Netflix's 'Pray Away' looks behd the curta of the 'ex-gay' movement

Contents:

• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
• 10 GAY DOCUMENTARI ON NETFLIX STREAMG
• PRAY AWAY TRAILER FEATUR REGRETFUL LEARS OF THE ‘EX-GAY’ MOVEMENT

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

Which didn’t stop burly Hler nfidante and head of the Nazi SA paraary wg Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted gay man, om equentg the tablishment. As the film explas, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgt wh women and femy they somehow ed to jtify homosexualy – for a time, anyway. At a certa pot, Röhm’s iendship wh Hler uld only take him so far a Nazi regime creasgly set on eraditg homosexualy.

Röhm is but one player this ncise, ftly told doc that the Eldorado as a lnchg pad to a broar story about beg gay Nazi Germany. The film never out and yells , but is also a remr of the Fal Solutn tenor that still acpani much anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and, creasgly, policy. He was also a bohemian spir who had a passnate homosexual relatnship wh Manasse Herbst, a Galician Jewish actor who fled Germany 1936.

NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT

Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos). Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175). And if you want to stay rmed about everythg jog Netflix every week, subscribe to the Streamle Sub Jeong/HuffPostStreamle“All My Fay” (2019)Premise: The filmmaker Hao Wu is a gay, Che immigrant to the U.

His fay Cha disapprov of gay parents adoptg children. Johnson, a genr-nonnformg gay liberatn activist who had a proment role the Stonewall uprisg of 1969, a semal moment the fight for LGBTQ rights. But when the AIDS epimic veloped, the uple offered support to the gay muny and took on a more activist Mason, the dghter of the owners, wrote and directed the documentary.

That's why we ndown the bt gay and lbian movi on the streamg service. When Tosia transns to bee Tosiek, his relatnship wh his gay bt iend Leon (Jan Cieciara) tak on a new dimensn. That sounds harsh enough, but the fact that all three sons are gay mak thgs even more plited.

10 GAY DOCUMENTARI ON NETFLIX STREAMG

Pray Away exam the ntroversial practice of gay nversn therapy, which relig activists openly champned the U. Des before Stonewall, police Mexi Cy raid a private gatherg of gay men to terrorize the lol gay muny. Durg the fal years of munist le Poland, a serial killer targets gay men Warsaw.

Films like Portra of Jason and Tongu Untied, for stance, tell ntemporary viewers as much about the dividual stori about gay Black men prented on screen as about the muni (real and imaged) that their rpective filmmakers brought to bear on their fished films. Siarly, aptly-tled works like Before Stonewall: The Makg of a Gay and Lbian Communy and Forbidn Love: The Unashamed Stori of Lbian Liv offer not jt potent history lsons but snapshots of how Amerins were nceivg of their own muny-buildg the years followg the 1969 Stonewall rts.

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PRAY AWAY TRAILER FEATUR REGRETFUL LEARS OF THE ‘EX-GAY’ MOVEMENT

Synopsis: On the eve of 1987's Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, survivg fai and iends of... Crics Consens: The Celluloid Closet tak a thought-provokg look at the s of omissn and misreprentatn endured by the gay muny mastream cema. Synopsis: This documentary highlights the historil ntexts that gays, lbians, bisexuals and transgenrs have occupied cema history, and shows the...