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Recommended Reading: The Kids Are All Right, Tom Hardy, and James Franco

July 29, 2010
The Kids Are All Right image, via GLAAD Blog

The Kids Are All Right image, via GLAAD Blog

The Weekly Roundup: LGBT Film & Media In The News section of the blog is now being renamed Recommended Reading.  Here's a look at some of this week's news from the world of queer media:
  • Differing LGBT Views About The Kids Are All Right (GLAAD blog) "With so few lesbian representations, it is natural that many are invested in the film and monitoring it closely. While it frustrates some, others celebrate it...  Around the country, people are discussing whether this film is about love and stability and forgiveness or whether they can forgive director Lisa Cholodenko for the brief portrayal of lesbian sexuality in favor of racier scenes between Moore and Ruffalo." .
  • 'Inception' Star Tom Hardy: 'Of Course' I've Had Sex with Men (Towleroad) "I've played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I'm in my thirties, it doesn't do it for me. I'm done experimenting but there's plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine." .
  • Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground' (SF360) "The entire Civil Rights Movement has been conveniently distilled in the public consciousness into two figures, Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nancy Kates' and Bennett Singer’s splendid documentary does the great service of pulling a third figure from the shadows—the philosopher, strategist and organizer Bayard Rustin, whose defining accomplishment (among many, it should be noted) was planning and supervising the vast logistics surrounding the landmark March on Washington in 1963."
Three more stories after the jump:
  • Howard Bragman talks celebrity 'Coming Out' Show: 'You'll be happier if you're out than if you're a closeted action star' (Entertainment Weekly) "These kids come to me, they’re 25 and want to be the next great action star, and they’re gay, and they’re scared to death. Well, my advice is, play the odds. Odds are you’ll have a happier life if you’re out than if you’re a closeted action star. But it’s a shockingly personal decision." . .
  • Reel Food (The Bold Italic) "I set out to rate San Francisco’s movie theaters – not on the size of their screens, the comfort of the chairs, or the quality of their sound, but on what really matters: the food... The Roxie stores the Junior Mints in the freezer and are, according to the attendant, the only ice cold thing in the theater, other than 'his heart.'" .
  • James Franco, Queer Theorist? (New York Observer) "In this week's New York cover profile of James Franco, Sam Anderson explores (among many other things) James Franco's interest in queer theory."