Friday, May 14, 1999 12:00 AM
Like the rest of the moviegoing public, queerfolk crave youth and romance, something indie producers in the 1990s finally got wise to: Out with the psycho killers and in with buff boys and sensitive lads. But "Edge of Seventeen," about coming out and of age in the early '80s, trumps the current crop of nice-guy gay films.
By Daniel Mangin