The Big Gay Musical
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Directed By: Casper Andreas & Fred M. Caruso
Starring: Daniel Robinson, Joey Dudding, & Jeff Metzler
It is no secret that gay cinema has been in a slump ever since Brokeback Mountain proved that it could be bankable; most gay-oriented movies are packed with handsome young men in varying states of undress, but lack fully-developed stories...or even stories at all. The Big Gay Musical has those aforementioned men (as seen above), but it is more than just eye candy. Telling the story of a new off-Broadway production called Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made 'Em, it is an uproariously funny movie that broadly covers a variety of issues, from the spread of HIV to the religious conspiracy to convert homosexuals. The play being put on in the movie states that, because Adam and Eve were bad and ate the fruit that God forbade them from eating, God went back to the drawing board and created Adam and Steve. They were cultured, handsome, and liked art...and their favor from God made Eve angry. She decided to write a book talking about how much God hates the gays...and, best of all, she says, five-thousand years later, they won't even know who wrote it! I'll give you one guess what book that is. You see, beneath the fluffy exterior and pretty boys that populate this movie, it has a strong bite behind its humor and, with its aim set firmly on religious wingnuts and the ex-gay movement, it starts attacking and rarely lets up.
