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INTERIOR LEATHER BAR
Director William Friedkin claims that he had to take his notorious movie ‘Cruising’ about the gay S&M sub-culture to the Ratings Board on 50 occasions before they would give him a R. Whether that is totally true or not is part of the myth around the over-rated but little seen psychological thriller released in 1980 to…
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Any Day Now
The year is 1979 and in a sleazy West Hollywood gay bar, Rudy a very scary looking drag queen, is lip-syncing to a disco hit ‘Come to Me’ and he catches the eye of a handsome masculine and very straight dude sitting by himself. Paul is a divorced closeted uptight lawyer who works in the…
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PIT STOP
Two blue collared gay men living in a small town in Texas are both finishing chapters in their parallel lives. Gabe, a 35 year old closeted construction worker is trying to recover from being dumped by his lover who preferred to stay with his wife after all. He can at least seek some consolation that…
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THE MEN NEXT DOOR
This is the latest movie from writer/director/producer Rob Williams who is a leading exponent of a genre that I call ‘Boy-Lit’. Light bubbly stories where boy meets boy, boy loses boy, then boy meets (another?) boy again, and lives happily ever after. Nothing heavy to test the brain, or challenge any assumption that love always wins…
