{"id":102,"date":"2006-01-29T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T00:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/102"},"modified":"2006-01-29T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T00:41:32","slug":"of-course-its-dark-and-sinisterits-about-a-gay-kids-first-love-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/102","title":{"rendered":"Of Course It&#8217;s Dark And Sinister&#8230;It&#8217;s About A Gay Kid&#8217;s First Love After All&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m watching Logo and the perky Logo\/CBS news droid comes on and one of the stories he tells me about is that there are a gosh awful lot of gay themed short films coming out of Sundance this year. The spot goes on to show a few clips from one of them, <em>Bug Crush<\/em> which the film maker cheerfully describes as the story of a young gay boy&#8217;s first high school crush that turns dark and sinister&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Swell. Just swell. Can&#8217;t have enough sinister darkness when it comes to stories about gay kids and their first high school romances can you? Is Exodus sponsoring Sundance this year?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at the point now where I think you should have to have a license to make a film with gay characters in it. You apply for the license and you pay a fee and you fill out a form with these three questions on it:<\/p>\n<p><tt><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Love is:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>a) A vital human need<br \/>\nb) A childish illusion<br \/>\nc) Useful as a marketing tool<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Movies that exalt love:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>a) Acknowledge and explore a fundamental part of our humanity<br \/>\nb) Are hopelessly derivative<br \/>\nc) Are hilarious in a campy sort of way<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>True or False: Homosexuals don't love, they just have sex.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/tt>You flunk the test and you get your license stamped NO GAY MATERIAL, because you really shouldn&#8217;t be bothering gay and lesbian people with your crap. Seriously. Go bother heterosexuals. No&#8230;strike that&#8230;heterosexuals don&#8217;t deserve you either. Go bother republicans.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"javascript:HaloScan('200601293');\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">postCount('200601293');<\/script><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m watching Logo and the perky Logo\/CBS news droid comes on and one of the stories he tells me about is that there are a gosh awful lot of gay themed short films coming out of Sundance this year. The spot goes on to show a few clips from one of them, Bug Crush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}