Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri.
Contents:
- STALKG, DEATH THREATS, A STOLEN INTY: THIS TEENAGER WAS TARGETED FOR BEG GAY
- BUFF GERMAN MAN, 21, IS THIS YEAR’S MR. GAY WORLD WNER
- GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
STALKG, DEATH THREATS, A STOLEN INTY: THIS TEENAGER WAS TARGETED FOR BEG GAY
Max is one of the young gay men Germany who's been stalked and harassed for months on end. He's still wag to see jtice. * german gay teen *
All the victims are young gay men like German Feral Mistry of the Interr registered 313 vlent hate crim agast LGBT people Germany 2018. Max’s se exemplifi how difficult is to pe an aggrsive stalker, pecially on the ter, how powerful anti-gay persecutn Germany still is, and how long tak for s victims to fally see jtice. “The biggt difference between me and the majory is that I’m gay, ” he, January 2016, an acquatance sent Max a msage about an acunt on Facebook pretendg to be him.
BUFF GERMAN MAN, 21, IS THIS YEAR’S MR. GAY WORLD WNER
* german gay teen *
Eventually, strangers would show up at Max’s hoe and school, mandg the goods Max had allegedly sold the time, Max wasn’t out to everyone his life as gay.
He was te to his word: In March, posters wh Max’s photo showed up near his school the cy center wh the ptn, all ps, “Ja ich b schwul, und das ist ch gut so” (“Y I am gay and that is a good thg”). “It was dumb of me to feel safe there jt bee I was among other gay people, ” Max lol LGBT and unselg experts BuzzFeed News spoke wh were already faiar wh the se, thanks to earlier media and police reports.
”“The attacks — pecially the se of gay people — often take place spac that are actually thought of as safe, ” Bastian Fke, head of the anti–gay vlence project Maneo, wrote an email to BuzzFeed News.
GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
A new book tells the te stori behd Cabaret, and what was possibly the most thrillg gay party scene the world has ever known. Read an excerpt here. * german gay teen *
Knowg that someone is out there potentially phg young gay people to kill themselv and that this is still gog on the 21st century mak you qutn our society. I liked A Normal Guy particularly for s readg of the suatn for gay guys Romania - sual homophobia but more or ls an acceptance of other liftyl. - The Magaze.The world's first fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay photography.Volume 2 - the Pri Issue featur ten photographers om ne untri: AY (UK), David Charl Colls (Atralia), Matthew Fley (USA), Ashish Gupta (India), Manuel Monyo (Mexi), Juan Anton Papagni Me (Argenta), Sebastian Perotti (Argenta), Mric A.
It now reprents more than 67 photographers om 27 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant threat.There have been onle and physil exhibns, and two sold out BOYS! It jt go to show that there is a market for a well-produced prt magaze showsg fe art photography by queer and gay photographers that is not jt a dick magaze!"Instagram: @TLBGallery / @ghisla.pasl / @queer_art_photography. To the ntrary, anyone who thks this qualifi as a good gay-themed movie mt have a fairly low opn of what a well done gay-themed movie n be.
Admtedly there has bee some gree of fatigue for gay films that tra off the AIDS crisis, but aga, referencg the two recent films mentned above, when done well they are still this film there were too many terribly clichéd personali.