![]() In 1994, I was a development executive at Amblin Entertainment. For that alone, the film is worth celebrating on its 20th anniversary. ![]() And while the film itself may not have sparked much if any social change, it did have a major impact on the lives of the people associated with its making. It was the number one film at the box office in its first two weeks in the theaters. It was released by a major studio, Universal Pictures. This film, with three gay characters at its center, did get made, and by a major production company - Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. ![]() But perhaps the fact that the film didn't deal with dying men - whom straight audiences could cry over in a theater but disdain in the real world - and instead featured three healthy, out, proud, unapologetically gay queens made its mere existence particularly noteworthy. ![]()
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