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'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
* gay in cinema *
25, 1992, the Sundance Film Ftival nvened a panel on ntemporary lbian and gay cema and “the signifince of this movement, ” acrdg to the program. New Queer Cema threw punch, and no wonr — the mostly whe gay men who ma the early wave of films were terrorized and exhsted by the first adly of AIDS, and they’d had wh what they saw as the cshg nservative polics of the Reagan-Bh era. Three years later, Gregg Araki’s “The Livg End” warned everyone to n for ’s not as if gay-themed movi weren’t beg ma at the time.
”In s embrace of queer bad behavr — “Swoon, ” for example, was a gay riff on the Leopold and Loeb murr se — New Queer Cema owed bts to s renega forebears like John Waters and Kenh Anger. The handheld phantasmagoria of The Last of EnglandG Van Sant, director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Huntg, To Die For, MilkDerek Jarman’s The Last of England is an amazg barrage of memori, obssns, taclysmic visns, where Derek plays a gay memoirist wrg his thoughts down. An amazg soundtrack by the geni Simon ’n’roll blar, as England falls, a fairy danc, betiful soldiers drk vodka and have gay sex.
Halfway through the film, on a hot summer night, the two teenage boys sneak off to a gay pub for the first time their liv. Omar and Johnny’s hedonistic, forbidn soapy sex the lnrette was a slap the face to Conservativ g the Aids epimic to further monise gay people. Here was another woman – like me – gleefully takg ntrol of her own passn VictimTerence Davi, director of Distant Voic, Still Liv, The Long Day Clos, The Hoe of Mirth, A Quiet PassnIn Victim, Dirk Bogar plays a closet homosexual barrister who risks both his reer and marriage to break a blackmailg gang when his young iend kills himself rather than implite is a small scene towards the end of the film when Bogar lls for his clerk to jo him.