POZitive Attitudes

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SPECIAL FRIDAY NIGHT FREE GAY CLASSIC MOVIE 

THE TRIP

(COMEDY, ROMANCE, GAY HISTORY) 

SHOWING AT WORLD AIDS MUSEUM

(1201 NE 26TH ST, WILTON MANORS)

FRIDAY, APRIL 26 AT 7 PM

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The Trip is a 2002 epic gay romance film directed by Miles Swain. It traces the relationship between two men from their initial meeting in 1973 until 1984.

The time is the socially turbulent 1970s, when radical politics and the emerging gay rights movement clashed with the rigidly conservative establishment. At a swanky L.A. party, lean and lanky Tommy introduces himself to sexually repressed Alan. Tommy has long blond hair, and is openly gay with a glib sense of humor. The comparatively short-haired, muscular Alan is a member of the Young Republicans and an aspiring journalist. Alan is working on his first book, a treatise on homosexuality, and he invites Tommy over for dinner to interview him for the book. Their connection is so intense that Alan’s kooky girlfriend Beverly suspects something more than an interview is going on and angrily departs.

Fast forward to 1977: Anita Bryant is organizing the “Save Our Children” campaign in Florida to rid the country of homosexuals and repeal a Florida law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Alan’s book publisher, who previously decided the timing wasn’t right, publishes Alan’s book, The Straight Truth, against Alan’s wishes, listing the author as “Anonymous.” The book is used to fuel homophobia by the Christian Right, and it threatens to erode Tommy’s work with his group Out Loud…