Extended Weekend: We're the Lucky Ones

From the beginning of the postmodern homosexual era, men in uniform, especially policemen have populated homoerotic fantasies. There is, of course, the apparent contradiction inherent in these fantasies. It is those contradictions that give life to the excellent story "Forever Blue" from Cold Case, which was re-broadcast last evening; hence, the weekend extension.




"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost." (Michel Foucault)

Jimmy and Coop from "Forever Blue", Luke and Noah from As the World Turns, Ennis and Jack from Brokeback Mountain and the uninformed and ultimately victimized women in their fictional lives could well descry the considerable cost of living in the almighty closet or its shadow.

Coop's declaration, "We're the lucky ones," which became his dying declaration to Jimmy is the ultimate reality. Carpe Amorem goes beyond the sexual fantasy imbuing it with a different kind of passion. True evil is not allowing people to love. Homosexuality should not be the sum total of the landscape, it should simply be part of the landscape and allowed to flourish like the rest of it.




Dylan's "My Back Pages" was a fitting finale to what The Next Hurrah calls landmark gay television. CBS treated its viewers to two this weekend starting with Luke and Noah on Friday afternoon. The storytelling is on a par with the best of gay cinema and the performances were profound enough to earn the above praise. The lyric speaks to the wisdom of time, "I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now."