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Contents:

• AT SWIM, TWO BOYS IS A GREAT IRISH NOVEL, AND A GROUNDBREAKG GAY LOVE STORY
• 'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
• TWO GAY BOYS

AT SWIM, TWO BOYS IS A GREAT IRISH NOVEL, AND A GROUNDBREAKG GAY LOVE STORY

We didn’t crimalise homosexualy until 1993 – more than a quarter-century after siar laws had been enacted Great Bra – and yet by 2015 we’d bee the first untry the world to vote by plebisce for same-sex marriage. There was still a sense of the clanste to what should have felt perfectly a young gay man behd a bookshop unter, I watched the people who bought At Swim, Two Boys – and there were a lot of them – and ed as a tool for flirtatn. In love wh lerature but starved of books that spoke to their own experienc of beg gay Ireland.

'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA

Thanks, Jamie O’Neill, I owe you urse, At Swim, Two Boys is a universal novel that enpass much more than simply the gay experience. Who among , gay, straight or somewhere between, has not felt that nfn? 99, to mark the 50th anniversary of the crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal.

Funny and erotic, Benjam tells a memorable story on a mimal budget—one which will feel very te to life to many gay viewers. We want to give a special shout-out to The Capote Tap, director Ebs Burnough’s documentary about Tman Capote’s lost fal novel; The Obuary of Tun Johnson, the story of an Ain-Amerin gay man relivg his own ath over and over; Breakg Fast, the Haaz Sleiman-led queer romantic edy (which jt picked up the prtig Audience Award at aGLIFF, no ls), and Cured, a fascatg new documentary about the queer activists who lobbied the APA to classify homosexualy as an illns.

TWO GAY BOYS

The handheld phantasmagoria of The Last of EnglandG Van Sant, director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Huntg, To Die For, MilkDerek Jarman’s The Last of England is an amazg barrage of memori, obssns, taclysmic visns, where Derek plays a gay memoirist wrg his thoughts down. An amazg soundtrack by the geni Simon ’n’roll blar, as England falls, a fairy danc, betiful soldiers drk vodka and have gay sex. Halfway through the film, on a hot summer night, the two teenage boys sneak off to a gay pub for the first time their liv.

Omar and Johnny’s hedonistic, forbidn soapy sex the lnrette was a slap the face to Conservativ g the Aids epimic to further monise gay people. Here was another woman – like me – gleefully takg ntrol of her own passn VictimTerence Davi, director of Distant Voic, Still Liv, The Long Day Clos, The Hoe of Mirth, A Quiet PassnIn Victim, Dirk Bogar plays a closet homosexual barrister who risks both his reer and marriage to break a blackmailg gang when his young iend kills himself rather than implite is a small scene towards the end of the film when Bogar lls for his clerk to jo him. Idaho was clearly the film for s release, Gay Tim ran a ver featurg an embrace between the two leads.

But, for the generatn of young gay men watchg the early 90s, somethg more explosive than a kiss – or even full-on sex – had already happened.