Paul, quoted dozens of delegates who seemed unfazed, or even buoyed, by the news. Yet reports from the floor of the Republican Convention, in St. They expected the news to dismay the evangelical voters that John McCain was courting with his choice of Palin.
And while you’re at it, tell Netflix you’re tired of the detritus they call their Gay & Lesbian section.In early September, when Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for Vice-President, announced that her unwed seventeen-year-old daughter, Bristol, was pregnant, many liberals were shocked, not by the revelation but by the reaction to it. Watch it on whatever platform is most convenient. So the MPAA’s stodgy feelings of discomfort about gay teens kissing don’t matter! G.B.F. Luckily, Netflix, Redbox, Amazon, and iTunes don’t ID teenagers. is clearly a PG-13 movie, and anybody who thinks otherwise probably voted for Crash to win Best Picture. It’s the latest debacle in the homophobic MPAA’s disproportionate treatment of LGBT films. There’s no sex, no nudity, no violence, no f-words, and no more sex talk than dozens of movies about straight teens. In an extended bit of improv whose deleted moments will hopefully show up on the DVD, Mullally gives a play by play of the film’s first sex scene in the tent.Īnd now, a word on the completely ridiculous R rating G.B.F. When Brent does come out, there’s a terrific scene where she rents Brokeback Mountain in an attempt to connect with him. She knows her son is gay and is just waiting for him to figure it out. Megan Mullally is terrific as Brent’s mother. While much of the student body is tolerant, Tanner is bullied by jocks and needs popular girl approval for physical protection. Tanner is outed by a well-meaning straight student who wants the school’s gay-straight alliance to have an actual gay member. The film does a great job of expressing the conflicting realities facing gay teens today. Darren Stein, the man behind the cult black comedy Jawbreaker, directs. Megan Mullally, Natasha Lyonne, Horatio Sanz, Rebecca Gayheart, and pop singer JoJo make supporting appearances. Willett ( The United States of Tara) as the title gay, with Sasha Pieterse ( Pretty Little Liars), Andrea Bowen ( Desperate Housewives), and Xosha Roquemore ( The Mindy Project) as his cronies. I caught it during its one-week theatrical engagement in New York and had the entire auditorium to myself. It had a video on demand release last month. The market is so saturated with garbage that it’s easy to miss fun movies like G.B.F. I can only watch Weekend and Keep the Lights On so many times. My gay Netflix offerings should be markedly different.
How many times can one watch the Eating Out comedies and still maintain relative dignity? Has anyone actually made it to the end of one of those 1313 genre trash heaps where guys in their underwear who can’t act give each other sensual massages for no reason in horrible lighting? And what are lesbians to do? Be content with the half dozen pieces of junk thrown their way?Īn entertainment landscape dominated by white guys in their early 20s with no body fat and limited body hair? That’s the definition of the gay porn industry.