Dirty Dancing@33...This is Definitely a Queer Film in the Current Sense

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'Dirty Dancing' was released on August 17 1987.

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Esther Newton, ‘Dirty Dancing Belongs in the Lesbian Rom-Com Canon’: 

“....OK, so Johnny’s a man. But we gays have had to project ourselves into heterosexual narratives. Working-class Johnny can’t believe that this doctor’s daughter wants him, and his attitude is not one of conquest; it is always of gratitude and tenderness. They don’t slurp open-mouthed kisses and hump in offbeat locations and positions, as in today’s conventional representations of heterosexual lust. Their masculine-feminine attraction is played out in partnered dancing and in tempo, in gestures, her hand running over his ass, the electric moment before they kiss. As Grey plays her, Baby matches Johnny’s sexy masculinity with her powerful femininity. This is definitely a queer film in the current sense, disrupting normative gender roles and heterosexuality....”

(‘Literary Hub’, November 2018)

 

I tremendously like this song and never tire of watching it. The chemistry between each of them is bewitching.