I was surprised that there was a lot less homophobia that I was expecting. "Some friends of mine were up there that night and heard someone singing." brr. Was Central Park really that populated at night back then? I remember reading how dangerous it was then, but then again all these men looked threatening themselves in all that leather, so maybe they felt safer because of that? Although not a funny movie, I did laugh when Pacino goes to Cop Night and is kicked out for being the only one not dressed as a cop when he actually WAS one. Even after I came of age in the early 00s, a lot of gay places had a kind of divey, "poor man's version" feel, so I did find that gave a feeling a believability to something set in 1980. I find the aesthetic really interesting, and this time and place really interesting, though it's so grubby at the same time.įrom those who were around then - how accurate was the depiction of these gay places? I really appreciated how divey the whole thing looked. I have watched a number of these late 70s/early 80s New York movies that feel exceptionally gritty and leave you wanting a bath afterwards (Don't Go In The House, Maniac, Basket Case, The New York Ripper).
Was Ted's boyfriend the real killer? Or was there another killer? I was kinda confused.īUT, I actually enjoyed this movie a lot for what it was.
They said they had Stuart's fingerprint on the coin, yet it finishes on an ambiguous note. Also, what happened at the end? I couldn't work out if they caught the killer or not. Questions like: after the film was released, were the people that were protesting this still unhappy with it? What exactly were the protests about? (The worry that straight people would view this as being representative of the community?). I have SO many questions about this film and need to do a bit more research around it. Last night I finally got around to watching Cruising.
Recently, I've been catching up on a lot of gay history/culture that I never bothered to look into much before. Not just Supreme Court Justices by Anonymous 'As the woman approached passing vehicles, a United States Secret Service agent swiftly removed her from the roadway and placed her into custody. Secret Service chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi said: Shortly after 5pm, an adult female entered a restricted roadway along a motorcade route on Chick Hearn Ct in Los Angeles. She was heard saying: 'An abortion ban will not stop abortions - only safe ones. She was heard shouting messages in favor of abortion rights through a megaphone.īut before the activist could finish a sentence a Secret Service agent in a police jacket grabbed her and threw her onto the street.Īnother officer came along and pinned her down. The young woman strolled out into the road as the queue of presidential vehicles drove through downtown Los Angeles Wednesday. This is the moment a pro-choice activist was wrestled onto the ground by Secret Service agents as she yelled at President Biden's motorcade in LA.