We pay tribute to some of the bt Atralian gay films.
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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. * australian gay short film *
Until 1949, havg gay sex was a hangg offence Victoria. 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. Big screen gay love stori rarely seem to end happily. This was the first Atralian film that dared to feature an actual gay romance as s ma theme.
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”.
10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
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. Crowe is the macho but vulnerable gay plumber wary of beg hurt and pg wh his overbearg widower dad.