[lbo-talk] Oscars and Queers Who Die

Christian Gregory cgregory at triad.rr.com
Thu Feb 2 14:31:46 PST 2006



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> What makes a gay-themed film an Oscar contender? The gay guy (or
> transgender girl) dies.

This is beyond one-dimensional, Yoshie. On the one hand, you complain that BM depicts an hermetically sealed, unrealistic world; and then you complain that when someone in film who is gay gets killed _in Wyoming in the 1970s_ by gay-bashing that it's, what, too realistic? Heavens.

Christian



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