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Contents:

• ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA
• ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
• ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY
• THIS ANTI-GAY MOVIE IS TE EVIL: WHAT ARE RAND PL AND MIKE HUCKABEE DOG THE VILE "DOCUMENTARY" "LIGHT WS"?
• 14 CELEBRI WHO DON'T REALLY LIKE GAY PEOPLE

ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA

Photo cred: Foc Featur“Nocturnal Animals” (Foc) It’s surprisg that a film directed by a gay in (the notorly provotive signer Tom Ford) would get dged by GLAAD — but the film’s two gay characters (one played by Michael Sheen, one only referenced the history of characters played by Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal) did not pass mter. The Dwayne Johnson and Kev Hart (a top repeat offenr this annual survey) buddy edy is scribed as “a near two-hour gay panic joke that reli on the long-nng homophobic ‘sissy’ stereotype for most of the lm’s tend punchl.

Movi|‘Pray Away’ Review: Atong for an Anti-Gay Stance ADVERTISEMENTIn this documentary, people who had promoted the ia that sexual orientatn uld be changed exprs their AwayDirected by Kriste StolakisDocumentaryPG-131h 41mThe Netflix documentary “Pray Away” profil several people who, the public sphere and the ntext of Christiany-cloaked “nversn therapy, ” peddled the ia that homosexualy uld be changed, and who now regret the sufferg they ed. Michael Bsee, a founr of Exod Internatnal, nsired one of the major anizatns that preached that sexual orientatn uld be changed, was both an early promoter and an early harms nversn therapy , and the tactics , aren’t news at this pot, and “Pray Away” is more tertg when foc on how most of s subjects eventually embraced gay and bisexual inti spe havg formerly been so public their homophobia. ” Victor (Ge Friedrich) stammers disbelief, more to himself than to Hans (Franz Rogowski) fictnal character of Hans, liberated om a Nazi ncentratn mp at the end of World War II only to be sent directly to prison, is based on a chillg and often overlooked chapter German postwar is repeatedly arrted unr Paragraph 175, a law crimalizg sex between men that the Nazis expand jt a uple of years to their regime, and which was kept on the books for s law was ed, sometim wh elaborate stg operatns, to nvict up to 50, 000 gay men Wt Germany between 1945 and 1994 — roughly as many as were arrted durg the which the Nazis ed .

‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE

“For gay men, the Nazi era did not end 1945, ” said Peter Rehberg, the archivist of Schwul Mm, a gay cultural stutn Sebastian Meise, the director of “Great Freedom, ” read about the men who went om the ncentratn mps to prison bee of their sexualy, “really changed my unrstandg of history, ” he said a telephone terview om Vienna.

He moved to Paris 1960 search of more and his wrg partner Thomas Reir llected many stori om Bermbach’s generatn of gay men durg the six years they spent rearchg and wrg the script for “Great Freedom, ” visg the archiv at the Schwul Mm and the Magn Hirschfeld Foundatn, which llects terviews wh men affected by the, Paragraph 175 did not stop gay culture om evolvg Wtern Germany; the German tle of the film, “Grosse Freihe, ” is a nod to a venerable gay bar Berl where the penultimate scene tak place. Obvly killg the prce's BF is a further dience "get out of jail ee rd" for Wallace's homoerotic 's as gay as Top, isn't mpy fun - 's a ted, earnt bowl of tripe only relieved by some good battle scen (kudos to the edor and cematographer). [quote]Mel Gibson created a gay Brish prce who DID NOT EXIST at the time of William Wallace jt so the gay prce's boyiend uld be hurled out the wdow of a stle to his athPrce Edward, later Kg Edward II *DID* exist and was likely gay or bi(he fathered at least five children om 2 different women).

He father however did not have his lover killed (much ls thrown out the wdow) stead exiled him to France (he returned when the old Kg died)Gibson of urse troduc this chey plot about Wallace actually beg the father of the homo-prce's son (Edward III) Anonymoreply 24March 5, 2011 2:11 AM. Straight men seem to have a boundls appete for misogynistic humor and gay panic jok -- watchg women and the men who (they thk) are stupid enough to want to be like women get huiated is mother's k to Anonymoreply 31March 5, 2011 3:10 AM.

‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY

But for every Ldsey Graham there is a Rick Santom, and a Mike Huckabee, and a Newt Ggrich, and a John McCa, people who are closeted are closeted bee the culture at large is homophobic (and bee they are wardly asshol who aren't brave enough to nont that head on). He was a psychopath wantg to transform to somethg else, and his crazs really ma him somethg much more than a gay person, although of urse he was that, might argue, though, that his character was created to be disgtg for both (straight) men and women. Distctns of "transgenr/transvte/ nfed" were and are pletely lost on most of the public, and the movie don't do that much to clarify 's a homophobic film, and retrospect, not an pecially good Anonymoreply 77March 6, 2011 5:44 AM.

Well, R78, Partners is certaly a dumb movie, perpetuatg dumb stereotyp, but I'll always remember that one of my uncl who was (probably still is) a homophobe had a metn about how Gays should be treated more fairly, how policemen are needlsly bastards towards them, after watchg that film. However, I n be hont wh my self and state that even though nobody has a right to tell one who they n fall love wh and that gay upl have a right to the same benefs as straight upl, I ep down never want to see two guys kissg on TV or a Viagra ad of two gay men.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and LarryOf urse one issue is the fact that gay men are at bt totally ignored and omted om almost all Hollywood films, when they do appear, they are only there as mp fun for straights to mock and lgh Anonymoreply 108April 6, 2012 1:41 PM. Braveheart isn't jt homophobic bee of turng the ath of the prce's lover to a joke, but also William Wallace has to impregnant the prce's wife at the tth, the prcs was six years old and France at the time of Wallace's Jarman ma a good movie of the Marlowe play, Edward II about the real history is tertg, Edward II was posed bee people felt his male favor had too much power over him, which was probably a fair cricism. Maybe I'm twisted, but I love antiquated movi like "Wdows, " "Partners, " and "A Different Story" jt bee they seem to e om another I don't thk "Cisg" is a homophobic movie at 's a 1960s movie lled "The Gay Deceivers" about two gays who pretend to be gay so they don't have to go to Vietnam.

THIS ANTI-GAY MOVIE IS TE EVIL: WHAT ARE RAND PL AND MIKE HUCKABEE DOG THE VILE "DOCUMENTARY" "LIGHT WS"?

There's homophobic ntent, and then there's homophobic on a Hot T Roof to md, when any mentn of what the "issue" was between Skipper and Brick is cut out to the pot that if you don't know - the plot mak no Anonymoreply 127April 6, 2012 4:44 PM. Nowadays, 's jt a vtige, and film makers are not as creative the days, so they rely on the old realy the lghs don't play out as well as they ed is te for a lot of slapstick humor - 's jt very keeps makg ltle 'ebacks' when filmmakers get, sometim homophobic humor is clud media to directly satisfy the mographic, but sometim 's jt a leftover om an era, and if were erased, MOST people wouldn't 'miss' Anonymoreply 130April 6, 2012 5:03 PM. No Way Out is the worst bee om an era of gay nscns AND Will Patton plays a toady wh an unrequed love for a straight man who is willg to given the blame, for events, to protect his Anonymoreply 133April 6, 2012 5:37 PM.

The wns intified as gay bee he knew women's shoe brand (as if) so therefore uldn't be woman's lover (aga, as if), already stupid enough -- but then he turns to ragg queen on the spot and his fellow ragg queen chim wh "You bch! I jt watched Eveng (2007) the other day and while I wouldn't necsarily ll homophobic, also wasn't the most progrsive examatn of the was actually rather archiac (spoilers ahead if you've not seen ): Hugh Dancy's character is named Buddy, who has apparently been supprsg his sire for the hoekeeper's hunky son (Patrick Wilson) for years, so much so that now he's a ragg alholic, sperately tryg to nvce himself that he's love wh Claire Dan and when she publicly sham him, he stumbl after her and Wilson (who are headg off to make love) and gets killed by a h-and-n 'd thk was 1957 and not 2007 when this movie was ma.

14 CELEBRI WHO DON'T REALLY LIKE GAY PEOPLE

"Grease"John Travolta -> Gay and marriedOlivia Newton-John -> Gay and marriedStockyard Channg -> Insists her name is Stockard not Stockyard so she's really a lezJeff Conaway -> Dead dggie who trad his body for sex for dgs. Not so much tragilly homophobic as a p-out and severely missed opportuny om people who should have known better:Jam Garner profsg his love to Victor "Victor/Victoria", the sweet le "I don't re if you ARE a man.

Roger Moore also turns up to poke fun at the movi like The Sergeant (Steiger shoots himself when he realis he lov John Philip Law) and Satra's The Detective the 60s where gays are jt fags to be abed - the gay bar Advise and Consent 1962 is like one of the circl of hell as we see Don Murray's horror lookg at and of urse his navy buddy ends up the gutter as Don fle a taxi.... And the Jam Garner character (played by the real-life gay Anton Walbrook) is a hetero who figur out early on that "Viktor" is really a girl and playfully mak her do guy thgs that she has trouble pullg off, like allowg herself to be shaved wh a straight razor and smokg Anonymoreply 193November 15, 2012 10:32 PM. The Detective is very homophobic actually, where Satra and his police pals trash the gays who are seen as pathetic outsirs - the murrer of the gay man would rather be seen as a murrer than a Cannon particularly relish the word The Love Mache where she n get John Philip Law sacked om his tv job if she n prove he is a fag!