Here! provis ‘Shelter’ for gay-themed movi – The Hollywood Reporter

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• HERE! PROVIS ‘SHELTER’ FOR GAY-THEMED MOVI
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

HERE! PROVIS ‘SHELTER’ FOR GAY-THEMED MOVI

Though not as fun as some of his other outgs, Vo, a sense, explas Schwarz’s affy, retellg the life of gay historian Vo Rso who ma his life’s missn to explore a history of queer imag on film. The pair play a duo of schemg, alholic bti a movie that is both hilar and tragic, and which foc on somethg few movi do: a iendship between a gay man and a gay woman. 5B chronicl the terror that acpanied the spread of the disease, the actn and homophobia that let bee a holot.

When to niche markets, gay-themed movi occupy one of the nichit of the nich. On ocsn, a gay movie — generally one backed by a stud or stud specialty divisn — breaks out: In 1996, edy “The Birdge” climbed to $124. But most die gay movi reach a actn of those dienc.

In 2006, for example, “The Mostly Unfabulo Social Life of Ethan Green” picked up jt $153, 122 s domtic release, while the gay horror movie “Hellbent” picked up a parable $183, 066. Films, the work’s theatril distributn arm, is lnchg “Shelter, ” the first project has ma unr a new pennt film iative to fund projects by and for the gay and lbian muny. “I wanted to fd a different settg for a gay genre film, ” Markowz says.

INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

Starrg relative newer Trevor Wright — who has acquired a strg of TV gut appearanc and known to gay dienc for appearg “Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss” 10 years ago — “Shelter” ma s but on the gay film ftival circu last summer. But, Markowz says: “It’s not jt for gay dienc. 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.

” 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. It’s 1981, South Ai, which means ’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effemacy is a sign of weakns, and beg gay is also illegal.

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.

Raer Werner Fassbr’s fal howl of anguish om the soul was 1982’s “Querelle, ” his last and possibly gayt movie.