The Mattachine Family | movie | 2023 | Official Clip
While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that | dG1fSU53d3BXWmI2NGM
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00:00This is what everyone thinks gay people are like.
00:04This is what gay people are like?
00:06Some.
00:07Hmm. And some are stubborn.
00:09I'm a Taurus.
00:13I don't know. It's like the ever-expanding title of our community.
00:16LGBTQ plus YZX plus plus plus plus.
00:20Oh.
00:21How can we be one thing when we're expected to be everything?
00:24Hmm. I am so glad that I brought you here.
00:27Listen.
00:29When I got outed from the show,
00:32I was charged with perverting some kind of idea or image.
00:36I mean, we were the first Latino family on primetime TV.
00:39Yeah, major.
00:40But Freddy Cruz suddenly was a queer, so that was it. It was done.
00:46Nothing else mattered.
00:47All of a sudden, this is how they saw me.
00:50I wasn't a person anymore. I was provocative.
00:53I'm really sorry that that happened to you.
00:55That must have been really hard.
00:58Mm. It sucked.
01:04When I was 12, I found this book of Mabel Thorpe photographs
01:09at a bookstore in St. Louis.
01:11My mom was there, so I had to, like, rush to get it back on the shelf.
01:15I didn't want her to see me looking at it.
01:17I had all these dreams about these pictures and these men.
01:21I dreamt that I was in leather.
01:24I was determined to find another copy of this book.
01:27So I went to the library in the city where my mom worked,
01:31and...
01:33there it was.
01:36And then when it was time to leave,
01:40I stole the book.
01:44You stole it?
01:45I didn't.
01:46I mean, technically I wasn't stealing.
01:48My tax dollars were paying for it, but...
01:51You were 12.
01:53Yeah, so?
01:54You weren't paying any taxes.
01:56Some of us.
02:00And these photos shaped the idea of me.
02:05You know?
02:07It was kind of all I had.
02:09It's all there was.
02:12Well, at least now I know where your thankful leather originated.