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Contents:

• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
• 10 GREAT GAY ROMANCE FILMS

INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

reportGay Movi 4UAuthor: Long LeeThe llectn of gay short films explore unvered secrets and private ne short films shows the bt gay short films om around the world and each release is themed so the stori explore a range of related topics.

10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS

OUTLAW tells the story of gay teen Nika (Viktor Tarasenko), who is love wh the most popular boy his school (Gleb Kalyuzhnyy). The film’s LGBT subject matter is set to attract ntroversy Rsia where the distributn of a film that picts a homosexual relatnship n attract heavy f.

It tells the story of a high-school stunt who is g to terms wh his awakeng homosexualy and a myster girl he beiends.

10 GREAT GAY ROMANCE FILMS

The number of recent Rsian films wh a gay storyle n be unted on one hand: Olga Stolpovskaya and Dmry Trosky’s lyril edy You I Love was a sensatn when screened at the Berlale’s Panorama 2004. It was creded as the first Rsian film on the subject of homosexualy or bisexualy.

Distributg Rsian films portrayg homosexualy a postive light Rsia was ma punishable by law (ually through f) when Print Vladimir Put signed to law an amendment to the Rsian feral law ‘For the Purpose of Protectg Children om Informatn Advotg for a Denial of Tradnal Fay Valu’ 2013. Film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov’s planned bpic of the venerated Rsian poser Ptr Tchaikovsky, wily agreed to be homosexual, fell victim to the ensug anti-gay feelg the untry and has been fely postponed. Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri.

Four were among the first natns to legalise gay marriage (Fland took a ltle longer, fally jog the club 2017), and Iceland beme the first untry to have an openly gay head of ernment (Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, 2009). Swedish melodrama The Wgs (1916), more than half of which has been sadly lost, is one of the first films to feature a gay storyle. Bergman’s pictn of female homosexualy was seldom flatterg – see the predatory lbian  Three Strange Lov (1949) or the possible readg of lbianism lkg to mental illns  Persona (1966).

The lite melancholy of the film, and s bleak pictn of a sad, possibly gay girl, make for a disquietg if rewardg viewg experience.

Daddy and the Mcle Amy (1991)The erotic gay drawgs of Too Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Fland, are one of the Sndavian pensula’s most famo queer exports, and this documentary, the only film to feature the man himself, is a handy entry to his work and reer. While the terviews wh New York leather daddi and S&M enthiasts show his fluence on gay inty, ’s the revealg ments of the artist himself that are the ma reason for watchg. Gay and lbian characters were among the mune dwellers the warm-hearted Together (2000), while the terr monologue of a trans woman was the foc of Contaer (2006), one of his most difficult films.

Although the film do not shy away om the ugls of homophobic and transphobic society, the relatnship self is betifully leated, and featur a very touchg sex scene.

A Moment the Reeds (2017)Leevi (Janne Puten), a young, gay Fnish man, meets Tareq (Boodi Kabbani), a Syrian immigrant worker employed to rtore the former’s fay lake hoe. ViewRemove superfluo tags and nfirm the rt if they are termed rrectlyRemoved om tags0Confirm tagsCancelTodo Tempo do Mundo - Brazilian Gay Seri (2017) OVTagged the vio:26 Feb 202159 754 views.

That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country.

” Set 1981 South Ai at the apex of the South Ain Borr War, the film’s story of gay unrequed sire turns out to be a sg for somethg far more lethal s marrow.

It’s 1981, South Ai, which means ’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effemacy is a sign of weakns, and beg gay is also illegal. Frears’ film nonts all manner of taboos, not only terms of the gay relatnship at s center, but also the entrenched xenophobia and natnalism that challenge their bond. Raer Werner Fassbr’s fal howl of anguish om the soul was 1982’s “Querelle, ” his last and possibly gayt movie.

It’s an adaptatn of a novel by French liberte and gay in Jean Ge, settlg to a French port cy where a madame played by Jeanne More ns the world, and sailors engage explic sex acts that turn vlent. Ala Guirdie’s sexy and sry “Stranger by the Lake” has earned cricisms for nflatg homosexualy wh crimaly, but ’s hard not to be drawn to the world of a nu beach that serv as a regular cisg spot for lonely gay men. ” Set durg the fal years of the Edo perd Japan, “Taboo” centers on an androgyno-lookg samurai (played by Ryuhei Matsuda) whom his manr spects to be gay.

It ma the shortlist, but py didn’t go all the way bee this spirg movie provis need reprentatn for young gay people stgglg to e out. Set Cuba, the film centers on J (Héctor Meda), a young gay hairdrser whose aspiratns of beg a drag performer are upend by the return of his nservative (and not to mentn tranged) father. Risg star Josh O’Connor will soon steam up the tennis world Lu Guadagno’s “Challengers, ” set for a 2023 release, but he first ught the world’s eye Francis Lee’s blisterg gay farm romance om 2017.

François Ozon’s sexy, melancholic, gay g-of-age romance “Summer of 85” sizzl wh the hot heat of first love, set agast the banks of a seasi rort Normandy. La Cage x Foll (1978)Tradnally France has been seen as one of the most liberal untri the world, and boasts an enviable rerd on gay rights, spe the ocsnal rantgs om Brigte Bardot.