LJ Reimbursement

In case you didn't see this already in someone else's journal, LiveJournal is offering paid time reimbursement for the recent outages.

Thanks to drewan for the heads up.

Going to the Movies

I wonder when there will be the first movie with a gay lead who isn't doing a romance/coming out gay story. I bet the first one will be low budget as Hollywood isn't daring, they don't do cutting edge things. I think, much more than all the dramas focusing on trouble being gay, that we will have finally made it when this happens.

I'm thinking about this because they're talking about the first black action sort of film, Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song on NPR. The one that opened to door for all the later black exploitation films like Shaft, allowed them to go mainstream.

In some ways gays have made it already, but not really. We're accepted by the Hollywood elite, but we've not really broken into the mainstream where the action star, the science hero, the sword carrying warrior can be a guy who is gay.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm talking about a movie that isn't telling the "gay life is so hard" story with another twist. My thought was just that we'll have "made it" when there is a movie that is mainly about telling the action story rather than being a drama about gay life with other elements added.