Saw Midnight Cowboy for the first time.

I don't have an issue with MC and any homophobic undertones it may have for some reason and usually I would be the first to jump on the phobic bandwagon.The film entirely encapsulates its era and attitudes. It does depict male hustling as being a sleazy last resort that only the desperate will engage in, but by the flip side, the same can also be said for female prostitution. Joe Buck was depicted in a movie theater getting blown, but that was out of convenience as well and was at the same time a sad and compassionate scene with the kid who couldn't then pay him. That kid did annoy me though, as he had no business taking advantage either if he had no money. He should have had a wank. Joe was depicted as selling himself to women in a proper apartment bed and he was with that old dude near the end in a hotel room. 

Ratso derided it as fa@@otry and referred to gays as "fruits", but it was in character and him and Joe had a very strong male bonding, even if not sexual. Who'd want to get it on with that filthy sewer rat anyway...  Hoffman tends to get most of the praise for this film, but Voigt was the revelation for me.