Another Gay Movie, directed and written by Todd Stephens, focuses on four San Torum High School gays in Southern California (actually Culver City High, though the fictional school’s name clearly refers to the homophobic Pennsylvania senator) who are virgins but pledge to get laid before college starts in the fall. The film, in short, takes place during a summer in which they are supposed to come of age sexually, a premise (that high school gays have never had sex) that is not credible. The movie quickly degenerates into a farce, with fantasies played out in absurd directions. Although Andy (played by Michael Carbonaro) and Jarod (played by Jonathan Chse) are good looking, Griff (played by Mitch Morris) is a nerd, and Nico (played by Jonah Blechman) dresses and acts effeminately, they all claim to be tops but are closet bottoms. Andy’s father (played by Scott Thompson), who is overeager to find out that his son is gay, one day sticks his penis through a glory hole in a public toilet stall occupied by his son. When Nico admits to his mother that he likes boys, she responds relieved that he has at last come to a conclusion that she long expected and rushes to belong to PFLAG. Nico manages to flatter Richard Hatch (playing himself), a famous gay writer, into his bedroom, but when Nico’s enemas provoke an endless series of farts and BMs, Hatch hastily exits. Later, Nico hooks up with a sugar daddy. Meanwhile, Andy lusts after an exchange teacher from Russia, Mr. Puckov (played by Graham Norton), so he makes a date on a chatroom with the Russian after confessing an interest in watersports; when Andy arrives with swimtrunks under his trousers, he is unprepared to be tied up on a sling as a slave on the Puckov’s realtime S&M website. Griff and Jarod get dates, but the nerd abandons his to break into the other boy’s date so that he can confess his love for him. The romp also includes a foulmouthed fag hag, Muffler (played by Ashlie Atkinson), who enjoys goading the boys into extreme behavior. Gays viewing the film may enjoy a lot of laughs, muscles, and nudity. Straight viewers who stay in a cinema despite the vulgarity will conclude that gays are immature, sick, and deserve little respect. Surely a serious plot involving gays, such as their persecution during the Spanish Inquisition or unions blessed by Catholic priests in the early years of the church, would merit a script for a film that could have major impact rather than the shameless sexploitation in Another Gay Film. MH
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