The Hollywood film industry since the 1960's has portrayed homosexuals as monsters. By showing such things as long hair, make-up, piercings, psychopaths, and also groups of men in the absence of women, the industry has done an amazing job of using gay stereotypes to characterize such creatures. In movies such as The Lost Boys, Nightbreed, and The Birdcage, Hollywood has explicitly depicted homosexuals as outcasts, loners, and when seen in the public eye... as monsters. Homosexuality is a character trait that is rarely shown in film, and when it is addressed has become "monsterized".
In the movie The Lost Boys, a group of vampires terrorize a small town. In the opening scene, the viewer is shown four young men, all with long, bleached hair, make-up, earrings and tight clothes walking around the town fair. The carnival manager throws them out saying that he thought he had told them to never come back to this place again. This is the first instance where the director of this......

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Title: Gays In Film
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