Friends of gay longtime D.C. rints Jocko Fajardo and Tarik Pierce, who were wily admired for their support for LGBTQ muny . . .
Contents:
- THE CIRCLE: WHY IS GAY CEMA SO FIXATED ON THE PAST?
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
THE CIRCLE: WHY IS GAY CEMA SO FIXATED ON THE PAST?
For her first book, the bt-sellg, Orange Prize-wng thor Male Miller told the story of Achill’ gay lover, Patrocl, The Song of Achill. In her send, Circe, she turned the man-killg, pig-njurg wch om Homer’s Odyssey to a heroe worthy of her own epic. * is circe gay *
For her first book, the bt-sellg, Orange Prize-wng thor Male Miller told the story of Achill’ gay lover, Patrocl, The Song of Achill. The 17-year-old protagonist, Lexi, go to a gay nversn mp where she falls love wh another girl. Even a mor amount of rearch reveals the not-so-subtle homoerotic unrton Greek mythology.
“I also like that their relatnship is at the foreont of the story, bee so many people like to believe that gay people didn’t exist before 50 years ago […] And if you’re to mythology and gay fictn, then you get two birds wh one stone. Okay, so this novel don’t actually ver a time-travelg gay relatnship between ancient philosophers Aristotle and Dante. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Greg Berlanti.
The story has (huge spoiler alert) an unhealthy dose of Bury Your Gays, among other qutnable them. Gaydar Racerback Tank Top.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
<strong>Ben Walters:</strong> The new docudrama Der Kreis looks at a groundbreakg gay rights anisatn facg prejudice and harassment 1950s Swzerland. Why is LGBTQ film tryg to reclaim history? * is circe gay *
” This story is about an early gay-rights group lled the Circle, which is also the tle of Hpt’s new film – one of a growg number of featur puttg stori om the LGBTQ archiv up on the big Circle (or Der Kreis German) was one of the world’s first anisatns dited to lbian and gay rights. Origatg 1932, aimed to offer reassurance, support and tn to homosexuals – first through s magaze, then through a social club – as well as gently lobbyg for reform.
Unually for a European untry, Swzerland did not outlaw homosexualy, and s ntraly ensured that the Circle, unlike other European gay groups, survived the war. As the pair beg a tentative romance, Ernst grows more polilly active; meanwhile, a murr draws attentn to gay subculture general and the Circle particular, sparkg a reactnary social, media and police film evotively recreat this te story through the nventnal trappgs of perd drama, such as judic productn sign and appropriate mic.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Activists nmn vlence agast LGBTQ muny St. Vcent, where gay sex is illegal * is circe gay *
It was a strategy spurred by fancial necsy – the film’s producers uldn’t secure fundg to plete an entirely dramatic feature as planned – but the rultg hybrid is a powerful document of a neglected perd of gay history wh much to tell about some ways, is not surprisg that the story of the Circle is unfaiar. Even if homosexualy was technilly legal Swzerland, “they had to be unrver.
Later, beg gay beme a huge subject wh Aids – but that was the subject, not lookg back history. Now I get the feelg many younger gay people Zürich really love to party but not thk about the past so much.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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) As Hpt suggts, gay art and activism have often foced on crisis management and the pursu of legal equaly. Such approach affirm the ia that gay and lbian progrs is part of the universal story of our natns’ social history.
Pictur such as 1987’s Mrice, 1998’s Wil, 2005’s Brokeback Mounta, 2009’s A Sgle Man or this year’s The Imatn Game, meanwhile, ve to empathise wh the cshg social reprsn unr which their gay protagonists labour even as they imply the easg of such burns recent all their heartache, then, the films generally leave wh the reassurg sense that thgs have got better – and, of urse, wh a richer, more rmed unrstandg of how that change has e about.
After all, ’s about a gay subject, isn’t ?
REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
’ As if gay people would never watch a love story between a man and a woman.
“This film remds gays of today that they have a history worth knowg about, that they have roots down to generatns before, ” the real-life Ostertag and Rapp tell me by email. We homosexuals will always be a mory.