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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis)
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Subject: Kudos to CBS/CTV
Message-ID: <173@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 21:50:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 23 21:50:00 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 01:37:35 EST
Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis)
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Last night, CBS (CTV in Canada) telecast "Welcome Home, Bobby". I hadn't
known anything about this prior to this week, and so it came as a bolt from
the blue. It was actually good (for a TV-movie).

It concerned a 16-year old high-school student, who has been busted after a
relationship with a 35-year old architect with more money than ethics. The
movie is concerned with what happens between him and his family afterwards
(contrary to the guppy stereotype we've become used to, the family is very
working-class and excessively Catholic; the father is so non-intellectual
and non-professional that his chief passion is his eternal rebuilding of a
1940 Packard). 

In the process, Bobby suffers verbal and physical abuse from his schoolmates
(who mount a petition drive to have him expelled from school for being gay;
the title of their petition, "Protect the Children" made me want to run to
the refrigerator to see whether I had any Florida orange juice). 

The best aspect of the movie, as far as I was concerned, was that Bobby may
or may not be gay (he doesn't know yet); what is at stake is his *right* to
be gay. 

The closing credits mention an organisation I've not heard of, called "The
Foundation for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth". I'd appreciate more
info on them.