There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.
The demand for entertainment is insatiable.
There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, 'You can't be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.'
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