We pay tribute to some of the bt Atralian gay films.
Contents:
- 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
- ‘OF AN AGE’ REVIEW: SMALL-SLE GAY ATRALIAN ROMANCE STRIK BIG EROTIC SPARKS
- MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
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Until 1949, havg gay sex was a hangg offence Victoria. It’s staggerg that homosexual acts between men were only ma legal throughout Atralia 1994, the same year The Adventur Of Priscilla, Queen Of the Dert explod joyfully to cemas the world over. Wh such a hateful swamp of nservative legislators, was left to the movie dtry to fight for equal rights love, marriage and child ctody law, hence why, nearly all of the movi here, the gay relatnship is a ‘problem’ for wir society and the participants endure abe, vlence or hate.
Big screen gay love stori rarely seem to end happily. This was the first Atralian film that dared to feature an actual gay romance as s ma theme.
‘OF AN AGE’ REVIEW: SMALL-SLE GAY ATRALIAN ROMANCE STRIK BIG EROTIC SPARKS
Lgerg trma follows a gay wboy om ral Atralia to the big cy Craig Boreham’s drama of sex, solu and human nnectn. * australia gay film *
Bizarrely, the film’s trailer seems to take a stand agast homosexualy, the narrator proclaimg that Tony is tryg “to pe om tangled, unnatural passns” and that “his relatnship is acceptable this age when moral standards are nfed”.
It’s nontg to thk of how Atralia fell love wh a tr of outrageo drag queens prancg their glor way across the outback, parts of the untry that had the world’s tought penalti for gay sex. One Tassie polician om the time, Robert Archer, even lled for homosexuals to be “tracked down and wiped out” by police.
MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
Crowe is the macho but vulnerable gay plumber wary of beg hurt and pg wh his overbearg widower dad. One of the most explic Asie films to ga a mastream release, this sexual melodrama starrg Alex Dimrias as Ari, a gay Greek Atralian teenager Melbourne, pulled no punch when me to nudy, vlence and culture clash. An spirg do about the 2006 World Cup of Gay Rugby fal between the San Francis Fog and the Sydney Convicts, narrated by former NRL great Ian Roberts, one of the few Asie field sportsmen to have e out.
The tournament is lled The Bgham Cup after Mark Bgham, a gay gby player who died a hero after helpg to storm the ckp of Uned 93 on 9/11, preventg the plane om beg a terrorists’ weapon.
A gay Greek Atralian photographer (Ewen Llie) journeys to Europe to stter his dad’s ash, but unvers a sister fay curse which leads him to the seedit backwaters Greece, Paris and Budapt.