One of Them!

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Run time: 48 min
Premiere: 1998. April 4.

Director: Stewart Main
Writer: Peter Wells
Starring: Ciaran Pennington Cameron J. Watt Stephen Papps Ray Woolf

One of Them! was one of two dramas (alongside Niki Caro movie Memory and Desire) inspired by short stories collected in Peter Wells' 1991 book Dangerous Desires. It was made for TV One as a Montana Sunday drama. Set in Auckland, 1965, One of Them! follows Lemmy and Jamie, two teenage boys coming to terms with their sexuality. In the dark days before gay liberation, bullying and intimidation was rife, and while the boys flaunt their sissyness, their internalized homophobia wreaks havoc on their emotional lives — until they can admit to being "one of them".