Comments on: BRÜNO and the Gays Controversy http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/bruno-gay-controversy/ thinking film Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:41:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mark Zamen http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/bruno-gay-controversy/#comment-477936 Mark Zamen Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:40:13 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=13728#comment-477936 It is difficult to say whether the film will do more harm than good; it depends on who is seeing it and the viewer's attitudes prior to watching. It seems we would do well to look upon the movie as a plea for sanity conveyed by the vehicle of satire. Perhaps this film's approach is needed to help bring to an end the concept still held by a large portion of society that gay men and women are second-class citizens - or worse. That is the salient point of my recently released biographical novel, Broken Saint. It is based on my forty-year friendship with a gay man, and chronicles his internal and external struggles as he battles for acceptance (of himself and by others). You can learn more about the book at www.eloquentbooks.com/BrokenSaint.html. Mark Zamen, author It is difficult to say whether the film will do more harm than good; it depends on who is seeing it and the viewer’s attitudes prior to watching. It seems we would do well to look upon the movie as a plea for sanity conveyed by the vehicle of satire. Perhaps this film’s approach is needed to
help bring to an end the concept still held by a large portion of society that gay men and women are second-class citizens – or worse. That is the salient point of my recently released biographical novel, Broken Saint. It is based on my forty-year friendship with a gay man, and chronicles his internal and external struggles as he battles for acceptance (of himself and by others). You can learn more about the book at http://www.eloquentbooks.com/BrokenSaint.html.

Mark Zamen, author

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