Video: Coming out pre-Pac Man

RECENT	POSTS:	» TownHall columnist: 'It's high time for…heterosexual America to stand up' » John Stemberger attacks Canadian scouts: 'A joke' ; 'a group of hippies' » 'Ex-gay' junk science group tells Boy Scouts to keep discriminating; so score one for our side » NOM's summer speaker, Rob Gagnon, calls me 'an abrasive homosexual activist'; my outfit welcomes this badge of honor! » Scout's Dishonor: Gay BSA employee shares pain, hope » Matt Barber accuses distraught New Yorkers of 'politicizing' gay man's murder » 'Heather Has [A New Book Shunning Her] Two Mommies' » Report: IL has votes to free itself from marital discrimination's slipping grips » David Barton: AIDS, meningitis are gay people's 'due penalties' » Are gay boys not boys? A look at the cruelty the equal Scouting opponents engender

« Go back a post || Return to G-A-Y homepage || Haul tail to next post »

02/04/2008

by Jeremy Hooper

1980. The gay community was about to be forever changed by both the coming AIDS crisis and the rise of the religious right. But before that oh-so-"happy" queer time, there came a period of post-70's hope. That hope for increased visibility, acceptance, and understanding is exemplified by the groundbreaking docu-drama "Michael, A Gay Son," which made its debut in Canada during the Reagan decade's premiere year. Here are two brief clips:

Perhaps it won't take 28 more years to render the need for such tools completely obsolete. Because let's be honest -- has this whole "head up the arse," "pro-family", "gays are evil" thing really helped ANYONE other than opportunistic preachers and their hangers on? We're thinking no.

Opening of Michael, A Gay Son [YouTube]
Excerpt from the documentary "Michael, A Gay Son" [YouTube]

space