Mailman.It's the premise of a musical number, "I'm Not Gay," shared exclusively with The Advocate below, that includes, among other lines, "Name one thing in nature that is just this way or that.
I can’t be gay because gay is old hat." Of course, the song is also representative of the generation divide over the need for labels.
If love is love, do members of the LGBTQ+ community need to identify with letter(s) in this spectrum? For Baken, who also wrote and directed the film, the purpose of Mailman is to have light-hearted fun about subjects like identity politics. "Y’know the kind of movie you pop in during the day when you’re home sick from school?