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Contents:

• KENYA CENSORS ANOTHER GAY-THEMED FILM
• GAY DISCRIMATN ENTERTAMENT DTRY HAS NOT GONE AWAY, FDS SURVEY
• 10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• HOLLYWOOD DISCRIMAT AGAST GAY ACTORS, CLAIMS LGBT THKTANK REPORT

KENYA CENSORS ANOTHER GAY-THEMED FILM

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. “Though is clear that this film tak place a world clive of gay characters accepted by the protagonists, is disappotg that their stori are centered on the straight women their liv, ” the SRI said. 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.

ShutterstockMilkSean Penn starred as Amerin polician Harvey Milk this 2008 film, which chronicled Milk's historic 1977 race to bee the first openly gay man to hold a major public office California and the third openly homosexual polician the Uned Stat.

GAY DISCRIMATN ENTERTAMENT DTRY HAS NOT GONE AWAY, FDS SURVEY

While the film certaly touch on the stggl of beg gay and closeted—the tular Simon (Nick Robson) isn’t yet out to his iends or fay— is fundamentally a sweet, earnt high school rom where the guy gets the guy.

The film clus a number of ntroversial scen that uld be triggerg — so, watch at your own Now Advertisement - Contue Readg Below8 'The Bter Tears of Petra Von Kant' (1972) Courty Everett CollectnThe Bter Tears of Petra Von Kant is a sapphic classic that has bee a key entry the largely gay male-domated non of high mp. In I Killed My Mother, Dolan documents the ght relatnship between a gay teenager and his sgle mother dreamy, heart-wrenchg NowAdvertisement - Contue Readg Below13 'Cisg' (1980) ©Uned Artists/Courty Everett CollectnA crime thriller set agast the backdrop of the 1970s leather scene, Cisg is a polarizg film wh a plited legacy. ) In recent years, though, the film—which featur Al Paco as a New York p who go unrver the cy’s S&M scene to vtigate a serial killer targetg gay men—has been reevaluated and is now nsired by many as a classic.

Set the world of the New York ballroom scene, Port Authory—which was executive produced by Mart Srse—tells of the love story between a whe man who has jt arrived New York whout a penny to his name (Fnn Whehead) and a Black transgenr woman wh ep ti to the cy’s ball culture (Leyna Bloom, the first Black trans actrs to star a film at Cann) Now Advertisement - Contue Readg Below15 'Young Soul Rebels' (1991) Courty EverettDcribed as a “part-thriller, part-gay love story, ” Young Soul Rebels—a film not often clud U. The first Hollywood movie to center on Che-Amerins sce The Joy Luck Club some 11 years before , Savg Face tells the story of a closeted Che-Amerin woman fallg love for the first time and stgglg to rencile the relatnship wh her and her girliend’s tradnal (read: homophobic), close-kn New York Cy muny. The summer before that, Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller ma history wh Universal Pictur’ “Bros, ” among the first ever gay rom-s fund by a major stud: an important victory — even if that film did go, uh, soft at the box office.

10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

“Brokeback Mounta” turned Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger to cema’s most famed gay wboys, ls than a year before John Cameron Mchell shattered boundari wh the spectacularly provotive “Shortb” 2006.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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.

HOLLYWOOD DISCRIMAT AGAST GAY ACTORS, CLAIMS LGBT THKTANK REPORT

Wrten and directed by Argentian filmmaker Luc Castro his feature but, “End of the Century” is the natural scendant of lh romanc like “Weekend” and “Call Me By Your Name, ” and will certaly endure as one of the most evotive gay films of the .