Bruce LaBruce Professions : Writer Born : January 3, 1964 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Bruce LaBruce One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside the constraints of "normal" society still have romantic impulses and are capable of love and tenderness. Sometimes people cannot or don't want to acknowledge that pornographers are people too! Bruce LaBruce want trying people My films often have a very strong strain of irony, or even sarcasm, which is definitely related to homosexual camp. But it is by no means straightforward: quite often I am sincere when I appear to be sarcastic, and I am sarcastic when I appear to be sincere. I also try to contradict myself at least once a day, which is a camp must. Bruce LaBruce sarcastic strong mean No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution. Bruce LaBruce sexual-revolution homosexual revolution There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence. Bruce LaBruce lifestyle-choices gay order Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses Bruce LaBruce opiates heterosexuality heterosexuality-is In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert their biologically-determined body are struggling against nature. It's a mysterious combination of nature and nurture that determines a person's gender, and for whatever reason some people are driven to challenge their biological "destiny". It's a difficult struggle, and I believe it takes a lot of courage. Bruce LaBruce destiny struggle believe I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than the overly emotive, technical and supposedly "realistic" acting that is so prevalent in mainstream cinema. Bruce LaBruce real appreciation thinking I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me. Bruce LaBruce film firsts Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
