New Ways: Both for AIDS “and” Global Warming

Bill Condon, 2004. Kinsey

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Thurman Rice: There’s a cure for syphilis… and it’s called abstinence.
Alfred Kinsey: Penicillin works just as well!

Tight Spot

Bill Condon

“The real question is the tension between everyone’s specific sexuality and the desire to belong, to fit in, to feel like a part of the group.”
Bill Condon

It was the moment

Stephen Daldry, 2002. The Hours. Meryl Streep

Clarissa Vaughn: I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

Denial

Stephen Daldry

“I get frustrated about it because they say, ‘How can a man talk about women?’ I say, ‘Steven Spielberg didn’t need to be an alien to talk about E.T. You don’t need to be a dog to direct Lassie.’ It seems to be a denial of the process of imagination, which is a posh word for ‘guesswork.’”

Stephen Daldry

The Handsomest Bludgeon

 

 Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers of

No Country for Old Men, 2007. Winner of the 80th Academy Award for the Best Picture

“… This is also for my partner John Barlow. Without you, honey, this would be hardware. Thank you so much. Thank you.”

Scott Rudin

Freeheld

Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth, 2007. Freeheld. Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree.

Winner of the 80th Academy Award for the Best Short Documentary

“It was Lieutenant Laurel Hester’s dying wish that her fight for, against discrimination would make a difference for all the same sex couples across the country that face discrimination every day. Discrimination that I don’t face as a married woman.” Cynthia Wade

Delicacy and nerve

Kenny (Rami Malek) in The War At Home.

“I don’t think they wanted to hold anything back despite it being unappealing subject matter, perhaps, to some viewers. If they were going to tell the story, they wanted to do it as thoroughly as possible, to really explore all the facets of a young man coming out. To be able to go to those lengths speaks very highly of the writer, Rob Lotterstein — to be able to take a risk like that, which is definitely a big risk. Besides having a young man come out, but to really go to those lengths of explaining the precautions that need to be taken is an extra step that probably didn’t have to happen, but because we all felt so good about it, it seemed like the right thing to do.”

Rami Malek

With all due respect

 

Westboro Baptist Church

All right, I admit that the conservative fundamentalist republicans are honest in their religious believes. Now, you motherfuckers (of all motherfuckers) may be honest in your religious believes but you have no right, absofuckinglutely no right, to impose your fucking honest ideas on the private lives of other people.

Bacchanal

A Louis Vuitton ad

Def shy, dolce, rain, steam, down, screech. I whispered, flirted.
And he got back, [screech] “let it be.”
Tender, , O tender, owl, hand, velvet, short, and he looked down, coffee, cold, night, out
He, like me, likes me. “Man,” I chuckled, “You are a sight!” [hush]
Wade, soap, gimme, bruise, wetter, shy
Shimmer
The next bar wasn’t much better, though a little bit busier.
What are you doing?

Zane

Tortured Soul

Tom Kalin 

 ”I’ve never wanted to be seen as a spokesperson, I just don’t. I appreciate the support I’ve gotten from the gay and lesbian community as a filmmaker, but I just don’t think of my films as identity-based in that kind of way. In other words, I’m not making a film that’s trying to talk about all gay people. In my personal life I have a 15-year-long relationship that’s happy and well-adjusted. I’m not a tortured soul at all, really.”

Tom Kalin