Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Know your lgbt history

Friday, September 18, 2009

Know your lgbt history - Come Back Charleston Blue

I know the Values Voters Summit is going on now and I will have postings on it tommorrow.

But it's Friday, so it's time for another episode of Know your lgbt history.

For this particular posting, I continue my unofficial look at "Psychotic Queens" by going into movie obscurity.

Come Back Charleston Blue (1972) is an obscure but interesting motion picture about two detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, investigating a string of murders supposedly perpetrated by the ghost of a 1930s gangster, Charleston Blue.

Their investigations lead them to a photographer-cum-community leader who has secretly organized a taking over of the Harlem drug trade.

All in all, it's a blase movie, but it does have it's moments.

And the majority of them has to do with one of the photographer's henchman. His name is not known but he is referred to as "freak," soley because he likes to dress in women's clothing, particularly nun habits.

In this first scene, he is recounting to his prisoner (the photographer's former girlfriend who he is holding hostage) how he met the photographer during Vietnam. He also hints on a relationship between the two but since it's 1972 so he has to be as vague as possible. But I think you get where he is coming from:

Now I personally like this second scene. He and a bunch of other henchmen wipe out a hearse full of gangsters.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Know your lgbt history - Come Back Charleston Blue

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