ABSTRACT
The flood of news stories about the protests against Basic Instinct included several articles focused not exclusively on that film, but interested more generally in reporting on two broader failures of the motion picture industry: “It is difficult to point to a Hollywood gay character who could be called a hero,” the Boston Globe grumbled.1
“None of the major film studios has made a film addressing the AIDS epidemic,” the Los Angeles Times complained.2 Those two criticisms were fully justified when the newspapers made them in 1992, but neither was valid a year later.
