Check out Tom’s great rant about Alexander and the limits of “gay rights” discourse:
I think I can state right-out that there is homophobia in the way this film has been received. I think that’s true. It’s only one reason that the film has failed of course — there are dozens of others — but it’s certainly one of them. And in experiencing people’s reaction to the film, I’m reminded more and more that the successes in gay rights over the last ten years or so have also ushered in an Uncle Tom-ish culture of the desexualised, non-threatening and funny little poof who is apologetically grateful for the positive reaction he can get from straight people by being entertaining. I’m increasingly angry about the way that we’ve petitioned for rights by turning everything about ourselves that could be possibly considered threatening into some kind of joke.
Sometimes the obviousness of a thing means that we forget to engage on a popular level and fucking say it.
Saw Jared Leto on the telly the other day, telling an interviewer that the relationship between his character and Alexander was “about love, not sex”.
I hate Jared Leto.
Silly boy. But wasn’t he adorable in My So Called Life??