Another Gay Movie

This weekend I watched the movie Another Gay Movie. It is basically a spoof of the original American Pie, except in this case the guys are gay. It is a filthy, offensive film full of scatological humor and sexual jokes.

I just loved it.

I laughed so much and found myself saying several times “can they really show that?!?!” This movie did offer a rather different view of life as a gay teenager. Another Gay Movie takes place in a bright, candy colored world where the gay students at Santorum High are free to be as gay as they want to be. No one is getting beat up for being queer, and certainly no one is being killed. It sort of reminded me of my high school in some ways. My high school was the kind of place where an openly gay guy (yours truly) could get elected class president and take a boy to his senior prom.

When I talk to a lot of my friends, they tell me about the awful high school experience they had. Many were taunted for being different and a few were beaten up. I’ve heard stories of parents kicking sons and daughters out of their houses. Stories of people turning to drugs and alcohol in an attempt to stop the pain of being rejected by everyone in their life.

I wish every gay guy and gal could have had my experience. I went to an arts high school (think Fame, but with less dancing on the hoods of cars) and my sexuality was never an issue. I was free to be who I wanted to be as were all of the other gay students. When my parents discovered that I was gay (another story for another day), they never turned their backs on me. While I now know that they struggled internally with having a gay son, they never once stopped loving me.

I wish the world was more like Another Gay Movie. I wish all young gay guys and girls had parents who loved and accepted them. I wish they all had a close circle of friends with whom they could share their deepest thoughts. I wish no gay person ever again had to worry about acts of violence just for loving someone of the same sex. Yes, the world wouldn’t be such a bad place if it was like Another Gay Movie. Of course, I could do without the gerbiling.