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The movie Philadelphia & Homosexuality

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Despite (and sometimes because of) its Hollywood banality, it was surprisingly true. From its soundtrack on, it insisted on the commonality of the gay and straight experience. . . The movie also portrayed a homosexual emphatically as a member of a heterosexual family. This is a truth that is extremely hard to convey in words, but that the film, more than any before it, placed at its center. It succinctly showed that gay people are not so much a problem for straight families; they are straight families.

Philadelphia is the story of Andrew Beckett, a young lawyer in a large Philadelphia law firm who is also gay and who contracts AIDS. He does not tell anyone in his law firm about his health problems, but eventually the disease begins to manifest itself. When a

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The movie Philadelphia & Homosexuality. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 05:34, March 29, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1690581.html