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Contents:

• INTRODUCG THE QUEER BGE: ALL THE GAY. ALL THE TIME.
• 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

INTRODUCG THE QUEER BGE: ALL THE GAY. ALL THE TIME.

The library on SBS On Demand is already packed wh some fantastic TV shows, cludg:GaytnThe wonrful Ellen Page hosts this show, takg viewers around the world to explore the differenc LGBTQI culture om untry to untry, nontg issu of acceptance. The first two seasons are streamg now:EyewnsThe first season of Norwegian crime thriller opens wh a young gay uple wnsg a btal murr, wh the teen boys tryg to ci whether to reveal their secret the shadow of a major & MissStarrg Chloe Sevigny as a transgenr assass, the UK productn is a grippg fay drama unlike any other show you've seen wa, there's streamg on SBS On Demad, you’ll also fd fascatg spotlightg queer subcultur and the issu impactg them, as well as a selectn of acclaimed sure to look out for When We Rise, one of this year’s most anticipated drama seri will be fast-tracked om the US to SBS On Demand om March 1 (screeng later on SBS om March 11). From Mexin wrer-director Serg Tovar Velar Four Moons, a romantic drama featurg four unnnected stori of gay men young and old navigatg sexualy and the US, romantic edy That’s Not Us follows a tumultuo weekend at a beach hoe where three young upl - gay, lbian and straight – fd their relatnships tted this largely improvised exploratn of what tak to stay love.

10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

Ana Kokkos’ 1998 classic story of sexual disvery Head On airs Febary 20, then available on mand and evotive summer-set 2016 die Teenage Kicks airs Febary 27 or you n tch up on urse, the cherry on the cheeke is The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para 2017, which live streams on SBS On Demand on March 4. The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release Max 2: The Road Warrr (1981) featured a gay villa (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slayg of his lover), while more sympathetic homosexual characters appeared prison drama Stir (1980) and fay melodrama Mull (1988).

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The 1990s were a goln era for gay Ozzie films, while the new lennium has seen a glut of low-budget gay surfer dramas, cludg the easy-on-the-eye Newstle (2008), the nihilistic Drown (2015) and the downright bizarre Tan L (2006). The Naked Bunyip (1970)Homosexualy was tnip to many of the filmmakers behd the wave of sexploatn documentari that flourished Atralia the 1970s, which often served as an exce to show tillatg shots of lbians gettg down to bs the bedroom. The film draws parallels between the close mascule relatnships that form unr the Atralian phenomenon of ‘mathip’ and homosexualy, while talkg heads discs the importance of crimalisg gay sex, which at the time of the documentary was a crimal offence  Atralia.

Bond himself was gay, an early bar scene looks like a scene om William Friedk’s S&M thriller Cisg (1980), while is clear that some sort of sexual act, probably a rape, tak place between the teacher and Doc after a vlent stggle, sendg the protagonist to another spiral of spair. The Clic (1982)In this fun and bawdy bo of scy edy and sex tn aid, we dip to a day the life of a VD clic, where a laid-back doctor (Chris Haywood) and a pdish medil stunt (Simon Burke) tend to patients of all walks of life, om ank sex workers to ashamed hoewiv, om promiscuo gay men to cheatg hbands.

But ’s wickedly entertag, Arthur Dignam is excellent as the polician, and ’s a unique film that uld not have been ma at any other time, wh sex scen too graphic for before the 1980s and an anti-gay streak too unpalatable for the 1990s. For much of s length, the film feels very post-gay; Isaac (Ewen Llie), our antihero, a moody Greek Atralian who unearths some unpalatable fay secrets when he returns to Greece followg the unexpected ath of his father, is certaly not fed by his homosexualy. Matt’s birth mother is the member of a homophobic church, and he qutns her beliefs at every opportuny, while Graham, an adopted 11-year-old who n’t read, fac new challeng when his dads move to Fiji wh him and enurage him to keep their sexualy a secret owg to s nservative society.