Mexi's most famo gay sndal spotlighted a century later, Netflix movie

Contents:

• ‘I CARRY YOU WH ME’ TRAILER: LOVE CROSS THE MEXIN BORR HEIDI EWG’S GAY ROMANCE
• ‘I CARRY YOU WH ME’: A GAY MEXIN IMMIGRANT LOVE STORY
• WATCH THE TRAILER FOR GAY, LATO, PRISON DRAMA ‘LUZ’
• MEXIN GAY MOVI TO EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGE CEMA
• MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
• FROM GAY CONVERSN THERAPY TO LEATHER COMPETNS: 11 MT-SEE LATO MOVI PLAYG OUTFT

‘I CARRY YOU WH ME’ TRAILER: LOVE CROSS THE MEXIN BORR HEIDI EWG’S GAY ROMANCE

Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival nearly upon , we take a look at some of the bt Lat Amerin gay, lbian and trans films om years past. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release nsirg this Lat Amerin top 10, many ntenrs narrowly missed the fal selectn, cludg Argentian gay crime flick Burnt Money (2000), Uguayan g-out chamber piece Leo’s Room (2009) and lbian bpic Reachg for the Moon (2013), about the romance between Amerin poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian archect Lota Macedo Soar.

Fans of betiful, paed men sufferg silence lap up the cema of Julián Hernánz, while the gentle teen drama The Way He Looks (2014), about a gay bld kid, was a huge h wh crics.

‘I CARRY YOU WH ME’: A GAY MEXIN IMMIGRANT LOVE STORY

Kiss of the Spir Woman (1985)The only English-language film on this list is also the bt known, thanks to William Hurt’s Osr-wng performance as Luis, a flamboyant gay perast servg time a Brazilian jail cell wh polil prisoner Valent (Rl Julia). The late Argente-born Brazilian director Hector Baben also featured homosexual characters his grty gang drama Pixote (1981), but Kiss of the Spir Woman is his bt film, a damng crique of the Brazilian ary ernment. Only thg is, he’s gay and shacked up wh a botted mil stunt Guadalajara.

Strawberry and Cholate (1993)The first (and, to date, only) Cuban film to be nomated for the bt foreign language film Osr, Strawberry and Cholate starts out like a cute gay rom before velopg to somethg far more provotive. Dpe a reputatn for reprsn, this sharp, irristible edy, spiced wh a love of mp that breath the same air as Pedro Almodóvar, is surprisgly cril of the Castro regime and sympathetic to s gay protagonist (Néstor Almendros’s 1984 documentary Improper Conduct is a damng dictment of Cuba’s homophobic polici).

The sweaty mararie of the two men has homoerotic ton om the get-go – the men are far more terted each other than their girliends and have a weird need to sleep wh women the other has already bedd.

WATCH THE TRAILER FOR GAY, LATO, PRISON DRAMA ‘LUZ’

Like the two gay abductors, the film has a warmth beneath s timidatg exterr and lov all of s eccentric characters. Berger clearly lov the laddish mararie between men, even as he gently satiris machismo and emphasis s homoerotic unrton. The fact that the protagonists are women fightg agast male opprsn is of far more tert to Puenzo than their homosexualy.

The blend of fantasy and realism is betifully realised by filmmaker Javier Fuent-León, who origally nceived the story about a hetereosexual affair wh a sex worker, before changg the characters when he himself me out as gay. Every year, June is celebrated as LGBT Pri Month to honor the 1969 Stonewall Rts New York Cy that set off the gay rights movement the Uned Stat.

A jubilant portra of young gay love, this assured but feature tenrly pars the terra of growg up different more ways than one.

MEXIN GAY MOVI TO EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGE CEMA

Outft and the Lbian and Gay Film Ftivals New York, San Francis, Seattle and Toronto. Standard crime thriller terrory, you might thk, but for the fact that Angel and Nene are gay lovers known as the ‘tws” and Cuervo brgs his own sexual tensy along wh his hottie girliend Vivi, and BTW all of this is based on a te story. “Naomi and her gay bt iend, Ely, have been separable sce childhood, but their bond fac s biggt tt yet when they fall for the same guy.

Turned down once aga by the rtrant owner after askg about a potential openg the kchen, Iván follows childhood iend Sandra’s (played by Mexin actrs and stand-up edian Michelle Rodríguez) advice to acpany her to an unrground gay bar, where he meets Gerardo (Christian Vázquez), a teachg assistant at the universy. Gerardo is the victim of a btal homophobic attack on the streets of Puebla.

The Uned Stat, for both, is not only a land of opportuny but one that allows them to be themselv, away om their untry’s machismo and homophobia. The trailer’s out for a gay prison drama celebratg Lat men fallg love.

MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE

Then, Dark Star Pictur will release the gay prison drama through vio-on-mand on April 13. The first ten mut of this film might lead you to believe that is ltle more than a mpy celebratn of homo-eroticism; however, this uld not be further om the tth.

After beg abandoned by by a iend, Frank wanrs to the gay strip club/brothel the Hoe of Boys, where he is offered a job. As Frank gets to know the rt of the performers and their stori, this reviewer fds that the dience will get more than what they barga for as Frank starts to learn about the World s a number of gay themed films, director Jean-Cl Schlim took great re that his actors performanc did not e off as thentic or woon. His mother, unemployed and azzled om the prsur of raisg two children an unfivg cy, has ser misgivgs; she spects her son is gay.

FUTURO BEACH / PRAIA DO FUTURODirected by Karim Aïnouz, Brazil/Germany, 2014Available on iTun, YouTube, Amazon, Google Play, and VuduPart gay romance, part quisive self-journey, Futuro Beach by acclaimed Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz is a stunng examatn of liv lost and found. Now, both of them have to adapt to each other; Armando to the unknown, homosexual world of his father, and Diego to the closed attu of his teenage son. I AM HAPPINESS ON EARTH / YO SOY LA FELICIDAD DE ESTE MUNDODirected by Julián Hernánz, Mexi, 2014Available on iTun and AmazonAcclaimed as "the most ravishg and powerful exprsn the history of out gay cema" (Armond Whe, Out Magaze), the most recent film by Mexin director Julián Hernánz tells the story of Eiano (Hugo Catalán), who looks at his life wh the ey of a film director, mixg the objective realy wh the procs of the artistic creatn.

FROM GAY CONVERSN THERAPY TO LEATHER COMPETNS: 11 MT-SEE LATO MOVI PLAYG OUTFT

He spends his time between his work at night as a cross-drser small gay bars and the rol he portrays most plays, movi and televisn shows. THE LAST MATCH / LA PARTIDADirected by Anton Hes, Cuba/Spa, 2013Available on iTun, YouTube, Amazon, Google Play, and VuduA sexy and romantic gay male film, The Last Match is set a poor, steamy Havana and centers on an tense love affair between two hherto heterosexual young men. Through lbian and transgenr characters, new movi reprent the LGBT muny beyond jt gay men.

Leonardo is a gay and bld teenager. Wner of the Goln Ln Award for Bt Film, this movie directed by Lorenzo Vigas picts Armando, a middle-aged gay man who pays young men for pany.