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So I'm watching Sacha Baron Cohen in his box office-conquering "Bruno" and laughing. And, between laughs, I say to myself, "Well, that's probably it. Mainstream American homophobia has now been quite effectively marginalized at the movies, the way mainstream American racism was decades earlier."
You had to have a "Blazing Saddles" before you had a Barack Obama. And "Bruno," as much as anything I've ever seen, laughs the older and more traditional forms of sexual prejudice right off the screen. (Bruno, it's key to understand, isn't actually gay; he's a burlesque of a frightened homophobe's worst nightmare of gayness.)See the full content of this document
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Without Afternoon Tv, Where Would 'Bruno' Be?
The old mainstream homophobia is on its last legs, and it seems to me it's dying quickly, rather than slowly.
I'm not saying "Bruno" caused the sea change -- or even "Brokeback Mountain" before i...See the full content of this document
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