Pink Palace presents John Schlesinger’s taboo breaking masterpiece Midnight Cowboy, the first X rated film to win the Oscar for Best Film, and the kicked open the door for queer representation in mainstream cinema.

Joe Buck a wide eyed innocent arrives in New York at the height of the freewheeling 60’s (and the time of the Stonewall Riots) and quickly gets drawn into its seedy underbelly, making a living as a sex worker under the spell of con artist Rico Rizzo, they encounter a bizarre selection of clients… priests, married men, society women, hustlers and Warhol superstars as they try to make a living.

“Midnight Cowboy was a landmark moment in Queer cinema history. Here’s an award-winning film that openly dealt with homosexuality by a gay director adapted from a novel by James Leo Herlihy, a gay author. The brilliant performances from Voight and Hoffman intertwine into one of the most nuanced depictions of a latent homosexual romance in 20th-century cinema.” 

Film Threat

Pink Palace is a super low fi highly relaxed weekly queer film club that takes place in the basement bar, its a safe space so come along and catch some queer film and pop culture history, each week the film is introduced by curator Andrew Woodyatt, feel free to stay and chat afterwards, participation is encouraged!