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Contents:

• ANGRY YOUNG MAN 01, CLASSIC MILARY VOYR | GAYBOYSTUBE
• ANGRY YOUNG MEN UNR FIRE OM GAY WRER
• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

ANGRY YOUNG MAN 01, CLASSIC MILARY VOYR | GAYBOYSTUBE

Before John Schlger's classics Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Midnight Cowboy beme known as gay films, he was celebrated for "sophistitn"--a phemism for sexual ndor-pl-utn.

It is a heartfelt exprsn of closeted gay anxiety; passn--and not a ltle heterosexual revulsn--vergg on Bat, Schlger's superb male me (Julie Christie was his female unterpart) portrayed middle-class draftsman Victor, yearng for sex and succs, when he's ught the old trap of marryg a pregnant girliend, Ingrid (June Rchie). The director's gay screen ntent was as discreet as his personal life. (Schlger told his nephew and bgrapher Ian Buma that he moled Peter Fch's middle-aged gay doctor role Sunday, Bloody Sunday on himself).

Few people ught-on that this but movie was also an unrveloped prentatn of both sire and reprsn as felt by mid-20th gay Brs when homosexualy was still a make-out scene between Victor and Ingrid at a public b stop, Schlger's mera pans right to sn c graffi on the stall walls--a secret alln to rtroom hook-ups. It was as tellg as the brief shot of a movie marquee announcg Dirk Bogar's landmark gay blackmail movie Victim. This distguish om gay Hollywood director Gee Cor's The Marryg Kd (1952) starrg hunky hetero Aldo Ray.

ANGRY YOUNG MEN UNR FIRE OM GAY WRER

Millennial gay movi don't dare such ambivalent is not self-loathg, but circumstance-loathg. Weddgs are this film's symbol for social stutns that cramped gay men's sense of eedom. Tim have changed yet A Kd of Lovg--Schlger's dissatisfied rerd of a gay men's rage for livg--somehow feels both radil and choate.

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

That same year, Omar Mateen, who had exprsed particular anim toward homosexuals, beme a mass killer when he attacked a gay nightclub Florida, as did the acced recent Colorado shooter Anrson Aldrich. Now, he n talk about beg a gay man the hetero world of ’70s and ’80s big-time rock ‘n’ roll.

“You’d see rock stars make fun of gay men, but then you see the guys put on makp and have long hair and take on affectatns like girls, but that’s so they would not be threateng to girls. Yet, for a gay man was slightly easier beg Styx rather than say, Kiss or Aerosmh, whose randy songs celebrated sex and whose members actively rearched that material. In the book, Panozzo wr about growg up gay Chigo, his double life Styx, and his HIV diagnosis 1991 — yet another secret he kept hidn.

Panozzo, who is active gay rights and also dabbl art, tours wh the band as often as his health allows. Now the angrit young man of today's theatre is dancg on his, accg him and the rt of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s of beg Ravenhill, the wrer of Shoppg And Fuckg, the most talked about play of the 1990s, scrib how John Osborne, Arnold Wker and John Arn were "straight boys" clearg away the "feyns and falsens" of post-war theatre domated by gay playwrights such as Noel Coward, Terence Rattigan and Rodney Ackland. "What every mentator has missed, " said Ravenhill, "is that Coward, Rattigan and Ackland were homosexuals, Wker and Arn were heterosexuals, and Osborne was - well, very keen to prove he was heterosexual.