Some transsexuals don’t like getting involved with the politics of LGBT because for them it is primarily an issue of gender not sexual orientation.
“Finally, River’s character in “Idaho” is not totally gay. He wouldn’t have offered himself to a female client if he were gay, plus he does mention how good it is to have a female client for once.”
Mark you know NOTHING about hustling.
Transsexuals get lumped in with homosexuals and bisexuals because they’re hated on by the same groups. They shouldn’t be automatically grouped together. But, their political causes are different expressions of the same individual freedoms issue.
At some point we’re really just splitting hairs here in terms of classifying movies. To me a film should only considered LGBT cinema if it raises LGBT as a social or political issue in the plot. A film with heterosexual characters should be classified the same way as the same film except with homosexual characters. Otherwise you’re just splitting hairs for the sake of grasping at cultural ownership and cultural exclusion.
It’s like the way gay actors are hated on in the gay community when they don’t do enough homosexual roles. It’s a matter of cultural ownership and exclusion. ‘You can’t be part of our culture without living your life by it’.
Mark you know NOTHING about hustling.
Haha, exactly. Sexuality is not merely a choice of bodily attraction but a historically evolving cluster of ideologies constantly in negotiation with their socio-economic conditions. Further, money is money.
Negotiation… or conflict as so often happens. What about the White Night riots? At least it didn’t give birth to a recuperative movement like the current lgbtqia etc.. ‘community’. A little more interesting than a boring liberal conversation about the arbitrary distinctions made amongst essentialist gender binaries.
Malik
So wait Stephen, you’re saying it’s either all under the same umbrella or it doesn’t exist? That’s silly. It’s like saying there aren’t different branches of feminism. There are certainly issues that fall under the entirety to LGBT cinema, but to suggest that Lesbians, Gay, Bisexuals, and Transsexuals don’t experience each of their respective sexualities differently is absurd. It’s worth noting the differences and the perceptions of each in LGBT cinema as well as all together.