Religious Leader, Grindr Sex, and Teenager

This is one of those things you hate reading.

Another day, another religious leader caught behaving badly. This time it’s Aryeh Cohen, a 44-year-old rabbi from St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis. Charges were just filed against him after he was arrested in a sex trafficking sting earlier this year.

Here’s the rest. But what bothers me a lot about this is it involved a 16 year old. Which of course is terrible. That should go without saying. However, no one saw anything wrong with the movie Call Me By Your Name where a 24 year old straight man has sex with a 17 year old gay kid. In fact, they gave it an Oscar. Interesting.  


Sequel To “Trick”

I don’t think I ever saw this one. I usually remember most movies with real gay content…because there are so few out there. 

Director Jim Fall announced the news that he’s working on a sequel to the 1999 gay romantic comedy Trick.

You can check it out, here. I will give it a shot when it’s released.

Here’s a link to some reviews at Rotten Tomatoes. It’s interesting how the reviews were written a while ago, and there’s so much homophobia. There’s one that even uses the T word. 


The Mary Tyler Moore Show Depicting A Gay Character

Here’s one from the archives. The article is new, but it’s about how a gay character was portrayed over 40 years ago.

“When this episode of ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ aired, homosexuality was considered a mental illness,” Baume, who has previously dissected LGBTQ-inclusive episodes of “The Golden Girls” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” points out in the clip above. “It was a crime in most of the country ― including Minneapolis, where the show is set ― and the support groups that we rely on today, like PFLAG, had not yet been founded.”

Here’s the link. I’ve seen this episode in reruns. I thought it was excellent. In fact, it’s better than many of the LGBT characters we see today.

Religious Leader, Grindr Sex, and Teenager

This is one of those things you hate reading.

Another day, another religious leader caught behaving badly. This time it’s Aryeh Cohen, a 44-year-old rabbi from St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis. Charges were just filed against him after he was arrested in a sex trafficking sting earlier this year.

Here’s the rest. But what bothers me a lot about this is it involved a 16 year old. Which of course is terrible. That should go without saying. However, no one saw anything wrong with the movie Call Me By Your Name where a 24 year old straight man has sex with a 17 year old gay kid. In fact, they gave it an Oscar. Interesting.  


Sequel To “Trick”

I don’t think I ever saw this one. I usually remember most movies with real gay content…because there are so few out there. 

Director Jim Fall announced the news that he’s working on a sequel to the 1999 gay romantic comedy Trick.

You can check it out, here. I will give it a shot when it’s released.

Here’s a link to some reviews at Rotten Tomatoes. It’s interesting how the reviews were written a while ago, and there’s so much homophobia. There’s one that even uses the T word. 


The Mary Tyler Moore Show Depicting A Gay Character

Here’s one from the archives. The article is new, but it’s about how a gay character was portrayed over 40 years ago.

“When this episode of ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ aired, homosexuality was considered a mental illness,” Baume, who has previously dissected LGBTQ-inclusive episodes of “The Golden Girls” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” points out in the clip above. “It was a crime in most of the country ― including Minneapolis, where the show is set ― and the support groups that we rely on today, like PFLAG, had not yet been founded.”

Here’s the link. I’ve seen this episode in reruns. I thought it was excellent. In fact, it’s better than many of the LGBT characters we see today.