Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You know, I love the South.
While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.
You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.