It's a story about awareness and equality, and as important as other great battles for liberation and empowerment of the 20th century. It should be required viewing for EVERYone, not just gay/bi men.

@2 seconded.

At the risk of sounding like a hater... I wish you had put teaser in the headline. I've been really looking forward to this movie and was a bit let down by the trailer since it's mainly just a bunch of quick glimpses.

I hope you also saw Amy Thone's theft of a performance at Strawshop earlier this year.

@2: Agreed.

Those fuckers at CPAC should have their eye lids stapled opened and forced to watch this.

Barbra had this property for years and years. She wanted to direct it so badly. Couldn't drum up any interest in it from the majors, and she probably - after a decade plus - lost interest. As much as she loved the project, she knew better than to use wholly her own money for it. Note that it is an HBO production, which might mean there's still no interest in it as a cinematic release. Of course, that's perfectly OK with me. I love most of what HBO does - and it saves me a trip to the theater.

Does anyone go to the theater anymore over the age of 25 or 30?

I saw the Tom Hulce version in London's West End in 1986, on student rush tickets. I'm thrilled that it's revived. Yes, everyone should see it, not just bi and gay men.

Kramer's novel "Faggots" was the most homophobic sex-negative book I ever read (until I threw it aside halfway through). I decided then and there that I never want to read or see anything by that self-hating sex-loather ever again.

Explain to me why I should see this play/movie of his when all he apparently wants us to do is settle down and be nice little suburbanites, married with kids, and preferably upwardly mobile.

I saw the production at the public theater with Joanna Gleason and Raul Esparza. We were int he second row and I got splashed when Ned Weeks throw his groceries in anger.

#10, There was noting sex negative or homophobic in the play at all. It is a gripping piece of work. You need to see the play to understand.

@11 Thanks, and you may be right.

Problem is, I read (or started to read) "Faggots" and was so repulsed by his loathing of gay male culture in that book that couldn't finish reading it. Subsequent interviews and commentary by him only reinforced my opinion that he is a Grade-A asshole who will only be happy when all of us nasty anonymous-sex-having queers settle down and marry doctors.

I'm sure the play/movie has its points, but frankly, to me - and based only on reading half of "Faggots" before throwing it in the garbage can - Larry Kramer is the gay male version of Fred Phelps, haranguing us all about the evils of (anonymous) gay male sex out of monogamous wedlock.

That book was so disgusting that I want nothing to do with the self-loathing "faggot" who wrote it.

I saw a stage version back in the day and remember curiously little of it. It will be interesting to learn whether it appears dated now.

I'd have thought Mr Savage would have been a little more gushing in this instance.