Still Waters Run Deep: Watch Gay French Thriller 'Stranger by the Lake'

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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• STRANGER BY THE LAKE (2013): FRENCH THRILLER IS BT GAY FILM A DE

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Based loosely on Shakpeare's Henry IV, Part 1 & 2, and Henry V plays, this movie shows the journey of gay htlers Mike and Stt, and their search for Mike's mother. UFO enthiast Brian reprs the memory and nvc himself he was a victim an alien abductn, whereas Neil mov to New York to seek fulfillment as a gay sex worker.

A queer cult classic, the film centers on a gay teen growg up ral England the 1990s. Somewhat based on Dolan's life, the film follows the plited, sometim tense relatnship between a young gay man and his mother. A edy pokg fun at the "gay bt iend" stereotype, the film explor g out high school and navigatg iendships and school when that happens.

The film, based on the 1971 novel of the same name, featur a gay love story set Edwardian England. The members learn to embrace their tths and eventually bee a gay-straight alliance.

STRANGER BY THE LAKE (2013): FRENCH THRILLER IS BT GAY FILM A DE

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

What starts as a gay idyll--naked men lyg languidly around a sparklg lake unr a hot summer sun--quickly turns dark and clstrophobic when Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) wns mtached hottie Michel (Christophe Paou) drowng his trick late one eveng. It's very much like the world of the 1970s, where the ia of a separate gay culture and gay life seemed very promisg.

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Guirdie has been makg wildly idsyncratic gay-themed films sce the early 90s, often set an imagary neo-mediaeval Provence, where portly elrly men tend to be the hottt love objects new film is more nventnal only that Guirdie has purged the overt goofs.

Stranger By the Lake is a gay art-cema spense story, set over 10 days on the sun-kissed, pe-forted banks of a lake – a cisg ground where men n work on their tans between torrid tsl the shbbery. Consumg love between two young men France's Normandy regn 1985 is the subject of gay French tr Franis Ozon's latt film, aptly tled Summer of 85. Wh s settg at the height of the '80s, s European backdrop, and soundtrack that clus classics om the Cure and Banarama, Summer of 85 is sure to draw parisons to another gay-themed arthoe film recent memory -- Lu Guadagno's Call Me by Your Name.