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16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time. * gay 1970s films *
Even though a movie about a gay man is up for multiple Amy Awards on Sunday, pictns of LGBT life rema rare mastream film. A few filmmakers were brave enough to feature gay characters that weren't utnary tal.
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10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
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The sidns of ernment-sponsored homophobia is at the foreont of the movie, which is revolutnary for s pictn of a bisexual protagonist not to be msed wh; he's the furtht thg om a victim.
By all acunts a happy fay man, the senator apparently had a gay ol' time Hawaii that's now e back to be him the butt. Claire Bloom plays Theodora, a gay psychic who tak a very distct likg to Eleanor. Midnight Cowboy (1969)This prsg drama om gay director John Schlger stars Jon Voight and Dt Hoffman as htlers who enter to a "plited" bs relatnship while workg the streets of New York.
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The film received an X ratg om the MPAA due to s "homosexual ame of reference and possible fluence upon youngsters, " and end up beg the only X-rated film to w the Bt Picture Amy Award. The homosexualy was more implied than featured -- the relatnship between Voight and Hoffman is not what you'd ll passnate -- but there is a memorable scene wh Voight beg serviced by a young man at a movie theater.
{C}The Boys the Band (1970)It may surprise some lennials that the director of The Exorcist, William Friedk, also ma an famo movie about gay men. The jury's still of My Bt Friends Are (1971)Mostly fotten, this groundbreakg movie centered around a rcuo night a Greenwich Village gay bar. You n cred gay director John Schlger for that; y, the same John Schlger who directed the ld Midnight Cowboy and the absolutely rid Madonna vehicle The Next Bt Daniel Day-Lewis, then a teenager, has a small, uncreded role.
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The actor would go on to star one of the most beloved gay films of the early AIDS era, My Betiful Lndrette.