Posted by Michael Musto at 9:00 AM, March 26, 2008
When Boys Don't Cry was released in '99, talented director Kimberly Peirce was an out lesbian who chatted with me about the absurdity of the Hollywood closet, though she later felt she may have gone too far with her remarks. Well, nine years later, she seems even more half hearted on that topic. Sunday's New York Timesreported that Peirce—who directed the new Stop-Loss—"is conscientiously private. For all the good will she garnered in gay circles after Boys Don't Cry, Ms. Peirce demurs on the subject of her own sexuality, saying only that her partner is going to be a professor of gender sociology and Turkish literature in California." This doesn't exactly sound like she's gone back into the closet—"partner" pretty much signifies lesbian lover here, doesn't it?—but she may have become a little less eager to define herself as one of us. If so, Peirce's stopping is definitely our loss.
It feels like the MTV campaign surrounding the release of the film is what qualifies as piss-poor marketing. The TV spots for the movie make it look like 'Varsity Blues: Iraq Edition', but I have yet to see any current footage of Peirce promoting (I've only seen her early promotional speak, at festivals and such). Peirce has always struck me as a fierce, determined artist, and is definitely an asset to the gay community, and judging by her past appearances and writings on the subject of her sexuality, I don't think that she would go out of her way at all to silence that in order to get her movie seen by the more cautious filmgoers. If anyone is suppressing something like that, blame Paramount or MTV for their marketing tactics (those TV spots are a ridiculous misrepresentation of the film itself).
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