This week, we're taking a look at this narrative in a mostly harmless movie with 1982's Partners, in which police officer Sergeant Benson (Ryan O'Neal, who passed late last year) is forced to literally partner up with fellow investigator Kerwin (John Hurt), an openly gay man, as they pretend to be a couple in order to...
In these films, a straight person (typically a man set on their prejudiced beliefs) is forced to either interact with or pose as someone from the gay community. The main arc usually involves them humanizing people that they considered pariahs beforehand, although often stepping out of their world at the end. They learn their lesson, and then they turn away and go back into their lives.
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