It’s about this dude Henry who’s an artist living in New York,
and he has to go back to his hometown in Montana to take care of his grandfather who just recently had a stroke and is wheelchair-bound.
Things are all fine and dandy until Henry finds out that his old best friend from high school, as well as object of his unrequited affections that he’s never really been able to let go of is also back in town. His name is Dean. He’s there with his two sons to recoup from a recent divorce from his wife.
Henry is extremely frazzled by seeing his long-time crush after so many years, but they spend a lot of time together over the passing weeks and seem to fall into their old friendship very easily. Perhaps a little too easily….??? hmmm???
And with everything with Dean happening, Henry can’t be blamed that he’s entirely oblivious to Pike, the man who runs the local general goods store.
It’s obvious to us (and the whole damn town) that Pike’s been head over heels for Henry since high school, but is painfully shy. He can barely talk to Henry at all and it’s the cuTEST GODDAMN THING oh lord help me from this movie.
Throughout the movie, Pike can’t seem to help himself from wanting nothing more than to make Henry happy from afar. He’s supposed to be delivering food cooked by one of the older ladies in town to Henry and his grandfather’s house to eat every night, but Pike cooks his own, exceptionally better meals, and delivers those instead and tells no one.
Now, Henry does notice Pike, and something about him catches his attention. Even if he doesn’t understand why yet. He tries to invite him to stay for dinner almost every night in an attempt to get him to open up, but Pike only becomes more closed off when he notices what’s going on between Henry and Dean.
I’ll stop there, as I don’t want to give the whole thing away, but I can’t leave this without talking about the town’s residents in this movie. This place is 100% one of those little towns where everyone knows each other as well as their business, you have nosy little old ladies, dudes who do nothing all day but sit on the porch of the corner store and smoke a pipe, and they all go to church on Sundays.
AND YET, not only is this movie void of any homophobia from any character, basically the whole freaking town is all up in this whole love triangle. They support Pike so much that there’s even scenes where they all play matchmaker with him and Henry. They root for them in the goofiest, most loveable way.
SO BASICALLY, this is a silly romantic comedy, except gay. It’s all super lighthearted comedy with tiny bits of drama thrown in. No one dies!!!! No one is killed or commits suicide and has a 100% happy ending!!! The three main guys are just normal guys!!! There’s not a stereotype to be found here!! anD ONE OF THEM IS NATIVE AMERICAN. No seriously guys it hurts me that not everybody knows about this movie. I discovered it when I was in middle school in our video store’s tiny little LGBTQ section, and must have rented it 20 times throughout the years before I finally bought it. I know this movie almost frame by frame I’ve watched it so many times because it’s just so disgustingly cute and always makes me happy. NOW, this movie isn’t perfect. It’s got some clunky acting, weird.. I guess artsy moments that don’t make sense, and crosses into the line of cheesy quite a few times, BUT, that’s really not important. This is treated exactly as if it were a het romantic comedy. Their being gay has nothing to do with the overall story, and is never brought up save for a small plotline where Henry is guilty with himself for never coming out to his grandfather. But overall, more LGBTQ movies need to be like this, it’s just way too rare.
GO WATCH IT YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID. Sadly, the only way I know to get ahold of it is to just buy the DVD. But it’s fairly cheap on Amazon! And even cheaper if you buy it used on there, but either way I promise it’s worth it to own. Like I said, I think I kept our video store in business from my renting it so many times.
Oh, and I hope you enjoy country music to some extent because this has the countriest soundtrack of all time.
hey quick psa if you get mad when people say all pedophiles should die, fuck off, dont follow me, and, in case i need to make this any more clear, if every pedophile suddenly dropped dead the world would indisputably be a better place. eat shit if you disagree
This is disturbing. It’s a screenshot from a man’s instagram account and was posted on Twitter today. He has now locked his account.
okay, let me explain something to you. being part of an oppressed class really fucks you up. the more ostracized you are, the more damage is done to your mind. and sometimes, that damage manifests in “off putting” ways.
to this day, the most accurate portrayal of my own transgender psychosis I’ve ever seen was in Silence of the Lambs, when Buffalo Bill copes with being denied access to medical transitioning by skinning women alive and making a woman suit out of their flesh. that’s how badly he wants to be seen as a woman. his core was so wounded by being a trans woman in the deep south that he became a serial murderer. and i have never related to a fictional character more.
as a teenager, I would compulsively draw dismembered female bodies. i was obsessed with the female form, desperately recreating it over and over, imagining myself living inside that skin. and then my shame would lead me to ritualistically dismember that body on the page, piece by piece, with me still inside it. it was a binge and purge ritual, shamefully embracing my transgender feelings, and then compulsively punishing myself for it.
those transgender feelings were born already drenched in shame, so when they started to come out, they naturally had a sickly fetishistic vibe to them. it literally took decades for my transgender feelings to not manifest in genuinely dangerous ways.
i want you all to really understand this; the part of you that you’re most ashamed of will always look ugly when you first shine a light on it. anything that’s been deprived of love will look uglier as a result. just because it looks ugly now doesn’t mean it will always be ugly. you have to choose to love that part of yourself anyways, simply because it’s part of you, and the more you love it, the more beautiful it will become, and the more beautiful you will be.
share your most shameful traits in the comments! – @wren_nilla
Gay man and lesbian spotting each other in a straight function, knowing they’re the only gays there and therefore establishing a Gay Connection™ across the room:
Than a pansexual and asexual dudes stare at eachother from being complete opposites and respecting that with their soul because if someone’s sexuality is difirent or the complete opposite you should still respect them because they are no greater or less than you in any way reminding you both that you’re human in every way
the two previous movie series of Spider-Man always had it that Spidey was a Big Hit with the citizens of nyc in spite of the negative press/police departments actively hunting him down but we haven’t really seen anything like that in the mcu past Peter’s classmates simply being aware that Spider-Man is a hero who exists, like we didn’t see any slandering articles or angry officers which is WEIRD considering the canonical climate about superheros in the mcu right now so like….I really hope it carries over into this third series because frankly I love the idea of everyone in a post-accords world in constant debate about superheroes like ‘should they be held accountable for casualties’ and ‘does it make sense to give all this power to just a few people and force them to make potentially catastrophic situations’ and ‘do we even truly Need superheroes’ like any and all debate they can think of but at the same time, all the citizens in New York are collectively like ‘Yeah….but we’re gonna leave the Spider-Boy out of this….he just wants to help out….he’s doing his Best..’ lmao
The Entire City Of New York: after all the danger we’ve been placed in since these superheroes started popping up, since the Avenger’s set up a headquarters here- we’re sick of it. superheroes only prevent problems that they create in the first place and cause millions in damages doing it. we want our city to be safe!
Also The Entire City Of New York: we’ve only had Spider-Man for a year and a half but if anything ever happened to him we would kill everyone on this planet and then ourselves
J. Jonah Jameson: writes a scathing article about the ‘spider menace’ ‘terrorizing’ Queens and campaigns for his arrest and imprisonment alongside other ‘mutant menaces’
That Nice Old Lady that bought Peter a churro: *barges into the Daily Bugle office swinging her handbag with deadly force*
Citizens of New York City: fuck the avengers!!
The Rest Of The World: you do realize that your Spider-Man has been spotted helping the Avengers on multiple occasions and many believe him to be an honorable member of the team?
Under a youtube video from a trans man (who i appreciate) there’s this comment and…
the amount of ppl who liked it is representative enough of how much we are indeed witnessing the loss of a generation – if not generationS- of lesbians. Because this is only one comment in an ocean of “former lesbian turned trans guys” who didn’t interact with this comment. imagine the number of gnc lesbians who will “disappear”, who will physically become straight men in the eyes of unknowing ppl, who will satisfy all the classic homophobes who think homosexuality is the result of an hormone imbalance (maybe it’s not said a lot in north america? but it is said a lot by homophobes in european countries, africa, etc) and this isn’t even taking in consideration lesbians who now identify as non-binary, gender-fluid, demiboy, whatever bullshit gender identity labels. So i’m not going to lie, as a gnc lesbian this is the type of stuff that crush my soul and heart. Makes me want to disappear completely, to never have been born, rather than living with the pain of knowing that we’re letting this to happen en masse to lesbians. I am so angry and down. Is this supposed to be a happy comment? Ahah “yeah so cool we’re not lesbian anymore”? Glad that i have radical feminism to lift me up and sisters every day, glad that this community helps and fight for females no matter how difficult it is.
“if genitalia is the one and only reason for not being into someone, I do think it is worth thinking through that.”
Next time a trans person tries to tell me ‘no one is forcing you to like dick!!!’ I’m directing them straight to this. This lovely trans woman is instructing us how to include her in our movement, and even how we should go about fucking other trans women at the bottom of it. This is just one of many websites I’ve found while researching the cotton ceiling, it’s fucking gross.
This was written in 2013. Not a whole lot has changed.
How’s it radical to try to force women to fuck men they don’t want to ? That’s just business as usual in the patriarchy. Fucking rapists
The predatory penis introduces itself as a trans girl.
He writes, “I would emphatically state that nobody’s physical body is a representation of patriarchy”. Bolding and italics his own.
Really? They use their physical bodies to beat us into submission, to rape us and claim ownership of our bodies, to forcibly impregnate us, to murder us. When they threaten us, their words bring to mind exactly what they can, have, and will to do to us with their physical bodies. I would emphatically state the Patriarchy would not be possible if not for what men do to us with their bodies. Thus, yes, all men’s bodies – including those of the ones who identify as women – are indeed a physical representation of patriarchy. In fact, it is the patriarchy.
I like how men tell us that periods are somehow simultaneously “not that bad” and also bad enough that we shouldn’t be allowed to hold positions of power.
This is a very important and powerful text post.
While this is a legendary post, I feel it could be a little more specific. Men tell us that the physical pain is ‘not that bad,’ but that the emotional/mental side effects of periods are bad enough that we shouldn’t hold any power. To put it another way: men refuse to empathize with our pain, and then they discredit our mental capacity. That’s hatred in a nutshell.
Big Mean Sweaty Dyke 