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Gay rom-com 'Love, Simon' broadens Hollywood's horizons
AFP ^ | March 12, 2018 | Frankie Taggart

Posted on 03/13/2018 5:55:08 AM PDT by C19fan

At first it looks little different from any other teen drama, but Fox's "Love, Simon" is as significant a milestone for LGBT inclusion as "Black Panther" was for racial diversity.

While the DVD aisles of superstores the world over groan under the weight of stories of callow first love, never before has a mainstream studio romantic comedy been told from the perspective of a gay teenager.

"Everyone, myself included, can relate to Simon and his journey, and trying to find yourself and come to terms with yourself in a way that feels comfortable," the film's 22-year-old star Nick Robinson said at a recent preview screening in Los Angeles.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollyweirdvalues; homosexualagenda; lgbt; lovesimon; puke
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I can't remember the last time I watched a network scripted show.
1 posted on 03/13/2018 5:55:08 AM PDT by C19fan
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i have no desire to watch a young man fall into a homosexual relationship... i am homophobic i guess.


2 posted on 03/13/2018 5:58:32 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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>>While the DVD aisles of superstores the world over groan under the weight of stories of callow first love

Does Hollywood even make movies about first love or non-jaded heterosexual monogamous courting anymore?

Describing something that was done in the 30s-60s doesn’t mean so much when that type of story was fading in the 80s and put out to pasture in the 90s.


3 posted on 03/13/2018 5:59:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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Very slowly, they will introduce the idea of a minor having sex with a much older man. It begins the push for lowering the Age of Consent.

Going to Thailand costs too much money.


4 posted on 03/13/2018 6:00:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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"i have no desire to watch a young man fall into a homosexual relationship... i am homophobic i guess."

No -- phobias are irrational. Your distaste is rational.

5 posted on 03/13/2018 6:02:55 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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"Very slowly, they will introduce the idea of a minor having sex with a much older man. It begins the push for lowering the Age of Consent."

2018 Academy Award Best Picture -- "Call Me By Your Name" -- In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen year-old (male) student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.

6 posted on 03/13/2018 6:11:37 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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i love you man...

thanks


7 posted on 03/13/2018 6:13:11 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: AppyPappy

I’m expecting Jerry Sandusky to be released from prison with an apology and a complimentary pre-pubescent boy.


8 posted on 03/13/2018 6:35:26 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: C19fan; NFHale; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA

I thought Sodomy browns ones horizons ?


9 posted on 03/13/2018 5:30:44 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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I don’t know about “horizons”, but it sure ... aids .. in spreading disease.


10 posted on 03/13/2018 5:32:14 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion; Impy; stephenjohnbanker

Truth shed on “America’s royal family”:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2018/03/carr_chappaquiddick_shines_light_on_ted_kennedy_s_darkest_moment


11 posted on 03/14/2018 4:12:46 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; NFHale

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12 posted on 03/14/2018 9:48:29 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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“..Yeah, Moses had a temper but he never left a girl at the bottom of the Red Sea.”..”

Just damn....

Will be good to see this put to rest and watch the Dems heads exploding with rage.

Too bad it couldn’t have been made while that POS was still around to see his little world crash in on him.


13 posted on 03/14/2018 12:00:07 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion; Impy; stephenjohnbanker

“Too bad it couldn’t have been made while that POS was still around to see his little world crash in on him.”

Amen, amen and amen.

It’s DISGUSTING that the POS got away with it AND kept getting re-elected every six years.


14 posted on 03/14/2018 2:35:15 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion; Impy; stephenjohnbanker

“..AND kept getting re-elected...”

And THAT, my friend, is what is even more pathetic than the Swimmer... the people who kept rewarding him and sending him back to DC.

He got away with (arguably) murder, covering it up to protect his OWN weasel ass, and then got a taxpayer paycheck on top of it while pissing in the Country’s face.


15 posted on 03/14/2018 3:34:50 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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Yep.

Detestable. Totally detestable.


16 posted on 03/14/2018 4:44:40 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion; stephenjohnbanker; Bender2

Who dafuq is gonna watch this movie?

A romcom without a chick? Straight men, obviously not interested.

Women? Homo sex disgusts most women on a visceral level.


17 posted on 03/15/2018 4:52:36 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; KC_Lion; stephenjohnbanker

They can market the sodomite movies like FedEx... “What can brown do for you ?”


18 posted on 03/15/2018 6:14:04 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion; stephenjohnbanker; Bender2

So...

WTF exactly is a rom-com???


19 posted on 03/15/2018 7:07:31 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

Romantic comedy. In this case, it’s more like a rom-ana, as in roaming around the anal canal.


20 posted on 03/15/2018 7:21:00 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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