Reacting to Fellow Travelers - Episode 7
Added 2023-12-10 06:00:04 +0000 UTCGooooooood morning beautiful Patreon family,
I am writing this from the train to London for the London International Short Film Festival and I can't thank you all enough again for my wonderful video fo good luck and love. I appreciate yo uall!
Today we are dropping back into Fellow Travelers and WOOF. Grab your tissues. You'll need them. I definitely needed them.
Only one episode left and I am feeling all the feelings... ugh!
Love, always ♥️
Comments
This was such a hard one to watch. My son's name is Jackson 💔 I was so proud of Marcus in this episode.
Cathy Mills
2023-12-26 07:57:10 +0000 UTCThere is so much in the 1978 / Fire Island installment that only people my age (80) would get or know. In the opening scenes, the woman hit in the face with a pie was Anita Bryant formerly Miss Oklahoma and a white, telegenic, Top 40 singer who was well known for her Florida orange juice commercials (“A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine!” she’d say). Bryant spearheaded an anti-LGBTQ campaign of such impact that its echoes can be heard in today’s rhetoric. The year was 1977. Vile woman. Don't say gay is part of her legacy. Fire Island. I know it well. My lover and I rented an apartment every summer in The Grove (that's where Tim got off the ferry by mistake). It's a 15 - 20 walk through undeveloped land to get to The Pines. The Meat Rack is in that undeveloped area. I was never in it or walked through it because we rented in The Grove. It was less expensive and it was where Lesbians rented or owned places. The Grove was where the disco night life was. I was called a "vampire." Vampires lay on the beach during the day, went home, had dinner, napped till 11:30 PM, got dressed and hit the disco till it closed at 4 AM I think it was. Sometimes the partying continues at someone's house till it was time for breakfast, eat, put on a swimsuit and hit the beach, though the guys on the beach were largely naked. . The Pines was where the expensive houses were. Famous gay people owned houses there. The houses cost millions even in the 1970s. Hawk owned a house so he was very wealthy. In all likelihood all the people in the house were paying to rent a room. Usually renters came only for the weekend. When Hawk said he sent them into town so he and Tim could be alone made no sense. There's no town to send them to. It's get on the ferry and go back to New York City. The logic is sort of iffy there. The people who rented in The Pines were snobs. They looked down on the renters in The Grove. The disco they went to was The Sandpiper. A model Tom Moulton arrived on Fire Island, and somehow revolutionized disco with the creation of the long playing disco mix. It was tested at the Sandpiper in the Pines and was a hit. The Tea Dance created in 1966 becomes the epicenter of Fire Island as the Disco revolution explodes throughout the 1970’s.
William Gammon
2023-12-13 20:50:10 +0000 UTCThe intensity and accuracy of this incredible episode moved me tears. I lived through 70s. There was a sense of urgency at that time. We were very promiscuous because there was a sense we could loose whatever new found sexual freedom at anytime.
Jon Anthony Carsello
2023-12-10 16:10:32 +0000 UTCI teared up a little watching, but now sitting with it all the tears are flowing…I am going to need something super fluffy to counter this… On a brighter note, good luck today! Have fun, soak it all in and as always, hydrate!
Erin
2023-12-10 16:04:44 +0000 UTCThis was the only episode that truly made me sob. I'm going to miss this show. Good luck at the festival. Please take video! If you want to learn about Harvey Milk, I strongly recommend watching "The Times of Harvey Milk," available on Max or for rent on amazon. It's the documentary that spawned the movie "Milk", also worth watching.
jennifer
2023-12-10 15:14:32 +0000 UTCI loved hearing the 60s/70s music too. I graduated from high school in’68
Diane Furlong
2023-12-10 14:06:19 +0000 UTCI love how the Sylvester's song is played twice, binge listening has always been a thing :DD But yeah, watching this is the first time both of them are in the headspace of somehow embracing they are gay so I'm like, get together already you fools.
Naava
2023-12-10 13:00:07 +0000 UTCAlso, good luck at the festival and have fun x
Audrey Gunn
2023-12-10 11:00:27 +0000 UTCThis episode had me in bits, starting from the moment Hawk truly accepted losing Jackson, i was in tears from then onwards. When he told Tim to let him die my heart shattered and after he told him what had happened and how they had tried everything i really thought that would be him starting to come out of the spiral he was in but i think it took Tim, the one person he really can't live with not being in his life, finally standing up to him and telling him he was done with him to do that. I have heard of Harvey Milk but like you knew very little about him, i had to google him after the show.
Audrey Gunn
2023-12-10 10:58:42 +0000 UTCI was in my 20s during the disco era and this episode took me back to the music, the vibe, the fashion and yes I sported a mustache. The hedonistic scenes looked familiar too. 😊
Jose Matutina
2023-12-10 10:37:44 +0000 UTCIt’s Your Big Day Jackie! Enjoy and soak it all in! Sending lots of Love
Diane Furlong
2023-12-10 10:09:41 +0000 UTCWow, that was fast work Jackie. It’s 5AM here. I need to get in the right mindset and I’ll watch while I have my breakfast. Sending you a big Hug because you probably need one after seeing this episode.
Diane Furlong
2023-12-10 10:05:59 +0000 UTCI cried all the way through this whole episode. It's just so sad. I don't have children (I've never really wanted them except for a brief moment when I was younger), so I've never lost any, but my mom and dad did and I've had other family members lose children as well (one as recently as a year ago), and I can't imagine it. Parents are never the same after. The part that really got me was when Hawk had his breakdown and said "please let me die," and Tim said "no, I can't do that." That hurt my heart. And I agree with you, Tim needed to say what he said at the end to Hawk because I don't think he was going to come out of that spiral otherwise. I thought it was interesting that at the end of the episode, Hawk showed affection to Tim in public. I know the circumstances are pretty dire, but that still gives me hope that he's turned a corner now and he can be honest with his family and spend the remaining time that Tim has being happy together with him. Hopefully, he will be okay when Tim passes since he doesn't handle loss well. It looks like I was wrong about Frankie possibly being trans. I think I just read too much into things, which I do sometimes. Good luck at the festival. I'm sending good vibes your way!
Jamie
2023-12-10 07:16:51 +0000 UTCYay! I’ve got my fingers crossed for you as well!!! Edit: clarifying that the Yay was for you not for the gut wrenching episode I just watched, although I do think it’s amazing, it’s just so hard to see how far we’ve really come and we still aren’t even where we should be.
Darcy Bandaru
2023-12-10 06:05:50 +0000 UTCThis episode was the end of me… I cried a lot. Have a wonderful time at the festival! My fingers are crossed 🤞🏾🫶🏽
Frances
2023-12-10 06:02:37 +0000 UTC
