We look back at the bt French gay cema.
Contents:
- 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
- THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT FRANCE
- GAY LIBERATN FRANCE: A HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF FILM, 1968-1983
- PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S
- TEN THGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT GAY PARIS
10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
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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. 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.
THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT FRANCE
Marchers filed through the French pal on Sunday to prott agast Print Franis Hollan's plan to legalize gay marriage and adoptn. * france gay 1960s *
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. 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.
GAY LIBERATN FRANCE: A HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF FILM, 1968-1983
Anthony Friedk photographed gay culture California the 1960s * france gay 1960s *
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”. 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.
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.
PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S
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.
Their disarmg ankns creat an valuable oral history, while their tal of opprsn show how far gay rights have progrsed over the s.
TEN THGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT GAY PARIS
In the mid-20th century the gay Paris moved to Sat Germa s Près the 6th arrondissement, and by the 1960s had shifted to Rue Sat Anne, the 1st and 2nd arrondissement.
Until the end of the 18th century France, laws ranked homosexual relatns among crim servg ath.