That link will show you the full feature length documentary, so don't do what I did, which was to think I'll watch for 10 minutes while I sort some paperwork and then get on with what I'm supposed to do. Only click if you have time.
It was interesting in a film history kind of way. And by interesting I mean depressing. But it ends kind of optimistically. Lots of nice quotes, some major key happy music, quite a bit of kissing, etc. Then I realized it's from 1995. I think the optimism might have been premature. I haven't done a survey of the last 20 years to document portrayals of gay characters in mainstream hollywood films, but off the top of my head I can't think of any. I'm not good at remembering details from films, so that doesn't mean there weren't any. But there weren't enough to make an impression on me.
That would probably be an interesting topic, but at the moment I'm meant to be watching all of (most of, some of) the Bond films to see how badly they've treated women over the last 50 years. It actually got worse in the 70s. I remember watching the Roger Moore films when I was in high school and just finding them fun and funny. I watch them now with modern eyes and think OMG how did this get made?
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