Parting Glances is a film.
Bill Sherwood . He is best known for his 1986 film Parting Glances , made for $ 310,000 , a bittersweet romantic comedy that spans a 24-hour period in the upwardly mobile New York gay community . Parting Glances is an American film shot in 1984 and released in 1986 . With its realistic look at urban gay life in the Ronald Reagan era and at the height of the AIDS crisis , many film critics consider it an important movie in the history of gay cinema .