The Movie: Flaming Creatures (1963)
What Is It?: Jack
Smith’s celebration of polymorphous perversity and monsters is a landmark
product of NY’s underground movie scene and gay cinema. Think of it as an
avant-garde Rocky Horror Picture Show
that dares to go places Rocky never did. Flaming
Creatures earns extra points for pissing off Strom Thurmond.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association
removes homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders.
