going on grindr to prove you’re not gay
by Douglas
Messerli
Hayden Soares
(screenwriter and director) I’m Not Gay / 2024 [8 minutes]
This
Indian film, made, so its creators brag, on a Samsung they found lying on the
streets, is somewhat amusing if not totally coherent.
It centers around the central character
(Hayden Soares), who claims he’s not gay, although is two gay friends (Aakarsh
Bansal and Malcom D’Souza) insist he has all the characteristics of a gay man.
He
also claims to not be homophobic, so his friends dare him to go on Grindr,
where he immediately gets 138 people interested, including one from his own
school, who since he knows him, he is terrified that people will really think
he’s really gay. Whatever was he thinking to go on Grindr in order to prove he
was not gay? Perhaps he was truly interested if he might attract the same
sex.
He spends most of the remaining time of this
8-minute film asking friends if he seems gay, a close girlfriend hedging by
saying “Well, you’re not very masculine.”
But before the end, he doesn’t seem to
care, realizing that being gay has nothing to do with being masculine or
feminine.
Here,
however, the movie putters out, and we never discover what becomes of our
nervous friend.
Los
Angeles, June 19, 2025
Reprinted
from My Queer Cinema blog (June 2025).
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