Polish gay drama ‘Elephant’ sells to North Ameri and key European terrori (exclive) - IMDb

Contents:

• ‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
• INSI THE ANIMAL MD WH GAY BRADSHAW
• POLISH GAY DRAMA ‘ELEPHANT’ SELLS TO NORTH AMERI AND KEY EUROPEAN TERRORI (EXCLIVE)
• BETIFUL PHOTOS OF PAIGNTON ZOO'S ARLY MISSED ELEPHANTS DUCHS AND GAY
• POLISH POLICIAN FUM OVER "GAY" ELEPHANT ZOO

‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

Usg mostly non-profsnal actors and featurg dizzyg long-tak to make you feel the passg of time leadg up to the horrific events at a high school Portland, the film is not immediately or easily talogued as an “LGBT” film, but mak for a fascatg entry to our long-nng project, given both s director and s oblique treatment of homosexualy. Were the only scene the film ncerned wh homosexualy, we might be quick to ame this moment as an attempt to further “other” both shooters, potg to their burgeong (or reprsed?

INSI THE ANIMAL MD WH GAY BRADSHAW

) homosexualy as ditive of their other abnormal tennci. Isn’t this the allegoril ath-driven gay male figure society fears?

But, this is a Van Sant film, one which giv a lengthy scene at the school’s Gay Straight Alliance meetg, so such a facile ncln is hard to make. Seen as a 360-shot, wh s revolvg mera differently surveyg the var GSA members, the scene is ncerned wh the seemgly banal qutn: Can you tell if someone is gay jt by lookg at them? His ank and unsentimental pictn of gay youth marks Elephant as an anomaly among the recent films we’ve looked at: there’s no heightened emotnal drama to ame the characters as Alan Ball’s Six Feet Unr, and no soc-cultural amework to help unrstand this muny as we had The Laramie Project.

POLISH GAY DRAMA ‘ELEPHANT’ SELLS TO NORTH AMERI AND KEY EUROPEAN TERRORI (EXCLIVE)

In this stands alone treatg s characters (gay or straight) wh the same different gaze; there li s transgrsive and rehg sensibily, bee boy is unlike anythg we've looked at on here. “We didn’t pay 37 ln zlotys for the largt elephant hoe Europe to have a gay elephant live there, ” said Michal Grz, a nservative uncillor the Polish cy of Poznan, Rters reported last Friday. What Michal don’t know, apparently, is that homosexualy is rampant the animal kgdom.

The five text on the subject, Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy, wrten by Canadian blogist and lguist Bce Bagemihl, is an obssive talog of a phenomenon so wispread that the n barely nta . For the Cliff’s Not versn, you have only to look to a 2006 article on the subject, which pots out that big horn sheep live “homosexual societi” which they “bond through genal lickg and anal terurse. Gay Bradshaw.

BETIFUL PHOTOS OF PAIGNTON ZOO'S ARLY MISSED ELEPHANTS DUCHS AND GAY

In 1996, Gay Bradshaw was on a team of scientists that went to South Ai to study lns.

POLISH POLICIAN FUM OVER "GAY" ELEPHANT ZOO

The Wild Pla Tst, which ns Paignton Zoo, has not stopped workg to support elephant nservatnAn elephant never fets, or so they say, and nobody who vised Paignton Zoo durg the time Duchs and Gay lived there will ever fet the two veteran pachyrms. So Duchs and Gay were able to live out their liv wh the bt of re om their keepers and the love of legns of zoo elephants arrived at Paignton Zoo om Longleat Safari Park 1977. Asian elephant Gay was born 1970 and had been wh Fawcett’s Circ Ireland before her move to Longleat.

The vio opens wh a clip of then-ndidate Tmp pledgg to "do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens" a speech at the 2016 Republin Natnal Conventn, jt weeks after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay club Orlando.

What crics are sayg The Log Cab Republins, an anizatn that advot for LGBTQ nservativ, said a Twter thread that DeSantis' rhetoric had "ventured to homophobic terrory, " llg "divisive and sperate. "I mean, the ad smacked of both homophobia and homoeroticism at the same time.