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• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• 80 YEARS OF LGBTQ CEMA BERL 'MY WONRFUL WT BERL' CELEBRAT THE LEGACY OF THE GERMAN PAL'S LGBTQ MUNY | SALZGEBER & CO. MEDIEN GMBH MEGAN KG 24 DECEMBER 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT SCE THE 1930S, BERL HAS HELPED PH THE BOUNDARI OF HOW SEXUALY IS PICTED ON FILM. CULTURE TRIP HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LGBTQ FILMS TO EMERGE OM THE GERMAN PAL THE LAST 80 YEARS. VIEW ALL TRIPS THE CULTURE OF PRI CELEBRAT THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP GREECE ICELAND BALI INDIA EGYPT TURKEY MOROC THAILAND JAPAN CROATIA SPA ECUADOR SOUTH AI MEXI ‘COMG OUT’ (1989) PREMIERG ON THE NIGHT THE BERL WALL FELL, ON 9 NOVEMBER 1989, COMG OUT WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY FILM ABOUT GAY LIFE PRODUCED MUNIST EAST GERMANY, ACRDG TO THE DEFA FILM LIBRARY. DIRECTED BY HEER CAROW, TELLS THE STORY OF A YOUNG TEACHER LIVG EAST BERL WHO IS STGGLG TO E TO TERMS WH HIS SEXUALY. ‘MY WONRFUL WT BERL’ (2017) THE EEDOMS OF MORN BERL ARE ROOTED FORMER WT BERL, AND ME WUNRBAR WT-BERL (THE FILM’S GERMAN TLE) PAYS TRIBUTE TO S STAT AS A SAFE HAVEN FOR QUEER PEOPLE. IT TAK VIEWERS ON A JOURNEY THROUGH GAY BERL, THROUGH THE SUFFERG OF THE 1950S AND ’60S, THE RE-EMERGENCE OF A QUEER SUBCULTURE, WH BARS, CLUBS AND SEXUAL EEDOM, THE 1970S, AND THE PNEERG GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. VIEW TRIP ‘ME WUNRBAR WT BERL’ (2017) PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE RELATIVE SAFE HAVEN OF WT BERL | SALZGEBER & CO. MEDIEN GMBH ‘THE BTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT’ (1972) RELEASED 1972, DIE BTEREN TRäNEN R PETRA VON KANT WAS DIRECTED BY PROMENT GERMAN FILMMAKER RAER WERNER FASSBR. THE FILM IS BASED ON THE DIRECTOR’S OWN PLAY, WHICH EMPLOYS AN ALL-FEMALE ST AND EXPLOR THE SHIFTG DYNAMICS OF THE CENTRAL CHARACTER, PETRA VON KANT, AND HER RELATNSHIPS WH OTHER WOMEN. ‘GIRLS UNIFORM’ (1931) RELEASED 1931, MäDCHEN UNIFORM HOLDS A SIGNIFINT PLACE LGBTQ CULTURE AS THE FIRST EXPLICLY LBIAN FILM. IT FOLLOWS THE LIFE OF A YOUNG GIRL WHO IS SENT TO BOARDG SCHOOL, WHERE SHE STGGL WH LOSS AS SHE FALLS LOVE WH HER YOUNG TEACHER. THE FILM WAS DIRECTED BY LEONTE SAGAN AND IS BASED ON A PLAY BY CHRISTA WSLOE. IT WAS REMA 1958. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. ‘GIRLS UNIFORM’ 1931 IS NSIRED TO BE THE FIRST PRO-LBIAN FILM MA GERMANY | PHOTO BY MOVITORE/SHUTTERSTOCK ‘WHERE ARE YOU GOG, HABIBI?’ (2015) THE EDY DRAMA WO WILLST DU H, HABIBI? EXPLOR THE UNIQUE IENDSHIP OF A YOUNG, GAY, TURKISH MAN AND A BLOND, BLUE-EYED GERMAN CRIMAL. DIRECTED BY TOR IBEN, OFFERS A H AND RELEVANT PERSPECTIVE ON QUEER BERL AND THE HUGE TURKISH POPULATN THAT MAK UP THE CY. ‘WHERE ARE YOU GOG, HABIBI?’ EXPLOR THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN A GAY TURKISH GRADUATE AND A STRAIGHT GERMAN CRIMAL | PHOTO BY TOR IBEN WH CEM ALKAN ‘WHERE ARE YOU GOG, HABIBI?’ OFFERS A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON BERL | PHOTO BY TOR IBEN ‘DIRE WILL SET YOU FREE’ (2015) FILMED AROUND BERL’S NIGHTTIME HNTS, DIRE WILL SET YOU FREE ALS WH THE ROLE OF THE PARTY SCENE MORN QUEER BERL. IT IS THE SEND FEATURE OM DIRECTOR YONY LEYSER, AND PRENTS A CULTURE OF HEDONISTIC BCHERY. THE ST IS MA OF UP PEOPLE MOSTLY PLAYG THEMSELV, WHICH ADDS A DOCUMENTARY ELEMENT TO THE FILM. ‘DIRE WILL SET YOU FREE’ DOCUMENTS MORN QUEER BERL | COURTY OF ALTERED INNOCENCE MOST OF THE ST ‘DIRE WILL SET YOU FREE’ PLAY THEMSELV | COURTY OF ALTERED INNOCENCE PRI 2019 MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK CY AND THE BEGNGS OF THE TERNATNAL PRI MOVEMENT. TO CELEBRATE, CULTURE TRIP SPOTLIGHTS LGBTQ PNEERS CHANGG THE LANDSPE OF LOVE AROUND THE WORLD. WELE TO THE CULTURE OF PRI. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

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. That clip appears The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman’s documentary based on Vo Rso’s study of homosexualy the movi, along wh untls exampl of how gay characters showed up, per narrator Lily Toml, as “somethg to lgh at, or somethg to py, or even somethg to fear.

Some have been documents of a moment or era of gay history, some have been ed as rrectiv to s of negative clichés, and others have simply celebrated the fact that the movi n be queer, they’re here, get ed to . It is nowhere near a prehensive ndown of every great movie to feature out-and-proud hero and villas, or a queer sensibily, or even jt visible (and/or risible) exampl of gay life cema; we uld have easily ma this list twice as long.

80 YEARS OF LGBTQ CEMA BERL 'MY WONRFUL WT BERL' CELEBRAT THE LEGACY OF THE GERMAN PAL'S LGBTQ MUNY | SALZGEBER & CO. MEDIEN GMBH MEGAN KG 24 DECEMBER 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT SCE THE 1930S, BERL HAS HELPED PH THE BOUNDARI OF HOW SEXUALY IS PICTED ON FILM. CULTURE TRIP HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LGBTQ FILMS TO EMERGE OM THE GERMAN PAL THE LAST 80 YEARS. VIEW ALL TRIPS THE CULTURE OF PRI CELEBRAT THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP GREECE ICELAND BALI INDIA EGYPT TURKEY MOROC THAILAND JAPAN CROATIA SPA ECUADOR SOUTH AI MEXI ‘COMG OUT’ (1989) PREMIERG ON THE NIGHT THE BERL WALL FELL, ON 9 NOVEMBER 1989, COMG OUT WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY FILM ABOUT GAY LIFE PRODUCED MUNIST EAST GERMANY, ACRDG TO THE DEFA FILM LIBRARY. DIRECTED BY HEER CAROW, TELLS THE STORY OF A YOUNG TEACHER LIVG EAST BERL WHO IS STGGLG TO E TO TERMS WH HIS SEXUALY. ‘MY WONRFUL WT BERL’ (2017) THE EEDOMS OF MORN BERL ARE ROOTED FORMER WT BERL, AND ME WUNRBAR WT-BERL (THE FILM’S GERMAN TLE) PAYS TRIBUTE TO S STAT AS A SAFE HAVEN FOR QUEER PEOPLE. IT TAK VIEWERS ON A JOURNEY THROUGH GAY BERL, THROUGH THE SUFFERG OF THE 1950S AND ’60S, THE RE-EMERGENCE OF A QUEER SUBCULTURE, WH BARS, CLUBS AND SEXUAL EEDOM, THE 1970S, AND THE PNEERG GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. VIEW TRIP ‘ME WUNRBAR WT BERL’ (2017) PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE RELATIVE SAFE HAVEN OF WT BERL | SALZGEBER & CO. MEDIEN GMBH ‘THE BTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT’ (1972) RELEASED 1972, DIE BTEREN TRäNEN R PETRA VON KANT WAS DIRECTED BY PROMENT GERMAN FILMMAKER RAER WERNER FASSBR. THE FILM IS BASED ON THE DIRECTOR’S OWN PLAY, WHICH EMPLOYS AN ALL-FEMALE ST AND EXPLOR THE SHIFTG DYNAMICS OF THE CENTRAL CHARACTER, PETRA VON KANT, AND HER RELATNSHIPS WH OTHER WOMEN. ‘GIRLS UNIFORM’ (1931) RELEASED 1931, MäDCHEN UNIFORM HOLDS A SIGNIFINT PLACE LGBTQ CULTURE AS THE FIRST EXPLICLY LBIAN FILM. IT FOLLOWS THE LIFE OF A YOUNG GIRL WHO IS SENT TO BOARDG SCHOOL, WHERE SHE STGGL WH LOSS AS SHE FALLS LOVE WH HER YOUNG TEACHER. THE FILM WAS DIRECTED BY LEONTE SAGAN AND IS BASED ON A PLAY BY CHRISTA WSLOE. IT WAS REMA 1958. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. ‘GIRLS UNIFORM’ 1931 IS NSIRED TO BE THE FIRST PRO-LBIAN FILM MA GERMANY | PHOTO BY MOVITORE/SHUTTERSTOCK ‘WHERE ARE YOU GOG, HABIBI?’ (2015) THE EDY DRAMA WO WILLST DU H, HABIBI? EXPLOR THE UNIQUE IENDSHIP OF A YOUNG, GAY, TURKISH MAN AND A BLOND, BLUE-EYED GERMAN CRIMAL. DIRECTED BY TOR IBEN, OFFERS A H AND RELEVANT PERSPECTIVE ON QUEER BERL AND THE HUGE TURKISH POPULATN THAT MAK UP THE CY. ‘WHERE ARE YOU GOG, HABIBI?’ EXPLOR THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN A GAY TURKISH GRADUATE AND A STRAIGHT GERMAN CRIMAL | PHOTO BY TOR IBEN WH CEM ALKAN ‘WHERE ARE YOU GOG, HABIBI?’ OFFERS A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON BERL | PHOTO BY TOR IBEN ‘DIRE WILL SET YOU FREE’ (2015) FILMED AROUND BERL’S NIGHTTIME HNTS, DIRE WILL SET YOU FREE ALS WH THE ROLE OF THE PARTY SCENE MORN QUEER BERL. IT IS THE SEND FEATURE OM DIRECTOR YONY LEYSER, AND PRENTS A CULTURE OF HEDONISTIC BCHERY. THE ST IS MA OF UP PEOPLE MOSTLY PLAYG THEMSELV, WHICH ADDS A DOCUMENTARY ELEMENT TO THE FILM. ‘DIRE WILL SET YOU FREE’ DOCUMENTS MORN QUEER BERL | COURTY OF ALTERED INNOCENCE MOST OF THE ST ‘DIRE WILL SET YOU FREE’ PLAY THEMSELV | COURTY OF ALTERED INNOCENCE PRI 2019 MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK CY AND THE BEGNGS OF THE TERNATNAL PRI MOVEMENT. TO CELEBRATE, CULTURE TRIP SPOTLIGHTS LGBTQ PNEERS CHANGG THE LANDSPE OF LOVE AROUND THE WORLD. WELE TO THE CULTURE OF PRI. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

The performanc are staggerg: Al Paco as the ignom Roy Cohn; Jefey Wright is the sharp-wted gay nurse who tends to him; Mary-Louise Parker as a pill-poppg hoewife wed to a closeted Mormon; Emma Thompson as an imper (and sometim sassy) angel; and Meryl Streep four rol, cludg the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. Yet the film remas one of the first ank big-stud treatments of uncloseted gay and bisexual men, as follows eight iends (and one htler) who’ve gathered a New York Cy apartment to celebrate a birthday party.

It works bt as a signpost and a throwback — jt ask the all-gay st who starred the a major Broadway revival, or Ryan Murphy, who’s adaptg the cematic remake as a savage, ic perd piece for a new generatn. It was still nsired a bad reer move for a movie star to play a gay role 2005, and Hollywood’s track rerd was ls than stellar when me to treatg homosexual romanc wh the same pth as heterosexual on (if emed f to tackle such stori at all). A page-to-screen take on Vo Rso’s semal book regardg LGBTQ reprentatn (and misreprentatn) the movi, Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman’s documentary prents the perfect show-and-tell plement to the late scholar’s work — you n lerally see the evolutn of cematic homosexualy as progrs om punchle to social pundry, sikick-and-stock-villa fodr to queers beg the hero of their own stori.

To say that William Friedk’s thriller about a serial killer targetg gay men New York was ntroversial would be puttg dly: Village Voice lumnist Arthur Bell (whose verage of murrs the Wt Village bar scene was a partial spiratn) lled the script “the worst possible nightmare of the most uptight straight”; tablishments that had agreed to operate sudnly whdrew their support; activists dispted filmg at every turn; theaters were picketed; and one massive prott led to a traffic-stoppg s- and arrts. ) But 40 years after Al Paco’s unrver p first stepped to the Mhaft, this lurid exploatn movie has been reclaimed by gay film crics such as Nathan Lee and Melissa Anrson, noticeably for the way prents the late ’70s leather-bar scene wh an almost véré-like sense of observatn.

INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

Mixg herage-drama aspects wh outré postmorn flourish and a heightened sense of homoeroticism, the movie prents the relatnship between the two men as a polil act as much as a romantic one; Edward’s army is refashned as ACT UP-style activists, and the behd-the-scene machatns of Edward’s wife, Isabella (longtime Jarman llaborator Tilda Swton), double as a crique of Bra’s opprsive, historilly strict anti-homosexual laws.