10 Great LGBT Military Movies
BY Diane Anderson-Minshall
September 23 2011 5:00 AM ET
Private Benjamin
(1980) Bisexual
As the sheltered, spoiled Paris Hilton of her day, Goldie
Hawn is brilliant as the Jewish American Judy Goodman-Benjamin, a woman who
accidentally enlists in the Army after her hubby drops dead during sex on their
wedding night. Boot camp kicks her ass, but Private Benjamin discovers she’s
got a fight in her as well. Oft her nemesis, is the excellent Eileen Brennan as
bisexual Captain
Doreen Lewis, an uptight military rule-seeker who finds Benjamin’s
frivolousness contemptuous. Lewis — who’s played for laughs a lot — starts the
film in love with a man but in later scenes finds her constant companion in
Sally Kirkland’s Helga and while a big bisexual (or lesbian) coming out would
have been nice, this is the Army pre-2011we’re talking about.
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