Ring in the new year with bisexual Ryan Phillippe, disco divas, & a peek inside NYC’s most legendary club
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we’re celebrating the dawn of the new year with 1998’s 54, taking us back to one of history’s most infamous parties.New Year’s Eve is a holiday that comes as a major contrast to the days immediately before it.
After meaningful time with loved ones, religious rituals, and days of reflection, it seems like NYE is an excuse to throw everything out the window and dance the night away one last time.
Family dinners are swapped for sweaty dance floors, and gifts are exchanged for midnight kisses.This week, before we ring in 2024, we revisit 1998’s 54, the cult classic movie that brings us inside the most famous disco club in history.
Because people in the 1970s understood that the best (and queerest) way to ring in a new year is covered in glitter, surrounded by shirtless bartenders, as many love stories, friendships, and dreams are formed and fall apart all around you.Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Director Mark Christopher’s 54 follows Shane O’Shea (played by a young, never more handsome, and never twinkier Ryan Phillippe), a New Jersey party boy whose dream is to make it to the legendary nightclub across from the river.
