Wh Rsia unr fire culturally and polilly over s vasn of Ukrae, soon-to-be-released gay film Firebird offers a fascatg sight to gay love agast the backdrop of war.
Contents:
- THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
- ‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
- FIREBIRD REVIEW – STORY OF GAY LOVERS THE SOVIET ERA IS BROKEBACK THE USSR
- ‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: A HEARTFELT BUT HEAVY-HAND TALE OF HIDN GAY LOVE THE SOVIET AIR FORCE
THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
New gay film Firebird offers a fascatg sight to love agast the backdrop of war. This isn’t a tale of angst-ridn gays; both men are at ease wh their sexualy, but the Soviet Unn is not. It’s an aspect that mak this an tertg pann piece to Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom—part of which is set a siar perd Germany when gay men ntued to be crimalized followg the Send World War—and Arthur Dong’s excellent documentary Comg Out Unr Fire, examg the history of the treatment of LGBTQ members of the ary by the US ernment.
“Beg gay was a crimal offence.
‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
” Rebane knew he was gay at the age of ne.
FIREBIRD REVIEW – STORY OF GAY LOVERS THE SOVIET ERA IS BROKEBACK THE USSR
”Remarkably for a film wh such overtly gay ntent, several exterr scen were filmed Mosw. “After that, ” adds Prr, “there was a plat about beg ‘homosexual propaganda’. There is an unniable tensn Firebird between s aspiratn to be a grty perd piece and s sire to be an exhibn of homoerotic beekkery, and I’m not sure the film’s director (Peeter Rebane) effectively signals to which si he’d prefer his dience to lean.
‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: A HEARTFELT BUT HEAVY-HAND TALE OF HIDN GAY LOVE THE SOVIET AIR FORCE
The disproportnate foc that gay romance films have on whe, cisgenr, mcular leadg men is a symptom of larger issu the queer muny, and ’s time we started to curate a more reprentative non of LGBTQ+ films. Also prent is the ‘homophobic gnt’, who mak a missn to ensure our lovebirds spend more time jail than they do each other's arms. The film's very missn statement is to tail the life of Sergey Fetisov, who is played wonrfully here by Tom Prr, and Fetisov lived durg a time and a regime which the two-dimensnal homophob did exist.