ex cathedra: Boys life

Monday, August 22, 2011

Boys life

Boys Life is a series of short films about gay men. I watched one yesterday (number 7), with an eye out for the issue of gender deviance, which as come to seem to me the real marker of "gay". There were four movies: about two Argentinian high school buddies, one of whom is secretly in love with the other; about a black ghetto kid trying to seduce an older black man who's an AIDS activist; about a gay guy at his brother's wedding, who seduces the best man; and about a Latino thug on parole who has a date with an online hookup.

Argentina: the gay boy is definitely a beta male, but fits in with his fellows, who seem uncommonly decent and highspirited. He's a bit on the small and sensitive side.

Ghetto: the protagonist is clocked as a fag by the ghetto thugs. Not a drag queen, but you can smell the royal blood. The older man is conventionally masculine acting but a tailor ("not a seamstress") whose work prominently includes wedding dresses...

Wedding: both guys, the gay and the straight, are guys. The actors could have switched roles. (This was a pretty sexually overt story; surprised to see a favorite and straight unknown actor of mine in it.)

Latino thug: a classic and lethal immature sociopath but sometimes clocked as gay because of his flowery shirt and his cologne; his "date" a pudgy Asian boy, not manly but not queeny.

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