how could I be this way?

Wiley 2022-07-07 23:06:49

how could I be this way? No matter how open-minded you are, no matter how open-minded the world is, growing up in mainstream culture, you will panic when you find yourself in the slightest bit different from others. I may slowly accept myself but I will still ask why this is the case, how am I like this, why does this happen to me... Homosexuals are not sinners, maybe they will always be viewed differently, this It's not anyone's fault, and the world will never be fair, just like in the movies before the 1960s, as long as homosexuals were involved, they would always end in a dead end. Just like there are always places where the sun cannot shine, no matter how advanced the society is, some people will still be prejudiced against them.

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  • Susie Bright: [on Johnny Guitar] It's amazing how if you're a gay audience and you're accustomed to crumbs, how you will watch an entire movie just to see somebody wear an outfit that you think means that they are homosexual. The whole movie can be a dud, but you're just sitting there waiting for Joan Crawford to put on her black cowboy shirt again.

  • Richard Dyer: Most expressions of homosexuality in most of movies are indirect. And what's interesting about that is of course that is what it was like to express homosexuality in life, that we could only express ourselves indirectly, just as people on the screen could only express themselves indirectly. And the sense in which the characters are in the closet, the movie is in the closet and we are in the closet.