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- OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
“We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex — a lot of thgs which I’m not, ” he told the L.
Both films picted gay relatnships. Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N. Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St.
" The film follows the explos of a closeted gay Korean Amerin teenager who works at a spa to help his fay only to disver a sexual unrworld at his new job.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
Jamie Babb is perhaps bt known for her but feature, 1999's "But I'm a Cheerlear, " the beloved queer classic that tells the story of two teenage girls who fall love at a gay nversn therapy mp. Brish wrer-director-producer Andrew Haigh is perhaps bt known for his ntributns to the HBO seri "Lookg, " which follows a group of young gay men San Francis. While his but feature was "Greek Pete" 2009, Haigh broke out two years later wh "Weekend, " a film about two gay men who have an extend one-night stand and explore the meang of nnectn the morn era.
Many of Van Sant's films explore homosexualy through subtext, examg the relatnships of margalized outsirs. While queerns is often subtextual his films, Van Sant explored homosexualy at the foreont of "Milk, " a historil bpic about Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected polician.
Hayn' but feature "Poison" was even more ntroversial for s overt exploratn and pictns of homosexualy, but earned him two Film Inpennt Spir Award nomatns for bt director and bt first picture. The film stars his good iend and equent llaborator Julianne Moore as a 1950s suburban hoewife who learns her hband is gay and embarks on an affair wh her Black garner.