limit the ability to find fulfilling or meaningful relationships between men:
Scott: I only have sex with a guy for money.
Scott: And two guys canÆt love each other.
Mike: Well, I donÆt know. I meanàI mean, for me, I could love someone even if I, you know, wasnÆt paid for itàI love you, andàyou donÆt pay me.
Mike: I really wanna kiss you, manàWell goodnight, manàI love you thoughàYou know thatàI do love you.
The above exchange demonstrates the corruption of real love among homosexual men because of those who will ôturnö gay for pay and because of those who cannot rid themselves of negative associations on male-male love. Yet in this film Van Sant also presents a phenomenon of gay male culture that is threatening to and undermines white heterosexual culture. This is in the depiction of two, drifting gay hustlers who sell their bodies. As Lang (333) points out, ôThe figure of the contemporary hustler, thus, not only comprehends this scanda
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