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Contents:
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- QUEER KO: 1970S AND ‘80S GAY GERMAN ARTHOE CEMA
- COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
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One you've surely heard of (Fire Island, which I'll get to later) — and the other was Benedictn, a film that barely seemed to register spe beg helmed by one of our great queer filmmakers, Terence Davi.Davi (who directed Rachel Weisz and Cynthia Nixon to arguably their greatt performanc The Deep Blue Sea and A Quiet Passn, rpectively) utiliz a bpic of Brish poet and rated WWI bat veteran Siegied Sassoon (played by Jack Lown his youth and Peter Capaldi olr age) to offer a wdow to the dramatic liv of aristocratic gay men the 1920s.
This is where I firmly stand, generally: was an extremely funny, often very sightful movie that served better than was alt.Here & QueerCome at , Bros: Billy Eichner opens up about his big gay Hollywood rom (that's very, very good)I saw twice 24 hours, and was thoroughly entertaed and ocsnally very moved both tim. Fire IslandWhat more uld you possibly ask for than a loose, queer adaptatn of Pri and Prejudice that's set at the hedonistic gay vatn statn of s tle and featur an all-LGBTQ st pl plenty of sex, dgs and Marisa Tomei-imprsns?QueeriFire Island revolutniz the queer rom- by reimagg Jane AtenIt's still hard to believe we were gifted Fire Island 2022, and that thanks to wrer and star Joel Kim Booster, director Andrew Ahn and a supportg st cludg Bowen Yang, Conrad Rimora, Matt Rogers and Margaret Cho, was also an exceptnally well-realized o to our chosen fai.
QUEER KO: 1970S AND ‘80S GAY GERMAN ARTHOE CEMA
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Kicked out of his mother's New Jersey home at the age of 16 for beg gay, Bratton was homels for nearly a before cidg to jo the Mar, where he would end up servg as a bat meraman. The latter experience gave him the ial tools that led to his reer filmmakg, but his entry pot to also serv as the premise for The Inspectn, a look at a young gay man (Jeremy Pope, who has already been nomated for a Goln Globe and a Spir Award for his performance) stgglg to survive boot mp the era of "don't ask, don't tell." The film offers a nuanced and plex portra of his time the mar, as do of Bratton's mother, who is played The Inspectn wh astoundg btaly by Gabrielle Unn.
COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
Together, the pair found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art—the first stutn of s kd—which is down the block, on Wooster, unassumg Llie happened to poke his head out to the hallway to terme the e of the ck; before he uld shut the door, a group om the art magaze I worked for had charged their way through. This somewhat jad crew of crics was ankly awed to fd every available surface the dky, crimson Prce Street loft absolutely vered—let me repeat: vered—wh explicly homoerotic art all styl and media, cludg var se-specific murals. At the start of his and Lohman’s llectg days, more than 60 years ago, “gay imagery was unfortunately the hands of pornographers exclively, ” Llie lamented.