VIP Fave Q Movie Pick
Where we ask today’s hottest queer and queer-friendly filmmakers, stars and community leaders to answer the question:
“One of my favorite LGBT movies is...”
Wash Westmoreland (QUINCEANERA, THE FLUFFER)
“My favorite LGBT film is A TASTE OF HONEY, a “kitchen sink” drama set in Salford, England in the early sixties. It is the story of Jo (Rita Tushingham) a teenage girl who is abandoned by her gloriously wanton mother (Dora Bryant), gets pregnant by a black sailor (Paul Danquah) and shacks up with Geoff (Murray Melvin), a young gay man she meets in a shoe shop. Geoff’s character has no coming-out moment, no self-hatred, or angst over his circumstances; he just moves in with Jo, starts “doing the place up” and thereby forms one of cinema’s very first queer families. Made at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain, the film was the vision of a 19 year-old usherette, Shelagh Delaney, who, legend has it, was bored with the irrelevance of the plays in her theater. It was a big influence on QUINCEANERA, which features a pregnant latina and her gay cholo cousin. In both movies, the affectionate central relationship is clothed in antagonism and irreverence. ‘What do you do?’ Jo asks Geoff with blunt curiosity, ‘Go on tell! I’ve always wanted to know…’ And this was in 1961!”
Discover Wash’s gay classic, THE FLUFFER on DVD!
Wash is pictured above (right) with his partner Richard Glatzer (left).
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