Welcome to Screen Gems, Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.The Debatable: Midnight CowboyDirector John Schlesinger came out to the world (well, kinda) with this gritty drama about New York street hustlers dreaming of a better life.
Some critics have hailed Midnight Cowboy as a seminal queer classic. Others have labeled it one of the most homophobic movies ever made.The story finds the naive Texan Joe Buck (John Voight) arriving in New York City to live the high life…as a low rent male prostitute.