Of an Age — A Stirrg Asie Gay Romance

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. * aussie gay film *

The plot self is a gay staple: Mike (Tristan Barr) velops a csh on William (Lus Lehan), the new boy at school, and the two are assigned to work on a project together, a vio reimagg of Romeo and Juliet. While the fal 20 mut veer to melodrama, overall this is the bt of the recent spate of Atralian gay teen dramas, and the neart thg to an Antipoan Betiful Thg.

MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM

Watch the trailer for "Of An Age," a whirlwd gay romance om Macedonian Atralian director Goran Stolevski. * aussie gay film *

Gayby Baby (2015)Over three years the makg, Maya Newell’s sensive and often very funny documentary follows four gay upl wh children, and the everyday challeng they face, some of which have nothg to do wh their sexualy. Matt’s birth mother is the member of a homophobic church, and he qutns her beliefs at every opportuny, while Graham, an adopted 11-year-old who n’t read, fac new challeng when his dads move to Fiji wh him and enurage him to keep their sexualy a secret owg to s nservative society. 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. 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”.

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. One of the most explic Asie films to ga a mastream release, this sexual melodrama starrg Alex Dimrias as Ari, a gay Greek Atralian teenager Melbourne, pulled no punch when me to nudy, vlence and culture clash.

WHIRLWD GAY ROMANCE 'OF AN AGE' HAS A TLY MOVG TRAILER

An spirg do about the 2006 World Cup of Gay Rugby fal between the San Francis Fog and the Sydney Convicts, narrated by former NRL great Ian Roberts, one of the few Asie field sportsmen to have e out. The tournament is lled The Bgham Cup after Mark Bgham, a gay gby player who died a hero after helpg to storm the ckp of Uned 93 on 9/11, preventg the plane om beg a terrorists’ weapon. A gay Greek Atralian photographer (Ewen Llie) journeys to Europe to stter his dad’s ash, but unvers a sister fay curse which leads him to the seedit backwaters Greece, Paris and Budapt.

There have been plenty of high school g-out films, but none as raw or emotnally-charged as this (very) low-budget ’90s tale of two awkward teenagers clumsily workg out their feelgs for each other and pg wh their (very) dysfunctnal fai and latent homophobia.

Viewg today durg another viral panmic brgs home how cel some policians at the time were for blamg the homosexual muny for the so-lled ‘gay plague’. It follows the te story of Gerrard Conley (Lus Hedg), who was forced by his parents to enrol a gay nversn urse n by a sadistic therapist (Edgerton). In the tradn of an earlier gay die movie, Weekend, which unfold over the urse of jt a uple of days, this new picture prov that enomy n be a virtue.

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Kolya remas more fixated on their day together than Adam, who has tablished a new life Canada, where gay marriage was legal several years before the laws changed the U. Gay-themed films om Down Unr are notable rari but ually end up beg classics: Thk Priscilla, Queen of the Dert, All About E, or Head On. But grty, gay g-of-age dramas om the Great Southern Land are somethg to behold and worth puttg your viewg que.

Jog siarly-themed movi like ‘Head On’ and ‘Holdg the Man’, Stolevski’s sophomore feature is sted to bee a classic of Atralian queer cema. When Adam sually reveals he is gay, Kol ially rponds wh mascule posturg that fas as their nnectn to each other grows.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

Featurg epic romanc, steamy dallianc, touchg dramas and tal of self disvery, the are jt some of the many engrossg, unmissable films about gay men at Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Ftival. In om the Si is a ptivatg drama explorg an illic affair between two partnered members of a South London gay gby team. A quiet, amb and mandg exploratn of a Morocn-Dutch man’s life at a crossroads when his nservative Mlim fay disvers he’s gay.

Leonardo Sbaraglia livers a tour--force performance as a middle-aged gay man who los his way durg an eventful summer Buenos Air and R Janeiro, this powerful and erotilly charged story. Featurg Emmy award-wng actor Colman Domgo (Euphoria), this llectn of heartfelt shorts foc on gay men om all walks of life. The strongt is Eric, but the whole ensemble giv a round equanimy to gay life Atralia, jt as NQV Media’s llectns have now done all around the Release: Out now to watch on VOD, released by NQV Media.

Turns out, Barbieland isn't as gay as s queer fans had hoped

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10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

‘OF AN AGE’ REVIEW: SMALL-SLE GAY ATRALIAN ROMANCE STRIK BIG EROTIC SPARKS

TAKE A FIRST LOOK AT GAY-THEMED ASIE FILM, OF AN AGE