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Call Me Troy
- Director: Scott Bloom
- Producer: Scott Bloom; Larry Diamond
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Look...we are not the best people to review this film...being solidly, unequivocally anti-religion.
So...bearing that in mind...we'll review this as the film that it is...
Too long, too sycophantic, too repetitive...if you hear 'first class' once, you hear it a thousand times.
The blubbing, the sentimentality, the faux sincerity is...hard to swallow. This man believes god spoke to him...oh please!
It's both history and advertisement...for MCC...the preaching is [albeit weirdly entertaining] in your face...it grates in next to no time.
The activisim is interesting...effective.
It really is difficult to take this man seriously, he's jovial, overly-emotional and a leather queen...a self-styled pastor who left his wife and children behind to trundle dow the gay-way...and, believes that god spoke to him. Yeah...right?
But...there are those who need to be part of a collective flock...now, that's called a business opportunity.
A canny business man...he is. An effective activist...he was. The voice of god...he's not.
Religion is big business...all Troy Perry did...he made it a little more gay...god's bank does not discriminate against the colour of your money...pink dollars, pink pounds, pink euros...
Eloi, eloi....
Watch...
The(ir) Blurb...
Call Me Troy is a truly inspirational story about a remarkable and dynamic individual whose activism was decades ahead of its time. Rev. Perry is perhaps best known as the founder of the Metropolitan Community Church - the first church to recognize the spiritual needs of the gay community - but his 'firsts' don't stop there. He was the first openly gay person to serve on the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations.
In 1969, Perry performed the first public same-sex wedding in the U.S., and in 1970 he filed the first-ever lawsuit seeking legal recognition for same-gender marriages. From presidential advisor to outspoken advocate, Perry has been on the front lines leading the charge for equal rights and protections for gay men and lesbians the world over as well as providing a place for all people, gay and straight, to worship side by side. This film celebrates his life and his legacy.