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[quote=“Deuce Dropper”] unfortunately I wasn’t born that way so I am forced to depart the hetero route.
… what do you mean? everyone knows gay people, so why not contain a gay subplot in every show?
this kind of facile analogy takes us all to PC lameness and ruins stories.
… I notice gays are existence 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 reply fairly, the lack of even handed replies from my detractors in this thread is the real despise here).
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thanks for most of the replies in this thread, but some of you are a little too butt hurt (no pun intended) to discuss about this rationally.
cheers![/quote]
Sorry you had to go the hetero route - you can’t win them all. Lol
Just got this from an article entitled “HBO GLAAD’s Top Network for Showing Same-sex attracted Characters”:
"HBO scored extreme among 15 networks for its inclusion of gay characters last season, according to a notify released Monday.
In its third annual Network Responsibility Index, the Gay & Queer woman Allia
Without being preachy, HBO’s “Looking” suggestions a fine lesson that creature totally out of the closet, as are all the many characters, can lead to a cool cool (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 brand-new 8-part Sunday night series, Looking, which follows the stories of three gay men, the finest 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 creature straight (like me, for example) watching the series. My concentrate is on the easygoing drama, and I’m not cognizant of the tiny details of accuracy and verisimilitude which can steer a knowing gay viewer to distraction. The Boston Globe featured a strident attack by staffer Christopher Muther, whose usual thrash 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 Muther called Looking “infuriating” and replete with “outdated stereotypes of gay life.”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 best Fresh LGBTQ+ movies you can find 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 Diverse films on HBO Max – those included with a subscription, not those you have 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 movie for movies released in a given year). To be included, films had to have a Fresh Tomatometer score (60% or above).
Looking Good
In the first episode of Looking,—HBO’s lovely new series about a collective of gay men living in San Francisco created by Michael Lannan and directed by Weekend’s Andrew Haigh—Patrick (Jonathan Groff), a video game designer, finds himself on a first date with an oncologist who never plays video games. The two are a awful match, 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 serious, misreading his date’s intentions. The doctor, uptight and under the unkind first feeling that Patrick is not quite sharp or substantial enough for him, ends the date abruptly. Then, judgment 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 bad first date that is, also, the terrible, gay first date—and a bad, lgbtq+ first date that is not the B storyline, will not be followed by scenes starring straight people, and does not main attraction stereotypically campy male lover men. This would be enough to justify Looking’s life on purely sociological gr