As "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to an end, we sent Chris Heath to terview dozens of gay servicemen om the past and prent to fd out what life was really like as Ameri's ary stggled wh s last great inty crisis
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'
Multihyphenate filmmaker Elegance Bratton said his latt project, “The Inspectn,” about a gay homels Black man who jos the Mar, hs pecially * military gay movie *
"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. 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.
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NEW WWI MOVIE TO FEATURE A GAY LOVE STORY
Wdy Cy Tim News - The movie The Inspectn—based on director Elegance Bratton's own life—will be out theaters on Friday, Nov. 18. In Bratton's film spired by his own story, a young, gay Black man—rejected by his mother and wh * military gay movie *
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.
'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
"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. ARTICLES YOU MIGHT LIKESHOWBIZ Nonbary ins, untry mic, gay films, queer rapper 2023-07-21 - The Advote unveiled s list of 13 nonbary ins people should know.
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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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. 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.
‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
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.
‘MOFFIE’ REVIEW: ONE OF THE BT FILMS ABOUT GAY REPRSN EVER IS ALSO A DISTURBG APARTHEID STORY
” 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.
‘INSPECTN’ DIRECTOR LLS NEW MARE FILM THE ‘BLACK, GAY ROCKY’
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).
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
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.
FILM REVIEW; GAY WORLD WAR II: ABE BY THE MILARY
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. 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.