This month a new, provotive LGBTQ-themed film sh a light on the turbulent liv of the homels gay teenagers on Ameri’s streets. In the past, the young men and women were bundled up unr “naways,” but there has always been more to their stori than meets the ey. They rry a ep pa, suffer
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REVIEW: YOUTUBER MAX EMERSON’S GAY HTLER DRAMA ‘HOOKED’ LANDS WH A THUD
A val topic gets a heavy-hand treatment wrer-director (and social media star) Max Emerson’s “Hooked, ” a utnary melodrama about a homels gay htler that, more skilled hands, uld have evoked a latter-day “Midnight Cowboy. ”The film fds 18-year-old Jack (Conor Donnally) turng tricks to stay afloat while livg a Manhattan youth hostel wh boyiend Tom (Sean Ormond), both of whom apparently fled opprsive, homophobic parents.