This is my favorite quote of the chapter... maybe even the whole book: «If we're more opposed, for instance, to what we take to be «bad language» and nude scenes and
films about gay people than we are to people being blown up, starved to death, deprived of life - saving medicine, or tortured, our offendedness is out of whack.»
Not exact matches
I would bet that the
gay neighbor in the 1999
film American Beauty, who, it is implied, loves guns, collects Nazi trinkets, and turns to murder all because he represses his own urges, formed more
people's views
about how to regard homosexuals than did the entire decade's research into psychosexuality by the whole scientific community.
As the
film community starts to open its arms to
people of color,
gay people, and women, we will be here to tell you all
about it.