Xavier Dolan on Film’s Gay Double Standard – IndieWire

Contents:

• 'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
• XAVIER DOLAN ON FILM’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS’
• XAVIER DOLAN ON SEX, GAY IENDSHIP AND PARIS HILTON
• XAVIER DOLAN HS OUT AT FILMS BEG LABELED AS GAY: “WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS”
• XAVIER DOLAN ON FILM’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS’

'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA

Five years before homosexualy was ostensibly crimalized Canada, when same-sex sexual activy was still punishable by a multi-year prison sentence, Jane Rule published Dert of the Heart. As an adolcent, Tremblay found himself a Québéis a predomantly Anglo untry and a gay teen a largely tolerant society. Shane had a mandg stage prence and routely donned flamboyant getups and elaborate makp, never seekg to nform — even an era when homosexualy was illegal Canada.

XAVIER DOLAN ON FILM’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS’

Her 1962 sgle “Any Other Way” beme a top 10 h Toronto, s lyrics rife wh double entendr like “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay, tell her I wouldn’t have any other way. Melancholic and mp, Stimson’s exhibns and performanc wield humour and homoeroticism as tools for pg wh the lonial vlence that his practice is ultimately always nontg. Upon watchg his baby boy beg breastfed, Loudon Wawright III penned the tongue--cheek track “Ruf is a T Man” — which assumed an ironic new meang when that boy grew up to be gay.

XAVIER DOLAN ON SEX, GAY IENDSHIP AND PARIS HILTON

Wawright has been equally forthg about his homosexualy om the outset of his mil reer, fg his lyrics wh drama, explic queer sire and heartache. Followg the release of his but album, Wawright moved to New York Cy’s Chelsea Hotel to wre his sophomore effort, where he spiralled to a perd plagued by dg addictn.

After gettg treatment, Wawright exprsed the belief that he was pecially sceptible to addictn as a gay man: “Years of sexual secury, the low-gra discrimatn you suffer, the need to belong — speed tak re of all that one send, ” he told the New York Tim.

The one-time liberte (he formerly subscribed to the “Wilan school of homosexualy”) eventually settled down and started posg operas — a ftg send act for a peformer who’s built his reer on songs of yearng and thwarted sire. AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Je Zontal were my mentors, my iends and my gay dads. I moved to Toronto om Vanuver the late ’80s, after graduatg wh a Bachelor of Fe Arts om UBC, and after the ath of my father om liver ncer and many of my gay iends and lovers om AIDS.

XAVIER DOLAN HS OUT AT FILMS BEG LABELED AS GAY: “WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS”

Billy Newton-DavisA soulful gay prence Canadian mic. His but gig, back 1973, was as a backg volist to Gloria Gaynor, and 1989 he released “Can’t Live wh You, Can’t Live Whout You, ” a duet wh Céle Dn (herself an unlikely queer in).

” For s, Newton-Davis has been forthright about his inty as a gay man.

XAVIER DOLAN ON FILM’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS’

His often blatantly homoerotic patgs marry classil nfiguratns of the male body wh ntemporary rendns of viant masculy, pictg everythg om ary ts to skheads. Usg pornographic magaz and his love of nature as reference pots, Lacs’s irreverent and thought-provokg nvas have been wily exhibed across Canada and abroad, drawg attentn for their terrogatn of the vlent bety of the male form ptured through the gaze of a gay man. Conceived at the tail end of a ght perd the cy for queer people, when police regularly raid Montreal’s Gay Village, Mado amassed so much of a followg that she cid to open a club her name — Cabaret Mado — 2002.

His practice extends over large spans of time, too: sce 2014, he has been the curator of the That’s So Gay exhibn at the Gladstone Hotel.