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Is Brokeback Mountain really a breakthrough movie?
See, I think this is largely on a tangent from the actual film. A friend of mine has issues with Queer as Folk - namely, that it depicts exactly the sort of drugs and sex lifestyle he's trying to avoid.
The problem is, there is a HUGE number of gay people. They're all different. So how on earth can any single film or TV show be expected to shatter EVERY SINGLE stereotype at once? Surely it's a good idea to just tell an interesting story with real, identifiable characters, no matter which stereotypes they conform to and which they break?
As for the stereotype of gay people being isolated, honestly, surely the whole point of the movie is to *not* alienate gay people? The idea is that society forces gay people in that culture to isolate themselves, not that all gay people are by definition isolated.
Green Queen
See, I think this is largely on a tangent from the actual film. A friend of mine has issues with Queer as Folk - namely, that it depicts exactly the sort of drugs and sex lifestyle he's trying to avoid.
The problem is, there is a HUGE number of gay people. They're all different. So how on earth can any single film or TV show be expected to shatter EVERY SINGLE stereotype at once? Surely it's a good idea to just tell an interesting story with real, identifiable characters, no matter which stereotypes they conform to and which they break?
As for the stereotype of gay people being isolated, honestly, surely the whole point of the movie is to *not* alienate gay people? The idea is that society forces gay people in that culture to isolate themselves, not that all gay people are by definition isolated.
Green Queen
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