After all, Edward II’s lover is just one of thousands who meet an untimely demise in a film with enough impalings and cranial hammershots to play like a medieval Gallagher concert. The date-nighters in line for Braveheart seemed hardly bothered by the commotion. I’m with Transgender Nation-I know about these things.” No foolin’, sister-I figured it out from your throaty basso sticking the low notes during the “Men in skirts are bigots too” chant. “This person was either a transgenderist or a pre-operative transsexual. “ The Crying Game was about a transgender person-not a homosexual,” snorted Jessica Xavier. The mention of Davidson, who gave middle America its first peek under the skirt of cross-dressing, caught the attention of a strapping, redheaded dish who stomped toward me with a burr under her saddle. Insinuating myself into a discombobulated picket line that took off in unrehearsed trapezoidal patterns, I had a chance to coax their opinions on other gay performances like Jaye Davidson’s in The Crying Game. Not a single one had actually seen the three-hour epic, which would have cut into creative time for developing their “No Heart” movie-poster parody and banners like “Homophobia is a lethal weapon too.” Still, beneath the light patter, the 12 hardy souls who braved the intermittent weather were accursed with Sapphic hortative piety. chapter, adds, “Having a gay man thrown out a window as the audience laughs along is an outrageous and chilling example of how negative stereotyping contributes to anti-gay violence in this country.”Ī good-natured lot as activists go, the GLAADsters were conducting a sidewalk symposium concerning gay characters on Northern Exposure, Hearts Afire, Soap, et al.-and why Matt of Melrose Place is always promised a lover but never closes the deal. Says GLAAD Executive Director Ellen Carton, “The Edward II character is a throwback to the classic celluloid queer played for laughs as a simpering weakling.” Unconcerned that most historical accounts suggest that, sexuality aside, Edward II was a simpering weakling, Cathy Renna, co-chair of GLAAD’s D.C. The group is none too pleased by reports that, in the course of the film, the tyrannical King Edward I throws Eddie II’s smoochie out a window to his death. GLAAD’s big issue with the film concerns Prince Edward and his homosexual lover, who are depicted as two Class A foofers. Cooper rerun last Friday eve, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) headed for the trenches at the Cineplex Odeon Wisconsin Avenue.īest known for its ’92 protests of Basic Instinct‘s murderous lesbians, GLAAD is less than smitten with Mel Gibson’s direction and acting in Braveheart, the story of William Wallace (the 13th-century Celtic hero who led the Scottish commoners in their uprising against the English). Abandoning hearth and a promising Hangin’ With Mr.

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