With all due respect to the author, who would have probably saw greater royalties if the film had won an Oscar, is a story about a gay couple really any more "groundbreaking," in this day and age, than a story about adultery or civil rights?
The way the sore losers are carrying on, you would think this was the first film ever to have a gay character.
"The Boys in the Band" came out in, what, the 1970s? That was a mainstream film, by a mainstream director (William Friedkin) that dealt with being gay.
And, more recently, didn't "Philadelphia," a film about a gay man being discriminated against because he had AIDS win a couple of Oscars back in the 1990s?
There have been films about gay rights for at least thirty years. Why is this topic any more "up to date" than other plotlines from the 1970s?
