Saturday, October 10, 2009

Know Your LGBT History - Fortune and Men's Eyes

Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971) predates the HBO series OZ by several decades but it was nonetheless powerful.

It tells the story of Smitty, young man who enters prison for a six-month stretch and has to deal with the ins and outs of this rough world.

He becomes the victim of this prison life dichotomy and has to fight for survival.

I will be honest - I don't know that much about this movie. I do know that it was controversial for its time, particularly the following scene.

Despite the supposed "hotness" of the men involved, this is still a vile scene:



Past Know Your LGBT History postings:

Know your lgbt history - California Suite

Know your lgbt history - Taxi (Elaine's Strange Triangle)

Know your lgbt history - Come Back Charleston Blue

Know your lgbt history - James Bond goes gay

Know your lgbt history - Windows

Know your lgbt history - To Wong Foo and Priscilla

Know your lgbt history - Blazing Saddles

Know your lgbt history - Sanford and Son

Know your lgbt history - In Living Color

Know your lgbt history - Cleopatra Jones and her lesbian drug lords

Know your lgbt history - Norman, Is That You?

Know your lgbt history - The 'Exotic' Adrian Street

Know your lgbt history - The Choirboys

Know your lgbt history - Eddie Murphy

Know your lgbt history - The Killing of Sister George

Know your lgbt history - Hanna-Barbera cartoons pushes the 'gay agenda

'Know your lgbt history - Cruising

Know your lgbt history - Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones

Know your lgbt history - I Got Da Hook Up

Know your lgbt history - Fright Night

Know your lgbt history - Flowers of Evil

The Jeffersons and the transgender community




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