Dear Dr Lesbian, though I am glad that you devoted a whole column to The Celluloid Closet because it was and is such an important film, your critiques annoyed me at times. I think that is because, from the perspective of my 84 years, the then dominant themes in film were so overwhelmingly negative: the queer had to be a figure of fun, be scary, and/or had to die in the end. To critique those themes was so important. Obviously today, (unless we are driven back in the closet as the MAGA movement hopes), we have much more nuance to work with
Dear Dr Lesbian, though I am glad that you devoted a whole column to The Celluloid Closet because it was and is such an important film, your critiques annoyed me at times. I think that is because, from the perspective of my 84 years, the then dominant themes in film were so overwhelmingly negative: the queer had to be a figure of fun, be scary, and/or had to die in the end. To critique those themes was so important. Obviously today, (unless we are driven back in the closet as the MAGA movement hopes), we have much more nuance to work with
fair enough!