To celebrate Pride Month, OutSFL Entertainment Reporter Gregg Shapiro and veteran entertainment journalist John Hayden have picked their favorite LGBTQ movies. We will bring you their reviews every week in June.
Gregg Shapiro: If you really want to test the boundaries of discernment, I suggest this hilarious-but-offensive, tasteless, and inappropriately humorous movie.
Released 20 years ago, it’s a movie about gay love and even has a happy ending with the wedding. There’s ‘80s nostalgia, a family curse, gay two-stepping and a dance-off. Diarrhea and vomit and other disturbing situations.
John Hayden: It touches on, as you alluded to, themes of drug abuse. How one, seemingly unimportant moment can turn out to be one of the most important moments of your life.
GS: Can you relate to any of it?
JH: Yes. One of the central plots is they hookup and it is disastrous. It’s a really shady experience. Then they run into each other 20 years later and they don’t remember each other.
That has happened to me. Two or three years later, neither of us remembered the other. Until we got into it. I quickly remembered him and the reason I didn’t hook up with him a second time back in the day.
It was bad sex the first time. It was bad sex the second time.
GS: No one is safe in “Adam & Steve.” Not goths, drug abusers or people in recovery. People with weight issues. Religious zealots from Texas or homophobic New York neighbors. No one is safe.
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