It’s a male-gaze moment, but whose? Frankie’s, apparently, because while he’s less than enthused about Simone’s overtures, he succumbs, thus involving her- unhappily, how else?-in his continuing effort to figure out who he is. ), one of a group of young women bumping up against Frankie and his friends, as the Wonder Wheel spins nearby. (“Pina”)-lock onto the shapely backside of Simone ( Hittman, throwing us a curve, has the camera-operated by the marvelous read more Eagle 562 Eagle 562 is a leather bar in North Long Beach. Recently had a major remodel of the interior, creating luminous space lighting with color effects and projections in addition to multi-screens, featuring contemporary and classic music videos in an. ) casting a concerned glance at everything he does (“What drugs are you on?” “The good ones!”), he escapes to the Coney Island boardwalk with his boys, three misfits his mother won’t allow in her house and for whom gay-bashing would seem a reasonable way to spend a Friday night. Premiere Nightclub in Long Beach, with a large selection of spirits. With his father dying at home in Sheepshead Bay and his mother ( But as Frankie is also quick to say, he doesn’t know what he wants. “I don’t do that,” he tells one older man, who wants to meet in person. ), is introduced almost coyly, shyly, with smeary sidelong glances at his barbells, his hat, his posing, his primping, as he preps for what seems to be one of his first visits to a gay chat site.
Hittman’s main character, the laughably good-looking Frankie (newcomer