Gayest Part of America

Here are my insights on what makes the Alabama clip work:

Gayest part of America, Alabama!
This comment alone is funny because one would assume that Alabama would actually be a very gay-unfriendly place to live, due to the socially conservative, religiously-based attitudes of many southerners

Football game
This is a good setting for Bruno to pick, because football is typically thought of as a very macho sport. One would expect that it would be an even more un-accepting place for gays than some other places in Alabama. It is thus not surprising when he gets booed and the finger for dancing with the cheerleaders.

Interview with runningback, Shaud Williams
He is not as outraged by Bruno’s initial “gay” comments as the wrestling boys in the clip we saw in class, so Bruno has to push further. Bruno is still able to show the unfounded fear that many straight male athletes hold of gay men, which Shaud reflects in his statement to the Austrian gay community: “I’m not gay so don’t come looking for me.”

Interview with event organizer at Pro America Expo
Another setting where one would expect prejudice views, this time, Bruno also exposes this man’s blatant anti-semitism. The man comments: “freedom means doing what you want…without the Jewish hand in your pocket.”
This man is not as repulsed initially by gay people as some other interviewees but Bruno still exposes his ignorance by getting him to say that gay people are free to do what they want as long as it is in the privacy of their own home and “as long as you stay away from my kids.” Bruno is exposing this man’s ignorance, as it is pretty much a fact that one does not get “recruited” to be gay; they either are or are not. The man then ends the interview by calling Bruno “some fucking fag” which the event organizer claims, makes Bruno “unprofessional.”