Gayploitation Movies - Where's the Gay Spike Lee?

Got to the Midtown Art Cinema and had to decide, hmmmm, a) "Blindness" some of my favorite actors working with a great director, in a engaging and challenging piece of social/science fiction that asks important questions about human nature; or b) "Another Gay Sequel - Gays Gone Wild" four gay chums go to spring break in Key West enter a contest to see who can fuck the most, and along the way find love, lust, and giant pubic crabs.

I told myself that i would refuse to go see "Gays Gone Wild" that it was another one of these Mindless Gayploitaiton romps created purely to separate me from my $10 bucks and take advantage of the fact that gays will pretty much go see any "gay" movie that comes out - we're that starved for acceptance and seeing our lives portrayed on the big (or small) screen.

It was pure drivel, poorly acted by your typical WeHo eye candy, full of stereotypes, relying way too much on cheap gags, projectile vomit, and tasteless cheap humor - I haven't laughed so much in ages.

At the end of the day there really is something about seeing your "people" depicted up on the big screen. People/situations you can identify with, being able to sit in a theater with queens yelling at the screen in sort of a big communal group hug.

Don't even try to find any deep meanings; if you had to look for any life lessons here, it would have to be a) a committed monogamous relationships is great - unless the pizza boy is really, really hot, b) mean people suck, some suck really really well, c) if you can't find true love, you just haven't been playing it kinky enough, and d) when it all comes down to it, it's friends and family that count (just don't sleep with your dad, or try to jerk you buddies off when they have monster crabs).

Perez Hilton "stars" in a rather annoying way by continuously popping up at odd moments. The product placements get rather tired but I suppose necessary. Ru Paul and Scott Thompson I guess now are standard stock actors for any real gay movie.

But it all begs the question, where's the gay Spike Lee, the gay Tyler Perry? To drive that point home this weekend, Tyler Perry had his big studio opening party in Atlanta recently. Anyone in the black movie community that was anyone showed up, and why shouldn't they. Tyler Perry has been giving neglected black actor's and actresses some good roles, plus he's just been able to give them some steady work.

Where is the Gay studio? Not that there's not gay talent out there. Maybe that's the problem it's all "out there" but under wraps. I'm hopeful for the Harvey Milk story coming out soon by Gus Van Sant, but it reminds me, that much like "Brokeback Mountain" for a gay movie to be taken serious, it has to now be cast with serious straight actors, that somehow gay actors in a gay movie suddenly becomes not so serious.

Why not Ian McKellan and Jack Harkness in a story about May/December relationships. Neil Patrick Harris as a widowed gay single dad?

"Breakfast with Scot" can't get here fast enough!