Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we’re revisiting 1982’s Partners, a forgotten mainstream buddy comedy about a straight cop and a gay cop.Last week, with our conversation around 1982’s Parting Glances, we discussed how that movie fit into a certain trope of the time period within queer film: the naturalistic and voyeuristic look at the queer community, made by queer filmmakers for queer audiences, as a way of fighting against the toxic narratives that the outside world was throwing at us. These films made up a small, independent, and very niche filmmaking trend.This week we’ll take a look at the other side of the same coin.
