The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
FindingNamo
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#1The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 1:09am
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 1:53am
I like that someone chose "Deathtrap"!
Mine would probably be "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
#2The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 2:06am
I don't think there was a gay film that really had a life-changing effect on me. I feel like I'm missing out.
Though, growing up, I was obsessed with both Star Wars and Beauty and the Beast. Which basically sums me up as person today.
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#3The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 3:56am
Lea Delaria mentioned Go Fish. I absolutely hated that movie. I kept thinking that if that's what lesbians looked and acted like, then I should just keep playing straight. I don't think I have ever seen a specifically "lesbian" movie that I felt represented me and my life. I loved Bar Girls and Everything Relative. I loved Foxfire because it wasn't about being GAY! It was about falling in love with this interesting, different, strong person and the gender was secondary.
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#4The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 4:04amThe Hunger being mentioned makes me laugh. It was really bad. I saw it in a college class. No, it was not about the gay storyline. My professor chose it because he was giving us examples of formulaic and non-traditional things in certain genres of movies. This was one of the vampire movies.
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#5The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 4:25amSurprised no one mentioned Another Country, probably the first gay-themed movie that hit my radar when I was growing up in Latin America. Maurice is up there too for me.
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#6The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 9:12am
I don't know that it changed my life, but seeing "My Beautiful Laundrette" when I was very young was pretty bracing.
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#7The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 9:57amFor me, it would have to be PARTING GLANCES when I was about 13.
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#8The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 10:17amI love that Andrew Holleran mentions La Dolce Vita.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#9The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 10:42am
Me too.
And Kostenbaum got me thinking about Bernd Broderup all night long.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#10The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 12:30pmPower Tool.
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FindingNamo
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#11The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 12:44pmHa!
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#12The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 1:06pmMine would be Deathtrap as well. It was the first time I saw two men kiss and THAT'S when I knew. Suddenly, it all made sense. Then it was Making Love and My Beautiful Laundrette. I sought them out because of the gay themes.
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#13The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 2:12pm
Deathtrap was HUGE for me. I even directed it my senior year in High School.
And that was back in the mid 80's.
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JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#15The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 6:03pm
BOYS IN THE BAND - I was barely 19 living in the heart of the Midwest and SLOWLY coming out, when that movie was released. At the time I had aspirations of moving to NYC as quickly as possible and it was upsetting and depressing to see what I presumed was the life waiting for me there. I can't really say it changed my life... but I'm pretty sure it slowed down my move to NYC, I wasn't anywhere close to being prepared for what that movie portrayed.
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Updated On: 3/17/12 at 06:03 PM
#16The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 6:12pmHa, I love that it caused a sort of reverse reaction for you. If you haven't seen it yet, I really recommend the documentary about Band--Making the Boys.
#17The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 10:46pm
Eight minutes and 28 seconds of the best of the Boys in the Band:
http://youtu.be/zOakue0MiZs
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#18The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 11:32pmOf course, "best" is extremely relative when it comes to the tedious and dreary THE BOYS IN THE BAND.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#19The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 11:44pmAt least you're not bragging about never having heard of it, which is your usual métier, johnboy.
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#20The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 11:46pmFor me, it would be THE BIRDCAGE. I had seen that movie a million times, but one time while watching it with BFF from High School I suddenly just had the urge to tell someone (her) I was gay. It just seemed so natural.
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FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#21The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/17/12 at 11:56pmPJ, I had never noticed how much Emory influenced Ellen Greene in Little Shop.
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#22The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/18/12 at 12:33am
Not to mention empowering a generation of Westchester decorators and New Jersey hairstylists to "let their freak flags fly."
FindingNamo
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#23The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/18/12 at 12:40am
Here's a nifty little documentary for anybody who has moved beyond JohnBoy-doing-Arthur-Bell-Circa-1976 in the Complaints about Boys in the Band Department. Demonstrates clearly why it's a piece of theatrical and cinematic history. Everybody interviewed shows how it changed their lives.
All About the Boys in the Band
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Updated On: 3/18/12 at 12:40 AM
#24The Gay Film That Changed Your Life
Posted: 3/18/12 at 9:30amI have two. First would be ROCKY HORROR. My parents took me to see it when I was 10 in 1988 and I fell in love with it and I think that's when I realized I was "different". The second was 7 years later in 1995 when I saw HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS and Robert Downey Jr. made me realize that I was going to be ok. So I think the latter would be the most "important" gay film I have ever seen, even though it wasn't necessarily a "gay" film.
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