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:
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
- 'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
- 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- A YOUNG GAY MAN MEETS A STRANGER ONLE THE SHORT FILM ‘JAMIE’ – WATCH
- GAY CEMA
- MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * gay man cinema *
You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Kramer's semi-tobgraphil drama to life this HBO film, tellg the story of the creatn of the Gay Men's Health Crisis at the height of the AIDS epimic.
Tellg the te story of a young man who is subjected to a gay nversn therapy program, the film featur a number of LGBTQ+ intifyg stars, cludg Cherry Jon and Troye nowMy Own Private Idaho (1991)This ntent is imported om youTube. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Hanks and Denzel Washgton star one of the first mastream Hollywood movi to tackle the subject of HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia. As Frank gets to know the rt of the performers and their stori, this reviewer fds that the dience will get more than what they barga for as Frank starts to learn about the World s a number of gay themed films, director Jean-Cl Schlim took great re that his actors performanc did not e off as thentic or woon.
SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
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Daddy and the Mcle Amy (1991)The erotic gay drawgs of Too Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Fland, are one of the Sndavian pensula’s most famo queer exports, and this documentary, the only film to feature the man himself, is a handy entry to his work and reer. Loosely based on Shakpeare's plays, G Van Sant’s 1991 unterculture classic drama My Own Private Idaho is not jt a poetic and btersweet story of two gay street htlers, Mike (River Phoenix) and Stt (Keanu Reev), journeyg om Portland, Oregon, to Idaho, and then to Rome search of Mike's mother.
Happy Together follows the story of a gay uple who attempt to navigate life a foreign place, enunterg the difficulti of feelg alienated a muny that do not remble home (somethg many gay men, pecially Asia, may relate to). This Hong Kong romantic drama directed by the great Wong Kar-wai, who also received the Bt Director award at the 1997 Cann Film Ftival, is a fe wner as tak a novel approach terms of gay films, utilizg the director's signature romantic, woozy style.
While the film ially off as sgularly foced on the cursy and excement of disverg a romantic relatnship, go on to display the btal realy that gay men have had to face a society that is adamant nyg them their right to love. 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.
'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
Here are some remarkable films which have impacted society posively by breakg boundari wh their reprentatns of gay men on screen. * gay man cinema *
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. Unls, that is, you’re a 13-year-old boy, secretly attracted to other boys, and you’re watchg at home 1984 wh your parents, not expectg to be nonted by a man a donkey jacket, armed wh a guar and a sneer, sgg about how glad he is to be gay.
Listen to the ceptively soothg way he livers the openg l: “Brish police are the bt the world / I don’t believe one of the stori I’ve heard / ’Bout them raidg gay bars for no reason at all / Lg the ctomers up by the wall …” Then he halts the song.
Stt McKnon builds the book om a variety of sourc, cludg film reviews, media reports, personal memoirs, oral histori and a strikg range of films, all ployed to answer the qutn of unrstandg cema-gog as a moment of nnectn to muny and inty – how the experience of seeg the films and beg part of an dience helped to build a muny among the gay men of Sydney the perd. Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema.
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
Celebrate the bt gay movi wh our list of the 50 most sential LGBTQ+ films ever ma * gay man cinema *
And we regnize that some of the films the list will re-igne healthy bat that have been fixtur of discsn around LGBTQ+ films — straight actors playg gay characters, cis actors playg trans characters, and the historil domance of whe male perspectiv. For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life. 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.
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). Victim (1961)Dirk Bogar, an actor who never acknowledged the mours of his homosexualy durg his lifetime, took a real reer risk playg a lawyer who, followg a strg of blackmail attempts agast gay men, begs to realise his own sexualy. It took another 10 years before partial crimalisatn took effect wh the Sexual Offenc act 1967, which allowed homosexual acts, private, between two men over the age of 21 – many feel Basil Dearn’s film helped liberalise attus and pave the way towards tolerance towards gay people.
The Leather Boys (1964)The Brish ‘kchen sk’ dramas, foced around workg-class liv, that prevailed the late 50s and early 60s ocsnally ntaed sympathetic gay characters, such as Murray Melv’s stunt A Taste of Honey (1961) and Cicely Courtneidge’s ageg actor The L-shaped Room (1962). It’s a super play, but the film jt about tmps , thanks pecially to the performanc – Glen Berry retired om actg, Stt Neal played another gay role The Bill, while the scene-stealg Lda Henry beme a fixture on Bad Girls and EastEnrs. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Gay Men at the Movi - Film receptn, cema gog and the history of a gay male muny; Cema has long played a major role the formatn of muny among margalised groups, and this book tails that procs for gay men Sydney, Atralia om the 1950s to the prent. Stt McKnon builds the book om a variety of sourc, cludg film reviews, media reports, personal memoirs, oral histori and a strikg range of films, all ployed to answer the qutn of unrstandg cema-gog as a moment of nnectn to muny and inty – how the experience of seeg the films and beg part of an dience helped to build a muny among the gay men of Sydney the perd. * gay man cinema *
In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet. As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on.
While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! ) And Kate McKnon, playg a so-lled Weird Barbie who experienced an extreme haircut and makeover at the hands of an experimental child, never actually answers the qutn anybody would have upon seeg her gay-ass haircut and knowg the actor’s sexualy. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
From Victim to Weekend, we remember some of the bt Brish gay films. * gay man cinema *
Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.
” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
A YOUNG GAY MAN MEETS A STRANGER ONLE THE SHORT FILM ‘JAMIE’ – WATCH
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * gay man cinema *
“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.
GAY CEMA
Películas ercial temáti gay y ter gay * gay man cinema *
SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. From Aled Hchck's oedipal Bno Strangers on a Tra to his Leopold and Loeb stand-s Rope to the serial killer offg gay men the servedly much-maligned Cisg to the recent French film Stranger by the Lake, the praved homosexual has been a mastay of the big screen.
MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay man cinema *
Anyone terted gay experience or gay films already knows to distst mastream media's efforts to explo and tegorize queerns by promotg gay movi as different, and each so-lled advance as a breakthrough simply bee fally breaks to the media's ual the Hollywood film dtry go through s biggt sexual panic sce the 1920s, reflectg a breakdown heterosexual relatns, gay filmmakers who prevly were swept to the margs by wardly homophobic crics and gatekeepers, have steadily ma the only movi ncerned wh what means to be human among of the twelve superb films transcend Hollywood's nscendg approach to gay self-py disguised as romance. It’s a mp classic wh hilar l but more importantly, featur an inic performance om Michael Greer, one of the first openly gay actors to appear major Hollywood The Gay Deceivers on Tubi TVGayby (2012)Based on the award-wng short film of the same name, Gayby tells the story of a straight hot yoga stctor named Jenn and her bt iend Matt, a gay ic-book wrer. The film clus a number of ntroversial scen that uld be triggerg — so, watch at your own Now Advertisement - Contue Readg Below8 'The Bter Tears of Petra Von Kant' (1972) Courty Everett CollectnThe Bter Tears of Petra Von Kant is a sapphic classic that has bee a key entry the largely gay male-domated non of high mp.
Here's our list of the Bt Gay movi and LGBTQ+ TV shows of the year that was 2022 — and what a queer year was! * gay man cinema *
In I Killed My Mother, Dolan documents the ght relatnship between a gay teenager and his sgle mother dreamy, heart-wrenchg NowAdvertisement - Contue Readg Below13 'Cisg' (1980) ©Uned Artists/Courty Everett CollectnA crime thriller set agast the backdrop of the 1970s leather scene, Cisg is a polarizg film wh a plited legacy. Set the world of the New York ballroom scene, Port Authory—which was executive produced by Mart Srse—tells of the love story between a whe man who has jt arrived New York whout a penny to his name (Fnn Whehead) and a Black transgenr woman wh ep ti to the cy’s ball culture (Leyna Bloom, the first Black trans actrs to star a film at Cann) Now Advertisement - Contue Readg Below15 'Young Soul Rebels' (1991) Courty EverettDcribed as a “part-thriller, part-gay love story, ” Young Soul Rebels—a film not often clud U. The first Hollywood movie to center on Che-Amerins sce The Joy Luck Club some 11 years before , Savg Face tells the story of a closeted Che-Amerin woman fallg love for the first time and stgglg to rencile the relatnship wh her and her girliend’s tradnal (read: homophobic), close-kn New York Cy muny.
12 of the Bt Gay Films You Missed 2017 * gay man cinema *
Yterday we posted a uple of the excellent short films BFI Flare LGBT film ftival London – Heavy Weight, about a pair of boxers who fd passn the rg, and Still Burng, about a gay man who helps his brother prepare for his first vogug ball Paris.
Th there are two strands to a gay film history, which only really tertwe the last two s, when pennt films such as Longtime Compann (1990), Dert Hearts (1986), and Partg Glanc (1986) proved that gay and lbian culture has what Hollywood cutely lls "crossover" potential. Chroniclg the pictns of gay people such as the "sissy" rol of Edward Everett Horton and Frankl Pangborn 1930s edi or predatory lbians 1950s dramas (see Lren Ball Young Man wh a Horn and Barbara Stanwyck Walk on the Wild Si), Rso tails how homophobic stereotyp have both reflected and perpetrated the opprsn of gay people. Never potg a fger at anyone the film muny, The Celluloid Closet prents clips om more than 100 mastream featur (cludg The Children's Hour, Advise and Consent, The Boys the Band, and The Hunger) that speak loudly their rpective imag of gays and lbians.
The film's ma character Mola (William Hurt) was the last a grand le of theatril, flawed gay adults who didn�t shy away om their dark sis, their rnaly and their sadns, and who had more bravery and spir each perfectly polished toenail than a thoand morn gay guys put together.
Enjoy the short film Jamie, directed by Christopher Manng, about a young gay man's first meetg wh someone he met onle. * gay man cinema *
"Featurg terviews wh the founrs of Gay Men's Health Crisis and footage om the award-wng theatril and HBO Films productns of 'The Normal Heart, ' the documentary tells the story of the real-life circle of iends who found themselv at the center of the epimic s early days.
IN THE LIFE TV's productn 'Its About Time, ' explor what means to grow old as a gay person Ameri - how a generatn once at the ontl of tablishg the morn LGBT movement fds, what should be their goln years, new challeng livg life openly gay highlights the lears spearheadg a natnal effort to protect the rights of LGBT senr cizens and re for our elrs. "A Place to Live" explor what s like to be a gay senr cizen on limed rourc and the unique challeng they face such as discrimatn, beg forced back to the closet retirement hom, or separated om signifint others assisted livg facili. (Image cred: Alamy)The actor Sam Elltt's ntroversial recent ments cricised The Power of the Dog's 'allns to homosexualy', but queer readgs of wterns stretch back s, and Zachariah is a prime example, wr Sean the ialistic 1960s gave way to the cynil 1970s, US cema began servg up creasgly nihilistic and psychologilly plex stori, all wh sour endgs to match.
We’ve handpicked a few films that foc on gay men. Check out the films for a ltle edy, some drama, a whole lot of heat. * gay man cinema *
Zachariah ptur the overlap between anti-Vietnam War, rock mic, sexual liberatn, femism, the emergence of gay rights, civil rights, environmentalism – they're all alcg – Gary NeedhamZachariah's screenplay was rewrten many tim.
In all s Firign-fuelled youth-culture provotn, Needham tells BBC Culture, the film "ptur the overlap between anti-Vietnam War, rock mic, sexual liberatn, femism, the emergence of gay rights, civil rights, environmentalism – they're all alcg" wtern was a predomant mo through which mascule performance was tght, pecially to young whe Amerin menThe boys' embrace at the end of Zachariah, then, is an earnt rebuttal of the toxic, vlent mascule mor on which the wtern genre was built. When Zach first approach Matthew, he’s shirtls and sweaty, wearg ltle but a blacksmh's smock, Fergon wrote: "the homoerotic possibili of this exchange [might] turn to the first gay wtern sce Andy Warhol's Lonome Cowboys (1969)".