LGBTQ+ characters film are given disproportnately unhappy endgs. We know as "buryg their gays". Here are 5 Brish and Irish films that you n watch whout the fear of revisg this trope.
Contents:
- FILM OF THE WEEK: GAY G-OF-AGE IRISH DRAMA DATG AMBER IS STRAIGHT UP HILAR
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- 5 BRISH AND IRISH FILMS THAT DON’T ‘BURY THEIR GAYS’
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
FILM OF THE WEEK: GAY G-OF-AGE IRISH DRAMA DATG AMBER IS STRAIGHT UP HILAR
Believe or not, same-sex relatnships were only crimalised here 1993. Not everyone was happy about that shunt towards enlightenment, but Máire Geoghegan-Qun's reform was only half the battle: vilent prejudice remaed and would take s before Irish gay people fally began to feel accepted their own untry. * irish gay film *
Although this film is set Cuba, ’s wrten by Irish gay man, Mark O’Halloran, directed by an Irish man, and fund by the Irish film board, so we’re claimg as an Irish film. Jt as Jús (Héctor Meda) gets a start his dream job as a drag queen at his gay lol Havana, his tranged macho father (Je Pegorría) lands on his doorstep, and forbids him to perform. Deeply closeted at a time when homosexualy is still a crimal offense Ireland, the middle-aged Alfie creat a lol sndal when he announc a productn of Osr Wil’s play Salome, starrg untry girl Ale (Tara Fzgerald) and Robbie (Ruf Sewell), the b driver for whom Alfie secretly p.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Hapls civil servant, Shane (Michael Legge) gets more than he bargaed for when he mov to an apartment wh a gay fashn stunt, Vcent (Allen Leech). Angie (Flora Montgomery) is the lbian who has an affair wh bisexual Clara, then falls love wh Kate, and then has a hapls one-night-stand wh her gay bt iend, Red, and be pregnant.
5 BRISH AND IRISH FILMS THAT DON’T ‘BURY THEIR GAYS’
‘Big’ Kev (Andrew Bent) and “Ltle’ Kev (Michael Legge, Cowboys & Angels) are a gay uple this Irish answer to The Haner, which follows a band of bondg boys on a stag party the wilds of Wicklow.
Dpe the director beg a gay man, ’s easy to thk the gays are there jt for show, but then they bee the centre of the tensn as we realise ‘Big’ Kev isn’t ved to the weddg bee the father of ‘Ltle’ Kev (and the groom) is agast their relatnship. It allows for a brief discsn on a divi between young and old generatns on the subject of homosexualy that seems dated already, but the film’s gay payoff is genuely movg.
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'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
David Freyne's story about a teen stgglg wh his sexualy 90s Ireland is a touchg, salty and extremely funny film, wr Pl WhgtonEddie (Fnn O’Shea), who’s gay, starts datg Amber (Lola Petticrew) an attempt to f wh society 90s IrelandBelieve or not, same-sex relatnships were only crimalised here 1993. Not everyone was happy about that shunt towards enlightenment, but Máire Geoghegan-Qun's reform was only half the battle: vilent prejudice remaed and would take s before Irish gay people fally began to feel accepted their own untry.
His life is thrown upsi down when he falls for a handsome gay teenager (Anton Marziale) om the other si of town and disvers his ‘te thentic self’, as they say. Once there, Jared meets other queer people like him – cludg a character played Atralian sger-songwrer Troye Sivan – and to nflict wh the homophobic head therapist (Joel Edgerton). When first released, the show ma wav LGBTQ+ and mastream culture for s thentic pictn of the gay muny.
The 2020 adaptatn ntu to tell the story of several gay men at a hoe party, whose evengs are thrown to turmoil wh the arrival of an unexpected gut. Circ of Books tells the story of director Rachel Mason’s nservative Jewish parents, Barry and Karen, who operated one of the most prolific gay porn empir the Uned Stat for more than 30 years.