From Victim to Weekend, we remember some of the bt Brish gay films.
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SEQU A BLUE ROOM REVIEW – ILLIC THRILLS GAY G-OF-AGE STORY
14 queer g-of-age movi and shows to watch after HeartstopperFrom Get Real to The Way He Looks, here's our brief gui to the most affectg queer g-of-agersHeartstopper, Netflix's g-of-age seri about a gay schoolboy fallg love wh one of the BNOC gby lads, has ronated far and wi for s cuty visn of young queer romance. The premise, for one, is remarkably siar, if a touch more tragic as a sign of the tim: a gay outsir sendary school, Steven, falls love wh one of the big-name gby boys, John.
As turns out, he fanci him back, leadg to a bumpy secretive romance marred by the near-impossibily of beg openly gay school the ‘90s. Rent on Prime (2014)On the subject of balmy and sacchare g-of-age stori, enter Jongens (Boys), a ltle-known gay love story om the Netherlands set a remote b of the Dutch untrysi. Betiful Thg (1996)©Sony Pictur/Courty Everett CollectnOne of the first noteworthy exampl of the gay g-of-ager the UK, Betiful Thg is a shg example of Channel 4's radil programmg through the ‘80s and ’90s, puttg a spotlight on the margalised where others refed or were rtraed the name of impartialy.
Livg Oh, the only lol gay-iendly spot is a dis lled “The Universal, ” spng Hi-NRG hs like “Smalltown Boy” by Bronski Beat and Miquel Brown’s “So Many Men, So Ltle Time” (serly, if you like synth-pop, this is the film for you).
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
Come for the varly bter and charmg gay love story, stay for Harris Dickson's obnox banker bro (the scene where he emerg om an lator mimg along to the Pet Shop Boys is, as they say, céma). Stream on (2019)Take Claire Denis' gay war drama Be Travail, add a dollop of Apolypse Now and you get Moffie, the ravishg third feature om South Ain tr Oliver Herman (now on the road wh the Bill Nighy-starrg Livg).