UPDATE: Lonome screens at Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Ftival nng cemas Sydney and on mand Atralia-wi om Febary 15th to March 2nd, 2023. Click here for tickets and more rmatn. Director Craig Boreham (Teenage Kicks, Drowng) is back wh another tale of young gay men lookg for meang and nnectn, alienated…
Contents:
- 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
- ‘OF AN AGE’ REVIEW: SMALL-SLE GAY ATRALIAN ROMANCE STRIK BIG EROTIC SPARKS
- TAKE A FIRST LOOK AT GAY-THEMED ASIE FILM, OF AN AGE
- WHIRLWD GAY ROMANCE 'OF AN AGE' HAS A TLY MOVG TRAILER
- MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
We pay tribute to some of the bt Atralian gay films. * gay australian film *
It’s staggerg that homosexual acts between men were only ma legal throughout Atralia 1994, the same year The Adventur Of Priscilla, Queen Of the Dert explod joyfully to cemas the world over. Wh such a hateful swamp of nservative legislators, was left to the movie dtry to fight for equal rights love, marriage and child ctody law, hence why, nearly all of the movi here, the gay relatnship is a ‘problem’ for wir society and the participants endure abe, vlence or hate.
Bizarrely, the film’s trailer seems to take a stand agast homosexualy, the narrator proclaimg that Tony is tryg “to pe om tangled, unnatural passns” and that “his relatnship is acceptable this age when moral standards are nfed”. It’s nontg to thk of how Atralia fell love wh a tr of outrageo drag queens prancg their glor way across the outback, parts of the untry that had the world’s tought penalti for gay sex. One Tassie polician om the time, Robert Archer, even lled for homosexuals to be “tracked down and wiped out” by police.
One of the most explic Asie films to ga a mastream release, this sexual melodrama starrg Alex Dimrias as Ari, a gay Greek Atralian teenager Melbourne, pulled no punch when me to nudy, vlence and culture clash. An spirg do about the 2006 World Cup of Gay Rugby fal between the San Francis Fog and the Sydney Convicts, narrated by former NRL great Ian Roberts, one of the few Asie field sportsmen to have e out.
‘OF AN AGE’ REVIEW: SMALL-SLE GAY ATRALIAN ROMANCE STRIK BIG EROTIC SPARKS
Lgerg trma follows a gay wboy om ral Atralia to the big cy Craig Boreham’s drama of sex, solu and human nnectn. * gay australian film *
The tournament is lled The Bgham Cup after Mark Bgham, a gay gby player who died a hero after helpg to storm the ckp of Uned 93 on 9/11, preventg the plane om beg a terrorists’ weapon. A gay Greek Atralian photographer (Ewen Llie) journeys to Europe to stter his dad’s ash, but unvers a sister fay curse which leads him to the seedit backwaters Greece, Paris and Budapt.
TAKE A FIRST LOOK AT GAY-THEMED ASIE FILM, OF AN AGE
Take a first look at the imag and trailer for gay-themed Serbian film, Of An Age. * gay australian film *
There have been plenty of high school g-out films, but none as raw or emotnally-charged as this (very) low-budget ’90s tale of two awkward teenagers clumsily workg out their feelgs for each other and pg wh their (very) dysfunctnal fai and latent homophobia. Viewg today durg another viral panmic brgs home how cel some policians at the time were for blamg the homosexual muny for the so-lled ‘gay plague’. It follows the te story of Gerrard Conley (Lus Hedg), who was forced by his parents to enrol a gay nversn urse n by a sadistic therapist (Edgerton).
WHIRLWD GAY ROMANCE 'OF AN AGE' HAS A TLY MOVG TRAILER
Watch the trailer for "Of An Age," a whirlwd gay romance om Macedonian Atralian director Goran Stolevski. * gay australian film *
The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert (1994)While same-sex marriage was only ma legal Atralia 2017, the untry has a fairly strong rerd on LGBT rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-iendly ci the world. Before the 1970s, the sexualy of probable gay characters was not ma explic, for example the effemate sal assistant Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938). The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy.
MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
We’ve handpicked a few films that foc on gay men. Check out the films for a ltle edy, some drama, a whole lot of heat. * gay australian film *
Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release Max 2: The Road Warrr (1981) featured a gay villa (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slayg of his lover), while more sympathetic homosexual characters appeared prison drama Stir (1980) and fay melodrama Mull (1988).
The 1990s were a goln era for gay Ozzie films, while the new lennium has seen a glut of low-budget gay surfer dramas, cludg the easy-on-the-eye Newstle (2008), the nihilistic Drown (2015) and the downright bizarre Tan L (2006).