Homosexuality In Biloxi Blues

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@joelbuchanan471 3 ай бұрын

After a final public speech given that May, Leonard Matlovich died of complications from HIV/AIDS on June 22, 1988. He is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. His marker reads, “When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”

@khworker1322 3 ай бұрын

@@gregslav6755. Why? Are you worried?

@tellurye 2 ай бұрын

An interesting note, the marker doesnt have his name on it. I cant find any reason as to why (was that his design?)

@jorgealves3436 Ай бұрын

This is after all what one can expect from mankind: hypocrisy and they say Love thy neighbour, do they not?

@josephcollins6033 27 күн бұрын

WHAAAAAT?!

@wakeupthisisntreal8168 Ай бұрын

So sad how homosexuality was so vehemently condemned and punished. These men deserved respect and dignity like anyone else and should've been able to live their lives in peace. It was an age of discrimination and fear for them in those days, and it saddens me because they were just like me, but in a different time. And they had all the same feelings, but they had to repress everything or risk everything. Thinking about the tragic reality they experienced deeply saddens me and I am so sorry to all my brothers who have suffered and are still suffering.

@ShawnDraven Ай бұрын

Now that Americans re-elected Hitler gay people are gonna have it tough again. He made it OK to hate and to give voice to that hate when he was elected the first time I do not doubt he will continue on with that now that stupid ass Americans got him back in power.

@ShawnDraven Ай бұрын

@RLucas3000 22 күн бұрын

And please never forget it could happen again here. Every hard fought right could vanish. Right now they are chipping off the edges, trans rights and drag queens. Did you know the ‘kill the gays’ religious conference is held every year, and it’s not tiny. 3 of the 9 Republican candidates spoke there (Ted Cruise, Bobby Jindal and Mike Huckabee, a US senator and 2 governors!)

@lahoku 20 күн бұрын

It still happens worldwide. This was the normalcy of those times. The Nazis, Imperial Japan, and Russia were incredibly cruel when it came to homosexuality.

@wesleyvellutini 22 сағат бұрын

Well, one thing is certain: human ignorance is astronomical, even to this day. Forgive this world for not understanding reality. Today, in many places, it’s easier for gay people to live well, but if things get tough, you can still stay safe by becoming a priest.

@Kwaj Жыл бұрын

*"He will not only lessen his sentence in Leavenworth Prison, but will save this company, what I promise you, will be pain, anguish and humiliation beyond the endurance of man."* Walken's delivery is somehow measured and practical, yet utterly terrifying.

@BAKER22-l4u 5 ай бұрын

WTF are you smoking?

@RebelBuddha1971 2 ай бұрын

Utterly terrifying is absolutely right.

@epaminon6196 2 ай бұрын

I'd be like: _"Sarge, two consenting guys were making out in private. If you treat this minor incident like a state affair, that's going to make YOU look gay. Because everyone knows that those who condemn homosexuality the loudest most likely do so in order to distract everyone else from themselves. Most of us don't think that you're gay, Sarge. And you can strengthen our opinion by letting this little incident slide, Sarge. _Or, you could lash out at us even harder in answer to my respectful and honest observation. But if you did that, you would prove my point, Sarge. And you'd henceforth have to lead this unit knowing that we would think of you as a closeted homosexual with internalized homophobia. Please, Sarge, don't make us do that."_

@danielhooper502 2 ай бұрын

He is a neckbeard weirdo

@blucolife 2 ай бұрын

During Vietnam, sometimes a civilian would tell the draft people that he was gay, and they would reply "the army will make a man out of you." When they need cannon fodder, you have to do something extreme to beat the draft, such as amputating your trigger finger.

@cjmiller6741 2 ай бұрын

The comments for this post are like: "We thought our loved one was gay - we'd love him, anyway...... Thank God he turned out to be straight!" Polite homophobia is still homophobia and no less damaging to your loved ones who might actually be suppressing a part of their sexuality because they sense your clandestine shame and phobia. It's why so many men don't come out until they are older in life. Educate yourselves and normalize what IS a very natural part of humanity, even if it is not the majority experience.

@andrewmihalik7575 2 ай бұрын

❤ Exactly what needed to be said.

@pepsipwns666 2 ай бұрын

Literally. "We assumed our love one was gay because he liked fashion" "Thank god he turned out to be straight, and it was just because he had a sister and mum who talked about fashion!" Three ignorant insults in one. One a straight man can't enjoy fashion or feminine things, two because he does, he is gay, and three the 'thank god he was straight'.

@blucolife 2 ай бұрын

I knew a guy who became obese so no one would ask him "hey, how come you don't have a girlfriend?" After he came out, he started exercising and lost all the weight.

@locoHAWAIIANkane Ай бұрын

Sad that people still have an issue with this till today. You’d think with the passage of time and laws, deaths and atrocities we’d be a more loving and accepting of humanity. Yet, we still suppress people and shove them back in to their closets. Ironic people can accept the murderers and thief’s and even go so far as to forgive them but they can’t seem to accept love and all its colors.

@blucolife Ай бұрын

@@locoHAWAIIANkane Things are not so bad today. My generation X fought to end sodomy laws and don't ask don't tell, this generation fights against Christian bakers. Why not hire the gay or liberal baker? Why go out of your way to be discriminated against? I always hear the same story, gay goes to college, gay joins the Campus Crusade for Christ and become president, gay gets expelled. What did you expect? You joined the WRONG organization.

@markthomas9687 2 жыл бұрын

Every actor in this movie was awesome.. especially Christopher Walken!!!

@gmar7836 Жыл бұрын

Except he needed a cowbell

@adamrobinette6832 3 ай бұрын

It was the little things that showed Toomey cared for his men. Like the friendly way he said 'Come on, Son.' put his hand on Hennessy's shoulder and stayed with him all the way to the jeep. And when they stripped him of his equipment, Toomey looked down. He hated what he was watching.

@srtb3931 4 жыл бұрын

"I never talked about dogs either, does that make me a cocker spaniel". One of the funniest lines ever!

@Capcoor 4 жыл бұрын

Isn’t it though?

@priscillasalzberg5349 3 жыл бұрын

That line makes no sense. If you were a cocker spaniel you would talk about cocker spaniels. If you don't talk about cocker spaniels then you are not a cocker spaniel. It's not a mistake to use the word cock er. But since you don't talk about cocker spaniels, no, you are not a cocker spaniel.

@Capcoor 2 жыл бұрын

@@priscillasalzberg5349 You’re right. That line is not logical. Come to think of it, I don’t know why I made the comment above.

@KadyFillinger Жыл бұрын

Do you wrote the same comment every new year? Lol

@BAKER22-l4u 5 ай бұрын

You need serious mental counseling

@slayerduval1 Жыл бұрын

You left out the best line where Matthew Broderick's character says something about realizing that Hennessy had been the only guy who never really judged anyone.

@michaelcolello2735 2 жыл бұрын

Ferris Bueller's World War

@АндрейИванов-б4о6т 2 ай бұрын

Wat games

@chevychase 10 жыл бұрын

Even after all these years, this film can make me cry and cry. It is brilliantly done. A great, classic film.

@jmercoleza 5 жыл бұрын

If you like this, Lost in Yonkers and Brighton Beach Memoirs and also written by Neil Simon and are just as funny!

@yourallbrainwashed 5 жыл бұрын

@@jmercoleza I'm gonna give em a try.. ty

@Blazen747 3 жыл бұрын

Ikr 😏

@laminage 3 жыл бұрын

My Sister loved this movie back in the day. As for Homosexuality, it was synonymous in The Navy. I found these fantastic books by a Writer named Frank Butterfield which is like a Pre Gay Mad Men. Nick Williams joins the Navy at 17, afterwards works as an orderly at a Hospital and meets his Soulmate Carter Jones in 1947 who is a Fireman. They live in San Francisco but travel to other parts of the world.

@javier1333 2 жыл бұрын

It's a comedy, what the hell you cryin about?

@Capt-Intrepid 3 ай бұрын

Saw the original play on Broadway in Manhattan in 1985. It was awesome. Neil Simon had incredible plays back in the day like Brighton Beach Memoirs and The Odd Couple.

@stephenfermoyle4578 3 ай бұрын

i saw it in 1985 toooo it was awesome

@vermont741 2 ай бұрын

The Goodbye Girl

@davidponseigo8811 3 ай бұрын

When my nephew was young up until a teen we thought he might be gay and my sister ( his mother ) was dying from cancer she asked me if I would still love and take care of my nephew when she was gone, it brought me to tears and I told her she obviously underestimated me because I would love him and stand up for him even if he decided he liked flying monkey pigs and I just didn't care as it's his life and choice but he's a adult and straight and he once brought up to me years after my sister passed that he knew his mother was curious if he was gay and said what did we expect when he was raised by a single mom would loved fashion and a older sister 14 years older we shouldn't be surprised he liked feminine things. He's still kinda like that and too me he just has a original personality.

@tominmtnvw 3 ай бұрын

Being gay isn’t a life choice. You were born that way, just like straight people are born straight. Did you choose to be straight?

@jasonthewatchmansson8873 3 ай бұрын

Being gay is not a choice.

@jamesdeller-smith7604 2 ай бұрын

Fucking comma, dude

@chaossspy6723 2 ай бұрын

It's not a choice.

@pepsipwns666 2 ай бұрын

Its almost like stereotyping people who like feminine things and fashion as gay, is wrong! Weird! Its almost like gendering toys and interests is a bad thing!

@jm7804 3 ай бұрын

Matthew Broderick was so great in all of these early films of his.

@MichaelBoltonsEntireCatalog 4 ай бұрын

Skipped one of the best lines. "Don't do that, Jerome. Once your start compromising your thoughts, you become a candidate for mediocrity."

@obraydixon8936 2 жыл бұрын

I felt bad for Hennessy. He looked so scared & terrified in the car

@paullowman9131 Жыл бұрын

from the 30's up until Stonewall (and actually, for a few decades more) it was a rough ride being gay. I really hate admitting this, but I wasn't very nice either. Poor Hennessy was looking at banishment from every corner, including his family. The law would not be his friend, he had a target on his back and no protection, and he was looking at terrifying prospects ahead. It was really hateful and cruel.

@defblinders9585 9 ай бұрын

It also wouldn't have helped that he was biracial as he mentioned that his mother was black.

@remoobko8440 7 ай бұрын

@@defblinders9585 That was a joke to do with people who are known as "Black irish". Look it up

@patrickflanagan3762 7 ай бұрын

@@defblinders9585 He wasn't biracial. He was black Irish, which is just a term for Irish people with darker eyes and hair color. He just pretended to have a black mother to call out Wykowski's racism.

@1unitedfan 3 ай бұрын

@@paullowman9131when they say "make America great again", this is what they mean.

@Nehmi 2 ай бұрын

Crazy to think that we used to live in a time when the military cared if two soldiers made out.

@cjmiller6741 2 ай бұрын

Really? It wasn't that long ago.

@steveapplebaugh2200 2 ай бұрын

I was in the Navy from 1977 - 2000. I cannot tell you how many times I was called into NIS offices to be interviewed/interrogated about gay sexual matters.

@SeeburgMusic 19 күн бұрын

What do you mean USED TO?? it's still like that. Don't kid yourself.

@DylanFergusC Жыл бұрын

I'm here because I saw a poster in passing in another video for this movie and I immediately thought, "Who's that hot dyke? How did I miss an 80s movie with a buzz cut butch existing?" and it turns out that hot lesbian was just a very young Matthew Broderick. I wish I could say this is the first time this has happened to me.

@ryanlewandowsky2077 Ай бұрын

Haha same but opposite. I’ve seen a cute boy in a bar only to find out up close it’s actually an adorable butch lesbian!😂

@RickBerg-b9k 2 ай бұрын

I’m glad this scene was included. It illustrates the magnitude of insidiousness of treating homosexuality as a capital crime. Note, it wasn’t till 2003 that the Supreme Court removed sodomy as a crime. The irony was, abortion was legalized in 1973, because of a woman’s right to choice. However, when it was a man’s body, he did not gave that right. Sodomy laws were primarily focused on men.

@kitsworld 2 ай бұрын

Also, the foolish and ignorant assumption that ALL gay men practice sodomy and NO straight people do. (In fact, anal is more popular with straights, but then so is wilful ignorance!) The only defining characteristic of being gay is same-sex attraction. Preferred sexual positions can (and should) NEVER be assumed or presumed.

@samuelcastellanos3495 2 ай бұрын

I watched this scene as a kid and now I did not understand then, but I do now. I think this scene remains us why we do a Pride. For the years of shame and guilt , the look on the face of those gay characters treated like the worst of men. Makes me think how many gay men were treated liked that, liked second class people. Few people understand.

@dino7175 2 ай бұрын

I lived that scene and was ALMOST kicked out of the army. Luckily my Commanding Officer was progressive and dropped all charges.

@derricklafrance9724 6 жыл бұрын

Skipped the part where Walken says "unlike the 60 dollars, this time it wasn't me."

@eanmuhammad6318 6 жыл бұрын

Yes. Good point.

@georgenenagem9572 5 жыл бұрын

Derrick Lafrance h

@kagemaru259 3 жыл бұрын

And when he cancels all of their liberty and privileges then says "And the next time you get horny, do unto yourself what you would do to others."

@justusphillips2480 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t care what anyone says the Homosexual jumping out of the window with his pants half down is pure comedy gold LMAO .

@seikibrian8641 2 жыл бұрын

Also skipped the part where Walken says something like "Do unto yourself what you would otherwise have done unto you."

@wx11357 4 жыл бұрын

4:12 its matter for you to discus with the authority's. come on son. Christopher walking shows compassion Great movie

@steveapplebaugh2200 2 ай бұрын

I am 65 and I have never seen it. One, I feel sincerely ashamed. Two, I cannot wait to see it!!!

@chucksucks8640 2 жыл бұрын

I once had a friend that never talked about girls. We all thought he was gay but it just turned out he really didn't talk about sex at all. He got married years later to some girl he met and, to this day, they are still married.

@Capcoor 2 жыл бұрын

His attitude is probably the reason why he’s still married.

@Riverrockphotos 2 жыл бұрын

@@Capcoor Yup married woman on like sex with thire boyfriends.,

@Capcoor 2 жыл бұрын

@@Riverrockphotos Huh?

@darbyheavey406 2 жыл бұрын

He was probably getting laid while you guys were talking.

@DavidLS1 2 жыл бұрын

And he's still gay.

@ACoKyo 5 жыл бұрын

I always loved this set of scenes you can tell Walken didn’t like doing what he had to do

@BAKER22-l4u 5 ай бұрын

Idiotic and ignorant

@bobbob-sv4mk 5 жыл бұрын

He had compassion for his men.

@kahetel13 3 жыл бұрын

Good thing times have change for men who may be gay. Was a sad point in history because there was a gay man who saved the lives of many millions by cracking the German coded messages (Enigma technique he created) , and yet- he was chemically castrated and then committed suicide .... that was the thanks they gave him ....

@inkyguy 2 жыл бұрын

You’re thinking of Alan Turing. The Germans created the Enigma code machine and Turing broke the code by uncovering its inherent weaknesses and helping to program the decoding logic (called an algorithm) into the Bomba, a mechanical computer designed by the Poles. Turing was also the first person to create a conceptualisation of a “universal machine,” which is the modern computer. He was indeed prosecuted under the same law used to prosecute Oscar Wilde, chemically castrated and took his own life.

@seikibrian8641 2 жыл бұрын

@@inkyguy "Your thinking of Alan Turing." * You're.

@inkyguy 2 жыл бұрын

@@seikibrian8641 , corrected. Thank you.

@deananderson7877 6 ай бұрын

Ever clip I see Cristopher Walken in I can only think of” more cow bells”.😂

@srtb3931 4 жыл бұрын

"Does that make me a cocker spaniel?" One of the funniest lines ever!

@BAKER22-l4u 5 ай бұрын

Idiotic and ignorant

@cyberprimate 10 жыл бұрын

Heartbreaking. I remember watching this as a teenager. It helped me getting rid of my intolerance. Walken is such a different kind of actor. Bringing each role to a higher dimension of strangeness. Like Terrence Stamp in England.

@rodocar2736 3 жыл бұрын

Walken .... very very excelent performance here

@sandrosoler4275 2 жыл бұрын

agreed, he's unreal

@defblinders9585 9 ай бұрын

In the scene when the soldiers go to town on pass, you can briefly see Hennessey nod to Lindstrom just as they get off the bus, implying that they had something going on.

@realmichaelcomeau 2 жыл бұрын

There is one big thing everyone misses with this scene. Toomey is gentle with Hennessee and seems to show compassion. So well-played by Christopher Walken, especially the way he says "come on son."

@TomKennedy-no8om 3 ай бұрын

Yep, he should have said come on sister! 😅

@WhitePride88 3 ай бұрын

Walken's a closet flamer in real life so it's not surprising at all.

@Shawn-h4m 2 ай бұрын

3:29 is everything, i remember that scene more than anything

@miconian 13 жыл бұрын

@Boogyman4050 Apparently, that did sometimes happen. However, as the need for soldiers grew, the threshhold got higher and higher. Same for conscientious objectors. The question changed from "is he gay?" to "how much will his gay-ness matter if we put him in the line of fire?"

@roybarron5289 3 жыл бұрын

in 1981 in Korea a pair was caught and prosecuted for it.

@edwardmoore5325 2 жыл бұрын

The gay guys knew the army's laws on gays but they still came in.i don't know whether they enlisted or were drafted but i think if they had let the army know they would have been discharged.having sex in the bathroom isn't a good start for either of them.writing this in March 2022 as i look at the state of the world.wars and rumors of wars earthquakes in diverse places killings homosexualality on the rise and trouble on every place that man is.stay safe people and God bless America.

@inkyguy 2 жыл бұрын

It was always highly prosecuted. However, up through the 1990s in both Iraq wars and the Bush years in Afghanistan, the Pentagon would have a soldier complete his or her tour of duty to exploit them for their service and THEN criminally charge and dishonorably discharge them, meaning no pension and no health benefits.

@erics362 3 ай бұрын

I remember seeing the bathroom scene as a child and wondering what they were doing. 😂

@DavidLS1 3 ай бұрын

How about the movie theater scene in Midnight Cowboy? :)

@erics362 3 ай бұрын

@@DavidLS1 Never saw that movie. Now I'm intrigued. 😂

@DavidLS1 3 ай бұрын

@@erics362 Great classic movie. The clip I referenced is here on KZbin.

@erics362 3 ай бұрын

@@DavidLS1 I'll check it out now. 👍

@erics362 3 ай бұрын

@@DavidLS1 Very interesting. I'm glad I didn't see that as a kid. It would've confused the 💩 out of me. 😂 A similar scene I saw as an adult was in Boogie Nights, when Dirk Diggler is selling himself to a closeted, self-hating gae man who then beats him up.

@fashizzle78 9 жыл бұрын

He wanted to see what Eugene wrote about him..then gets pissed and his feelings hurt after he reads it ..thats what he gets

@WorldWideMarket 8 жыл бұрын

Reminds of a Liberal.

@inkyguy 6 жыл бұрын

You are missing the point.

@inkyguy 6 жыл бұрын

000 000, why do you bother with something so liberal as a play turned into a movie written by a liberal Jew and celebrating the very principles of liberalism you despise. The whole work is beyond you. Also, , quite a statement from someone of the ilk which consume cable “news” channels and Web sites that make a point of withholding a significant portion of the news from them.

@mgpanther81 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWideMarket Sometimes it's best to just not comment. That way less of the world is aware of your astronomical ignorance. Looks like a few years of passed since your idocy slipped from your keyboad. Since then, conservatives like yourself have seemed determined to find the lowest forms of decorum and decency. Please don't breed.

@orionishi6737 2 ай бұрын

@@WorldWideMarketOmg. So dumb. Why are y'all like this?

@briannawillis8681 12 жыл бұрын

"Hubba hubba, what a weekend." Gosh I really love James J. Hennessy. He just adorable!

@DavidLS1 2 жыл бұрын

It's hard to believe that all you had to do to avoid getting drafted was to say you were gay. Seems a lot easier than moving to Canada.

@RainbowManification 2 жыл бұрын

*unzips* Prove it...

@KadyFillinger Жыл бұрын

Then he'd have to come out to his family, friends and neighbors and back then, being gay was not treated nearly as tolerant as it is today.

@DavidLS1 Жыл бұрын

@@KadyFillinger Still better than getting shot at.

@davidjamessheets 8 ай бұрын

Dishonorable discharge is equivalent to being a felon

@DavidLS1 8 ай бұрын

@@davidjamessheets I'd rather be a felon than a corpse. But I didn't say anything about being dishonorably discharged, I said to come out to your draft board and not get drafted in the first place. My personal plan was to move to Canada when I turned eighteen in 1973. Fortunately, that was the year when they ended the draft. (I remember having a very low number in the lottery.)

@christopherbako 4 жыл бұрын

This was an Awesome movie. Definitely worth seeing.

@TheIntuitiveWizard 3 жыл бұрын

OMG! I’ve been trying to figure out what movie this scene was in. I searched all the popular 80s war movies. Finally! Whew.

@alvinv.5980 3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I've been searching for a few minutes about a military movie I watched when I was a kid and this scene stucked to me.

@mittenil2972 3 ай бұрын

Crimson Tad

@blackpoolbootz2790 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting. Remember this film and this bit.

@Popinjay87 12 жыл бұрын

lol @ how everybody slowly creeps away from arnold when he says " homosexual"

@Capcoor 4 жыл бұрын

Well, it WAS 1945. Back in the day I would have too.

@inkyguy 2 жыл бұрын

It’s exactly the same as being smart. “Malcolm in the Middle” on the social consequences being smart: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJTHpYKijKd_hcU

@Capcoor 2 жыл бұрын

@Malaise Biscays You are answerable to God and no one else.

@Capcoor 2 жыл бұрын

@Malaise Biscays I mean no one else has any business telling you how to run your life. That’s up to you.

@Capcoor 2 жыл бұрын

@Malaise Biscays I’m trying to encourage you. It’s not so much associated with the video as it is me trying to cheer you on. Me trying to tell you to do you.