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Eating Out 2
GAY SCREEN
Sandra Marron casts an eye over Glasgayl’s film programme Glasgayl’s film programme is a much smaller affair this year. Specialist releases have been replaced by a handful of more mainstream movies. This is due to low audience figures and also the fact that most gay films will have already reached Glasgow as part of other festivals. Rather than screening films that have already been released on DVD the festival has opted for a more accessible programme.
Glasgay! producer Steven Thomson defends the decision to scale down the strand. ‘We are at the end of the festivals season so film choices have been well exercised before they even get to Glasgow. What I’ve done this year is rather than programme lots of issue-based work that doesn’t get a big audience we have tried to focus on mainstream quality tickets and good production values - well- made movies that will be popular.’
No such movies are Maria Maggenti’s lesbian chick flick Puccini for Beginners and Philip J Bartell’s Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds. Thomson describes Puccini for Beginners, set in modern day New York, as: ‘Friends with lesbians. It's a miscommunication comedy; it‘s all about dating and the mistakes around dating and it‘s a sort of a funny, fluffy combination of Friends and Sex and The City with a straight and lesbian dating mix-up.’
Sloppy Seconds is a tongue-in- cheek eye candy movie which follows the coming-out journey of a character played by a well- known US gay porn star. According to Thomson: ‘there's lots of behind the scenes naughtiness. A mainstream choice but with lots of flesh.’
Thomson goes on to sum up the programme. ‘For me, the quick way to describe the entire film programme is guns, flesh, coffee and drugs.’
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Tam Dean Burn is no stranger to Glasgay! and certainly no stranger to adapting explosive and controversial tales for the stage. After bringing Louise Welsh’s The Cutting Room as part of the festival two years ago, Luke Sutherland‘s bestseller Venus as a Boy gets the Dean Burn treatment this time round. It’s a welcome return for Dean Burn to Glasgay! as the idea to tell the tale of the Orkney boy‘s life and sexual journey is actually tied in with the festival. After The Cutting Room, he was eager to find something else to do. something with a similar feel.
‘l’d just got back to London straight after Glasgay! and in the New Year edition of Time Out they said this was the book to look out for. It sounded really intriguing, about this guy who, if you had any sort of level of sex with him whatsoever, it was divine. So that was the initial trigger with it.’
The story of Cupid may be controversial but the overall response to the show has been enthusiastic. wherever it has been performed. ‘There is just something about it,’ says Dean Burn. ‘It seems to tap into things. Lots of people find it quite emotional. I don‘t really know fully what it brings to the surface but it certainly seems to do that. Somehow it’s presented in a way that people are finding acceptable as well. They are not thinking it’s gratuitous or in-your-face. It's just a steady transformation.‘
(Sandra Marron)