Gay Okay?

With this essay we revive “The Open Question,” ’a forum in which senior editors may reply to other NR writers.

NEVER mind doomsday asteroids and giant iguanas; the summer’s most frightening movie may be a romantic comedy. Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss opened quietly last month. In outline the plot is conventional: at a Starbucks-type establishment, a photographer falls in love with the young beauty who serves him coffee. His affection is not returned and disappointment lies in store, or does it?

About the Author

David Klinghoffer

David Klinghoffer, a former literary editor at NR, is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute and co-author of The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath, and other books.

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With this essay we revive “The Open Question,” ’a forum in which senior editors may reply to other NR writers.

NEVER mind doomsday asteroids and giant iguanas; the summer’s most frightening movie may be a romantic comedy. Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss opened quietly last month. In outline the plot is conventional: at a Starbucks-type establishment, a photographer falls in love with the young beauty who serves him coffee. His affection is not returned and disappointment lies in store, or does it?

About the Author

David Klinghoffer

David Klinghoffer, a former literary editor at NR, is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute and co-author of The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath, and other books.