From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe.
Contents:
- CéMA"RENAISSANCE" SUR QUEERSCREEN : UN DRAME GAY TOUCHANT, DIGNE HéRIER "WEEKEND"
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS
- CICADA (RENAISSANCE) : UN FILM D’AMOUR GAY DISPENSABLE !
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
CéMA"RENAISSANCE" SUR QUEERSCREEN : UN DRAME GAY TOUCHANT, DIGNE HéRIER "WEEKEND"
Renaissance, long-métrage signé Matthew Fifer dértique avec br la relatn naissante ux homm gays et l obstacl qu'il ft parfois surmonter pour attedre une stabilé. A scholar who translated many of the words of the ancient Greeks -- an acceptg group when me to gay love -- Fico profsed a nnectn to the Greek thkers part bee he shared such a sire.
Leonardo Da Vci and Fravante di DomeniThe qutsential Renaissance man, Leonardo may have been his generatn's greatt artist and scientific md, but an age when he had to keep his homosexualy reprsed, many historians say he also lived a largely celibate existence. Michelangelo and Tommaso i CavelieriAs the Renaissance's greatt sculptor, Michelangelo enjoyed enough power wh the Vatin that he did not need to hi his homosexual tennci.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS
The greatt exceptn may be the erotic stature Victory, moled on Cavelieri, a lover also referenced Michelangelo's homoerotic poetry as his valry man, acrdg to historian Rictor Norton. La Boetie enjoyed a certa level of fame, achieved through polil disurs, when he met Montaigne around 1557 and the two would spend four years together, at which time the prcipl of civil disobedience matters of love beme stilled Montaigne, acrdg to Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon's Who's Who Gay and Lbian History.
CICADA (RENAISSANCE) : UN FILM D’AMOUR GAY DISPENSABLE !
The work also ntas the clearly homoerotic tenncy of showsg many of William's more forbidn sir, such as his pg Son 20 for the "master mistrs of my passn. Arngelo Corelli and Matteo FornariCorelli, one of the most fluential posers of the 17th century, lived Rome among a circle of gay artists who had favor wh Cardal Pietro Ottoboni and therefore enjoyed a certa level of discretn. Giuliano DamiandGian GastoneGian Gastone, the last grand de of the Medici dynasty, lived an outwardly fay liftyle one of the few plac Europe to ndone homosexualy.
The noun ‘homosexualy’ was first ed the late-19th century, but the tras that we prently associate wh that word have likely appeared for thoands of years. As we e closer to the prent, queer history be a rerd of proximate events (such as Stonewall, AIDS and the murr of Harvey Milk) more regnisable unr the terms of today’s gay subjectivi.
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
Get the latt om the BFISign up for BFI news, featur, vios and filmmakers have long worked to show how homosexualy is neher morn dulgence nor historil aberratn. Different om the Others (1919)Co-wrten by Atrian filmmaker Richard Oswald and sexologist Magn Hirschfeld, morn father of the study of human sexualy, the German silent film Different om the Others exriat societal homophobia Weimar Berl. Wh sights centred on Paragraph 175, the provisn the German penal that crimalised homosexualy, tells the tragic tale of Pl Körner (Conrad Veidt, later seen The Cabet of Dr Caligari and Casablan), a talented gay vlist blackmailed after ught elopg wh a male stunt.
As Oswald and Hirschfeld reflect the film’s tertl, his story is part of a long and sad historil leage, of gay men penalised for their very nature.
Gay USA (1977)A year after the 1969 Stonewall rebelln, the prott was marked wh the first gay Pri march the US – Chigo, San Francis and New York. Shot by 25 sttered mera crews the summer of 1977, Gay USA ptur the eighth Pri march, takg place simultaneoly across a number of ci the US. It’s a fascatg social document: rarely are we afford such a ndid look at gay life the post-Stonewall and, ed, only 4 years after the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn had formally pathologised homosexualy.