Which is a perfect story/movie about a gay young man (with a girl friend) coming of age (having sex with older men) among straight buddies who don't know he's gay. The only way you can tell that it has a female director (Eliza Hittman) and camerawoman is these ladies' obvious professional obsession with the young male form--and the overall conciseness and neatness, and brisk, narrative flow of the movie. So, maybe...Well, I've made a point--no doubt a bigoted and illogical point--of never watching movies about gay men made by women ("Nicole Noelle"), or, for that matter, of watching gay porn made by drag queens (Chi Chi LaRue)--and of boycotting, with rude and villefying terms of rejection, male homosexual pornography written by Lesbians (Mary Renault and Marguerite Yourcénar). Could my proud tower be crumbling? ¡Oh nooooo!
Anyway, it's a very good movie, both in itself and as an accurate and timely docudrama of where and to what shameless complexity the Gay Rights Revolution (completely won and accomplished, and having swept all before it) has brought us. My lofty, misogynist phallocentrism may be getting vaginal smutches on it, but I'm very proud indeed of the society which has come so far in its civilized, tolerant inclusiveness, and which is now, happily, a home and a haven to strong and beautiful men, young and old, whom a few decades ago it would have execrated as loathsome outcasts and pariahs.
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