Three gay coming-of-age stories from '94 that feel like finding your older brother's secret mixtape.
Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the summer, he realizes and embraces that he's gay. In "A Friend of Dorothy," Winston arrives from upstate for his freshman year at NYU. He has to figure out, with some help from Anne, a hometown friend, how to build a social life as a young gay man in the city. In "The Disco Years," Tom looks back on 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet after one joyful and several painful encounters
Writing
Dorothy's Wizard of Oz metaphor still slaps.
Production
Three distinct visual palettes, one cohesive ache.
Director
Brian Sloan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released four years before Will & Grace, this was genuine pre-mainstream gay cinema—no studio notes, no straight audience concessions, just three directors telling stories because nobody else was.
The 'Disco Years' high school scenes were shot at the same Los Angeles location used for Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sunnydale High—same halls, very different monsters.
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