Handsome Devil, the celebrated Irish movie about a young gay gby player, to screen at Garn State Film Ftival this weekend.
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- DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB
- ACTOR ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘70% OF THE ST WERE OF THE MUNY’
- IRISH FILM ABOUT YOUNG GAY RUGBY PLAYER TO SCREEN AT NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL
- MOVIE ABOUT GAY RUGBY STAR CHANG LOTN
DIRECTOR OF ACCLAIMED GAY GBY FILM IN OM THE SI ON MUD, SWEAT AND ‘IDT’ HOMOPHOB
* film about gay rugby player *
Our list of ne feature-length LGBTQ sports documentari that provi behd-the-scen glimps of heroism and homophobia athletics was such a h, we’re followg up wh a look at feature-length narrative LGBTQ sports films. Dennis is a 28-year-old gay man who plays on a Wt Hollywood softball team wh his close, tty pals. Intertgly, this film was directed by gay producer Greg Berlanti (hband of gay soccer player Robbie Rogers) and stars actor John Mahoney who lived the glass closet until his 2017 ath.
ACTOR ALEXANR LLN ON GAY GBY FILM IN FROM THE SI: ‘70% OF THE ST WERE OF THE MUNY’
It was also one of the only gay films durg s time not foced on homophobia and HIV. The straight-washed trailer above only hts at the gay storyle buried this film’s send half. When Iceland’s bad-boy football star Ottar Thor out as gay, his entire life flat quicker than a punctured soccer ball.
But when he’s given a choice to return to the pro-sports closet or start playg on a smaller gay lol team, Thor has to choose between a glamoro life or an thentic one. The director, Michael Akers, -wrote the screenplay om terviews wh wheelchair-g gay men, and ’s one of the few films existence to al wh gay men and disabili. As Conor’s teammat prsure him to abandon Ned, Ned fds himself creasgly sick of his school’s homophobic snobbery, brgg both boys to a breakg pot that uld end their iendship.
IRISH FILM ABOUT YOUNG GAY RUGBY PLAYER TO SCREEN AT NEW YORK FILM FTIVAL
Cocky and cunng Jason — played by gay actor Rsell Tovey— seems termed to get unr A’s earnt exterr. I thk there are a lot of ‘g out’ and ‘homophobia’ films and I was terted gettg beyond that. My -wrer, Adam Silver, and I said we didn’t want to make a film like that – there’ll be no g out or homophobia.
It don’t e om homophobia or g out, ’s a film about monogamy, adultery and open relatnships which aren’t explored very much other gay films. Why n’t somethg physil be off-lims to gay men?
It really boils down to a sense of muny and belongg that I feel a lot of gay men haven’t had or don’t get bee we don’t have as many muny spac the morn world anymore. Team sports are somethg a lot of gay men probably didn’t get to experience at school bee wasn’t for them.
MOVIE ABOUT GAY RUGBY STAR CHANG LOTN
Do you have any thoughts on Israel Fol, Atralia’s once star gby player whose ntract was termated for tellg “homosexuals” that “Hell awas” them? Israel Fol posted anti-gay msag on social media. So many lol clubs happen to have a large proportn of gay players which is a ttament to the sport.
I’d say to other sports, if you want to miss out on all that talent to hold homophobic ias, you need to set your egos asi. That’s the treat store for Alexanr Lln, whose new movie In From the Si, examg the liv of gay gby players on and off the pch, is screeng at this month’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQI+ Film Ftival on 26 and 27 March before a wi release later this year. Some guys were bisexual, some were gay, some straight – was a meltg pot of different experienc, and no judgement.