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By David Fear. This declaration of independence is being addressed to her off-on, and very much out, girlfriend Viv Kerrie Hayes.

The (Not) Gay Movie Club: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The protect-the-children! Protests were legion. Our bottle-blonde hero Jean is beloved by her students, especially the netball team players she coaches. But the movie never lets you forget that hate buzzes constantly in the background. Coach clocks her kicking a ball around in the quad, and immediately reacts.

Worse, a terror of a student Lydia Page accuses Lois of coming on to her. Blue Jean lives or dies on us sitting in that hot seat right next to her, of feeling that sense of death by a thousand lies and moral compromises in the name of survival. McEwen leans in to the less likable aspects of Jean, especially in relation to the more-comfortable-in-her-tattooed-skin Viv.

But it also avoids movie you the sort of easy-answer ending that it appears to be setting up, favoring a sort of hard-won honesty over happily ever afters. Small victories, it suggests, are still victories. Sometimes simply refusing to lie down is its own way of standing up to something. What makes this British movie rise above a million other films like it, however, is its refusal to view looking back as a way of shutting the door on a historical black mark.

We know that Section 28 will one day be relegated gay the dustbin. Nor are such things the sole property of a country far, far away. But it also knows that denim your basic rights are threatened, no matter who you are or how you live or who you love, everything most assuredly is political.

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