![]() Later that same night Arnold gets picked up at a bar and begins dating Ed, a self-proclaimed bi-sexual. He delivers a monologue about love directly to the camera, and throughout the movie returns to this cinematic gimmick. As the title suggests the story takes place in three acts.Īfter a brief opening scene where we see a young Arnold playing dress-up in his mother’s closet in 1952 Brooklyn, the story proper begins with Arnold in his dressing room making up for a show in 1971. The story is set in New York City during the golden age of modern gay culture, those liberating years between the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and the advent of the AIDS epidemic in 1981. I remember walking out of the theater with a newfound sense of belonging. I was a 21 year old gay man when I first saw this movie and it had a profound impact on me. He adapted the screenplay and recreated the role of female impersonator and hopeless romantic Arnold Beckoff. ![]() In 1988 Harvey Fierstein brought his multiple Tony winning, hit Broadway play Torch Song Trilogy to the big screen. Just for fun see how many bunny items you can spot in the movie. Harvey Fierstein and Matthew Broderick in Torch Song Trilogy. ![]()
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