Ending Gaysploitation

self-fulfilled prophecy.  Based on this Shylockian algorithm, the real auteur directors are being robbed the opportunity to make films that will actually inspire the LGBT community and mainstream audiences to get up off the couch and actually see a film worth one’s two hours. We’ve gotten so comfortable with ourselves that we’ve been making films with inside jokes and juvenile stories for our inner-teenager rather than reaching for more universal aspirations.  There’s always room for a B-movie here and there, but as a community we are maturing from the rainbow-waving gay adolescence of 1995 and it is time to show that we are contributing members of a society ready for the responsibilities like marriage, children, and family. While it is important to maintain our identity, we will need to elevate ourselves to show that we’re much more than fodder about two twenty-something’s