GAY PRIDE MONTH: Based on Penelope Gilliatt's sharp script, the movie holds important place film history, offerg the first posive image of homosexual lead role mastream movie--and the first gay kiss!
Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD FIRST GAY KISS: SCHLGER’S SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, STARRG PETER FCH, GLENDA JACKSON, AND MURRAY HEAD AS THE GUY THEY BOTH LOVE
- GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
- STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER HAS ANCHISE'S FIRST GAY KISS
- 25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
- DISNEY HAS S FIRST GAY KISS
HOLLYWOOD FIRST GAY KISS: SCHLGER’S SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, STARRG PETER FCH, GLENDA JACKSON, AND MURRAY HEAD AS THE GUY THEY BOTH LOVE
* what movie had the first gay kiss *
Sce s release 2005, Brokeback Mounta is still regard as one of the most fluential gay films of all time. It is a historil kiss as is the first-ever on-screen gay kiss, shared between a dyg man and his beloved iend.
GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
Gay Pri Month.
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971): First Gay Kiss Hollywood Movie. Based on Penelope Gilliatt’s sharply observed screenplay, the movie holds an important place film history, offerg the first posive image of a homosexual character (and a Jewish one at that) a lead role a mastream movie.
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER HAS ANCHISE'S FIRST GAY KISS
Schlger, the late Jewish, openly gay filmmaker, is better-known for his Osr-wng picture, Midnight Cowboy (1969). That movie, starrg Dt Hoffman and Jon Voight, also had gay subtext the relatnship between s two loser-protagonists.
Daniel Hirsch (Peter Fch), a gay Jewish doctor his forti, and Alex Gerville (Glenda Jackson), a reer unselor her thirti, are both love wh Bob Elk (Murray Head), a boyish, succsful sculptor who sually divis his time and affectns between them.
25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
Hirsch, a quiet, telligent surgeon who seems to have accepted his homosexualy and Jewishns. Hirsch is somethg of a first–a homosexual who is not pathetic, grotque, or pathologil–a man wh self-teem and digny. In July 1971, when Sunday Bloody Sunday me out, viewers–pecially gay men–uld ga solace om the passnate film.
DISNEY HAS S FIRST GAY KISS
Unlike most Hollywood movi at the time, did not penalize s protagonist for beg gay. Gay Directors, Gay Films?
The film reprents a happy nouement for a gay character whose rignatn is not a product of his sexual orientatn. ” The speech has ltle to do wh homosexualy, suggtg that gay relatnships, even fleetg on, are “somethg. Schlger shows a remarkable gift for brgg together all the elements of moviemakg: The movie has been nsistently ced as one of the first “posive” gay films.
Unfortunately, this mature drama never found s dience and s box-office failure was ed by Hollywood as “proof” that gay ntents was not a money-makg proposn. It would take at least two more s for Hollywood to fally regnizg the artistic–and mercial value–of posive or at least nonjudgmental gay-oriented entertament.