MIDNIGHT COWBOY: A Radical Representation of Internalised Homophobia and Ableism

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Released in 1969 Midnight Cowboy was the first gay-related Best Picture winner and the only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture. It was based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy and was written...

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