Ben Silverstone plays Steven Carter, a gay teenage schoolboy who mt hi his secret om his homophobic classmat. One day, a lol park where gays cise…
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Steven (Ben Silverstone) spends his school days longg for all-star athlete John (Brad Gorton). But John has a geo girliend, and Steven is still the closet about beg gay. The only one who knows the teenager's secret is his iend Lda (Charlotte Brta). After a cur n- wh John a public rtroom, Steven starts to wonr if the jock is straight after all. When they start a romance, threatens to expose the tth about both of them. * ben silverstone gay *
1992 the age of nsent for gay men was twenty one. The famo Sectn 28 legislatn forbids the “promotg of a posive image of homosexualy”, pecially schools.
It plays for two weeks to siar sized dienc until the gay prs disver and give rave reviews. The next day, The Hoe of Commons vot to rce the gay age of nsent to eighteen, thereby still crimalizg sixteen and seventeen year old gay men.
Tony Blair be prime mister, pledgg to reform anti-gay legislatn, cludg Sectn 28. I was asked terviews why the world still needs “gay issue films” a more enlightened world.