Geia Oakley and Rosy McEwen discs their film about a 'Don't Say Gay'-style law imposed on U.K. schools 1988 — and s current relevance.
Contents:
- GAY PAREE CEMA
- ‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ REVIEW: ONE OF THE BT GAY FILMS IN THIS YEAR’S OSR RACE COM FROM SWEN
- WHEN A FILM SHOWS GAY ROMANCE GEIA, GOG TO SEE IT IS A RISK
- GAY MEETS GOD DOCUMENTARY ‘WONRFULLY MA’
- PROTTS, ARRTS AND JURI AS GEIANS PROTT GAY FILM'S BUT
- NEW FILM ‘BLUE JEAN’ SHOWS HOW ANTI-GAY ‘MORAL PANIC’ NSUM SCHOOLS — THEN AND NOW
GAY PAREE CEMA
Gay Paree Cema. The Gay Paree Cema opened as a gay mens adult cema on Augt 13, 1971 wh Chuck Roy “Happy Birthday Davy…” It is listed the 1977 edn of Bob Damron’s Addrs Book as a gay pornographic cema. The ma character’s gay bt iend Michael is played by Rob J, who is alg wh an HIV diagnosis.
In , Natalie Moral plays a young woman who giv Spanish lsons via Zoom to a gay man (Mark Duplass). The romantic edy stars Billy Eichner, the first openly gay man to -wre and star his own major stud film, and featur an entire LGBTQ prcipal st, cludg the amazg Le Mcfarlane.
‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ REVIEW: ONE OF THE BT GAY FILMS IN THIS YEAR’S OSR RACE COM FROM SWEN
Kudos to Universal Pictur for havg the nerve to open a gay-themed film theaters lerally across the untry. Directed by Elegance Bratton his feature film but, “The Inspectn” is based on Bratton’s own story about a young Black gay man (portrayed by Jeremy Pope) and his cisn to jo the Mar. ” Directed by David Freyne, the engagg edy drama fds two iends high school pretendg to date so that classmat won’t tease them about beg gay.
The superbly acted movie was directed by a gay man, Gee C.
Its story of a gay man g home to al wh fay issu might not have walked new ground, but there was no nyg the great performanc om s st, cludg Pl Bettany and Sophia Lillis. One of those is the drama “Supernova, ” which Col Firth and Stanley Tucci star as a gay uple who go on a road trip while one als wh mentia. Also on tap early 2021 are “Joe Bell, ” starrg Mark Wahlberg as the father of a bullied gay son, “Fallg, ” wh Viggo Mortensen as a gay man, France’s superb “Two of Us” and “The World to Come, ” which featur a lbian relatnship between Vansa Kirby and Kathere Waterston.
WHEN A FILM SHOWS GAY ROMANCE GEIA, GOG TO SEE IT IS A RISK
It’s one of the year’s bt gay films.
The rt is fairly predictable, but Ak fills Merab’s world wh enough other trigue to transcend the clich of one unrequed gay romance. He follows his new iend to a gay bar that wouldn’t be out of place any other European cy, as the loud and flamboyant crew party all night, ignorg the slurs of passersby.
”This week, For a Uned and Moral Geia, an anti-gay group, staged sparsely attend protts outsi screengs of “Comets, ” a Geian movie the film ftival which two women remisce about a lbian romance. In an terview on Wednday, Guram Palavandishvili, a spokman for the group, nmned “Comets, ” which had s premiere at the Toronto Film Ftival September, as “homosexual propaganda. ” Kurtsikidze/EPA, via ShutterstockThe monstratns agast gay and lbian movi are the latt flash pot a fierce culture war between cizens who want to safeguard the tradnal valu of Geia, which was part of the Soviet Unn until 1991, and those wh more liberal attus associated wh the European Unn, which many Geian policians wish the untry to jo.
GAY MEETS GOD DOCUMENTARY ‘WONRFULLY MA’
It was the nflatn of homosexualy and Geian tradn “And Then We Danced” that had so angered nservative groups, he well as floutg tradnal genr rol dance, the film “has a sex scene ont of a big we jug, a symbol of Geian culture. Prits om Geia’s Orthodox Church have marched annually wh far-right groups on May 17, the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia, a “Fay Pury Day” unter-monstratn that has turned vlent several tim. Out On Film, Atlanta’s gay film ftival, celebrat s 35th anniversary this year.
” Some of the most outspoken figureheads – like Bryan Massgale, the only openly gay Black Catholic prit the world, and Father Jam Mart, S. The Catholic Church has both passively and actively nmned homosexualy, cg homosexualy as the issue, not pedophilia, regard to the sex abe mted by the clergy the Catholic Church, kickg out transgenr members who are wag to receive munn, and refg to acknowledge the sancty (and legaly) of marriage between two members of the same sex.
Several people were reportedly jured as hundreds gathered on Friday the former Soviet republic of Geia to prott the openg of a crilly acclaimed gay film the pal cy of protted film, “And Then We Danced, ” portrays a young man the Geian natnal ballet pany who falls love wh a rival performer. “Police [were] wnsg the homophobic slurs towards Ana and didn't take preventive measur to stop the vlence, ” the anizatn wrote on a msage sent to NBC News on Friday, Lela Akiashvili, who works on genr equaly issu at the Uned Natns Development Program, said about 100 prottors stayed until the end of the film.
PROTTS, ARRTS AND JURI AS GEIANS PROTT GAY FILM'S BUT
”While homosexualy is legal Geia and the ernment has put place anti-discrimatn laws, activists and experts have said that much still needs to be done to ensure aquate protectns for LGBTQ Geians. Internatnal human rights group ILGA-Europe urged thori to do more to “ensure protectn” and “the eedom of exprsn and speech” of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram.
LONDON — In 1988, the Brish ernment passed Sectn 28, prohibg the teachg of homosexualy schools. The law is at the heart of Geia Oakley’s heartfelt but feature, “Blue Jean, ” a film that reflects on the everyday toll Sectn 28 took on Bra’s gay and lbian story, about Jean (Rosy McEwen), a lbian PE teacher livg Newstle, is set agast the backdrop of the law’s troductn by Prime Mister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative ernment. Dpe s historic settg, “Blue Jean” echo strongly wh issu of today, notably Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Oakley wanted to portray Jean’s stggle wh her sexualy whout pictg more overt anti-gay cints, which were scribed to her by the women she spoke to durg her rearch procs.
NEW FILM ‘BLUE JEAN’ SHOWS HOW ANTI-GAY ‘MORAL PANIC’ NSUM SCHOOLS — THEN AND NOW
“They would have stori about havg a brick through their r wdow — really aggrsive, vlent acts of homophobia that rulted people beg arrted, ” Oakley says. “All that homophobia isn’t your face.