Watch Now: "Bruno" Debate

Brian Graden, Peter Paige and others in the gay community voice their concerns over the potential harm of "Bruno." Watch now.

Comments

[RK]

Seriously? Stereotyping? They are seriously bitching about stereotyping? Jack as the complete and total bitch on Will and Grace was not stereotyping? The depictions of annonymous rampant sex on Queer as Folk was not stereotyping? The total flaming queens from Queer Eye For the Straight Guy were not stereotyping? Any given gay pride parade in any given city is not stereotyping? These people need to get their assless chaps out of the bunch they're wrapped up in. The clips I've seen of this movie look hilarious, and Coens portrayal is pretty dead on to MANY MANY people I've known or at least seen over my lifetime. Get a sense of humour people, and learn to laugh at yourselves! It seems like sour grapes because it's a straight man poking fun at us. Well frankly, we deserve it! This clip just proves it. And as far as comparing it to blackface? WTF?

[czane]

y'know at first i was mildly offended when i saw the trailer for Bruno. Not severely enough to protest it, but enough to not spend any money on it. Then I started thinking...maybe we as gays are getting the wrong idea here. We think that this might be about us...but has anyone thought about the fact that he's not making fun of gays...but of the cult of celebrity for celebrities sake? To me the Bruno character has more in common with Paris Hilton or other tabloid headline grabbing talentless hacks than the homos i know. Perhaps he's playing a gay dude because he just can't pass for a chick?

[oldkingtroll]

Good God!

Satire is meant to offend. Just check out how gay personal-assistants are portrayed in almost any movie and tell me that this is worst.

The pix of him as a totally hung bull at the Madrid premiere are priceless.

Bottom line: Don't get your underwear all twisted until you see the movie - which I plan to do, when it comes out on Netflix.

[L]

the movie forces you to think about perceptions and discrimination. is that such a bad thing?

[James]

Really. "Bruno" is satire. It's over-the-top humor, and it does rely on stereotyping. But that's not the whole story behind it. The rest of the story is how people react to Bruno, and the homophobic reactions they show. Subtlety and shading would be lost on them. There is nothing to the stereotyping in Bruno that I haven't seen gay men portray hundreds of times in bars, or parties.