana Bryant’s hate mpaign. ” Bell oped that Friedk was “not only playg wh a keg of dyname, he’s throwg a match to , ” and offered up a suggtn for actn: “I implore rears — gay, straight, liberal, radil, atheist, munist, or whatever — to give Friedk and his productn crew a terrible time if you spot them your neighborhood. ) Bell had also lled upon gay men the productn had hired as extras and background lor to “be aware of the nsequenc” of the picture; about twenty of those men qu, and some who remaed served as spi for the muny, leakg valuable, nfintial rmatn about the pany’s movements, which allowed activists to better dispt lotn shoots.

” Whether one agre that prottg a work of art sight unseen is a good, Goldste’s objectns have the kd of nuance and sight badly missg om Friedk’s script, which, by the maker’s own admissn, saw this gay subculture as “jt an exotic background for a murr mystery. Notg that he had “risted addg a broadsi to the sulfuro polemics about Cisg bee there has been no srcy of ment on the matter this paper, ” Hentoff nohels granted that “one would have to be an utter dolt not to unrstand the anger and fear of homosexuals at what they thought was about (and what actually may be about, for all I know).

Yet Hentoff’s rhetoril remove, or for that matter our own historil one, nnot downplay the validy of the fears and ncerns voiced by gay activists that summer.