LGBT material is largely marginalised outside of rare hits like Brokeback Mountain.”
“But it’s an unfortunate commercial reality both here and in the US that distributors have to deal with when getting films on to the shop shelf. “I’m not defending it – it’s wrong and outmoded,” he said.
The US DVD cover for Pride, in which the banner is missing (though the eagle-eyed may still spot the word ‘gay’ on the T-shirts).īen Roberts, director of the BFI Film Fund, which helped fund Pride, said he was unsurprised that US distributors had taken the decision to sell more copies by watering down Pride’s gay content.