End of the Century - The Gay & Lbian Review

Contents:

• ‘END OF THE CENTURY’ FILM REVIEW: LH GAY ROMANCE EXPLOR PATHS NOT TAKEN
• REVIEW: GAY ROMANCE ‘END OF THE CENTURY’ PTUR THE NUANC OF LOVE AND SEX OVER TIME
• ‘END OF THE CENTURY’ TRAILER: SWOONG GAY ROMANCE IS THE ARGENTE ANSWER TO ‘WEEKEND’
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• REVIEW OF END OF THE CENTURY: A GAY ROMANCE WH A DIFFERENCE
• ‘END OF THE CENTURY REVIEW’: A POWERFUL AND HONT GAY ROMANCE

‘END OF THE CENTURY’ FILM REVIEW: LH GAY ROMANCE EXPLOR PATHS NOT TAKEN

Evotive purple ski bear wns to a tantalizg and termg flg Luc Castro’s stcturally dac but “End of the Century, ” the gay equivalent of Richard Lklater’s “Before” trilogy, distilled to a sgle film that’s nstcted of buoyant enunters separated by two s, nversatnal walks through a European cy, and the illn of a married-wh-children future.

“End of the Century, ” the trigugly told story of a romantic relatnship between two men that spans 20 or so years, evok Andrew Haigh’s fe “Weekend” as well as a kd of gay sp on Richard Lklater’s “Before” films. Eher way, we root for Ocho and Javi’s happs; they’re good guys and they seem to serve, wh the help of his fe lead actors, nails so many of the relatable actns, reactns and nuanc — the “chs game” of all — that n occur between new or potential lovers, particularly gay on. A triptych of snapshots, two real and one possibly imaged, om the liv of two gay men, wrer-director Luc Castro’s End of the Century is at s most tense, and sexit, when ’s also at s most unknowable.

The story of so many gay men’s g out is siar, so ’s perhaps evable that Ocho and Javi’s nversatns about who they are and who they want to be not only mirrors Wojnarowicz’s wrg, but also Andrew Haigh’s Weekend.

REVIEW: GAY ROMANCE ‘END OF THE CENTURY’ PTUR THE NUANC OF LOVE AND SEX OVER TIME

) Whether or not we’ve been dropped to a projectn of Ocho’s imagatn is almost bi the pot, as End of the Century leav wh the not-so-ambiguo imprsn that Castro believ that a gay man’s ntentment is only possible through the performance of domticy.

gay rights movement, also lled gay liberatn movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons (i. E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. (Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny.

‘END OF THE CENTURY’ TRAILER: SWOONG GAY ROMANCE IS THE ARGENTE ANSWER TO ‘WEEKEND’

) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. The begng of the gay rights movement Before the end of the 19th century there were srcely any “movements” for gay rights. Ined, his poem “Two Lov” (1894), Lord Aled (“Bosie”) Douglas, Osr Wil’s lover, clared “I [homosexualy] am the love that dare not speak s name.

” Homosexual and bisexual men and women were given voice 1897 wh the foundg of the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee (Wissenschaftlich-humanär Komee; WhK) Berl. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power.

In many larger German ci, gay nightlife beme tolerated, and the number of gay publitns creased. Ined, acrdg to some historians, the number of gay bars and perdils Berl the 1920s exceed that New York Cy six s later. Dpe the formatn of such groups, polil activy by homosexuals and bisexuals was generally not very visible.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Ined, gays were often harassed by the police wherever they ngregated. The war brought many young people to ci and brought visibily to the gay muny. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.

However, there was also greater polil activy among gays, aimed large measure at crimalizg sodomy. The gay rights movement sce the mid-20th century Begng the mid-20th century, an creasg number of gay anizatns were formed. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women.

In addn, the Uned Stat saw the publitn of a natnal gay perdil, One, which 1958 won a U. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act. The gay rights movement was begng to w victori for legal reform, particularly wtern Europe, but perhaps the sgle fg event of gay activism occurred the Uned Stat.

REVIEW OF END OF THE CENTURY: A GAY ROMANCE WH A DIFFERENCE

In the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, was raid by the police. “Stonewall” me to be memorated annually June wh Gay Pri celebratns, not only U. Ci but also several other untri (Gay Pri is also held at other tim of the year some untri).

In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly. Groups such as the Human Rights Campaign, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power) the Uned Stat and Stonewall and Outrage! In addn, the transnatnal Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn was found Coventry, England, 1978.

Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons.

‘END OF THE CENTURY REVIEW’: A POWERFUL AND HONT GAY ROMANCE

In the Uned Stat, gay activists won support om the Democratic Party 1980, when the party add to s platform nondiscrimatn clse a plank cludg sexual orientatn.

This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat.