'Passag' director nounc 'dangero' NC-17 ratg on a film pictg a gay love story

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• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• A ROMANTIC COMEDY ABOUT A GAY TEENAGER? WHAT TOOK SO LONG?

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

There have been a lot of g-of-age movi and there have been a lot of high school romance films, some wh homosexualy as their premise. There are plenty of gay and queer romantic edi and LGBTQ+ movi that are romantic, light-hearted, pellg, and edic, like Love, Simon, Bros, and Happit SeasonLove, Simon gaed a lot of attentn and buzz durg s 2018 release, maly bee was one of the first mastream gay romantic edi.

(Image cred: Universal Pictur)BrosBros follows Bobby (Billy Eichner) and Aaron (Le Macfarlane), two gay men who avoid relatnships. For this list, I tried to clu as many movi that reprent different parts of the LGBTQ+ muny (gay, bisexual, qutng, transgenr, lbian, pansexual, etc. However, the world of gay and queer romantic edi and LGBTQ+ movi is nstantly growg, so hopefully a few years, this list will be even bigger.

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A ROMANTIC COMEDY ABOUT A GAY TEENAGER? WHAT TOOK SO LONG?

The nuns and jots are all over the screen, but also the way nversatns are held on beg gay (Camiel) and how to al wh Cancer (Simon) uld be seen as open-md (or ntroversial? The melancholic bgraphil drama, directed by acclaimed Brish filmmaker Terence Davi, don’t shy away om Sassoon’s queerns as hon on the bat veteran’s gay love affairs wh Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irve), Stephen Tennant (Calam Lynch) and Glen Byam Shaw (Tom Blyth), as well as his nversn to Catholicism. The first gay romantic edy om a major stud, Bros marked a historic moment for queer cema wh s prcipal LGBTQ+ st – even the heterosexual rol were played by actors of the LGBTQ+ experience.

Followg Billy Eichner’s character Bobby Lieber as a podster and rad show host as he falls for a ‘masc4masc’ gay (played by Le Macfarlane), Bros is one of the most outrageoly funny edi of the year and is, thankfully, not straightwashed to appeal to cis-het dienc. From Bobby snappg a pic of his butt for a Grdr hook-up (who subsequently blocks him) to the two lead characters brgg the foot fetish dtry to the big screen, Bros is g-g-g-gay. Watchg Léo (En Dambre) distance himself om Rémi (Gtav Waele) as a rult of the homophobia of others is an excciatg watch, and the Belgian drama’s swch om buddy film to one about teen suici is equally as vastatg.

An homage to teen classics like Cel Intentns, Jawbreaker and Mean Girls, Netflix’s black edy Do Revenge immediately ptured the attentn of viewers – particularly Gay Twter – thanks to the bonkers twists, 90s-spired athetic and sapphic chemistry between leads Caa Mens and Maya Hawke. Hailed by crics and viewers as an stant queer classic, Fire Island follows two bt iends (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) as they embark on their annual weeklong vatn to the tular gay hotspot. We received the gay gby drama we need and serve thanks to a Kickstarter mpaign and the visn of director/wrer and former gby ach Matt Carter.

In From The Si stars Emmerdale’s Alexanr Lln as Mark, an experienced new rec on the B team at a gay gby club who has a dnken enunter wh Warren (Alexanr Kg), the star player on the A team. In one of the year’s most pellg and raw performanc, Jeremy Pope stars The Inspectn as a Black gay man who be homels after his homophobic mother (played to perfectn by Gabrielle Unn) disowns him.

While the narrative feels faiar – a troubled person enters the ary, is celly targeted by a senr soldier, nsirs leavg but persever and feels more plete as a rult – The Inspectn’s emphasis on the Black LGBTQ+ experience and years of stutnalised homophobia the ary distcts self om others the same genre. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. ”That he gets one uld almost be nsired revolutnary: Wh “Love, Simon, ” 20th Century Fox be the first major stud recent memory to take a chance on a movie anchored by a gay character.