HOMOSEXUALITY AS DEVIANCE: The Case of the Gay Police Officer on JSTOR

Contents:

• MY POLICEMAN RELEASE DATE AND TIME REVEALED? HARRY STYL AS A GAY POLICE MAN
• GAY COPS
• HARRY STYL' LEADG MAN TURN AS A GAY POLICEMAN IS ALREADY GETTG RAVE REVIEWS
• THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE
• HOLLYOAKS STAR ‘HAPPY TO MAKE FANS ANGRY’ WH GAY P CHARACTER

MY POLICEMAN RELEASE DATE AND TIME REVEALED? HARRY STYL AS A GAY POLICE MAN

The book sh a light on the prejudice faced by the gay muny Brighton the 50s and 60s, and the emergence of the south ast cy’s thrivg and bloomg gay muny durg the time of stutnalized homophobia. In an era of unbridled and wispread homophobia, is safer for Tom to marry Marn. My Policeman cuts across two timel; 1950s Brighton unr the shadow of the suffotg and opprsive UK’s anti-gay laws, and the 90s where Tom stggl wh his terratg health and the vis of his ex-lover Patrick.

Tom Burgs is the embattled policeman who has to al wh everythg about beg gay 1957 Brighton when homosexualy was illegal. The One Directn sger plays secretly gay police officer Tom Burgs alongsi The Crown star Emma Corr as his wife Policeman directed by Red's Michael Grandage, tells the story of PC Tom Burgs, who stggl to hi his sexualy while livg Brighton on the Brish south ast 1957.

Based on the 2012 novel My Policeman by Bethan Roberts, the movie explor the crimalizatn of homosexualy 1950s Bra. Set a time when homosexualy was illegal Bra, Tom knows would be safer for him to stay a relatnship wh Marn than to be wh Patrick.

GAY COPS

(Image cred: Getty)Sger Harry Styl is playg gay policeman Tom Burgs who leads a secret double life 1950s Bra. Pk News spoke to a movie sir who revealed that Harry Styl was 'really exced about the challenge' of portrayg a gay man the 1950s — when homosexualy was still illegal sir revealed that Harry shoots two sex scen wh -star David Dawson, and there's also a scene where he's naked on-screen by himself. I don’t thk he thks of himself as gay, ' says Harry.

Harry go on to expla how Tom p wh his homosexualy a time when was illegal and taboo. (Image cred: Getty)David Dawson, who plays mm curator Patrick, the forbidn love of Tom’s life, says: "As a gay man, I was really moved.

(Image cred: Getty)My Policeman the novelThe movie is based on the 2012 novel My Policeman by Bethan Roberts which explor the crimalizatn of homosexualy the 1950s. Rupert Everett, who is gay and played gay as far back as Another Country 1984 before beg wily known for playg Julia Roberts's fabulo pal My Bt Friend's Weddg, plays Patrick the prent.

HARRY STYL' LEADG MAN TURN AS A GAY POLICEMAN IS ALREADY GETTG RAVE REVIEWS

Twenty-ne years ago, Jonathan Demme’s film Philalphia was hailed as somethg of a Hollywood tone: a major stud film about homosexualy and Aids, wh a gay male protagonist who was both sympathetic and HIV+. The utn paid off: rpectfully if not ecstatilly reviewed, Philalphia grossed over $200m worldwi, and won two Osrs, cludg one for queer crentials rted on s gay screenwrer Ron Nyswaner, who land an Osr nomatn himself for his pas. Dpe fe performanc by Julianne Moore and Ellt Page – who at the time intified as a gay woman – Nyswaner felt his script had been “-gayed” by the film’s producers.

Nyswaner said at an LGBTQ awards ceremony: “Out of fear they were normalised … The gay characters were ialised.

Watchg the film, both ltle-seen and ltle-remembered, was hard not to feel he had a Hanks the film Philalphia, brgs to My Policeman, Nyswaner’s latt queer-themed script, about a nflicted gay policeman, Tom, who marri a naive young woman, Marn, to wrt himself out of an affair wh mm curator Patrick 1950s Brighton – only for that cisn to hnt all three 40 years later. Its director, Michael Grandage, is gay, as are at least two of s producers, Amerin TV superpower uple Greg Berlanti and his hband Robbie Rogers. Furthermore, at a time when Hanks himself said that Philalphia should rightly have had a gay star – viewers “wouldn’t accept the thenticy of a straight guy playg a gay guy [now]” – My Policeman’s stg has refully ensured some LGBTQ+ prence s love triangle.

THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE

Two gay actors, David Dawson and Rupert Everett, play the younger and olr Patrick; female lead Emma Corr is queer and non-bary, even if her character is very much not.

HOLLYOAKS STAR ‘HAPPY TO MAKE FANS ANGRY’ WH GAY P CHARACTER

For all the advanc, the drab, turgid fished film feels srcely ls bland and timid than the promised, straight-angled prtige gay dramas of ls liberated tim.

What uld be a rather thls, laceratg story of o self-nial and homophobic betrayal stead emerg as a one-note study of gay martyrdom, one so narrowly foced on queer reprsn that queer exprsn never gets a look-. ” This quote l up wh Styl’ own, more heavily publicised ments on the sex scen: “So much of gay sex film is two guys gog at , and kd of remov the tenrns om . There will be, I would image, some people who watch who were very much alive durg this time when was illegal to be gay, and [Michael] wanted to show that ’s tenr and lovg and sensive.

”Back Augt, I wrote a piece on the disappotgly regrsive nature of such statements, which tacly shame the notn of queer sex that is anythg other than gentle, and seem lculated to appease the kd of straight viewer who’s OK wh homosexualy prciple, as long as ’s not “shoved their face”.