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Contents:
- QUEER KO: 1970S AND ‘80S GAY GERMAN ARTHOE CEMA
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- GREAT FREEDOM REVIEW – POWERFUL GAY PRISON DRAMA SET POSTWAR GERMANY
QUEER KO: 1970S AND ‘80S GAY GERMAN ARTHOE CEMA
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * german queer film *
The early gay activist and filmmaker Rosa von Prnheim put a nutshell: It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv. The rise of New German Cema cid wh the birth of gay liberatn.
Its programmer, filmmaker Wieland Speck, says that “qutng our parents’ generatn, the war generatn, had a strong impact on the velopg gay movement, pecially the first femist ceast.
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. * german queer film *
Speck scrib the attu among German gay men at the time was ma: “every possible STD was ridiculed as the vcibily of the gay psyche ma s first appearance history.
” He adds: “This high time was met hard by the ‘gay ncer’ which ma s way to the nscns of German society about 1986 — an awarens spearhead by Arthur J.
Rosa von Prnheim’s nontatnal It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv (1971) has been creded wh spirg the German gay liberatn movement, although Speck scrib this tone as “already strag at the leash. Prnheim regnized the danger stemmg both om the vis self and the rurgence homophobia led to, envisng a near-future versn of a leper lony.
GREAT FREEDOM REVIEW – POWERFUL GAY PRISON DRAMA SET POSTWAR GERMANY
From Bottoms and Problemistas to theatre mps and gay wrtlers, this summer has somethg for everyone — pecially if you're queer. * german queer film *
Collectively wrten, stars the director as a bathhoe owner who profs om allowg his gay ctomers to have unsafe sex while stgglg wh AIDS and his own homophobia. The film juggl several narrative l, cludg an edor who spreads misrmatn her tabloid paper and a woman who fetishiz sex wh gay men, endg up a dystopian 1987, where 70% of German prisoners are HIV-posive and the ernment has ma HIV tts mandatory. “It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv” (Rosa von Prnheim).
30 years later, the narrative of Heer Carow’s Comg Out (1989) seems a b basic: Philipp (Matthias Freihof), who is married to a woman, realiz that he’s gay after beg attracted to Matthias (Dirk Kummer).
He starts explorg East Berl’s gay bar scene and sleeps wh Matthias. It avoids the mon impulse of queer cema towards tragedy, spe the openg scene’s pictn of Matthias gettg his stomach pumped after a suici attempt driven by self-hatred about his gayns. Afterwards, he embraced munism and remas satisfied by — he says, “we stopped mankd’s exploatn by mankd” — but plas that ignored the problems of gays.