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Early Gay Film "A Very Natural Thing" (1974)

I had heard about this film for decades, having read Vito Russo's book The Celluloid Closet, but finally got around to seeing it tonight, as it's currently available on Amazon Prime. Knowing that it was an extremely low-budget movie featuring unknowns, I was wary; the Amazon synopsis is wrong -- the lead character is David, not Jason (a different character), and he's a former monk, not a former priest, who moves to New York, comes out, falls in love, but must reconcile his strong sense of morality with the casual sex available. There are scenes from the 1973 Gay Pride Parade, back when that really meant something. And I have to admit, the final scene scored to Carl Orff's "Entrada (after William Byrd)" got me all verklempt.

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by Anonymousreply 2January 27, 2020 10:32 PM
by Anonymousreply 1January 27, 2020 3:37 PM

"David and Jason... If you cut them, they bleed." M A R Y ! ! !

by Anonymousreply 2January 27, 2020 10:32 PM
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