The Trip concerns a journey of life between two gay men who at the end of the film do actually take the road trip they long planned.
Meet Alan, closeted gay Republican who is an aspiring writer. He's so very deep in the closet he's even written an anti-gay tract that he's submitted for publication.
Meet Tommy, a newborn in a bumper crop of gay activists. There were a whole lot of those in the early seventies when these two chance to meet and fall in love in 1973.
Four years later Alan's had a whole change in attitude, a lot due to Tommy's influence. But that manuscript has been sitting at the publisher's office and now with the Anita Bryant campaign against a gay rights law in Dade County, Florida the publisher sees the time is right to publish. It's published anonymously, but when Tommy finds out about it the relationship is history.
Love does win out though it comes a bit late for a happy ever after ending.
Larry Sullivan as Alan and Steve Braun as Tommy are an attractive pair of lovers as ever hit the gay cinema. Their story is the story of the GLBT community's efforts to organize and get our rightful share of the American dream. The film is helped out with news reports of the various things that happened to America and to us in a dozen year period.
One thing I liked about this film very much is that if there is a chief villain it's another gay and rich Republican who manipulates events and people so he can gain Alan for himself. It's the Roy Cohn syndrome, that somehow the things that happen to the rest of us just don't affect you because of your connections and wealth. Roy Cohn found out that wasn't the case and this gentlemen will probably learn it as well. Ray Baker plays the part of the manipulative Peter, a gay that gays can truly hate.
Also note the presence of Jill St. John as Larry Sullivan's mother. Hard to believe she's in her sixties. She's come a long way from being a Rat Pack broad, it seems a lifetime ago.
It's a movie that moves, emotionally, physically and spiritually and it don't get better than that.
Meet Alan, closeted gay Republican who is an aspiring writer. He's so very deep in the closet he's even written an anti-gay tract that he's submitted for publication.
Meet Tommy, a newborn in a bumper crop of gay activists. There were a whole lot of those in the early seventies when these two chance to meet and fall in love in 1973.
Four years later Alan's had a whole change in attitude, a lot due to Tommy's influence. But that manuscript has been sitting at the publisher's office and now with the Anita Bryant campaign against a gay rights law in Dade County, Florida the publisher sees the time is right to publish. It's published anonymously, but when Tommy finds out about it the relationship is history.
Love does win out though it comes a bit late for a happy ever after ending.
Larry Sullivan as Alan and Steve Braun as Tommy are an attractive pair of lovers as ever hit the gay cinema. Their story is the story of the GLBT community's efforts to organize and get our rightful share of the American dream. The film is helped out with news reports of the various things that happened to America and to us in a dozen year period.
One thing I liked about this film very much is that if there is a chief villain it's another gay and rich Republican who manipulates events and people so he can gain Alan for himself. It's the Roy Cohn syndrome, that somehow the things that happen to the rest of us just don't affect you because of your connections and wealth. Roy Cohn found out that wasn't the case and this gentlemen will probably learn it as well. Ray Baker plays the part of the manipulative Peter, a gay that gays can truly hate.
Also note the presence of Jill St. John as Larry Sullivan's mother. Hard to believe she's in her sixties. She's come a long way from being a Rat Pack broad, it seems a lifetime ago.
It's a movie that moves, emotionally, physically and spiritually and it don't get better than that.