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Contents:
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
- QUEER KO: 1970S AND ‘80S GAY GERMAN ARTHOE CEMA
- KEEPERS OF THE GAY FILM LEGACY
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * gay art film *
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 (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 & 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.
COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
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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?
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. That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country.
QUEER KO: 1970S AND ‘80S GAY GERMAN ARTHOE CEMA
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” Set 1981 South Ai at the apex of the South Ain Borr War, the film’s story of gay unrequed sire turns out to be a sg for somethg far more lethal s marrow.
Frears’ film nonts all manner of taboos, not only terms of the gay relatnship at s center, but also the entrenched xenophobia and natnalism that challenge their bond.
KEEPERS OF THE GAY FILM LEGACY
It’s an adaptatn of a novel by French liberte and gay in Jean Ge, settlg to a French port cy where a madame played by Jeanne More ns the world, and sailors engage explic sex acts that turn vlent.
Ala Guirdie’s sexy and sry “Stranger by the Lake” has earned cricisms for nflatg homosexualy wh crimaly, but ’s hard not to be drawn to the world of a nu beach that serv as a regular cisg spot for lonely gay men.
” Set durg the fal years of the Edo perd Japan, “Taboo” centers on an androgyno-lookg samurai (played by Ryuhei Matsuda) whom his manr spects to be gay. It ma the shortlist, but py didn’t go all the way bee this spirg movie provis need reprentatn for young gay people stgglg to e out.