Word: antigay
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...uproar justified? Not entirely. True, Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is up to his usual grisly tricks: the killings are gruesome, and the simulation of S-M couplings will appall many moviegoers of all sexual persuasions. Yet Cruising is not antigay, any more than a film like American Gigolo is anti-heterosexual. Friedkin repeatedly - even tediously-reminds the audience that the S-M crowd is but a small, atypical subculture within a diverse homosexual world...
...Koch, who declined such an extreme move, it was a case of civil rights advocates turning into censors. Cruising's producer, Jerry Weintraub, meanwhile insisted that his film was not antigay, and he was critical of his critics. Said Weintraub: "They have asked me to make the picture in Baltimore or Hollywood, not here where they live. They want me to make it where other homosexuals live...
...look forward to the emergence of a lesbian liberation voice. The existence of a lesbian caucus within the New York City Liberation Front has been very helpful in challenging male chauvinism among gay guys, and antigay feelings among women...