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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 1:09am

Oh Wayne Kostenbaum, I love you. You too, Colman Domingo.

Lotsa theatrical quee-yuhs talkin' about lots of movies on the Times Arts Blog:

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The 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."

The 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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The 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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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 4:04am

The 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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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 4:25am

Surprised 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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The 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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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 9:57am

For me, it would have to be PARTING GLANCES when I was about 13.

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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 10:17am

I love that Andrew Holleran mentions La Dolce Vita.

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The 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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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 12:30pm

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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 12:44pm

Ha!

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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 1:06pm

Mine 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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The 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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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 4:39pm

Wild Reeds, I think.

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The 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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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 6:12pm

Ha, 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.

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The 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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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 11:32pm

Of course, "best" is extremely relative when it comes to the tedious and dreary THE BOYS IN THE BAND.

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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 11:44pm

At least you're not bragging about never having heard of it, which is your usual métier, johnboy.

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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/17/12 at 11:46pm

For 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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Posted: 3/17/12 at 11:56pm

PJ, I had never noticed how much Emory influenced Ellen Greene in Little Shop.

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The 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."

Updated On: 3/18/12 at 12:33 AM

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The 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

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The Gay Film That Changed Your Life

Posted: 3/18/12 at 9:30am

I 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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