The dtry has no problem makg a genre out of gay romanc, and yet you never hear the term "heterosexual romance."
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- IS GAY DIRECTOR XAVIER DOLAN HIDG HIS BOYIEND? HAD A COUPLE-LIKE RELATNSHIP WH ANYONE?
- XAVIER DOLAN ON FILM’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS’
IS GAY DIRECTOR XAVIER DOLAN HIDG HIS BOYIEND? HAD A COUPLE-LIKE RELATNSHIP WH ANYONE?
After all, who wouldn't want a gay Quebeis Turner & Hooch directed by Xavier Dolan? In the limed seri, Dorfman plays Osr, a queer man trated by the gay datg scene durg the panmic. The latt film om ntroversial gay Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan arriv this week, certa to igne the ual love--or-hate- bat that have ma him so notor.
Matt is straight and Max is gay, though both men beg to qutn the nature of their iendship as Max prepar to leave for a new job Boston. Dolan’s ual them of ternalized homophobia, hypermasculy, closet se ltg and— particular—rage agast mother figur abound, as do dividual scen of tense visual bety and powerful actg. Director Quent Lee (Gay Hollywood Dad) returns wh this new, experimental sci-fi film about life durg a panmic.
XAVIER DOLAN ON FILM’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS’
Queer rocker Mol Child jects a hearty dose of genr fluidy and raw sexualy to this punk track which rells the homoerotic work of Iggy Pop and early 90s gnge melancholy. Five years before homosexualy was ostensibly crimalized Canada, when same-sex sexual activy was still punishable by a multi-year prison sentence, Jane Rule published Dert of the Heart. As an adolcent, Tremblay found himself a Québéis a predomantly Anglo untry and a gay teen a largely tolerant society.
Shane had a mandg stage prence and routely donned flamboyant getups and elaborate makp, never seekg to nform — even an era when homosexualy was illegal Canada. Her 1962 sgle “Any Other Way” beme a top 10 h Toronto, s lyrics rife wh double entendr like “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay, tell her I wouldn’t have any other way.
Melancholic and mp, Stimson’s exhibns and performanc wield humour and homoeroticism as tools for pg wh the lonial vlence that his practice is ultimately always nontg. Upon watchg his baby boy beg breastfed, Loudon Wawright III penned the tongue--cheek track “Ruf is a T Man” — which assumed an ironic new meang when that boy grew up to be gay. Wawright has been equally forthg about his homosexualy om the outset of his mil reer, fg his lyrics wh drama, explic queer sire and heartache.