When the legendary gay activist/author/playwright Larry Kramer says we should support something, then we always sit up and take notice. Now Kramer is encouraging us all to get behind a new movie project that he stresses ‘needs to be made‘, and on close examination it seems to queerguru, that the great man is right. Again.
After Louie is an inter-generational love story between Sam (played by Alan Cumming) who was an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s. Like most of us of that generation he is still somewhat struggling to even believe what our friends and lovers who died went through, and he has survivor’s guilt too. Sam has a tough job coming to terms with what he sees as the younger generation’s indifference to the politics of sex, and of death.
However an unexpected relationship with a much younger man, Braeden (played by Zachary Booth), challenges Sam’s whole mis-conception of contemporary gay life. Now this new unconventional romance, forces Sam to once and for all deal with the traumas of the past so that he and Braeden can really have a chance of a future together.
There is an extremely impressive and diverse cast joining Cumming and Booth, that includes co-writer Anthony Johnston, David Drake, Justin Vivian Bond and the ever wonderful Joey Arias. The movie will be the directing debut of writer Vincent Wm. Gagliostro who was a contributing cinematographer on the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague, and his short documentary ‘After Silence’ debuted at the 2015 NewFest.
The team are looking to raise $72500 in the next month and here is a link to their Kickstarter page : so click, and contribute, and do what Larry Kramer says and ensure that this movie gets made.
