tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4772174956910420409.post6760101028955892689..comments2024-02-13T11:44:16.780-08:00Comments on HK AND CULT FILM NEWS: THE BOYS IN THE BAND -- DVD review by porfleIKFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07879526511831397996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4772174956910420409.post-17053430717372757092017-11-11T10:27:40.141-08:002017-11-11T10:27:40.141-08:00One of the first GAY flicks to attempt MAINSTREAM....One of the first GAY flicks to attempt MAINSTREAM. It was not the greatest break for everyone in the cast and ruined at least one career for good. Yes, it's dated now with a rather negative view of a Gay Lifestyle, but taken in the context of the era--I Promise you, it was AMAZING and for the first time I saw on the screen, people who resembled lots of folk I personally knew and struggled with. I also think the film's attempt at replicating a PLAY was excellent and ending within the claustrophobic NY apartment finale was perfection. While most Gay folk today cannot imagine a time when American Society did not even acknowledge Gays existed outside of a completely negative subculture, where even the HINT of homosexuality might have resulted in being fired or murdered--please realize that that was REALITY. A conversation of mine, overheard in a nightclub, by two straight thugs, resulted in a car chase on a deserted highway in upstate New York. If I had been caught, I know they would have killed me. That is why TODAY it remains so important to now allow the nation to backtrack against the current tide to drag us ALL back into the darkness...lukasdukashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818375964898151156noreply@blogger.com