gaydar

This blogging thing seems to be cutting into my sleeping and watching TV time. OK, movie idea #1: Gaydar. It’s about a gay man, Eli Whistler, who lives in a conservative Midwestern city (St. Louis, Omaha, or something like that since they’re all the same…). Tired of the lack of an active gay scene in his city, he invents a device (Gaydar) that allows the holder to detect others who also have the device, allowing gay people to covertly meet at normally “hetero” Midwestern activities (i.e. rodeos, monster truck rallies, etc.). At first, things go great, his invention is well-received by the gay community and reinvigorates the social scene. But things take a turn for the over dramatic when the device falls into the wrong hands (as devices like those almost always do), and someone starts using it to systematically (as opposed to haphazardly) eliminate gay people. Now it’s up to Eli and his new, sassy boyfriend, Kyle*, to find the person responsible and put an end to their reign of terror -- instead of just telling people to stop using Gaydar, which would dramatically cut into Gaydar Inc.’s profits.

It’s got blockbuster written all over it. On a side note, the main character’s name is a reference to Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin in hopes that it would reduce the need for slave labor in the production of cotton, but instead, it lead to a boom in cotton production that directly led to an increase in the use of slaves (d’oh). Whitney is also credited with the invention of interchangeable parts, which, as everyone knows, eventually led to the creation of Mr. Potatohead and his drag pseudonym, the appropriately named, Mrs. Potatohead.