Out director Ira Sachs slams his new queer film’s NC-17 ratg, llg the MPA “anti-gay” - LGBTQ Natn

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• OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
• LOS 5 DIRECTOR GAY CE MáS IMPORTANT LA HISTORIA
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• TIM COOK NO EL úNI DIRECTOR EJECUTIVO UNA GRAN PAñíA ABIERTAMENTE GAY

OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

" 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.

LOS 5 DIRECTOR GAY CE MáS IMPORTANT LA HISTORIA

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. Many of Van Sant's films explore homosexualy through subtext, examg the relatnships of margalized outsirs.

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.

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. The film stars his good iend and equent llaborator Julianne Moore as a 1950s suburban hoewife who learns her hband is gay and embarks on an affair wh her Black garner. Guadagno is probably bt known for "Call Me By Your Name, " a gay love story that tak place durg an Italian summer the 1980s.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Outsi of his work, Jarman was a proment public figure Bra and advoted for gay rights durg the AIDS crisis. 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. The movie puts the msy particulars of gay sex and the ntag stggle for timacy ont and center, makg Fifer a uniquely provotive voice. Frier, who prevly served as a staff wrer on MTV’s “Sweet/Vic” said ’s near impossible” to “gat gay sh ma.

Chris Kelly cut his teeth as a scribe behd the scen at “Saturday Night Live” as the seri’ first openly gay wrer. ” 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.

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Stolevski told IndieWire that after releasg the “gngy gay love story, ” he’ll next prep a “queer edy-drama set very prent-day Macedonia. Her sophomore effort was the HBO movie Bsie, a bpic on the legendary Blu sger and bisexual in Bsie Smh.

Today, the former is nsired a landmark work of gay cema and ntu to be one of his most beloved films. One of the earlit openly gay directors, John Waters boasts a prolific body of work, most of which clus inic mils and cult edi.