In a mock documentary lled “Man of the Year,” Mr. Shafer explored the ramifitns of beg a closeted gay man who is a sex symbol for straight women.
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- DIRK SHAFER, PLAYGIRL CENTERFOLD WHO REVEALED HE WAS GAY, DI AT 52
- VICTIM AT 60: THE HEARTBREAKG GAY DRAMA THAT PHED BOUNDARI
- GAY HISTORY – MARCH 28, 1921: #BOTD ACTOR DIRK BOGAR
- DIRK SHAFER, PLAYGIRL CENTERFOLD WHO REVEALED HE WAS GAY, DI AT 52
DIRK SHAFER, PLAYGIRL CENTERFOLD WHO REVEALED HE WAS GAY, DI AT 52
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Then, 1961 wh his ntract at Rank g to an end, Bogar took the role of barrister Melville Farr Basil Dearn's Victim, a black-and-whe thriller about gay men beg blackmailed unr threat of exposure and jail time, which was ma six years before the Sexual Offenc Act crimalised "homosexual acts private between nsentg adults" the UK. But by that time, he'd said, 'Come on, I jt want to make the work I want to make' – John ColdstreamThe obv danger was that Bogar was gay and livg wh his partner Anthony 'Tote' Forwood, as he would until Forwood died 1988.
Victim was the first Brish film to e the word "homosexual", and played a role helpg the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act through s 10-year gtatn perd.
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So, Dirk's nonilly gay, right? Released to a world where sex between adult men the Uned Kgdom was a heavily policed crime, is the first Brish film to e the word homosexual si a narrative that thoughtfully and unsensatnally ptur the cumulative daily strs and adly effects of the law.
Unr the guise of a thriller, Victim addrs how the crimalisatn of homosexualy ma gay men, as a character says, the victims of “any cheap thug who fds out about our natural stcts. In a le of dialogue drawn om fact, we learn that as many as 90 percent of all Brish blackmail s at this time had a homosexual orig.
GAY HISTORY – MARCH 28, 1921: #BOTD ACTOR DIRK BOGAR
Dearn’s film is shaped by outrage, which ught the public imagatn – Victim has been ced as one trigger for the Sexual Offenc Act, which eventually crimalised homosexualy Bra 1967. We watch Victim today, of urse, wh the knowledge that although Bogar was never open about , he was a homosexual.
And yet wh Victim he embraced the risks to his reer posed by playg a gay man. In his later years, Bogar published several btsellg volum of memoir – throughout this refully nstcted rerd of his life there was no mentn of homosexualy. It suggts that Melville thks would be good if Calloway was openly gay, that this uld turn public opn.
Arts|Dirk Shafer, Playgirl Centerfold Who Revealed He Was Gay, Di at 52 ADVERTISEMENTCred... Freeman/Jour Fete Films-Sneak Preview EntertamentMarch 7, 2015Dirk Shafer, a former Playgirl magaze centerfold who chronicled his experienc as a closeted gay man a 1995 mock documentary, “Man of the Year, ” was found ad on Thursday Wt Hollywood, Calif. He also wrote, directed and starred films that were popular at gay film ftivals.
DIRK SHAFER, PLAYGIRL CENTERFOLD WHO REVEALED HE WAS GAY, DI AT 52
“Man of the Year, ” a fictnalized versn of his life story, explor the tensn of beg a closeted gay man who is a sex symbol for straight women.
Shafer’s molg experience as a metaphor for the way society prsur gay people to act straight. ” Another Shafer film, “Circu” (2001), explored the world of over-the-top gay circu parti.
Informatn on his survivors was not immediately an terview wh the gay magaze The Advote 2002, Mr.