Tuesday 21 August 2007

Gay characters in Woody Allen films

At dinner tonight I was trying to list Woody Allen films that feature gay characters. This LiveJournal user says the only gay character he has ever seen is in Stardust Memories, which I haven't seen yet. One of the comments on that post adds that there's a flamer in Sleeper, which I can't recall at the moment, and of course there's Meryl Streep's lesbian couple in Manhattan. Are there any more?

8 comments:

  1. I'll keep thinking....
    It is interesting that Woody Allen's films lack gay characters

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  2. In Bananas, a judge mentions to Allen that a homosexual sits on his jury, but he/she is not identified. In Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex, there is a satire of a commercial for hair tonic featuring a gay couple. In Love and Death Allen remarks that "all men are homosexual". In Sleeper he and Diane Keaton seeek refuge at the home of a flamboyant gay couple who have an equally flamboyant robot butler. In Annie Hall, there is a young boy in the opening classroom scene is is uninterested in girls. When Allen asks him what he does now, he responds that he "runs a profitable dress company". Later in the film Allen and Keaton are people watching in the park and remark on a gay couple. Currently doing research on this topic, so its not exhaustive but I hope it helps!

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  3. Thank you to TheSkooMoo. It seems there's not such a hiatus after all.

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  4. Coming to this rather late, but this year's VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA featured bisexual Penelope Cruz and bi-curious Scarlett Johannsen, so there's two more.

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  5. his new movie has gay characters!

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  6. Is that Whatever Works? What can I say? Mr Allen reads my blog.

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  7. In Another Woman, we hear the conversation between a therapist and his gay male patient. That was the only one I knew of, before reading this post (thank you all).In Woody's NYC, very few blacks and gays...interesting!

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  8. Woody was called the Bard of Manhattan. A Manhattan with very few black, brown or gay characters.

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