The 80s put the gay man ont and centre of pop. Then me the Aids crisis – and three s of monisatn, disrd and displacement. Now, wh Troye Sivan leadg a new wave of gay stars, has change tly arrived?
Contents:
- 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
- FRENCH POP BAND MAK CLEVER USE OF GAY PORN LATT MIC VIO
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- GAY FRANCE
- RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
L soiré gay l pl foll Paris ! * gay french pop *
GayPopEvent. Bienvenue dans l'univers s soiré Gaypopevent!
Il y en ra pour to l goûts, s soiré gay-iendly sur un bate show unrground Drag Queen, chaque soir la semae, no te proposons une évasn dans un univers Queer acidulé;). She however got forced to e out shortly after, when the magaze Paris Match mentned her homosexualy, somethg she had never ma public and hadn’t planned to. Our current favore pick is the h ‘Amour censure’, approachg the theme of homophobia, hate and tolerance through her experience wh her fay and society as a gay woman.
FRENCH POP BAND MAK CLEVER USE OF GAY PORN LATT MIC VIO
We look back at the bt French gay cema. * gay french pop *
La Cage x Foll (1978)Tradnally France has been seen as one of the most liberal untri the world, and boasts an enviable rerd on gay rights, spe the ocsnal rantgs om Brigte Bardot. But has this homoiendly attu translated to s cema? We’ve kept the list to films that are easily available to watch the UK, but honourable mentn should go to The Ostrich Has Two Eggs (1957), a dated farce that at least has a sympathetic gay son, albe one who never appears on screen, and L Amiés particulièr (1964), set a boys’ boardg school.
Un chant d’amour (1950)French wrer Jean Ge is one of the key figur of gay culture, whose novels (cludg Querelle of Brt), plays and says have been champned by gay and straight rears alike. There’s nothg explicly gay here, but any film that shov Jacqu Perr a sailor su, squeez Gee Chakiris to tight whe troers and rat self wh lavish, lurid sets fely has a queer eye.
La Cage x Foll (1978)“Une édie très gay” smirked the tagle for this box-office smash. Blier’s films often foc on two aquate men ung agast women (L Valss, the Osr-wng Get Out Your Handkerchiefs), and unrton of homosexualy have always lgered the air.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
The latt om gay French director Franis Ozon is filled wh the heads of new sire the trailer for the film. * gay french pop *
Here ’s ma explic, albe an ocsnally homophobic ntext – the scen where the hband is forced to don women’s clothg are particularly unfortable.
The arrival of the betiful and charismatic Gill threatens both his thory and his mand on his sexualy, as an unrequed homoerotic attractn tak hold.
Anatomy of Hell (2004)Gay men hate and fear women, even more than straight men.
GAY FRANCE
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When a woman (Amira Casar) slash her wrists a gay bar, she challeng her homosexual rcuer (Italian porn star Roc Sifedi) to spend four nights wh her to “watch me where I’m unwatchable”.
Fet the cliché of the gay bt iend, this guy n’t stand women. It’s easy to snigger at the portento dialogue (“The elasticy of a boy’s an don’t lie about the tightns of the lower tt”) and the assumptn of misogyny may rile male viewers, gay or straight. Only the fal third is explicly gay, but homoerotic tensns simmer throughout.
Most reviews foc on the showy performance of the equently naked Nilas Cazalé as the rebel whout much of a e the first chapter, but the emotnal heart li the fal third, as Morel explor the plexi of the vulnerable gay youth who mt choose between aternal loyalty and a chance at romantic happs.
RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
The bt gay bars dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas, cise clubs, gay beach and more France. Exclive reviews, maps and disunts. * gay french pop *
L Invisibl (2012)Sébastien Lifshz is bt known for his gay featur (Prque rien, Gog South), but his ft work to date is this revealg documentary which gay men and women their 60s and 70s talk about their liv and lov. Stirrg archive footage om the 1960s shows pro-gay monstratns – tertgly, many of the straight onlookers support the liberal march. The wty, charismatic and urageo people paved the way for the eedom gay men and women enjoy today.
Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype. * gay french pop *
Their disarmg ankns creat an valuable oral history, while their tal of opprsn show how far gay rights have progrsed over the s. Paris-based electro new wave pop band The Aikiu is lookg to stir up some buzz ahead of s but album, which will be released later this if there's one way to stir up some buzz for a but album, 's by releasg a mic vio wh scen om gay porn films superimposed over footage of the band playg their SFW porn ncept may not be entirely new, but 's still solid 's Piec of Gold EP is out now via Sony Mic France.
Consumg love between two young men France's Normandy regn 1985 is the subject of gay French tr Franis Ozon's latt film, aptly tled Summer of 85.
Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics. * gay french pop *
Wh s settg at the height of the '80s, s European backdrop, and soundtrack that clus classics om the Cure and Banarama, Summer of 85 is sure to draw parisons to another gay-themed arthoe film recent memory -- Lu Guadagno's Call Me by Your Name.
Provencher exam the tensns between Anglo-Amerin and French articulatns of homosexualy and sexual cizenship the ntext of ntemporary French popular culture and first-person narrativ.
He argu that ntemporary French gay and lbian cultur rely on long-standg French narrativ that rist US mols of gay experience. He matas that French gay experienc are migated through (gay) French language that draws on several nonil voic - cludg Jean Ge and Jean-Pl Sartre - and var universalistic disurs. Drawg on material om a diverse array of media, Queer French draws out the importance of a French gay lguistic and semtic tradn that emerg ntemporary textual practic and disurs as they relate to sexual cizenship 20th- and 21st-century France.