![]() ![]() “My two great loves are making movies and being gay. ![]() And famed Hollywood producer and gay rights activist Bruce Cohen is looking here to take his first shot at directing.Ĭohen is working on securing funding to make a movie based on Burd’s novel about a young gay man’s “last real summer”–the one between high school and college–in a fictional Midwest town. The state has one of the strongest anti-bullying laws in the country–one that specifically protects LGBT students–and Iowa City is among the most gay-friendly cities in the country. Iowa shocked the country almost two years ago when it started marrying same-sex couples. It wasn’t the kind of place likely to attract famed Hollywood producer and gay rights activist Bruce Cohen to take his first shot at directing. And while most of the state’s bigger towns were generally tolerant–for the Midwest, at least–same-sex unions seemed destined to be secluded to the coasts. The presidential candidates vetted here didn’t tend to favor expanding gay rights. Iowa didn’t mean anything to gay rights six years ago when novelist Nick Burd was in New York writing The Vast Fields of Ordinary. ![]()
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