This heavily unbalanced movie presents two gay people -- a man and a woman -- who are trapped in negative relationships with unappealing partners, thus stacking the deck against the gay lifestyle. It does not present gay relationships as being normal and healthy.
In the 70's, there were few people as beautiful as Meg Foster and Perry King. The idea of them having sex and falling in love isn't terribly far fetched.
There be spoilers ahead! When I first saw this movie at the age of 12 or 13 I fell in love with Perry King - a love which has lasted as these years.
A movie that Christian Gay conversion therapy fans everywhere will approve of.It sounded a good premise, gay illegal immigrant is left high, dry and homeless by his famous lover, meets lesbian slobby career woman who lets him stay over for a night that runs into him becoming her room mate.
Just a great flick, that I still love today!. Perry King was/is so handsome!
As a gay male i don't like being pigeon holed into any particular category. it's funny how the gay community loves to claim alternative lifestyle status but very rarely likes any one in their own community to step out of the prescribed mold.
This film was seen by my wife and I when it came out in 1978. It was a revelation to us.
Lesbian marries a Belgian gay man to keep him in the States; they fall in love for real, but he cheats on her--with a woman. Gay leading characters (male or female) in a mainstream motion picture hadn't been in vogue for a number of years--you'd have to go back to "The Fox" or "The Killing of Sister George" in 1968, "The Boys in the Band" in 1970 and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in 1971--which makes screenwriter Henry Olek's efforts here doubly disappointing.
This movie is as unique as it is overlooked......A Different Story is just that, it shows how out of the need to survive or maintain, one can find the capacity to love if you have an open heart as well as an open mind.
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