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Discuss: Having Gay Pride Doesn't Help the Box Office
Filed under: Gay & Lesbian », Distribution », Exhibition »
As proclaimed by then-president Clinton, June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. Pride festivities and parades are gearing up across the world with a flurry of color and rainbows, but lately, it's been about more than just extravagant celebration. Gay marriage is now legal in California, and more people are coming out, like the indirectly out Jodie Foster. Yet, as a new article by Reuters reports, these advancements are not doing anything for the LGBT box office take.
Sure, they're talking about a lot of indie films no one has heard of, but it's not like all of those films are worth just small whispers of existence (where the only people who have heard of it worked on it). The article specifically mentions C.R.A.Z.Y., the 2005 film from Jean-Marc Vallee.
Review: Gay Sex in the 70s
Filed under: Documentary », Gay & Lesbian », Theatrical Reviews »
Ah, the 1970s - a decade of psychedelic polyester fashions, freakishly large moustaches, drugs, and free love. The Pill brought sexual liberation to women for the first time and, free from the fear of unwanted pregnancies, a generation of young women embarked on exploring lustily the sexual freedom men had always known. Likewise, the dawning of the gay rights movement following the infamous Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969 liberated gays - lesbians as well, but gay men in particular - to come roaring out of the closet, spawning a decade of sexual exploration and freedom unknown to the repressed gay population since Roman times. For many gay men in that idyllic, albeit temporary, nirvana, it was the first time in their lives they had friends, community, and sense of acceptance - and sex. Lots of sex.
Gay Sex in the 70s, a documentary by Joseph Lovett, is billed as a "steamy romp", but really, beneath the mirth at its surface, it is a very serious film. The film explores gay sex from sociological and historical standpoints in the decade between Stonewall in 1969 and the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981, when Dr. Lawrence Altman first published an article about an unusual cancer that seemed to be affecting primarily gay men.
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