One of the biggt challeng facg silent film historians today is this, “Whout sound, jt how are you supposed to tell if your favore silent era film star was gay?” Whout sound, there’s no tell-tale lisp; no guttural bulldog growl mblg om an otherwise mure, dove-whe throat. The qutn of silent era sexualy has ed […]
Contents:
- MICHAEL (1924): CARL THEODOR DREYER’S INIC GAY SILENT FILM, STARRG WALTER SLEZAK
- SILENT FILMS, RATED BY GAYNS
- HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
MICHAEL (1924): CARL THEODOR DREYER’S INIC GAY SILENT FILM, STARRG WALTER SLEZAK
Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer ma Michael (aka Mikaël, Chaed: The Story of the Third Sex, and Heart's Dire), an inic German gay silent drama, which is strikg both visually and emotnally. * gay silent movie *
Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer ma Michael (aka Mikaël, Chaed: The Story of the Third Sex, and Heart’s Dire), an inic German gay silent drama, which, s later, still is strikg visually and emotnally.
The homosexual elements proved disturbg, too, as “Michael was one of the few big-budget mastream stud productns om the silent perd that alt wh homosexualy; although remas implic, was readily apparent to many ntemporari.
SILENT FILMS, RATED BY GAYNS
Prervatnists are workg to rtore Richard Oswald’s 1919 German film, “Different From the Others,” the earlit known full-length feature to showse gay characters. * gay silent movie *
The followg year, censors banned “Different From the Others” throughout Germany, claimg that the film uld endanger public safety or turn imprsnable youths gay. ”Although German versns of the footage have been released on vio over the years, this rtoratn — unr the spic of the Outft-UCLA Legacy Project, which is dited to prervg movg imag wh gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr them — will be the most plete to date, wh new English tertl and the cln of recently found photos and film stills.
Through flashbacks, we learn that Korner was expelled om school for fallg love wh a male stunt, and that he once tried to “cure” his homosexualy wh the help of a medil hypnotist. Sivers, his grievg lover, dit his life to fightg Paragraph 175, a German statute that ma homosexual acts a Krist Pepe, director of programmg at Outft, one of the untry’s largt gay film ftivals, “Different From the Others” was a revelatn.
HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
Those imag will be ed to renstct a lecture scene which Hirschfeld talks about how some, but not all, gay men are feme (he shows relevant photos) and rails agast the persecutn of homosexuals throughout history. Banned 1920, only a agment surviv of Different om the Others (1919), an "Enlightenment Film" promotg tolerance of homosexualiy, wh a fe st head up by the great Conrad Veidt. He has been llectg news clippgs on homosexual suicis triggered by Paragraph 175, a German law crimalizg homosexualy, & which the nazis ma good e of a uple s later.
He ponrs the nam of great men history who were gay, & builds his own self-teem sufficiently to meet wh & beg a relatnship wh a very young man, Kurt (Frz Schulz), who is voted to classil mic & uld benef by a mentor.