Rocky Horror Picture Show
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fandomnumbergenerator"Sartorial fecundity aside, I’ve never been quite sure if the film is good for the gays. Charming and pansexually seductive he may be, but Tim Curry’s Dr. Frank N. Furter is, also an ax-murdering, cannibalistic eugenicist whose forays into the bedrooms of his innocent guests, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, show a callous disregard for consent.
"And yet, in the pre-AIDS days when the movie—and stage show—first appeared, Dr. Furter’s sex-positive (and, yes, murder-cannibalism-positive) message may have helped more people come out of the closet than any other work of art."
How The Rocky Horror Picture Show Smashed Open America’s Closets By June Thomas Slate.com Oct 31, 2014
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/is-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-good-for-the-gays.html
When I was 17, I met my future girlfriend there. Having been talked into going by a friend who then ditched me to flirt with the projectionist, I was totally underdressed in jeans and a flannel shirt (possibly leading Djuna to believe I was a lot butcher than I really was). But there I was, sitting next to a hot girl who kind of hated me, until we started making out, and we ended up mostly undressed and covered in hickeys. Without having to worry about our parents or people being really gross and inappropriate about two girls kissing.
As June Thomas says, there’s a lot wrong with the content of the movie. But it was really a life-line for me.
"And yet, in the pre-AIDS days when the movie—and stage show—first appeared, Dr. Furter’s sex-positive (and, yes, murder-cannibalism-positive) message may have helped more people come out of the closet than any other work of art."
How The Rocky Horror Picture Show Smashed Open America’s Closets By June Thomas Slate.com Oct 31, 2014
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/is-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-good-for-the-gays.html
The midnight showing of RHPS at the UC Theater were so important to me as a teenager.
I first saw it when I was 15. I had snuck out of the house and was wearing black cut-offs and combat boots and spiderweb stockings held up with duck tape. And I was terrified of being outed as a Rocky Horror virgin, but since, I was basically on my own inventing myself from books and used record stores, I didn’t have any friends there to ritually humiliate me.When I was 17, I met my future girlfriend there. Having been talked into going by a friend who then ditched me to flirt with the projectionist, I was totally underdressed in jeans and a flannel shirt (possibly leading Djuna to believe I was a lot butcher than I really was). But there I was, sitting next to a hot girl who kind of hated me, until we started making out, and we ended up mostly undressed and covered in hickeys. Without having to worry about our parents or people being really gross and inappropriate about two girls kissing.
As June Thomas says, there’s a lot wrong with the content of the movie. But it was really a life-line for me.
