Latter Days: it appears to be one of those odd-couple romantic tragicomedies, you know the type, love, loss, love, repeat. Only half of the couple is a homo party boy, and the other half is a Mormon missionary boy.
It's playing at the Harvard Exit here in Seattle at least through next week, as far as I can tell. I'm going to see this.
I know a lot of gay former Mormons. (They all hate Mormonism now, and I have to say I can't blame them.)
I also used to live upstairs from some Mormon missionary boys. (While I was living with these people.) And I have to say, they were sort of hot, in their sick Mormon way, with their sensible haircuts, and short-sleeved shirts with buttons and collars, and their bicycles, and their lack of first names...I don't think I actually ever spoke to them. Maybe it was for the best...Maybe they were bigoted assholes, in accordance with their bigoted asshole church. Then again, maybe not. Maybe their spirits, deep down, quailed beneath the yoke of religious silliness; maybe they were just waiting for someone to open their eyes and set them free. With sodomy.
The world may never know.
But there's a movie now, so who cares?
(Edited 4/1 to reduce overenthusiastic linkage.)
Posted by aloysius at March 24, 2004 05:07 PM | TrackBack |