Confirmation

9/23/2025

In the midst of interviewing the man behind the pioneering queer classic: Adam(1975), it was made to my attention that former actor and director (Paul Bugden) ventured further into directing then what the internet presumed otherwise. As I finally laid my hands on a personal copy of Adam, Paul gifts me a VHS rip of his followup short film, simply titled: Confirmation. To my shock, this film is actually a prequel to Adam. Part of an intended trilogy that was never completed. Confirmation centers on our titular protagonist of the series as a young boy going through his Confirmation Ceremony whilst wondering into imaginative scenarios picturing him as an ideal "Solider of Christ". The thematic juxtaposition of Catholicism is quite the intentional deviation from Bugden's overtly gay explo