Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Listen up, beach babes and surfer dudes: for today’s Screen Gems, we’re riding the big wave all the way back to the groovy days when queer movies usually came via shoestring budgets direct to video.Ok, so it wasn’t the grooviest of times for queer cinema.
Still, against all odds, the occasional gem would pop up in the back corner of the video store where the curators stored all the LGBTQ-themed movies…usually on just a couple of very low shelves.Psycho Beach Party arrived back in 2000 courtesy of queer playwright and drag queen Charles Busch, who combined his love of 60s beach party movies, “issues” melodramas and.