We pay tribute to some of the bt Atralian gay films.
Contents:
BT 10 GAY RAPE SCENE MOVIE
* gay raped movie *
Unfortunately when a film is so eptly nceived and ma on every level, ends up dog a disservice to the issu rais and when gets exposure a prime spot at a major Gay and Lbian film ftival whose future is unr thread, then do a disservice to the future a gay film ftivals as well. The ma culpr here is the terrible screenplay, full of one dimensnal gay stereotyp we have seen a billn tim before. The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert (1994)While same-sex marriage was only ma legal Atralia 2017, the untry has a fairly strong rerd on LGBT rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-iendly ci the world.
Atralian cema has had a rather strange relatnship wh male homosexualy.
Before the 1970s, the sexualy of probable gay characters was not ma explic, for example the effemate sal assistant Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938). The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy.
10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release Max 2: The Road Warrr (1981) featured a gay villa (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slayg of his lover), while more sympathetic homosexual characters appeared prison drama Stir (1980) and fay melodrama Mull (1988). The 1990s were a goln era for gay Ozzie films, while the new lennium has seen a glut of low-budget gay surfer dramas, cludg the easy-on-the-eye Newstle (2008), the nihilistic Drown (2015) and the downright bizarre Tan L (2006). The Naked Bunyip (1970)Homosexualy was tnip to many of the filmmakers behd the wave of sexploatn documentari that flourished Atralia the 1970s, which often served as an exce to show tillatg shots of lbians gettg down to bs the bedroom.
Gay men, if they appeared, were ually shown as unsympathetic, bchy queens.
Not so The Naked Bunyip, the grandfather of Atralian sexploatn, which a lengthy segment is voted to a gay male dock worker, who talks ndidly about his life.