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Contents:
- OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS?
OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
From 1894, when the very first gay film premiered to this year when a mastream children's movie featurg a ma character who is queer beme available to stream, look back at the history of * film gay director *
Billy Eichner is headg up the first gay rom- om a major stud wh “Bros, ” “Heartstopper” is a tween smash on Netflix, and Jerrod Carmichael, one of the folks on our list of the 10 LGBTQ Film and TV Creators on the Rise 2022, me out on an HBO special. Jerrod Carmichael is on a hot streak followg his trospective HBO stand-up special “Rothaniel, ” which the ic not only me out as gay but also revealed his unual birthname to dienc.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
” The HBO Max edy seri, -created wh Schneir, about a warped brother and sister pair tryg to make the dtry fearlsly took on gay taboos this past Season 2 — cludg an entire episo about the social-media fallout of accintally postg a “hole pic. " The film follows the explos of a closeted gay Korean Amerin teenager who works at a spa to help his fay only to disver a sexual unrworld at his new job.
Jamie Babb is perhaps bt known for her but feature, 1999's "But I'm a Cheerlear, " the beloved queer classic that tells the story of two teenage girls who fall love at a gay nversn therapy mp. Brish wrer-director-producer Andrew Haigh is perhaps bt known for his ntributns to the HBO seri "Lookg, " which follows a group of young gay men San Francis. While his but feature was "Greek Pete" 2009, Haigh broke out two years later wh "Weekend, " a film about two gay men who have an extend one-night stand and explore the meang of nnectn the morn era.
While queerns is often subtextual his films, Van Sant explored homosexualy at the foreont of "Milk, " a historil bpic about Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected polician.
GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS?
Hayn' but feature "Poison" was even more ntroversial for s overt exploratn and pictns of homosexualy, but earned him two Film Inpennt Spir Award nomatns for bt director and bt first picture.