For those who have never seen it and those who have never forgotten it
Joe Buck comes to New York as a young man hoping for success as a male prostitute. Instead he meets Ratso Rizzo, a worn-out con man. They navigate the city's underworld, share a bedroom and do whatever it takes to survive. They stick together in a city that would have drowned them both.
Midnight Cowboy does something Hollywood had not dared before: male prostitution and the homoerotic tension that is never spoken aloud. But what makes the film queer is not just this. It is what Joe does and what he denies - simultaneously.
