'Passag' director nounc 'dangero' NC-17 ratg on a film pictg a gay love story

Contents:

• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• MOVI - THE FATHERS PROJECT, IMAGG A WORLD WHOUT AIDS.
• IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
• BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

The first major film, eher televised or theatril, to al wh the AIDS epimic, Frost stars Aidan Qun as a gay man who returns home to break the news to his fay that he is livg wh HIV.

This film follows the love story of a young nservative and a gay rights activist, ncludg when one of them ntracts HIV the '80s and the other tri to get him home om Mexi. Two young gay men meet at a sex club the first 20 mut of Paris 05:59, which is an extremely explic French film about a one-night stand. Sure, has s crics, some who feel that bee foc on a straight man (who real life may not have been so straight), Dallas Buyers Club -gayed the early years of the AIDS epimic—when the ncept of “livg wh HIV” was nonexistent—as well as the impact of gay men who fought the makers of AZT, set up buyers’ clubs, and died of the disease.

MOVI - THE FATHERS PROJECT, IMAGG A WORLD WHOUT AIDS.

This 2013 release is based on the te story of Ron Woodroof, a hard-drkg and dggg roo wboy who tts posive for HIV and mt battle the specter of ath, a scientific muny draggg s feet, and his redneck buddi who, like him, are homophobic.

He mt learn to navigate a world of gay and transgenr people, those who he begdggly beiends and fds support om when he begs importg meditns om Mexi that he thks will treat HIV better than AZT. This 1990 release, one of the first AIDS-themed films aimed at a wi dience, is set New York Cy and trac the effect of the disease, begng wh s emergence 1981, on a group of (mostly) gay iends.

IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?

Tom Hanks giv an unparalleled performance as Andrew Beckett, a man fightg for his digny and his life, who nvc small-time (and homophobic) lawyer Joe Miller, played by Denzel Washgton, to reprent him a wrongful-termatn su. Set 1985 San Francis, Tt is a breathtakg ltle film about the early days of AIDS, the first HIV tt, and life as a young gay man wh a burgeong artistic reer. The lead character, Frankie, is a morn dancer, bullied at work for his lack of masculy and his abily to be macho on the dance floor ( a dance pany filled wh gay men, md you).

The first film of any kd to tackle HIV, this 1985 ma-for-TV movie stars Aidan Qun (Capta Gregson on Elementary the days) as a gay man revealg both his sexual orientatn and HIV-posive stat to his fay and his fellow attorneys. One of the earlit entri the New Queer Cema genre, filmmaker Gregg Araki’s bold and raw 1992 dramedy The Livg End follows two gay, HIV-posive men—one brash and reckls, the other rather meek and cynil—after they meet and end up on the road trip to end all road trips.

A homophobic p is killed en route, and the pulchrudo (and often shirtls) uple, a queer Gen-X motif, adopt the motto “Fuck everythg. When a man wh HIV is fired by his law firm bee of his ndn, he hir a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willg advote for a wrongful dismissal su. Tellg the story of a young attorney who cis to rm his parents that he is both HIV-posive and gay, "An Early Frost" was creded wh phg AIDS to the public nscns at a time when stigma and prejudice ran high (so much so that the work lost $500, 000 revenue when sponsors yanked their advertisements).

BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

While the film has historil limatns s portrayal of gay men and relatnships, "An Early Frost" still remas genuely thoughtful and thought-provokg.

(Shilts himself was cricized for polil beliefs, cludg his stance on the "sexual promiscuy" of gay men, which many the LGBTI muny found homophobic. Dpe a few crge-worthy scen (cludg Denzel Washgton's overtly manipulative homophobic rant), "Philalphia" was the film that got people to s up their chairs about AIDS, and that alone mak worth seeg.