Why You Should Watch the Movie Straight Jacket, Hollywood’s Lost Gay Rom-Com

Does anyone else feel the meaning of R.E.M's "Losing My Religion" is unrequited gay love for a straight male friend? "Oh no, I've said too much; I haven't said enough"

Thank you Richard Day. Maybe it can get a realrevival

I saw beautiful boxer many years ago great film

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I was trying to figure out why I recognized the name Jack Plotnick, and it was because he played the deputy mayor on BTVS. He was also on "Criminal Minds" and "Supernatural."

I still find it incredibly hypocritical that the US touts itself as the land of the free, but thinking that a socialist republic could be a better system or loving someone of the same gender could land you in jail…

This was such a good movie, thank you for making this video! A lot of movies I watch are by Strand, good thing they saved this.

Friends and Family is also a great movie that you mentioned, such a tight and progressive script despite the characters not kissing (would love to know why). Hopefully you'll make more videos about these movies.

I had nightmares for years after seeing the 1964 version. The scene where Joan Crawford whacks her husband and his lovers head off in the shadows freaked me out.🫣

Another great in-depth analysis Matt! Educational and entertaining as always!

23:33 glances sideways at the current us government's stance on trans people

@1:39 You mentioned "Spin City" and queer characters. It needs to be said, "Spin City" went an extra step by being one of the first long running big shows to a have a gay black male character.

I always thought the episode where they're stuck in the steam room, and trying to get this one old guys club the Mayor is a member of to not look as "only for men" things. At one point Michael J Fox gets the black character to come in, and then flash forward, everyone's laughing and having a good time, and I think the black guy said something to the effect of "We weren't sure how you'd react to a gay man." And then one of the older club members was like: "Are you kidding? We've known <some other old guy there>'s been gay since <decades before, back when it was still illegal to not be straight>!" (Pardon all the paraphrasing. I'm middle aged, and THC, CTE, and AGE are getting to me and my memory.)

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thanks, matt!
i truly enjoy your content. you do an amazing job researching and your communications skills are impeccable.
i have learned so much.

I have wondered what happened to this movie! I saw it as the Opening Night Premiere at the Miami G&L Film Festival in 2004. Every time I saw Matt Letscher in anything subsequent to that (Good Morning Miami and The New Adventures of Old Christine), I flashed back to this movie, whose title I couldn't recall. I thought maybe it was something else. Now I know. Thank you.

I second I heard "Republican tax attorney" and "former exxecutive at FOX". well, fraud by funneling money to themselves came as no surprise. It also explains why some of these gay media companies I so loved (like PlanetOut) just vanished or became a shell of themselves. Seems like they were on a covert mission to destroy the gay media presence the community worked so hard to build by buying them out and deliberately running them into the ground by amassing so much debt. Word to the wise: ALWAYS go with the respected company and not some startup promising the Moon.

Capitalists are still stupid toxic capitalist a*holes, if if they're gay. Always beware of people who want an empire!

this is such a lovely video and movie. thank you, I always appreciate these videos