🎬 Actor – Parting Glances

Fight, fight, fight, fight. A few thoughts on my role in Parting Glances, its actors and filmmakers, the health crisis that spawned it, and the relentlessly uncertain future of gay men and women.

Close up on the original movie poster for Parting Glances as it was released in the United States.

It couldn’t have been a smaller part, a few lines at best.

I was offered the role of one of three townie teenagers harassing Steve Buscemi’s character out on Fire Island. The film was Parting Glances. Steve Buscemi wasn’t even “Steve Buscemi” then — althoug…