Screened Out: Gay images in film
TCM, otherwise known as Turner Classic Movies, is doing something special. Or, at least I happen to think it’s pretty special.
It’s Pride season and TCM has decided to explore over six decades of Pride & Prejudice in film. 
Forty-four movies tracing stereotypes, innuendos and honest portrayals of gays and lesbians in cinema. Co-hosted by Screened Out author Richard Barrios, and featuring interviews with Alan Cumming, Tab Hunter, Armistead Maupin, Michael Musto, Ron Nyswear and more.
Barrios, with degrees in musicology and cinema studies, worked in the music and documentary film industries before turning to film history. His award-winning works include A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film and Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall. He has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, and has lectured on film at the Smithsonian and American Film Institutes, among other venues. For Turner Classic Movies, he narrated and appeared in Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof as well as appearing in several other documentaries on television and DVD. Originally hailing from the swamps of South Louisiana, Barrios currently resides in the Philadelphia area.
Tune in for such classics at Queen Christina (1933), Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967), The Children’s Hour - my personal favorite (1962), Syvia Scarlett (1935), The Fox (1967), and The Sign of the Cross (1932).
It all begins in June at 8 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesday. Set your DVRs and your TIVOs, and for you old schoolers out there, your VCRs.
This is one program you won’t want to miss. For those of you into reading instead of watching television, you’ll find some interesting reading material here.
Comment Question: What’s your favorite gay/lesbian movie?
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May 23rd, 2007 at 10:54 am
OMG, I can’t stand the movie version of “The Children’s Hour,” or “The Fox.” Ugh!
(Nothing against the actors in the films)
I don’t have time today to give a long explanation why. But I’ll just say this, “Can’t a woman be lesbian and be happy??????”
One of my fav movies that I consider to be “gay” is, “Some Like It Hot,” especially at the end when Joe E. Brown’s character says to Jack Lemmon’s character, “Nobody’s Perfect!” I love that line.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I must admit that I am a big fan of Go Fish.
I’ll also have to agree with Deb on “Some Like it Hot”, though. I *love* that film.
…I also have the soundtrack to “Jeffrey.”
May 25th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
i really enjoyed but i’m a cheerleader… because it was funny and i thought the acting wasn’t horrible… lol