Word: queering
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...Band is about (in the words of one character) "six tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer" at a birthday party. Michael, the party's huts, is 30-ish, charming and witty. In the early moments of the film, we find him talking to his friend Donald about their respective analysts, over-loving mothers and financial blues. Gradually they reveal the defense mechanisms that help them survive in a world where "failure is the only thing with which [they] feel at home." For Donald, the only escape is to read book after book. Michael, worried about getting old, stays...
...closer to the end, and Masters has got to deliver almost-sex and almost-violence. So he changes the guys on stage into savage monsters. They're under strict orders not to attack anybody. of course. but they look pretty mean. Then he changes the instructions-now they're queer monsters. The fans are going wild at this. (He's got a real thing about this type of stuff. Later on he changes Charlie into Lawrence of Arabia. "Now we all know about Lawrence of Arabia, don't we?" Wink at the audience. And for the final act-well...
...need to purge male chauvinism, both in behavior and in thought among us. Chick equals nigger equals queer...
...Psychological warfare: Right from the beginning we have been subjected to a barrage of straight propaganda. Since our parents don't know any homosexuals. we grow up thinking that we're alone and different and perverted. Our school friends identify "queer" with any non-conformist or bad behavior...
...talked awhile. Jon spoke of his career. He said he'd been offered a part in Myra Breckenridge which he turned down. I was told that he'd played the queer in the green skirt standing beside Ratzo Rizzo in the opening bar scene of Midnight Cowboy. Jessica said she knew someone who didn't know that Jon was a man from his appearance in that role. "Really?" he said. "A lot of people think I'm a dyke. My wife thought I was a dyke when she first...