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Contents:
- 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
- ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
- GAY BRA GLOSSARY
- GAY DATG UNED KGDOM
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
From Victim to Weekend, we remember some of the bt Brish gay films. * british gay guys *
Weekend (2011)Few untri n rival the UK when to makg great and diverse gay films. This may e as a surprise om a untry where male homosexualy was illegal until as recently as 1967, and where gay marriage ntu to ffle right-wgers, swivel-eyed or otherwise. Yet spe their often taboo nature, films wh gay characters have been around sce the silent era.
‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
Queen Elizabeth's is expected to wed the first same-sex royal weddg this summer — but he is far om the first gay Brish royal, acrdg to historians. * british gay guys *
So what key Brish gay films are out there? We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable mentn mt go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharg (1969), a swgg slice of the 60s that hted at terracial homosexualy.
GAY BRA GLOSSARY
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Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release list should really be a Top 11 – the omissn of Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), the first Brish film to feature a gay kiss, is borrle excable.
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Tom Shkolnik’s betifully observed The Comedian (2012), which a possibly gay, possibly bi thirtysomethg (Edward Hogg) tri to make as a standup the pal, also narrowly missed cln.
Borrle (1930)What’s the gayt Brish silent? A few d homosexuals n be found Aled Hchck’s early work (check out the swishy drsmaker 1925’s The Pleasure Garn), while Ivor Novello’s films play up the flamboyant star’s androgyny, playg very odd, allegedly heterosexual men The Lodger (1926) and The Man whout Dire (1923).