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Contents:
- OFFICIAL LIST OF GAY SUBTEXT FILM
- 15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
- GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
OFFICIAL LIST OF GAY SUBTEXT FILM
A list of 425 films piled on Letterboxd, cludg The Servant (1963), Kamikaze Girls (2004), Women Love (1969), The Sger Not the Song (1961) and The Browng Versn (1951). About this list: Very loosely ranked. The on near the top are personal favor of me I already have my honorary gay movi list but I ma that before I really got ser about gay subtext so I mixed them together wh movi that I claimed to be gay culture jt by nature of the them athetic etc. SO I cid to make a dited list of actual gay subtext (characters/relatnships) sce people kept askg me for recs Feel ee to leave recs but I want to keep this as solely my own list of movi that have my stamp of approval sce I n only tst myself wh the thgs. gay subtext watchlist here though! * gay subtext movies *
The on near the top are personal favor of meI already have my honorary gay movi list but I ma that before I really got ser about gay subtext so I mixed them together wh movi that I claimed to be gay culture jt by nature of the them athetic I cid to make a dited list of actual gay subtext (characters/relatnships) sce people kept askg me for recsFeel ee to leave recs but I want to keep this as solely my own list of movi that have my stamp of approval sce I n only tst myself wh the thgs.
15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
* gay subtext movies *
As Sean Griff’s book Tker Bells and Evil Queens not, Disney has long targeted gay dienc — and partly bee queer dienc are experts at -optg ostensibly straight narrativ for themselv.
GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
Villas regularly bee gay ins; Disney prc are equently reamed as gay men; and so many people have read Frozen’s Elsa as queer that the ph to give her a girliend has bee a proment media narrative around that anchise. It’s probably not a cince that several of the films volved Howard Ashman, a gay mil lyricist who -wrote the sr to The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast and shaped the story ncept of Aladd before his ath 1991. Sce gay people haven’t ever been allowed to be the hero of Disney movi, no one n really blame for takg our cmbs and appreciatg the bombastic, opposnal, unapologetilly queer villas like Sr.
“My name is Harvey Milk, ” the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California, memorialized Rob Epste’s The Tim of Harvey Milk, proclaimed 1978, ls than one year before his assassatn.
Fireworks gurated not only the private mythology of unrground experimental filmmaker Kenh Anger, but also the subversive exprsn of gay sensualy Amerin film, a torch rried to the early days of the New Queer Cema. A verable dictnary of homoerotic inography, the 1947 short is also, lerally, a home movie shot while a 20-year-old Anger’s parents were away for the weekend, and a transfixg view of the vlence and sed rapture of beg “different” the 1940s. Jean Ge’s overpowerg 1950 short Un Chant d’Amour, ma shortly after the publitn of The Thief’s Journal, is a tone not jt of gay rebelln, but also of pure sensual exprsn film, a polemil visn of sire fed wh the provotr’s randy ardor and the artist’s spirual directns.