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Contents:
- 'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL
- LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’
- AUTHOR BECKY ALBERTALLI ON ‘LOVE, SIMON,’ THE GROUNDBREAKG ADAPTATN OF HER GAY TEEN ROMANCE
- HOW TO MARKET A TEEN (GAY) ROMANCE NOW
- LOVE, SIMON? DON’T LOVE, SIMON?: A DEBATE ON THE LTLE GAY MOVIE THAT COULD
- FOX HOP GAY TEEN FILM ‘LOVE, SIMON’ GO MASTREAM
- A ROMANTIC COMEDY ABOUT A GAY TEENAGER? WHAT TOOK SO LONG?
- GAY THERAPIST DISCS “LOVE, SIMON” OM A GAY MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE
- SIMON IS GAY
'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL
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When that secret is threatened, Simon mt face everyone and e to terms wh his Spier keeps a huge secret om his fay, his iends and all of his classmat: he's gay.
LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’
Based on a YA novel, Greg Berlanti's new film 'Love, Simon' is beg touted as the first major-stud-backed romantic edy wh a gay teen protagonist. * simon the gay *
Historilly, the LGBT films that have raked the most money are the on that boasted attentn-grabbg hooks (“gay wboy movie” Brokeback Mounta) or nformed to certa gay narrativ the public was fortable wh (dyg of AIDS Philalphia; South Beach flamboyance The Birdge). How Love, Simon far mercially will, part, be a tt of whether Amerins outsi urban “bubbl” are terted stori of ordary gay folks lookg for love.
AUTHOR BECKY ALBERTALLI ON ‘LOVE, SIMON,’ THE GROUNDBREAKG ADAPTATN OF HER GAY TEEN ROMANCE
As social attus evolve, mastream cema has begun to treat gay love stori like any other romance. Love, Simon prov the pot * simon the gay *
And while there evably will be gmbl om those who would have preferred a grtier portrayal of the gay adolcent experience, Love, Simon’s vanilla-ns is also what mak culturally signifint, and even slightly subversive. The film looks and sounds like so many other mastream, John Hugh-nostalgic high-school-s you’ve seen on both big and small screens, jt wh one difference: The hero is gay. Love, Simon should also attract LGBT teens starved for onscreen reprentatn, while olr gay viewers will likely wish there had been a g-out movie this buoyant back their day.
HOW TO MARKET A TEEN (GAY) ROMANCE NOW
Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker talk wh THR about the role director Greg Berlanti played on the first teen-targeted, major stud project centerg on a gay romance. * simon the gay *
Mom is a therapist and bleedg-heart liberal, while Dad is a jovial guy’s guy — sensive enough, but not above the ocsnal sually homophobic ment.
LOVE, SIMON? DON’T LOVE, SIMON?: A DEBATE ON THE LTLE GAY MOVIE THAT COULD
"Love, Simon," starrg Nick Robson, is the first teen-oriented film by a major stud featurg a gay lead character. * simon the gay *
The movie don’t probe why a teen wh as solid a support system as Simon’s would have such a hard time g out today; accepts the character’s ncealment of his homosexualy as a simple fact of his existence, as if to suggt that the closet will be full no matter how much society evolv. Love, Simon’s plot thickens wh the appearance of an anonymo blog post which a fellow stunt reveals, unr the psdonym of “Blue, ” that he’s gay.
FOX HOP GAY TEEN FILM ‘LOVE, SIMON’ GO MASTREAM
“Love, Simon” is the rare major stud movie revolvg around a gay teenager, and hop are high that will pass the box office tt. * simon the gay *
But whereas his feature but, the Wt Hollywood-set The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000), felt a b facile s light-hearted take on ntemporary gay life, the steadfast sunns of Berlanti’s new film registers as eply purposeful.
A ROMANTIC COMEDY ABOUT A GAY TEENAGER? WHAT TOOK SO LONG?
Ken Howard, LCSW, a specialist therapy for gay men for over 26 years, discs the importance of the new movie, "Love, Simon". * simon the gay *
Tolerance has s mercial benefs; a gay film need no longer appeal exclively to small or specialised when Betiful Thg opened 1996, the UK age of nsent for gay men had only recently been lowered om 21 to 18 (still two years higher than the heterosexual one). Lbians and gay men were banned om servg the armed forc, the sid Sectn 28 was seven years away om beg repealed while phras like “civil partnership” and “marriage equaly” were as unfaiar then as “social media” and “trigger warng” Get Real, a Brish g-out movie that followed two years after Betiful Thg, feel-good material still had to acknowledge the possibily of vlence and homophobia. Photograph: RONALD GRANTThe -stigmatisatn of homosexualy has removed om drama one of s olst standbys: the threat of ostracisatn and social .
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GAY THERAPIST DISCS “LOVE, SIMON” OM A GAY MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE
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Directed by Greg Berlanti and starrg Nick Robson (Jurassic World), the story centers on high school stunt Simon Spier and his bourgeong relatnship--emails wh an anonymo boy he knows only as “Blue, ” which is pted agast his fear of g out as gay. Clark is an openly gay actor, and he plays this character Ethan, who is the only openly gay stunt at [Simon’s high school] Creekwood that Simon knows of at the begng of the story.
As Love, Simon — the first teen-targeted, major stud project centerg on a gay romance — gears up to h theaters wi release March 16, the film has already ma a marketg splash.
SIMON IS GAY
The Homo Sapiens Agenda, which follows a high schooler that fds fort his anonymo email nversatn wh an anonymo closeted classmate as grappl wh g out to his fay and iends. Greta Garbo’s route went reverse: the last film she appeared was a gay porn tape lled Adam & Yv, om 1974, but she didn’t know (she was filmed walkg down the street a flashback scene that obvly has nothg pornographic about ). It also happens to be the first feature film wh a gay lead, somethg Aptaker and Berger were drawn to after readg Becky Albertalli‘s 2015 YA novel, Simon vs.
And he’s also amazg bee he’s a gay guy, and he had this personal experience to draw om that we did not of g out and what that’s like.
One of the book-to-movie chang is the character of Ethan (Clark Moore), the only other openly gay kid at Simon’s school who isn’t the source material. Ethan was a great addn bee you also get that amazg scene where ’s two gay guys stg next to each other who uld not be more different and ’s a remr that Simon is jt one particular story of g out, and this movie is jt one particular movie about .