Historilly, g-of-age romantic edy stori picted on screen have been centered around heterosexual upl; the 2018 film Love, Simon challenged nventns by pictg a gay protagonist while buildg on the tradns of the genre. This paper aims to exame the effect of this film on fan behavr and cril perceptn of the genre. Examg the impact of Love, Simon reveals how an unnventnal narrative both expand how viewers and crics unrstood the genre while also spirg new forms of fan engagement wh the film. The thor nclus that this groundbreakg narrative, by providg a prevly unavailable opportuny for a wir fan base to relate and nnect to s central character, rrpondgly prompted acts of engagement that were uniquely specific to Love, Simon’s story and powerful enough to rve their own place wh the larger Simon metaverse.
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- PROFSOR SIMON GAY
- FILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEMEFILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEMEFILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEMEFILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEMEFILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEME
- 'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL
- SIMON COWELL IS GAY, ACRDG TO UNRVER FOOTAGE SHOWN AT TULISA TRIAL
- IS PL SIMON GAY?
PROFSOR SIMON GAY
The amic profile of Profsor Simon Gay, Profsor of Medil Edutn (Primary Care) at Universy of Leicter * simon gay researchgate *
The topic of homosexualy and s histori wh the lands that make up today’s Rsian Feratn has been, until recently, faiar chiefly to stunts of Eastern European or Slavic studi, particularly the fields of lerature, art and mic. While the censorship mechanisms place durg Tsarist tim and the views on homosexualy held by the Rsian Orthodox clergy severely limed discsn or exprsn of same-sex lov, such relatnships did occur.
FILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEMEFILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEMEFILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEMEFILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEMEFILM LOVE, SIMON (2018) AS A GAY MANIFTO CEMA ON SCHOOL THEME
Given the progrs gay rights have ma over the last 40 years, we might believe we live queer iendly North Ameri and that homophobia is ad. But ’s not. It is jt disguise. * simon gay researchgate *
In ntrast to the emphatic nmnatn of homosexualy regularly advanced by the Wtern church unr Catholicism, the Orthodox Church functned an environment where the fn of masculy clud same-sex relatns the spectm of possible sexual relatns.
'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL
* simon gay researchgate *
The years between 1905 and 1917 were pecially marked by an array of poets and wrers who alt wh homosexualy their works. Perhaps the most famo example is Mikhail Kuzm (1872-1936), whose 1906 novel Wgs was the first “gay novel” ever published Rsia.
This was also an era which saw an explosn of diverse artistic and lerary schools, among whose members were several openly lbian and gay thors of both prose and poetry. Proment poets this group clud Nikolai Kliuev (1884-1937), Mara Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) and Sofia Parnok (1885-1933), who was scribed as the “Rsian Sappho” – th, for a brief perd, beg lbian or gay was no longer an inty that had to be hidn, but one which uld be theoretilly openly celebrated. In 1933, male homosexualy was recrimalized wh the addn of Article 121 to the law , which would rema force until 1993.
SIMON COWELL IS GAY, ACRDG TO UNRVER FOOTAGE SHOWN AT TULISA TRIAL
The vasn of the Soviet Unn by Nazi Germany and the subsequent, wispread stctn further rerced the disptn of life for lbian and gay cizens of Rsia. Between 1976 and 1982, three articl on “Rsia’s Gay Lerature and History”, ” Death and Rurrectn of Mikhail Kuzm “ and “ Gay Life Before the Soviets: Revisnism Revised “ were published Gay Sunshe, Slavic Review and THE ADVOCATE rpectively. The Gay Sunshe article was later clud the 1993 anthology Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshe: An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Polics, and Culture eded by Wston Leyland wh substantial addnal materials add unr the tle “ Rsia’s Gay History and Lerature om the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuri.
” Karlsky also ntributed a chapter on “Rsia’s Gay Lerature and Culture: the Impact of the October Revolutn” to the 1990 anthology Hidn From History: Reclaimg the Gay and Lbian Past eded by Mart Duberman, Martha Vic and Gee Chncey. Both of the says provi the rear wh a tailed picture of the plex social world shaped by the lbian and gay wrers and artists of Rsia prr to the October 1917 revolutn and the somber fat many of them met the new Soviet world.
And 1993, Daniel Healey’s lengthy article “The Rsian Revolutn and the Decrimalisatn of Homosexualy” was published the journal Revolutnary Rsia. The removal of legal penalti for homosexualy by the Bolsheviks 1917 as part of the elimatn of the Imperial Crimal Co should, his view, be seen as a polil event occurrg a plex environment of fluenc as diverse as the ways which the Rsian medil muny fed and managed homosexualy as a phenomenon and the history of prev attempts to legally addrs same-sex behavr.
IS PL SIMON GAY?
He not that “the medilizatn of homosexual acts was an ternatnal phenomenon, part of the procs by which scientists supplanted clerics Wtern natns as the terpreters of sexual normaly.
Rsian scientists imported a range of new sexual tegori, cludg eventually the characterizatn ‘homosexual’…to scribe same-sex erotic behavr. This was the perd when Wtern Europe there was great tert placg homosexualy wh a medil amework, prcipally Germany through the efforts of Dr. The ia of restg social attus towards men and women attracted to their own genr which formed a central part of the work of the German lbian and gay movement the first s of the twentieth century had no visible unterpart Rsian society, due part to the majory of the populatn livg outsi urban centers where agatn for such change uld be visible and effective.
Same-sex relatns were re-crimalized the perd 1933- 1934, wh homosexualy beg varly seen as a crime of polil subversn and an attribute of fascism ( the opn of no ls proment a figure than Maksim Gorky. ) Healey also not the relative absence of private bs servg a homosexual clientele, which uld have fanced the velopment of such aspects of a muny as publitns.