This ’83 drama from Robert Altman addressed gays in the military, but wasn’t up to the task

Image Credit: ‘Streamers,’ Shot! Factory

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit 1983’s Streamers, an oft-forgotten war drama from revered auteur Robert Altman.

This weekend sees the release of the A24 war drama Warfare, starring a cavalcade of hunky young actors playing a platoon of American SEALS stationed overseas in 2016. While the cast keeps busy with publicity stunts in support of the film (from on-screen kisses to matching tattoos), we’ll take a look at another film centered around young soldiers huddling together, and the toll the military complex takes on their mental and physical well-being.

Part of living and operating in a society is blending in and adapting to everyone else around you. Although we obviously each have

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