The 1999 film 'But I'm a Cheerlear' is beg re-released wh a special Director's Cut and featurett that will make your nostalgia gay heart flutter.
Contents:
- DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
- WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR’
- ’90S GAY CLASSIC BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR GETS A DIRECTOR’S CUT WH NEW SCEN AND COMMENTARY
DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
The 1999 film, which the director said she wanted to be a "gay Cluels," was ially rated featured timate scen between two women. * gay film cheerleader *
” The movie centers on a lbian high school cheerlear (played by Natasha Lyonne), whose parents send her to a nversn therapy mp to cure her homosexualy. And I thk the muny was so vastated by AIDS that there wasn’t a lot of edi gog on gay cema.
I wanted to skewer not only my muny, but also jt the absurdy of gay nversn. It’s ridiculo to say that jt bee you bee more feme means you’re gog to be ls gay.
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR’
I loved “Cluels, ” and I wanted to make a gay “Cluels. For sure — and sexism and homophobia. I read that your first choice for the lead role turned down for relig reasons, and other st members were utned by their agents agast playg gay characters.
Are gay actors still beg dissuad om playg gay characters? I thk ’s better, but there’s a lot of homophobia the actg realm and that agents would still advise some of their clients not to take gay rol, pecially if their clients is gay and the closet.
’90S GAY CLASSIC BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR GETS A DIRECTOR’S CUT WH NEW SCEN AND COMMENTARY
As someone who mak a lot of queer ntent, I still see a lot of closeted actors who don’t want to play gay rol bee they feel like they won’t pass or somethg.
A lot has changed sce the summer of 2000: Gay marriage is now legal throughout the Uned Stat, RuPl has an Emmy-award wng TV show, and more and more public figur, om policians to fluencers, have e out as gay, bi, or trans. Durg the scene when Megan adms to herself that she is, fact, “a homosexual, ” she reach her emotnal peak wh a dramatic ugly-cry, cross-eyed and droolg.