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• PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
• 'MY POLICEMAN' DON'T SHY AWAY OM GAY SEX. WE SHOULDN'T, EHER.
• THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY

PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY

LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - A popular party dg is beg ed to rape atose gay and bisexual men at “chemsex” parti, their asslts then streamed onle, acrdg to a Brish documentary that airs on Sunday. A jot vtigatn by BuzzFeed News and Channel 4 Dispatch found that GHB, a dg ed to heighten sexual pleasure, is regularly ed to “sexually asslt gay men” wh footage of the rape broadst live on the dark documentary was partly based on a survey of 2, 700 gay and bisexual men Bra nducted earlier this said more than one four of the men surveyed reported beg sexually asslted after takg the dg, which rose populary on the gay club scene at the turn of the century. “The fact that [GHB] is beg weaponized by rapists and murrs should be of high alarm to the police and the ernment, ” he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn by show sh a spotlight on chemsex parti, where gay and bisexual men gather to take dgs and have by dgs, cludg GHB and crystal meth, parti n last for days, wh lsened hibns leadg to ncerns over the risk of HIV and other sexually transmted diseas.

”Stdwick said he first vtigated GHB and sexual asslt durg the trial of Stephen Port, a serial killer nvicted 2016 of the rape and murr of four gay was sentenced to a whole life orr – meang he will never be released – for the crim, as well as admisterg GHB wh the tent to m a sexual OUTOf the 2, 700 men who rpond to the documentary survey, half said they had passed out after takg GHB; 93% said they knew of someone who had done Hyyrylaen-Trett, a member of the LGBT advisory group to Bra’s Metropolan Police, said that he had bee atose “10-12 tim” after takg the said he was “pretty sure” he had been sexually asslted unr the fluence of GHB, but had no proof. Sometim a movie reeks of homophobia (See: that ol' heart-warmer “Cisg”) and sometim 's jt a uple of moments a film that feel mean-spired to the LGBT muny (“Weddg Crashers, ” etc.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

While his father the Kg is obvly a paragon of celty, the scene which he sts Phillip out of a wdow to hurt his son is a vlent knock at the homosexual relatnship, and was shot such a sparse manner that practilly played for lghs, sensive to Edward II's loss.

In rponse to the accatn that the film is homophobic and transphobic, Lee said, “The role of Kimmy was never meant to be a role mol, or someone that reprents the muny as a whole. William Friedk had to cut a legendary 40 mut of footage om “Cisg” before uld get a pass om the MPAA, but that was mostly graphic sexualy and not the non-stop strg of slurs and rtoonish pictns of what the filmmakers tried to emphasize was a look at one subset of gay culture, but not the entire culture.

10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

There's ltle doubt that the hostile reactns om characters the film are perd-appropriate and shouldn't be taken as the POV of the film, but the film's POV on both the leather bar subculture, and on any gay characters who exist outsi the subculture ss somewhere between disgted and horrified. Well, here go those homosexuals aga, preyg on the irristible Vce Vghn the middle of the night, strokg his ch, and announcg they've ma sexual art about him.

“Weddg Crashers” is proudly lowbrow through and through, but this moment is still one of the most annoyg moments of “ic” homophobia the past and a half.

'MY POLICEMAN' DON'T SHY AWAY OM GAY SEX. WE SHOULDN'T, EHER.

But 'd be equally silly to ny that a goodly percentage of the 115 precedg mut — Y, this movie is obscenely long — are mostly about Kev Jam and Adam Sandler's characters makg clear that orr for Chuck and Larry to do some silly thg volvg life surance, they have to lower themselv the most huiatg way they n image, by pretendg to be a gay uple. What follows is a strg of “Beg gay is gross” and “Havg people thk you're gay is gross” farce, punctuated by “If you're gay, you n get ultra-close to hot women” icks, followed by “But really this is a great thg, even if straight guys might thk 's gross. Judgg the material on s own, is a clear exprsn of a culture that need to make homosexuals “the other, ” as clear an exprsn of hatred as anythg on this list.

Gawker did a great mashup of homophobic asis Michael Bay films 2014, cludg an extend “gay panic” scene “Bad Boys II” where Mart Lawrence and Will Smh realize that their nversatn about Lawrence's character beg shot the butt — which sounds like anal sex out of ntext (hilar!

Sendly, the gay lead characters didn't die or chronilly suffer "dysphoric or dystonic inty disorrs (didn't like beg gay") for their sexual transgrsns before the end of the movie, unlike some films of the era, like Boys the Band, Cisg, Philalphia or more recently, Brokeback Mounta.

THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY

This is the film for which Penn won an Osr as Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francis unty supervisor who, along wh Mayor Gee Mosne, was murred pretty much pla sight by another supervisor, Dan Whe, the thro of a mental meltdown. Later beme clear that some, (mostly the mal the group -- but some femal as well) have never fortably adapted to gay onscreen sex play or love makg even, though they are totally supportive of gay rights and the rights of gays and lbians to marry.

However, studi show that young people (unr 30 are far ls disturbed by homosexualy popular culture than are olr people, pecially those over 60.

We grew up a ls gay-tolerant or acceptg tim, one where attus were formed the ccible of group prsure and smug, snarky jok and meang stereotyp about gays; we grew up when Hollywood routely trad "butch" and "swish" stereotyp and even had s own fun stg closeted gay actors and lbian actrs stereotyped gay parts (e.