Written by Richard Dyer
From: Jump Cut, no. 18, August 1978, pp. 15-16 

• ''Since the gay movement began we have insisted on the centrality of the media as a carrier, reinforcer or shaper of our oppression''

• ''A very common stance of straight critics, and alas of many within the gay movement, is that films should show that gay people are just ordinary human beings''

• ''There is no real difference between being gay and being straight''

• ''We are right to be angry about the succession of pathetic, ridiculous and grotesque figures that are supposed to be up there on the screen''