Thursday, June 27, 2013

10 Straight-Directed Films that Got Us Wrong

From: OUT
9. 
Brüno
2009

Dir. Larry Charles



In 2009, Sacha Baron Cohen created a feature film for his character Brüno, a gay Austrian fashion journalist. The film contained some overly graphic “gay” sex scenes and was founded on stereotypes that pandered to the lowest homophobic denominator. In the New York Times, A. O. Scott said the film was evidence "that lampooning homophobia has become an acceptable, almost unavoidable form of homophobic humor."

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