Thursday, February 6, 2014

Paris is Burning

In the 1966 movie, Is Paris Burning, the villains are Nazi's.  The French resistance at the end of the German occupation of Paris, are the brave opposition.  And the General von Choltitz is the moral exception, acting as a hero by defying Hitler's order to destroy the "City of Light".  Contrast this with the 1990 flick, Paris is Burning, which portrays the existence of the horror that is endemic in the gay lifestyle, which finds no redeeming characters.  "Men who want to be women explain how they've been injured by intolerance, many having been cut off from their families after enduring an unhappy childhood", has little to do with epic historic struggles. 

Read the entire essay from the Inherent Autonomy archives

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