Two gay men are beg held on terror charg Chechnya, havg ped torture the homophobic republic before beg returned by police.
Contents:
- JAM IVORY AND THE MAKG OF A HISTORIC GAY LOVE STORY
- MRICE AT 30: THE GAY PERD DRAMA THE WORLD WASN'T READY FOR
- INDIAN GAY CELEBRI WHO CAME OUT AND ARE PROUD OF
- 'SOLID IVORY: MEMOIRS' - GAY FILMMAKER JAM IVORY'S REER TOLD
- GAY TORTURE VICTIMS HELD ON TERROR CHARG CHECHNYA WHOUT A SHRED OF PROOF
JAM IVORY AND THE MAKG OF A HISTORIC GAY LOVE STORY
Wh “Mrice,” the duo changed how films picted gay romance. Their productn pany won six Osrs, but their own love story remaed a secret for 45 years. * ismail merchant gay *
Photograph: Stuart Clarke/Mail on Sunday/Rex/ShutterstockJam IvoryThe great film-maker reveals why he and the producer hid their love all their liv – and vents his anger at Call Me By Your Name’s lack of full-ontal nudy, even though the film won him an OsrWhen Jam Ivory recently bagged an Osr for the gay g-of-age h Call Me By Your Name, the victory ma him, at 89, the olst Amy wner ever. The lovers enunter no external obstacl to their romance: all trac of tensn or nflict e entirely om wh, the words “gay” and “homosexual” are nowhere to be heard, and, though the spectre of Aids hovers over the characters om our historil vantage pot, that, too, go unmentned.
MRICE AT 30: THE GAY PERD DRAMA THE WORLD WASN'T READY FOR
Indian Gay Celebri: Homosexualy remas a topic of bate and ntroversy around the world. And India, is the same. * ismail merchant gay *
” In Mrice, his 1987 film of EM Forster’s posthumoly published gay love story, “the two guys have had sex and they get up and you certaly see everythg there is to be seen.
Well …” He giv a risive himself is gay. Wh “Mrice, ” the duo changed how films picted gay romance.
INDIAN GAY CELEBRI WHO CAME OUT AND ARE PROUD OF
“Whether straight or gay or somewhere between, we’ve all gone through first love, I hope, and e out the other si mostly tact, ” Ivory, a four-time Osr nomee, said while acceptg his long-overdue Osr. As an openly gay man, workg on Call Me by Your Name — a g-of-age tale that charted an impassned romance between two young men — held personal signifince. “Well, you jt wouldn’t, ” said Ivory, who won the Osr for Bt Adapted Screenplay for Lu Guadagno’s gay romance Call Me By Your Name March.
'SOLID IVORY: MEMOIRS' - GAY FILMMAKER JAM IVORY'S REER TOLD
” He poted out that Mrice, his 1987 movie based on EM Forster’s gay love story, “the two guys have had sex and they get up and you certaly see everythg there is to be seen”. He went on to talk tenrly yet unabashedly about his gay relatnship wh his producg partner Ismail Merchant, which whstood the tt of time.
GAY TORTURE VICTIMS HELD ON TERROR CHARG CHECHNYA WHOUT A SHRED OF PROOF
Gay. A fiant celebratn of gay love that me out the middle of the Aids crisis, ma by two men, Jam Ivory and Ismail Merchant, who, bee of the latter’s fay, had to keep their own love secret.
Gay filmmaker Ismail Merchant, who wh partner Jam Ivory beme synonymo wh classy stume drama films such as A Room Wh a View and Howard's End, died Wednday. Forster adaptatns like A Room Wh a View, Howard's End, and the gay drama Mrice--helped revive the public's taste for well-ma, emotnally lerate perd drama.
Gay romance onscreen, pecially at the multiplex, was rare. A Tim piece lled “A Gay ‘Love Story’, ” about the novelty of the film’s subject matter, imaged skeptics’ rpons to the film—“Is so fiant a salute to homosexual passn really to be weled durg a spiralg AIDS crisis?