Queer rodeo hits the silver screen with 'National Anthem':
Almost 20 years after the release of “Brokeback Mountain,” director Luke Gilford set out to make a ...
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National Anthem Brings Queer Rodeo to TheatersLuke Gilford’s feature-directing debut opened Friday in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, with a wider release set for July 19.
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- The film follows Dylan, a 21-year-old construction worker supporting his mother and younger sibling while working at the queer House of Splendor ranch.
- At the ranch, Dylan explores his identity and meets Sky, a transgender woman portrayed by trans actor Eve Lindley.
- Gilford developed the screenplay from portraits and interviews with participants in the International Gay Rodeo Association.
- Real queer rodeo community members appear in the film, which Gilford said was important for authentic visibility.
"It really struck me at first, because that symbol has become so fraught, but then it sunk in just how subversive and beautiful it is for the people who are most often excluded from that narrative to be taking the symbol back," he said.— Luke Gilford, in an interview on Monday about his film National Anthem
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