Gary Oldman is a cruising Joe Orton in this dark look at jealousy within the gay community

Image Credit: ‘Prick Up Your Ears,’ MGM Home Entertainment

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit a cinematic ode to a groundbreaking queer playwright, 1987’s Prick Up Your Ears.

A large number of entertainment centering queer stories depict our strong sense of community; the found family we find, the social movements we have spearheaded together, the love we find despite all odds. Our collective unity is, for good reason, one of the traits that represents us best.

However, there’s also a darker side of the coin: the divisiveness and in-fighting that happens within our own. The isolation we inflict upon our own kind, and the sense of competitiveness and jealousy that we create with each other. Though

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