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10 GREAT GAY ROMANCE FILMS
* british gay romance movies *
Until the 1980s, most gay men on screen end up miserable or ad by the time the end creds rolled, such was society’s view of the poor, margalised creatur.
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
From Victim to Weekend, we remember some of the bt Brish gay films. * british gay romance movies *
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” Kenh Anger’s dreamlike film, about a boy who is beaten up by sailors a horrific homophobic attack but whose oral is followed by a moment of bliss when he wak up to a male lover his bed, is a fascatg slice of the avant-gar, ma when Anger was still a teenager.
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After s of seeg gay characters as villas or victims, Peter Rome me to the rcue wh a strg of short erotic films that are both sexy and artistic.