Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Mar 5, 2010

Friday, March 05, 2010

Know Your LGBT History - Midnight Cowboy

With Oscars coming up Sunday, you all probably think that I'm going to mention Brokeback Mountain.

Guess again.

I want to talk about a legendary award-winning movie strictly because it contained one of the most repulsive anti-gay scenes in the history of cinema.

Midnight Cowboy (1969) tells the story of two oddballs in the city of New York; one played by Jon Voight thinks that he has what it takes to be a gigolo. The other, played by Dustin Hoffman, is an asthmatic loser who acts as his pimp.

For some reason, this movie was a monster critical hit, winning several Oscars including Best Picture.

I found the movie to be scuzzy and squalor and one scene stands out in a horrid way.

Voight's character needs money for a bus trip to take Hoffman to a warmer climate before the New York weather kills him.

To do so, he allows himself to be picked up by a self-hating gay man played by Barnard Hughes.

The following scene, starting at 5:55 just turns my stomach.

I know many gay men and in that number there are a few which I despise. But I hope that NONE of them ever end up like Hughes's character:

Catholic sex scandal, more attacks on Kevin Jennings, and Victoria Jackson has lost her %$!@ mind

Vatican Hit By Gay Sex Scandal - And us gays and lesbians trying to live our lives in peace are the bad guys to the Catholic Church. Talk about a topsy-turvy world.

'Defamation-spouting, fallacy-supporting' - When all of their attempts to defame Kevin Jennings have failed, this is what the Family Research Council is reduced to.

SNL alumni Victoria Jackson needs prayer - the next time one of those teabaggers or annoying anti-Obamites claim that their criticism of the president has been misconstrued, show them the following video. It is NOT a parody:

And no, President Obama is NOT a communist. I sincerely doubt that Jackson even knows what that word means. But here is are words she should know the meaning of - mental patient.

Gay KKK - Funny or offensive?

This is a short clip but I want your opinion on it. Is it funny or offensive?(I'm embarrassed to say that I laughed my head off).