<P> Upon its release, The Silence of the Lambs was criticized by members of the LGBT community for its portrayal of Buffalo Bill as bisexual and transsexual . In response to the critiques, Demme replied that Buffalo Bill "wasn't a gay character . He was a tormented man who hated himself and wished he was a woman because that would have made him as far away from himself as he possibly could be ." Demme added that he "came to realize that there is a tremendous absence of positive gay characters in movies". </P> <P> In a 1992 interview with Playboy magazine, notable feminist and women's rights advocate Betty Friedan stated, "I thought it was absolutely outrageous that The Silence of the Lambs won four (sic) Oscars . (...) I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shown . I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triumph, but it was about the evisceration, the skinning alive of women . That is what I find offensive . Not the Playboy centerfold ." </P>

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