Outrageo! released 1977 was a Canadian film and one of the first gay-themed films ever to get a wispread theatril release North Ameri. It is regard as gay cema landmark
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- [GAY PRIDE MONTH] 12 UNDER-THE-RADAR QUEER EXPLOITATION FILMS FOR YOUR PRIDE CELEBRATION
- GAY CEMA HISTORY: WATCH: “OUTRAGEOUS!” (1977) STARRG: CRAIG RSELL [FULL MOVIE]
[GAY PRIDE MONTH] 12 UNDER-THE-RADAR QUEER EXPLOITATION FILMS FOR YOUR PRIDE CELEBRATION
Celebrate the bt gay movi wh our list of the 50 most sential LGBTQ+ films ever ma * gay exploitation film *
) Queer exploatn fans n pot to the lik of GLEN OR GLENDA?, CRUISING, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2, THE LOST BOYS or FRIGHT NIGHT or post-new queer cema entri like THE DOOM GENERATION, HELL BENT or CLOSET MONSTER, and more adventuro filmgoers may seek out oddi like Bob Clark’s SHE-MAN, WINDOWS, BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER, David DeCote’s SKELETONS or numero hardre efforts that have exploatn them (DRIVE, THE DESTROYING ANGEL, AT TWILIGHT COME THE FLESH EATERS), but actual, grimy, down and dirty exploatn films that pop up on vio store shelv wh gay them are few and far between.
(This is jt the tip of the iceberg as far as gay exploatn obscuri go – be sure to check out the lik of STICKS AND STONES, SURRENDER DOROTHY, MURDER BY NUMBERS (1989), KATE’S ADDICTION, JADED, FORTY DEUCE, VENUS FLYTRAP, PORNOGRAPHY: A THRILLER, CAGED MEN, BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY, LOVE BITES, IN THE GLITTER PALACE, and SOMETIMES AUNT MARTHA DOES DREADFUL THINGS as well, for starters!
GAY CEMA HISTORY: WATCH: “OUTRAGEOUS!” (1977) STARRG: CRAIG RSELL [FULL MOVIE]
Horror films haven’t always been kd to gay characters, though LGBTQ viewers mata a wonrfully unique relatnship wh the genre. * gay exploitation film *
As a rult, a supremacist gang llg self the “New Orr” roams the streets, unchecked by power, and SIEGE’s plot begs wh the gang takg over a members-only gay bar, then vicly killg virtually everyone the place orr to ver up the accintal murr of the bartenr. No movie that opens wh a genr-swapped homage to Marn Crane’s ath PSYCHO is all bad, and Robert Bouvier’s CITY IN PANIC, a low-budget 16mm film shot Toronto and spired by a te story of a still-unsolved seri of murrs of gay men the ‘70s, certaly isn’t.
If that’s not enough for you, how about THE FRUIT MACHINE, which centers around a pair of iends (one gay, one… queer, at least) who wns the murr of gay nightclub owner Annabelle (Robbie Coltrane) and spend the rt of the film on the n? There’s plenty of potential THE PHONE CALL, wh Michael potentially learng how gays are beg treated when he soon fds himself disassociated om his iends and -workers, but the problem is that Michael isn’t really sympathetic, while Casey seems more genuely troubled to the pot where he’s more rootable than the homophobic lead that’s terrible at explag himself and don’t really even learn any lsons. Before htg gay paydirt wh the BEAR CITY trilogy, Douglas Langway dipped his to to filmmakg for gay dienc wh RAISING HEROES, a unter to the many gay g-out dramas and romantic edi that were htg vio stor at the time.