This will be an ongoing feature in which I try to point out examples of Alphahood and Alpha behavior as expressed in the arts, primarily movies.

The 1992 crime thriller Glengarry Glen Ross is a middle-of-the-road film about a bunch of mostly broken Men trying to salvage something of their lost lives.

But it opens with one of the most dynamic representations of Alpha/beta Hierarchy ever put to film. Alec Baldwin (in his only appearance in the film) plays a dynamic, successful corporate sales manager sent in to motivate the flagging sales team. The way he does it establishes himself firmly as the God Alpha among the other males. Kevin Spacey plays his beta-dom suck-up. Among the group, guys like Jack Lemmon are like beta cucks.

Only Ed Harris exhibits any potential Alpha qualities, initially fighting back against Baldwin’s bluster. However, Baldwin’s God Alpha character kicks Harris back into place.

Here is the scene:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) premiered 49 years ago and kicked open the solid doors of societal oppression against the burgeoning gay rights movement. It was a low-budget blast of camp, drag queen, muscle worship, and Dom/sub dynamics all wrapped up in a glam-tastic technicolor swirl.

There are two primary reasons why the film became such a landmark in the gay rights movement. First of all, the film really rocks. It has some of the best pop/rock songs ever put into a musical film, and it helped to make the film more accessible to mainstream audiences.

But the second required a bit of casting magic. Tim Curry absolutely transformed into the over-the-top main character Dr. Frank-n-Furter, an alien from Transsexual Transylvania. Curry honed and shaped the character on the stage before taking the complete creation to the big screen. There were were left spellbound by every lip curl and scrunch of his nose, his Mick Jagger-like lips constantly quivering and twisting with barely-contained lust.

Straight people might have once had an idea of what a “faggot” might be like, but they suddenly found themselves in a darkened theater with a brazenly proud and voracious faggot practically sucking their dicks through the screen. And wouldn’t you know it – people loved it!

So many faggots came to realize that their need to serve Men is something universal in faggots, that their desire is natural to them. In the film, Frank is so desperate to serve an Alpha that he makes one himself (the titular Rocky). What faggot can’t relate to that?

I’m so glad Tim Curry came along to create that character and throw himself so totally into the role. His look, style, and attitude are forever etched into popular culture, and especially into the hearts of the generations of faggots he inspired.

Now if I could only learn to dance in high heels!!