Poster of Small Town Gay Bar

Small Town Gay Bar

Documentary

Director: Malcolm Ingram

Release Date: January 1, 2006

Where to Watch

I have close to 500 DVDs in my Netflix Queue so it may be easy to get in the queue, but it is extremely difficult to make it to the top. Small Town Gay Bar did so when I heard Kevin Smith talk about it in Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell. I may not like Kevin Smith’s films, but he should executive produce more films because Malcolm Ingram’s Small Town Gay Bar was succinct, superb and simple. The title says it all. The documentary focuses on gay bars in small towns in Mississippi. The patrons look at it as sanctuary, a chance to breathe and be themselves. When the patrons discuss times when things got risqué at their favorite haunt, they are abashed perhaps fearing that they will get lumped into the hated stereotype that those who surround them believe them to be. Unfortunately Small Town Gay Bar only focuses on a hate crime in Alabama and a hate group headquartered in Kansas instead of exclusively addressing opponents in Mississippi, but it is a forgivable mistake since he is trying to explain why there are not a lot of options for the patrons.

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