in an era of gaysploitation that only the most talented filmmakers and daring companies are likely to resist.” (2008)
As the democratization of filmmaking continues with cheap camcorders and DIY editing, anyone can be in Best Buy today and come out a “filmmaker” tomorrow; begging the question, just because you can, should you? Who can blame them when the LGBT community has turned itself into a marginalized affinity market of lemmings over the years? There’s no near-term justification to invest in more modest budgets that brought us films like Trick, Broken Hearts Club, or Boys Don’t Cry (all films made for around 0K to m respectively) when you can make ten or fifteen flicks at ,000 a piece and turn a quick buck.
Distributors of these arguably questionable works put these films out into a theater for a day as a publicity stunt and then