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[quote=“Deuce Dropper”] unfortunately I wasn’t born that way so I am forced to go the hetero route.
… what do you mean? everyone knows queer people, so why not have a gay subplot in every show?
this gentle of facile analogy takes us all to PC lameness and ruins stories.
… I feel gays are being rammed into every HBO production just for the sake of having them in the plot. a lot of these scenarios are completely out of tune with the main story arc and seem odd (in the story context not in their behavior, please rejoin fairly, the lack of even handed replies from my detractors in this thread is the actual hate here).
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thanks for most of the replies in this thread, but some of you are a little too butt damage (no pun intended) to talk about this rationally.
cheers![/quote]
Sorry you had to depart the hetero route - you can’t win them all. Lol
Just got this from an article entitled “HBO GLAAD’s Top Network for Showing Gay Characters”:
"HBO scored highest among 15 networks for its inclusion of gay characters last season, according to a report released Monday.
In its third annual Network Responsibility Index, the Gay & Lesbian Allia
Without being preachy, HBO’s “Looking” offers a fine lesson that being totally out of the closet, as are all the many characters, can lead to a cool cold (and also warm hot) existence.
A moment of togetherness in the HBO series “Looking.”
By Gerald Peary
You don’t have to be gay, only queer-friendly, to be delighted by HBO’s new 8-part Sunday night series, Looking, which follows the stories of three gay men, the best of pals, as they negotiate their lives in the Mission Castro district of today’s San Francisco. In some ways, it may even be better being direct (like me, for example) watching the series. My attention is on the easygoing drama, and I’m not cognizant of the tiny details of accuracy and verisimilitude which can drive a knowing gay viewer to distraction. The Boston Globe featured a strident ambush by staffer Christopher Muther, whose usual beat is metrosexual fashion and au courant music. Muther called Looking “infuriating” and replete with “outdated stereotypes of gay life.” He complained that the characters wore the wrong “undergarments,” what was “popular when Armistead Maupin wrote Tales of the City.” (That would be 197
The Best LGBTQ+ Movies on HBO Max
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In celebration of Pride month, we’ve compiled a list of the leading Fresh LGBTQ+ movies you can detect on HBO Max right now. You’ll find hit classic dramas (Desert Hearts), feel-good comedies (In & Out), and international affairs (Bad Education).
The titles below are sorted from the best LGBTQ+ films on HBO Max – those included with a subscription, not those you possess to buy or rent for an additional cost – and ranked by adjusted Tomatometer score (which takes into account the number of reviewers weighing in, and the number of reviews per film for movies released in a given year). To be included, films had to own a Fresh Tomatometer score (60% or above).
Looking Good
In the first episode of Looking,—HBO’s lovely new series about a group of gay men living in San Francisco created by Michael Lannan and directed by Weekend’s Andrew Haigh—Patrick (Jonathan Groff), a video game creator, finds himself on a first date with an oncologist who never plays video games. The two are a bad combine, a circumstance compounded by Patrick’s nerves. As the date goes on, Patrick flirtatiously and a little misleadingly suggests that he’s not looking for anything stern, misreading his date’s intentions. The doctor, uptight and under the unkind first impression that Patrick is not quite smart or substantial enough for him, ends the date abruptly. Then, decision implicit, he observes that Patrick had two glasses of wine to his one and splits the check proportionately.
Here we are, simultaneously in completely familiar and unfamiliar territory: the unpleasant first date that is, also, the bad, gay first date—and a bad, gay first hang out that is not the B storyline, will not be followed by scenes starring straight people, and does not feature stereotypically campy gay men. This would be enough to justify Looking’s existence on purely sociological gr