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I got more of the humor about opera and singing and cockroaches in restaurants than its complex, contradictory messages about who is really a man or a woman in this movie about a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. I didn't know at the time about the movie's gender-bending and gay content, nor did I know that the person who asked me to go (who was ostensibly dating a female friend of mine) was gay. I saw it when it first came out, in 1982. One of these movies was my first gay movie: Victor, Victoria. Check out Vito Russo's The Celluloid Closet ( the book and the documentary film) to find out more about some of these movies, such as Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Making Love. More of these movies were appearing in the seventies and eighties, following the wake of the groundbreaking Boys in the Band. It could mean any movie with an overtly gay character or a gay theme. By gay movie, now, I don't just mean a gay porn movie. Now that most guys can get their porn over the internet, in fact, any movie via streaming and youtube, the “big event,” almost like a coming out to oneself (or in some cases, others as well) of going to see a gay movie may have lost its social and psychological importance.
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Minus the hanky-panky in the seats, the grandparents and even great-grandparents of the current generation can tell a similar story, going to the movies to see a particular movie star they idolized, even seeing a movie that changed their lives and made them decide to go into show business. Plays Itself (newly restored by MoMA and re-released on DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming and never forgot the experience, both watching the movie and the “extracurricular experience” that occurred in the seat next to him. Specifically, he remembers first seeing Fred Halsted in leather in the movie L.A. At that time in New York City, where he lived, such establishments were plentiful. A friend of mine told me he used to sneak into gay porn movie theaters in the seventies and eighties.