“Southern Baptist Sissies” Punches Hard
Release Date:Nov /18/ 2013 Genre: Drama Director: Del Shores Cast: Emerson Collins、Leslie Jordan、Dale Dickey、Willam Belli、Luke Stratte-McClure Viola's Rating:6.6 At 2019 Taiwan International Queer Film Festival (TIQFF), there’s Director Del Shores’ special present, featuring “Sordid Lives”, “Southern Baptist Sissies” and the opening feature film, “A Very Sordid Wedding”. “Southern Baptist Sissies” was released in the US on Nov. 18, 2013, right before Thanksgiving, to tell the story of four struggling boys. In the form of a filmed version of a performance of play, this drama film is the story of four boys growing up in the Southern Baptist Church who are gay and how they each deal differently with the conflict between their sexuality and the teachings of the church. Unlike Shores’ “Sordid” series, “Southern Baptist Sissies” is much bitterer, and therefore, it conveys the story through two different storylines, one comedy, and the other tragedy, to balance the emotions. W...