'Two boys snoggg was revolutnary': the greatt gay moments cema | Film | The Guardian

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?

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TWO GAY BOYS

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.