“Comedy must be irreverent or it wouldn’t be funny,” Mr. Josh Collins, the director of the new film “Fags in the Fast Lane,” an Australian gaysploitation comedy in the spirit of sci-fi sex spoofs like “Flesh Gordon,” wants the gay community to stop taking itself so seriously.
“Sometimes anything can be a source of humor,” the statement continued, “but the lives of 20 million Americans are not a joke.”Įxcept when they are. That was the first of the “Guiding Principles for Motion Picture and Television Treatment of Homosexuality” released in 1973 by activists fed up with Hollywood’s habit of playing gay people for laughs.
