This is a GAY movie

I really am, well, not incredulous that some (heterosexual, obviously) fans think the lesbian theme in this film is subtle, understated or even arguable. It isn't. This is a story about two young lesbians who fall in love.

The punk haze hovering over this film is a mere sideshow in a story about a bourgeois lesbian girl, suffering quietly and in great danger of becoming a churchmouse (or worse, as she herself states, a "zombie") who collides with a young diesel dyke runaway Nikki, who breaks every chain holding down this young girl. What on earth did you think Nikki was talking about when she says: "I'm a fu***ing freak of nature!" Are you people really that stupid? She's a DYKE. Say it three times. Of course, the "best friends forever" ending is a true cinematic wimpfest, but it doesn't change anything. Perhaps you might be clued in that gays had to relate in codes and clues via the media even in 1980.

I personally read the DJ character as a gay man who recognized what was going on with these two girls and that was the nature of his sympathy with them. To me and any other gay person it is bleeding *beep* obvious.

What I think heterosexuals, punk rockers in particular, find incomprehensible about this film is that gays - as rebels against not against nature (that's impossible), but civilization (and its inexorable & attendant obsession with procreation) itself - might have something to teach the rest of you drones about rebellion. Deal with it.