This is Bummer Barry, "our queer friend" from the movie Snowtown, which I highly recommend. When I saw Snowtown for the first time, I got a terrific idea for a blog post, My All Time Fave Seedy Gays.
I thought it would be interesting to take a look at gay characters who operate in the seedy, criminal underworld.
What I think these characters offer us is ambiguous motives and contrasts to the macho, hetero world around them. Bummer Barry, for instance, is clearly a transvestite, but he appears to be collaborating with a male, fascist gang.
He intrigues me.
So far, on my list of all time fave seedy gays, I have Bummer Barry, and that guy in the movie Bronson, who runs bareknuckle boxing matches, and has all those great one liners, anyways, I need your help filling out the rest of the list!
I love Bummer Barry, he is such an awesome character to add to the film, it also cancels out hate over gay people, as the start of the movie is about murdering pedophiles (which were all gay), so adding this character to the movie is pretty needed, to say.
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