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Contents:
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
- TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE
- ‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
- POLISH GAY DRAMA ‘ELEPHANT’ SELLS TO NORTH AMERI AND KEY EUROPEAN TERRORI (EXCLIVE)
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
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TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE
His ank and unsentimental pictn of gay youth marks Elephant as an anomaly among the recent films we’ve looked at: there’s no heightened emotnal drama to ame the characters as Alan Ball’s Six Feet Unr, and no soc-cultural amework to help unrstand this muny as we had The Laramie Project. In this stands alone treatg s characters (gay or straight) wh the same different gaze; there li s transgrsive and rehg sensibily, bee boy is unlike anythg we've looked at on here.
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‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
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POLISH GAY DRAMA ‘ELEPHANT’ SELLS TO NORTH AMERI AND KEY EUROPEAN TERRORI (EXCLIVE)
Interwoven wh the characters’ stori, but given too ltle time for their own, are a Black tmpet player (Jovan Apo) who’s stgglg agast the dtry’s formidable racial barriers, a cross-drsg Che Amerin baret sger wh a passnate gay followg (Li Jun Li), and a powerful gossip lumnist (Jean Smart) who chronicl the whole falsely glterg para dulcet-toned voiceover. “We didn’t pay 37 ln zlotys for the largt elephant hoe Europe to have a gay elephant live there, ” said Michal Grz, a nservative uncillor the Polish cy of Poznan, Rters reported last Friday. What Michal don’t know, apparently, is that homosexualy is rampant the animal kgdom.
The five text on the subject, Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy, wrten by Canadian blogist and lguist Bce Bagemihl, is an obssive talog of a phenomenon so wispread that the n barely nta . For the Cliff’s Not versn, you have only to look to a 2006 article on the subject, which pots out that big horn sheep live “homosexual societi” which they “bond through genal lickg and anal terurse.