Dead Poets Society Steals a Queer Story
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.

Damon is a down-on-his-luck commercial photographer scratching for every mundane, boring job he can get just to survive. He discovers that a supernatural power has been gifted to him. When he touches someone, he can see their most intimate sexual fantasy. A whole new world of erotic adventure has opened up to him and his normally stuffy photo sessions turn into orgies of eroticism as his subjects let loose their innermost fantasies.
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.
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