Should be re-made with a gay couple

I wish gays would stop trying to co-opt/copy/counterfeit/reference the black struggle for their own personal benefit. That someone would suggest this movie be remade with a gay theme quite frankly is offensive...not because homosexuality is offensive, but because you're trying to exploit a film that represents the struggle and progress of a DIFFERENT community for your own personal gain. It's almost like plagiarism; just with a few different words here and there.

If gays want marriage and other societal freedoms, then they need to carve out their own UNIQUE path to it. Stop trying to bum a ride on the train black folks rode on because it's just THAT easy to do. Stop trying to draw a parallel because you know that the Black Civil Rights Movement is arguably the most significant civil rights movement the country ever saw.

Oh, and to the people who make the comparisons between "passing" and being in the closet...you do know that MOST black people do not have the luxury of "passing," right? The ones who did were a very small minority of people, many of whom were mixed race. The average black person cannot pass anywhere near as easily as the average gay person can hide in the closet. One is about physical looks/genes, and the other is about personality/outer behavior; so that comparison is null and void.

Bottom line:
Keep your eyes on your own paper and stop trying to use/forge a comparison to another communities past (and current) struggles to garner more sympathy for yourselves and to speed up your trek to acceptance. You never hear black people try to use what gay people go through to illicit more understanding and compassion. Be more original, please.

I can imagine the climactic quote : "Dad, you think of yourself as a man. I think of myself as a human being"

"Darth Vader is scary and I The Godfather"

I have one very fundamental objection to the idea - not a homophobic objection, but one relating to drama. One of the key dramatic points of Guess Who's is the surprise of Miss White Bread suddenly showing up with a black fiance. Now they could make that with a gay couple, but the real question is whether or not the surprise would be the fiance(e) or the coming out. If the child had already come out, then there would be no real shock element in him/her showing up with a same sex partner, but if the child had not yet come out, then it would really be a coming out story, which is a whole different kettle of fish and would change the nature of the story altogether. So I wonder if that plot twist could really work without making an essentially different film.

I was thinking the same exact thing!

No that is NOT provocative enough. A girl from an Evangelical Christian Fundamentalist family brings home her Muslim lover !!

"My beautiful laundrette" (1985) :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091578/combined

I seem to remember an american TV movie about a gay teenager and his mother being appalled by the whole thing and rejecting her son.
Then he dies (commits suicide ?) and she then spends her whole life fighting for gay rights.
Can't remember the name of the movie...

I would not watch. But you could expand it to, "Hey Ma, Guess Who's Pregnant (and I don't know who the father is?) Seriously...

in theory, you could make it any odd couple you want.

I don't think society is ready for a gay couple version.