‘Barbie’: Ken Has Never Been Barbie’s Boyiend. He’s Her Gay BFF.

Contents:

• BETIFUL THG IS A MASTERPIECE OF GAY STORYTELLG
• WE MOVED TO
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

BETIFUL THG IS A MASTERPIECE OF GAY STORYTELLG

To satisfy his naggg parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of nvenience, but his parents arrive to vis and thgs get out of hand. This Osr-nomated film is the story of two men who are oppos: one gay, the other straight; one a fierce munist, the other a fierce dividualist; one spic, the other acceptg; and how they e to love each other.

WE MOVED TO

A homosexual Catholic prit fds out durg nfsnal that a young girl is beg sexually abed by her father, and has to ci how to al wh both that secret and his own. A story of a thirtyish gay actor/waer who cis to bee risk of AIDS has taken all the joy om sex.

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

Some topics discsed were Greg's childhood problems, his homosexualy, and him ntractg the HIV vis. ALL THE RAGE tak a satiril and poignant look at one gay man's obssive pursu of physil, sexual, and romantic perfectn.

When a man wh HIV is fired by his law firm bee of his ndn, he hir a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willg advote for a wrongful dismissal su.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

A gay baret owner and his drag queen pann agree to put up a false straight ont so that their son n troduce them to his fiancée's right-wg moralistic parents. The te story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Betiful Thg Is a Masterpiece of Gay StorytellgThe 1996 Brish film portrayed s workg-class LGBT characters wh remarkable sensivy and Pictur ClassicsWhen Jonathan Harvey’s love story Betiful Thg buted 1993 as a play, he had no ia would eventually be herald as a crown jewel of gay storytellg.

“But wasn’t tend to be a gay play, jt a play that happened to have gay characters.

Remend ReadgDpe Betiful Thg’s tle, gay life the early 1990s was anythg but pretty.

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

AIDS, then a terrifyg new disease, had started killg thoands of gay men the prev . In 1987, Bra’s Prime Mister, Margaret Thatcher, gave a speech plag that, rather than learng to rpect “tradnal” valu, children were beg tght that they “have an alienable right to be gay. ” It was hardly a cince that Sectn 28—an amendment that prohibed lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” or teachg schools the “acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”—was enacted by Thatcher’s ernment the followg year.

The film was genuely subversive for s time and place: Depictg gay kids who don’t succumb to the “plague” or ultimately bow to prsure om their bigoted peers was no small thg at a moment stricken by an pecially vilent, anti-LGBT mood. Inially, neher boy has fully accepted his sexualy, and Betiful Thg is a lite exploratn of the often-paful procs of g out that evolv to a gay film is filled wh charmg and poignant moments that uld be found any romantic dramedy.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

At another pot, a cur Jamie steals a gay magaze and, rrectly, tells Ste what “ottage” is (“It’s yogurt. Later, the two go to a gay jot—the first place they thk to go to where they n be public about their relatnship sans judgment— a scene that gently pots to the historil signifince of gay bars as safe spac.