From Bottoms and Problemistas to theatre mps and gay wrtlers, this summer has somethg for everyone — pecially if you're queer.
Contents:
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
"Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon. Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns. ”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove.
From Bottoms and Problemistas to theatre mps and gay wrtlers, this summer has somethg for everyone — pecially if you're left: Tilda Swton Problemista; Ayo Eberi Bottoms; Franz Rogowski Passag. " A fiery, joyo portra of an unlikely in, Cassandro stars Gael Garcia Bernal as a man on a fearls journey to bee a rare openly gay star the Mexin wrtlg world of the early ReadIf wrtlg is art, then Kenny Omega is one of Canada's greatt performg artistsLed by an electrifyg Bernal, also featur great supportg turns om Roberta Coldrez (A League of Their Own), Raúl Castillo (The Inspectn) and none other than Bad Bunny. Rottg the SunThere's absolutely one thg Barbie and Oppenheimer fail at when pared to Sebastián Silva's rto meta-edy Rottg In The Sun: onscreen penis and graphic gay sex.
—Emma SpecterFire Island (2022) Matt Rogers, Zane Phillips, Tomas Matos, Joel Kim Booster, Torian Miller, and Bowen Yang Fire Courty Everett CollectnThis (very loose) adaptatn of Jane Aten’s Pri and Prejudice, om director Andrew Ahn and wrer and star Joel Kim Booster, follows a group of gay iends who take their yearly summer trip to inic queer vatn statn Fire Island, only to fd that their days the sun may be numbered. Chartg the forbidn romance between a peasant girl servg as a maid to a wealthy heirs through a seri of ntradictory, Rashomon-style perspectiv, The Handmain is a meticuloly librated erotic thriller for the ag.
BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
Directed by Barry Jenks and adapted om a play by Tarell Alv McCraney, Moonlight serv as a powerful g-of-age story across three chapters the life of a gay Black man growg up an impoverished rner of Miami. Is the Warmt Colour (2013)Adèle Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux Blue Is The Warmt Courty Everett CollectnFirst premierg to a divisive cril rponse at the Cann Film Ftival 2013—both for s graphic pictns of gay sex, and the allegatns of mistreatment by director Abllatif Kechiche on set—Blue Is the Warmt Colour still serv as a powerful ttament to the tumultuo love between s two ma characters, Emma and Adèle, as they drift an out of each other’s liv over the urse of many years. Weekend (2011)Tom Cullen and Chris New Courty Everett CollectnAndrew Haigh’s sensual, tenr, utterly charmg portra of two young Brish men (Tom Cullen and Chris New) meetg and fallg love over the urse of 48 hours is ank s pictn of sexualy as well as emotn, touchg on the specifici of gay life today as well as the universal aspects of an electric and immediate nnectn.
Adapted for the screen by Mike Nichols, Tony Khner’s sprawlg “gay fantasia”—a Pulzer, Tony, and Drama Dk-wng phenom centered on the AIDS epimic 1980s New York—beme a vasatgly good miseri, starrg Al Paco, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Patrick Wilson, Jefey Wright, and a brilliant, shape-shiftg Meryl Streep.
Starrg Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the wild-livg Brish mician Brian Sla, loosely based on David Bowie, and Ewan McGregor as his Amerin unterpart Curt Wild, loosely based on Iggy Pop, the story trails Arthur (Christian Bale), a gay journalist attemptg to track down the now-reclive Sla for a magaze story, wh the heady days of his life at the height of global fame revised through flashbacks. Photo: Courty Everett CollectnAnother director whose non featur a number of queer masterpiec, Derek Jarman’s radil adaptatn of Christopher Marlowe’s history play Edward II saw the director apply his signature time-hoppg spir to draw parallels between the life of the ntroversial medieval kg and the vibrant spir of gay life ’90s London.