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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.
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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.
EAST EUROPEAN GAY FILMS. A gay male uple Sarajevo, Kenan, a Bosnian, and Milan, a Serb, plan to emigrate to the gay-iendly Netherlands, but the war strands them Serb-ntrolled terrory, and Kenan adopts female drag to avoid beg found out as a circumcised Mlim. Ranka eventually outs the gay men to Milan's father, while Milan is drafted to the Serbian army and killed.
The sole woman among the leads is the e of all nflict, while Milan's father and bt iend accept his gay affair wh equanimy. In Fe Dead Girls Iva and Marija move to an apartment buildg that is home to a rogu' gallery of characters: a war veteran sufferg om post-trmatic strs, a prostute paid to break up the uple by a prit who is one girl's father, a homophobic gon of an apartment manager, and her son, a slacker mama's boy who rap one of the pair to prove his masculy. The film tak aim at the btaly and amoraly of ntemporary Croatian society, targetg patriarchy, natnalism, and the Catholic Church, as well as homophobia.