Though ahead of its time, this 1971 gay prison drama is still a tough watch

Image Credit: ‘Fortune And Men’s Eyes,’ MGM

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit 1971’s gay prison drama Fortune And Men’s Eyes.

As we’ve discussed many times in this column, queer representation in entertainment was, for many decades, boiled down to either a handful of stereotypes that reduced our multifaceted community into digestible and superficial tropes, or we were thrown into the background, with no dialogue—our interactions forced to be read between the lines.

We could devote a whole series to the various queer stereotypes that have popped up in film and television throughout the years: the sexless and treacherous effeminate villains, the two-faced lesbian femme fatales, the self-loathing sex addicts. But this week, we’ll focus on a

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