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It stars John Labow and Henry Tarvaen as two U of T stunts who velop a quasi-romantic relatnship — which is heavily d given this was ma a pre-Stonewall world where gay romance was que lerally forbidn. Still, is wily nsired the first gay film ever ma Canada and has the further distctn as the first English-language Canadian film to ever screen at the Cann Film Ftival.
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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.
“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.
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