This article was published by GLAAD/New York in their January/Febuary
bulletin.  The only way to defeat honophobia is to confront it.

                     "JFK" IS GROSSLY ANIT-GAY
Oliver Stone's much ballyhooed film JFK equates gay men with moral
degeneracy, while proposing that gay conspirators were behind the
assassination of John F. Kennedy!
     Widely criticized for distortions of fact, the movie glamorizes
controversial former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison,
contrasting his family life to the orgiastic decadence of the film's
gay villains.  David Ferrie (Joe Pesci) and Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones),
along with a racist male hustler (Kevin Bacon), are a cabal of gay
facists  who mastermind the Kennedy murder for the CIA/mafia/military-
industrial complex.
     Stone dwells on the kinky sexual practices of Shaw and Ferrie (from
gratuitous gropings to bizarre masquerades with naked, painted young men),
while ignoring the sex lives of his heterosexual villains.  Shaw, portrayed
stereotypically in an excessively affected manner, is called "a fag" and
"a cocksucking faggot."
     Some have charged Garrison was, in reality, an intemperate witch-
hunter who ruined Shaw, in part, because he was homosexual.  But even
supposing these men were conspiraors, the lurid depiction of their gayness,
to augment Stone's portrait of evil, is purely homophobic.
     Stone now says he would like to make a screen version of The Mayor of
Castro Street, Randy Shilts's biography of Harvey Milk.  While he may be one
of the few producers in Hollywood with enough clout to get that project
realized, let him know he had better come to terms with his own homophobia
first.
     Write Oliver Stone, c/o Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd.
           Beverly Hills, CA 90212.
     Also let Warner Brothers know that it should have challenged Stone's
cinematic gay-bashing, and that the studio owes us gay characters who are
not villians (or buffoons).  Write Chairman Robert Daly, Warner Brothers,
                                            4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank,
                                            CA 91522

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