LGBTQ+ characters film are given disproportnately unhappy endgs. We know as "buryg their gays". Here are 5 Brish and Irish films that you n watch whout the fear of revisg this trope.
Contents:
- FILM OF THE WEEK: GAY G-OF-AGE IRISH DRAMA DATG AMBER IS STRAIGHT UP HILAR
- 5 BRISH AND IRISH FILMS THAT DON’T ‘BURY THEIR GAYS’
- 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
- “GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD
FILM OF THE WEEK: GAY G-OF-AGE IRISH DRAMA DATG AMBER IS STRAIGHT UP HILAR
Believe or not, same-sex relatnships were only crimalised here 1993. Not everyone was happy about that shunt towards enlightenment, but Máire Geoghegan-Qun's reform was only half the battle: vilent prejudice remaed and would take s before Irish gay people fally began to feel accepted their own untry. * gay irish film *
Although this film is set Cuba, ’s wrten by Irish gay man, Mark O’Halloran, directed by an Irish man, and fund by the Irish film board, so we’re claimg as an Irish film.
Jt as Jús (Héctor Meda) gets a start his dream job as a drag queen at his gay lol Havana, his tranged macho father (Je Pegorría) lands on his doorstep, and forbids him to perform. Deeply closeted at a time when homosexualy is still a crimal offense Ireland, the middle-aged Alfie creat a lol sndal when he announc a productn of Osr Wil’s play Salome, starrg untry girl Ale (Tara Fzgerald) and Robbie (Ruf Sewell), the b driver for whom Alfie secretly p.
5 BRISH AND IRISH FILMS THAT DON’T ‘BURY THEIR GAYS’
* gay irish film *
Hapls civil servant, Shane (Michael Legge) gets more than he bargaed for when he mov to an apartment wh a gay fashn stunt, Vcent (Allen Leech).
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
Angie (Flora Montgomery) is the lbian who has an affair wh bisexual Clara, then falls love wh Kate, and then has a hapls one-night-stand wh her gay bt iend, Red, and be pregnant.
‘Big’ Kev (Andrew Bent) and “Ltle’ Kev (Michael Legge, Cowboys & Angels) are a gay uple this Irish answer to The Haner, which follows a band of bondg boys on a stag party the wilds of Wicklow. Dpe the director beg a gay man, ’s easy to thk the gays are there jt for show, but then they bee the centre of the tensn as we realise ‘Big’ Kev isn’t ved to the weddg bee the father of ‘Ltle’ Kev (and the groom) is agast their relatnship. It allows for a brief discsn on a divi between young and old generatns on the subject of homosexualy that seems dated already, but the film’s gay payoff is genuely movg.
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“GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD
David Freyne's story about a teen stgglg wh his sexualy 90s Ireland is a touchg, salty and extremely funny film, wr Pl WhgtonEddie (Fnn O’Shea), who’s gay, starts datg Amber (Lola Petticrew) an attempt to f wh society 90s IrelandBelieve or not, same-sex relatnships were only crimalised here 1993.
Not everyone was happy about that shunt towards enlightenment, but Máire Geoghegan-Qun's reform was only half the battle: vilent prejudice remaed and would take s before Irish gay people fally began to feel accepted their own untry. This is often referred to as “buryg your gays”, as the LGBTQ+ characters prented the films are disproportnately given unhappy an effort to unterbalance the negativy attached to films about the muny, we have piled a list of 5 Brish and Irish films that show LGBTQ+ people as (shock horror) real people!