June is Gay Pride Month, and throughout the entire month Turner Classic Movies is showcasing several movies with various depictions and stereotypes of gays and the gay lifestyle. The focus isn't necessarily movies with a gay theme, but movies with gay characters, or movies with gay actors, writers and directors. Some of the movies include The Maltese Falcon, Designing Woman, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
I would also include at least two Hitchcock films in this line-up: Psycho and Strangers on a Train, which allude to certain characters being gay during a time when blatant depictions were much less common.
The films will be shown every Monday and Wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. in June, and will be hosted by Robert Osbourne and Richard Barrios, along with guests Tab Hunter, Alan Cumming, Michael Musto, Ron Nyswaner and Charles Busch.
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4-29-2007 @ 8:57AM
Martha Fischer said...
What a cool idea -- thanks for pointing this out, Adam. I hope Laura is included in the line-up.
(And nothing is as unsubtle as Strangers on a Train, but don't forget to put Rope on you Hitchcock list.)
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4-29-2007 @ 10:23AM
David said...
There is no gay month, it was some political bullshit Clinton did after signing a unconstitutional antigay law into effect.
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4-29-2007 @ 10:31AM
RSL said...
Oh silly insecure breeder David, of course there's not a gay month. Adam said there was a gay _pride_ month. We all know all the months are really taken up by you white, straight, Christian males. Don't worry. You power position's still safe.
@ Adam, those certainly are some "classic" ie. _old_ movies. I was hoping they'd do something with a little less "faded glamour" and a little more, dare I say, substance and relevance. Oh well. Straight massa is always right. I guess I shouldn't question.
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4-29-2007 @ 10:51AM
David said...
RSL you are a fucking idiot.
Clinton called June Gay Pride Month after signing into law the "'Defense' of Marriage Act". That's when June "offically" became Gay pride Month.
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4-29-2007 @ 2:22PM
epobirs said...
On the Hitchcock set, Martin Landau asserts that his character in North By Northwest was gay, although this was something he decided in determining his motivation rather than anything explicitly in the screenplay.
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4-29-2007 @ 1:54PM
TomB said...
Don't be offended. David hates everything. He thinks everything is lame. I've never seen a positive comment from the guy - about anything.
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4-29-2007 @ 2:45PM
Adam from TV Squad said...
If I'm reading David's comments correctly, he's not saying Gay Pride Month is bad, he's saying it was something Clinton came up with whilst paradoxically putting the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act into effect.
I think you guys misread what he wrote.
Or maybe I did.
But I think that's what he meant.
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4-29-2007 @ 4:43PM
Michelle said...
Actually, David, Gay Pride Month dates back to the first gay pride parade in June 1970 (just after the Stonewall Rebellion).
Just a suggestion, but if you're going to spout ignorant right-wing garbage, you should at least be historically correct.
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4-29-2007 @ 6:58PM
David said...
What I'm saying is Gay Pride Month became more wide spread after the bullshit Clinton pulled.
And yeah I'm right wing... fucking idiots....
What am I doing Saturday? Going to the local Gay Pride Day, fucking ignorant fools.
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4-29-2007 @ 8:33PM
RSL said...
Have fun at the pride festival since Saturday isn't June, David. :)
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4-29-2007 @ 9:37PM
gottacook said...
Anyone using the term "gay lifestyle" can be presumed to be a bigot; not that you are, but this term can almost always be found in the pronouncements of the real bigots out there. The truth is, of course, that gay people have as wide a variety of lifestyles as straight people. The TCM link doesn't use the term. (I'm straight but also a copy editor.)
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4-30-2007 @ 7:15AM
RSL said...
@ Adam: Perhaps we misread David's initial comment but it seems he himself removed the veil in his subsequent ones. There _does_ however seem to be an awful lot of homophobia and hostility to any post on a pop culture website that positively mentions gays or lesbians. From the Heroes mishgas with Zach to having _one_ character out of _fifty_ in Lost be queer, the general feeling (on the internet) seems to be you're not wanted. I myself _don't_ feel the need to see myself on teevee and don't require a gay quota but it's insulting when it feels like you _can't_.
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