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Contents:

• THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
• NEW WWI MOVIE TO FEATURE A GAY LOVE STORY
• 'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• ‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
• ‘MOFFIE’ REVIEW: ONE OF THE BT FILMS ABOUT GAY REPRSN EVER IS ALSO A DISTURBG APARTHEID STORY
• ‘INSPECTN’ DIRECTOR LLS NEW MARE FILM THE ‘BLACK, GAY ROCKY’
• TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
• FILM REVIEW; GAY WORLD WAR II: ABE BY THE MILARY

THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'

"The Inspectn" is a new feature about a young man who turns his life around the Mare Corps after beg kicked out of the hoe as a teen for beg gay and livg homels for several years.

NEW WWI MOVIE TO FEATURE A GAY LOVE STORY

The trailer for Bratton's film brgs a lot of the Mare Corps' re valu, so looks like we n expect a movie that portrays lead character Ellis French's ary experience a posive light spe of the herent problems a gay Mare would have faced that era.

Ellis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and wh few optns for his future, cis to jo the Mar, dog whatever tak to succeed a system that would st him asi. Multihyphenate filmmaker Elegance Bratton said his latt project, “The Inspectn, ” about a gay homels Black man who jos the Mar, hs pecially close to home after he was kicked out as a teenager for beg gay and spent a livg on the streets. The film, which is loosely based on Bratton’s life, foc on the challeng the ma character, Ellis French, experienc as a young gay Black man durg the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” era.

"A24Bratton said he tapped Unn for the role of his homophobic mother bee of Unn’s “artistry, activism, and she’s also a superstar that everyone the world knows. In Bratton's film spired by his own story, a young, gay Black man—rejected by his mother and wh few optns for his future—cis to jo the Mar, dog whatever tak to succeed a system that he feels would st him asi.

'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'

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And next year is gog to be even the first major stud gay rom-, to queer-clive horror, to Harry Styl playg a queer p, the next year will have a ton of great LGBTQ+ ntent on the big screen.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Billy Eichner wrote and starred this gay rom- wh an all LGBTQ+ prcipal st, cludg Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, Guillermo Diaz, and Le Macfarlane as Eichner's love tert. Based on a memoir by Sergey Fetisov, the steamy Cold War drama honors this lost chapter of gay history wh a handsome renrg that only ocsnally stumbl unr the weight of historil accuracy. Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema.

And we regnize that some of the films the list will re-igne healthy bat that have been fixtur of discsn around LGBTQ+ films — straight actors playg gay characters, cis actors playg trans characters, and the historil domance of whe male perspectiv. For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life. Crics Consens: We Were Here reviss the cris facg the gay muny the early 1980s -- and offers a powerful tribute to the spirg rolve shown at a time of turmoil.

That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country. ” Set 1981 South Ai at the apex of the South Ain Borr War, the film’s story of gay unrequed sire turns out to be a sg for somethg far more lethal s marrow. Upon reachg the borr, the men are stripped, grad, and thrown to gelg bootmp-style activy whout pageantry — placg “Moffie” somewhere between “Full Metal Jacket” and “Be Travail” how juxtapos mascule displays wh their herently homoerotic subtext (barely subtext at all, really).

‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI

A volleyball game, gayg-up the macho polics already trsic to volleyball gam, is all ripplg mcl slo-mo, but the bety of the scene is terpted by a shockg act. When two of his ras who engaged homosexual activy are trotted out before the briga, a bloodied utnary tale for all to see, Nicholas retreats further to the closet.

‘MOFFIE’ REVIEW: ONE OF THE BT FILMS ABOUT GAY REPRSN EVER IS ALSO A DISTURBG APARTHEID STORY

It was how he survived as a Black gay man durg the era of the ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as no surprise, then, that Bratton has rved out a post-ary reer filmmakg. His directorial but, “The Inspectn, ” is a fictnalized retellg of his own experience as a young, gay Black man who, after beg shunned by his own mother for g out, cis to jo the Mare Corps.

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web In My Fay | Official Trailer [HD] | NetflixWatch onIn this documentary, a gay filmmaker shows his Che fay's road to acceptg him and his growg fay the Uned Stat. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Normal Heart | official trailer (2014) HBO Mark Ruffalo Jim ParsonsWatch onLarry Kramer's semi-tobgraphil drama to life this HBO film, tellg the story of the creatn of the Gay Men's Health Crisis at the height of the AIDS epimic.

‘INSPECTN’ DIRECTOR LLS NEW MARE FILM THE ‘BLACK, GAY ROCKY’

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web ERASED | Official Trailer | Foc FeaturWatch onTellg the te story of a young man who is subjected to a gay nversn therapy program, the film featur a number of LGBTQ+ intifyg stars, cludg Cherry Jon and Troye nowMy Own Private Idaho (1991)This ntent is imported om youTube. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Official Trailer #1 - Sean Penn Movie (2008) HDWatch onStarrg Sean Penn and Ee Hirsch, the 2008 movie tells the story of Harvey Milk, who beme inic the LGBTQ+ muny for beg the first openly gay person to be elected to California ernment.

Philalphia (1/8) Movie CLIP - I Have A Case (1993) HDWatch onTom Hanks and Denzel Washgton star one of the first mastream Hollywood movi to tackle the subject of HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia. Greer and Helene Kvale, rolls along wh lifels, profoundly unimagative dialogue (“The wgs on your cht are proof that you’ve acplished somethg great”; “I like women”; “I’m not gay”; “Tears won’t brg him back”; “No more li”).

TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY

Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water. "Lbian, gay, and bisexual ary personnel had been servg our untry for s whout receivg equal protectn, while transgenr troops are still prohibed om servg openly. The oute of the film, while dated, reflects the nflict and reprsn that gay men and women often experienced our society prr to the advent of enlightenment the 1970s (and, the se of gay people today's U.

I was greatly imprsed by Rod Steiger's performance as a closet homosexual Sergeant the US army who strongly sir a young Private played by John Philip Law. Wh the current bate over gays and lbians servg the ary this 1968 film The Sergeant has a relevance undreamed of by the people who ma this film a year before the Stonewall Steiger giv a brilliant performance as the tortured, self loathg, latently gay non-missned officer wh whom the psychologil bubble fally bursts. It isn't even on their radar screens, a gay man the ary jt didn't pute back put least of all to Private John Philip Law whose pany Steiger seems to crave csantly.

Another ary film that vered latent homosexualy was Reflectns In A Goln Eye where Marlon Brando as an officer was cshg out on a private his pany played by Robert Forster. That however was only one of many issu vered that film, whereas this is the central and only theme of The those terted gays the ary I would mend you readg Nigel Haton's book on the life of Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Even though tak place many years prr to the 'don't ask don't tell' motto, speaks of the difficulti a gay man mt pe that the dtry has lost one of s more brilliant character actors, I hope this movie will fd s way to DVD, along wh "The Loved One" which has been on mororium for some time.

FILM REVIEW; GAY WORLD WAR II: ABE BY THE MILARY

He'd been married before but that fell Callan don't seem to show signs of his homosexual attractn to Law the physil sense, but as mentor, iend and drkg buddy. An Amerin Send World War war hero returng to France the followg for a peacetime gig, that's not que as risky or darg: A Master Sergeant of basilly mechanics, fortably wieldg his old-school, tough-as-nails approach to shape thgs up when both someone and somethg distracts Albert Callan is an extremely closeted closet homosexual, and on the surface, Rod Steiger portrays a lonely lifer who fally found a te iend he n mentor and/or simply hang around wh. On a physil level what gay man wouldn't be attracted to him but as one of the characters "The Boys the Band" says, you're hardly likely to have a nversatn wh him the morng.

The movie self adds up to a half-cent character study, ('s chiefly a two-hanr and director John Flynn keeps tight and foced, draws you ), but still probably put the e of gay polics on screen back by about a . **SPOILERS*** Very siar to the film "Reflectns a Goln Eye" starg Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor released the year before "The Sergent" explor the at the time almost unmentnable subject of homosexualy , as well as out, of the US ary and how effects those closeted gay servicemen put charge of a US Army matenance pany ral post-WWII France Sgt. It tells a story not only of general attus toward homosexualy at the time, but the never-endg story of young men's difference to the attentns of fat old supervisors.