The Modern Romantic

Happy MLK Day all. I was trolling through the Prelinger Archives, a public domain collection of films from the 50s and 60s and found something you have to see. I'm actually using some of the films from the archive to fix my music video: 'Fix It'. It was asked to be in the London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and I'm using this as an opportunity to improve a video that was nominated on some dude's blog as 'Worst of 2006' (though in it's defense, not a single person voted for/against it). But I've always wanted to make a better video-- and now I can.

And now that the advertisement is over, here's what I found: Boys Beware is a short film made in 1961 about the "homosexual menace". It's message seems to be: "Avoid men dressed in tuxedo's who want to play basketball with you." It's amazing to see how far we've come and, if you look at the comments people have written about the film, how far we have to go. My pal John Krokidas directed a film that I only now realize is a parody of this film. It's called Shame No More and is also worth a look-see.

Labels: film, gay