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• A GAY CHARACTER SPARKS BATE AND A REFORMED TRAR SAM EMERG DISNEY'S 'JUNGLE CISE'
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• THIS GAY MAN’S CISG ADVENTURE THE TOILET STALLS OF AN OPERA HOE DID NOT GO AS PLANNED: WATCH
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• 12 TOP GAY CIS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS 2023 AND 2024
• AL PACO'S GAYT MOVIE: THE 'CISG' CONTROVERSY OF 1980
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• ‘JUNGLE CISE’ STAR JACK WHEHALL IS ‘PROUD’ OF HIS GAY CHARACTER’S COMG-OUT SCENE DISNEY FILM
• I WENT ON A 10-DAY CISE WH 4,000 OTHER GAY MEN. I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTER END, AND I N'T WA TO GO BACK.
• GREECE: AEGEAN SEA GAY CISE
• ON HBO, ROSIE O'DONNELL'S CISE FOR GAY FAI
• GAY CISE FORBIDS MAKG SEXUALLY EXPLIC CONTENT ON ITS SHIP
• MALE MOLS DCRIBE HORRORS|OF A GAY MEDERRANEAN CISE
• HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY CIS

A GAY CHARACTER SPARKS BATE AND A REFORMED TRAR SAM EMERG DISNEY'S 'JUNGLE CISE'

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INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

”Whehall’s MacGregor Houghton “ out” a “Jungle Cise” scene wh Dwayne Johnson’s Frank Wolff (never g the word "gay") film featur a rebooted Trar Sam, a character recently removed om the Disney Parks’ Jungle Cise after cricism over the ri’s racist pictn of Indigeno "Jungle Cise" has some notable passengers. Meanwhile, ntroversial shnken head aler Trar Sam, recently removed om the Jungle Cise ri after cricism for s racist pictn of Indigeno people, reappears onscreen the reimaged form of Mexin actrs Veroni Falcó's how the characters took their plac onboard "Jungle Cise" which took $90 ln  worldwi box office and Disney+ Premiere Accs over openg Rock, Ey Blunt: Reveal that most awkward 'Jungle Cise' kiss, dirty jok cut by DisneyMacGregor Houghton subtly out to his Jungle Cise ptaDisney has been cricized for the lack of LGBTQ film reprentatn movi, and lled out for blk-or-you'll-miss- gay character moments films such as "Bety and the Beast" and "Onward.

" The word "gay" is not mentned the scene that further explas MacGregor's bond to his sister: dienc learn MacGregor's remag fay, and society, have turned their back on him "all bee of who I love. "'Bety and the Beast': That 'gay moment' may have been much ado about nothg"We didn't want to e across like we're standg on a soapbox, " Johnson adds, notg the scene shows diversy and cln were "owned and held regard" the praised screenwrer Michael Green for craftg the scene "wh licy and simplicy.

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That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country. Frears’ film nonts all manner of taboos, not only terms of the gay relatnship at s center, but also the entrenched xenophobia and natnalism that challenge their bond. It’s an adaptatn of a novel by French liberte and gay in Jean Ge, settlg to a French port cy where a madame played by Jeanne More ns the world, and sailors engage explic sex acts that turn vlent.

THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

Ala Guirdie’s sexy and sry “Stranger by the Lake” has earned cricisms for nflatg homosexualy wh crimaly, but ’s hard not to be drawn to the world of a nu beach that serv as a regular cisg spot for lonely gay men.

Set Cuba, the film centers on J (Héctor Meda), a young gay hairdrser whose aspiratns of beg a drag performer are upend by the return of his nservative (and not to mentn tranged) father. Risg star Josh O’Connor will soon steam up the tennis world Lu Guadagno’s “Challengers, ” set for a 2023 release, but he first ught the world’s eye Francis Lee’s blisterg gay farm romance om 2017. 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.

The toilet stalls of an opera hoe have a few surpris store for a gay man who cis to e them to go cisg for a quickie this new short film by Brazilian director João Dall'stella which recently screened at the 2020 Outft Film Ftival and has been makg the ftival rounds before that. The term – a phemism that dat back to the 1950s – was once ed to dite gay social events on daily cise le programs, whout explicly llg out members of the muny on board.

12 TOP GAY CIS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS 2023 AND 2024

As travel on the high seas ntu to bounce back om the COVID-19 panmic, gay and lbian travelers should nsir settg sail on a fun-filled cise vatn as their next planng a cise, vatners should first nsir what their ial sailg looks like. Cisers should also thk about whether they'd like to travel aboard a gay-iendly mastream le, such as Celebry Cis or Virg Voyag, or opt for an all-gay, full-ship charter wh a third-party vatn pany.

This le gets the stamp of approval om prev LGBTQ cisers, who praise the ships' genr-ntral bathrooms, onboard shows wh rint drag queens and diverse Voyag offers gay-specific sailgs through travel pani like Atlantis Events, but s more mastream erari still offer a welg, clive atmosphere that attracts LGBTQ cisers year-round.

For s all-gay cis, Atlantis charters megaships om popular l like Royal Caribbean Internatnal and Norwegian Cise Le, so cisers will have a fully immersive board, travelers n enjoy all the perks the megaships have to offer (thk: pools, hot tubs, sports urts and plenty of dg choic), pl special events like drag performanc, motivatnal speakers, LGBTQ movi on mand each b and high-energy circu parti across the ship. "As an LGBTQ ciser, you're lookg for a ship wh lots of entertament, cludg dance parti and events, " says Mars Martez, founr of Men Who Bnch, a Black gay liftyle blog. Celebry Cis(Courty of Celebry Cis)Celebry Cis sets the scene for an excellent vatn for gay travelers, om s extravagant annual Pri parti to s daily LGBTQ programmg throughout the year.

AL PACO'S GAYT MOVIE: THE 'CISG' CONTROVERSY OF 1980

Private travel pani like VACAYA also charter Celebry ships for all-gay voyag throughout the (Getty Imag)Specifilly marketed toward lbians and LGBTQ women, Olivia has hosted more than 350, 000 travelers by land and sea over almost five s.

Outsi of the sailg experience, Royal Caribbean has also publicly mted to support the LGBTQ muny throughout the year, and was the first cise le to earn the tle "Gay Traveler Approved" om GayTravel 2023, nsir a Royal Caribbean voyage that sails to gay-iendly statns.

]The Cise Wh La Demence(Courty of The Cise wh La Demence)Acrdg to past cisers, if you're lookg for one of the bt party scen on the open seas, nsir an all-gay cise wh La Demence. Prev cisers had high praise for the erari – which exclively vis gay-iendly lotns – as well as the uy cktails, themed nights (stum strongly enuraged), glamouro entertament, and unique events like drag bgo and high heel Demence sails every summer to statns like Rome; Athens and Mykonos, Greece; Kotor, Montenegro; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and more.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Jt be sure you check your PC-ns at the door and accept that the first half is gog to be the gay-bashg variety of lghs, until the ma characters "mellow" and learn their life lson. Take the subject of Dream Boat, for stance: a film about a Mederranean cise packed wh three thoand gay mt have been a strong temptatn for director Tristan Ferland Milewski to foc his lens maly on ntil nghts -- hedonism on the high seas.

Photo urty Berlale/© Geber Beetz Filmprodtn Among the director's protagonists is Marek, a young Polish guy wh a hot bod who search for somethg more than hookup sex; Philippe, a Frenchman who radiat joy spe pg wh signifint physil limatns; Indian-born Dipankar, who tri to fd acceptance wh an image-obssed environment, and Ramzi, a Paltian native for whom the eedom of beg openly gay is not somethg to be taken for granted. ' I told him, 'I would like maybe my story -- wh ne years Belgium -- all the thgs at least n send a msage of hope to other people who are livg some untri where you have homophobia, '" Ramzi said. "Tristan was a person who got the real juic out and showed that people, gay men, are always seen differently but look, the are the real stori that have to e to the mass.

‘JUNGLE CISE’ STAR JACK WHEHALL IS ‘PROUD’ OF HIS GAY CHARACTER’S COMG-OUT SCENE DISNEY FILM

A scene which Jack Whehall's character discs his sexualy wh Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Amazon boat pta, though far om ground-breakg by morn cema terms, is a parture for the tradnally nservative Brish fop MacGregor do not e the specific word "gay, " but explas how he broke off three engagements wh women bee his "terts happily lay elsewhere, " promptg skipper Frank to raise a toast to "elsewhere. "And a fleetg lbian kiss "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" was cut om versns of the film playg Sgapore and Dubai, where same-sex marriage is the historic "Star Wars" lip-lock was also nmned by LGBT rights advot as tokenistic -- as was a brief scene Marvel's rerd-grossg "Avengers: Endgame" which an openly gay man participat a support "Jungle Cise" reprentatn go further -- MacGregor explas he joed his scientist sister (Ey Blunt) on her expedn to Brazil bee she "stood by" him while others World War I-era London spurned him bee of who he "loved.

"Disney will really do anythg to avoid g the word 'gay' s mastream ntent won't , " wrote Declan Cash, a curator for Blacklow, director of entertament media at LGBT advocy group GLAAD, said a statement to AFP the "heartwarmg exchange" was "a powerful addn to a big budget film that will reach dienc around the world.

It's a good movie to rent wh your buddi if you like sunbathg, gay jok, sexual nuendos and a risqué banana scene wh Roselyn Sanchez showg Cuba how she n play, lick, nibble and kiss the lucky banana. There’s a passenger om India on his first gay cise, a Frenchman wh disabili who’s termed to have a good time, a Polish man searchg for a soul mate, a Paltian who’s moved to Belgium and the hot Atrian photographer everyone pos for. In 1980 William Friedk and Al Paco ma Cisg, a stylish but famo thriller that tak viewers to the unrground world of gay leather and S&M clubs on the hunt for a serial killer.

I WENT ON A 10-DAY CISE WH 4,000 OTHER GAY MEN. I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTER END, AND I N'T WA TO GO BACK.

The film was protted by moralists who thought the film signaled the end tim, and gay rights activists who thought the film picted homosexualy as nothg more than a llectn of perverts hangg out a leather many misunrstood films of the era, Cisg has attaed a kd of cult stat even if is a b of a ms. The disveri happen ncurrently wh a few gay men, they beg volved the subculture of leather S&M, beg murred, their arms and legs bound behd their naked bodi, and multiple three-ch ep knife wounds their backs. Lead vtigator Capta Elson offers the job of gog unrver to the leather S&M gay subculture to fd the murrer to police nstable Steve Burns, who match the physil type of the victims.

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—HuggoIn New York, the amb police officer Steve Burns is assigned by his Capta Elson to work unver the gay S&M unrworld to seek out the serial-killer that is killg and severg the members of gays sce he has the same appearance of the victims.

Rifk (Barton Heyman), to match the arm to a torso found eveng, a predomantly gay neighborhood Manhattan, patrolman DiSimone (Joe Spell) and his partner, Dher (Mike Starr), orr two transvte prostut to their police r and sexually harass them. Nearby, a man (Richard Cox) wearg sunglass and a black leather jacket enters a gay nightclub filled wh homosexual men dancg, kissg, and publicly performg acts of sadomasochism. DaVci provis rmatn, then tells Elson that patrolman DiSimone forced him to perform oral sex the other night, but Elson ref to believe that day, Steve Burns (Al Paco), a young policeman, reports to Elson's office where he is briefed on Las's killg as well as the murr of Pl Vcent, a gay llege profsor.

Elson believ the same killer mted each crime, and asks Steve to vtigate the se unrver, posg as a homosexual, bee he looks like the two bed wh his girliend, Nancy (Karen Allen), Steve tells her that he mt go away for a while and nnot talk about his assignment. He only tells Nancy that although his "ep unrver" job is potentially dangero, will allow him to skip patrol duti and bee a a predomantly gay area of the Wt Village, Steve mov to an apartment and meets his neighbor, a young homosexual man named Ted Bailey (Don Srdo).

ON HBO, ROSIE O'DONNELL'S CISE FOR GAY FAI

Later, Steve attends a "Precct Night" at a gay club, where patrons drs up as policemen (one the patrons is DiSimone), but Steve is kicked out by the bouncer for not wearg the proper stume (Steve wears his black leather jacket and black jeans).

Cast & crewUser reviewsTV Movie2006PG1h 31mA documentary on the main cise of R Fay Vatns, the travel pany found by Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell, which specializ gay fay vatns.

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Settg sail on July 11, 2004, the trip took 500 fai om New York to the productn, box office & pany More like thisReview Absolutely EngaggI am a 50 year old woman om one of the most nservative stat the Uned Stat (one that banned gay marriag). It’s not too rctive to say there are two typ of gay men: those who love the ia of a gay cise where they n let all hang out (que lerally), and those for whom the mere thought of such a venture sends shudrs through their system. For Marek, Dipankar, and Ramzi, all faiar wh homophobia at home, the cise offers the illn of solidary; Philippe and Mart mt have experienced such issu earlier their liv, but seem to have moved beyond qutns of acceptance.

MALE MOLS DCRIBE HORRORS|OF A GAY MEDERRANEAN CISE

All except Mart exprs unhapps wh the gay muny’s emphasis on the form fantastic, and even Ramzi, no slouch the mcle partment, has a moment of sight when he ments on the problematic standardizatn of gay male bety: the same signer beard, the same cloth, the same biceps. ” A “team of volunteers” has been allegedly hired by the pany to police which pictur and vios are beg posted onle by guts aboard the gay cise ’s a lot to unpack here. In 2021, I raid my savgs acunt and spent $3, 059 to book an "all-gay" cise around the dancg troupe nvced me to buy the ticket, which was for 10 days on the Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas.

I now know that, until you've been on one of the cis, you really have no ia what happens on day one, I was havg the time of my life — we'd created our own floatg universe As our ship set sail om Rome, dawned on me that I'd never been around this many gay men before. It mands rtrat to not absorb microaggrsns, but to stead allow them to fuel my day, I mt stand firm and ph agast nventns and benchmarks of the heteronormative world that many gay men like myself choose to reject.

HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC

O'Donnell said what she wanted to do was simple: to provi a relaxg place where nobody would stare or ask stupid qutns about two lbians brgg up a fay, or two gay men wh a bunch of kids and not a woman , the "Cise" film director, Shari Cookson (whose creds clu "Livg Dolls: The Makg of a Child Bety Queen"), poted the mera and let people tell their stori. Jaby, now 21, a mil theater major at Emerson College Boston, said the pot of her anecdote was to nont issu like sexual orientatn and teasg that dig at children of gay people.

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Guts on what has been billed as the “biggt gay cise history” currently unrway the Caribbean have been asked to rea om postg sexually explic material taken while 9-day cise, anized by LGBTQ+ tour operator Atlantis Events for up to 5, 400 guts on Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas, left Fort Lrdale on Febary 4th wh stops cludg Aba and Curao. ”Vios of sexual enunters taken onboard siar gay-themed cis have been posted to social media as well as private paywall platforms such as Only Fans and Jt For CEO and founr of Atlantis Events, Rich Campbell told Buzzfeed the new policy was created at the requt of the ntracted cise l who didn’t want their brands nnected wh the sexually explic ntent.

”Atlantis billed the cise onle as “8 fabulo nights packed full of awe-spirg parti, superstar performers, great iends, and endls surpris, ” sayg was “time to play aga, and there’s no better way to do than at sea on the biggt gay cise history! ”From Your Se ArticlWATCH: Gay Cise Passenger Falls off Ship After Fight wh Homophobic Crew ›Florida Man Di on Gay Atlantis Cise After Jumpg Overboard ›Death Confirmed Onboard Atlantis Events' Oasis of the Seas Gay Cise ›. LOS ANGELES (CN) - Eleven "attractive young men" claim urt that a cise pany hired them to "mix and mgle" wh gay passengers "on a gay Mederranean cise, " but when the male mols attracted "too much attentn, " RSVP Vatns forced them off the ship and strand them war-torn Tunisia.

"Defendant RSVP hired a group of attractive young men to 'mix and mgle' wh their gay passengers on a gay Mederranean cise aboard fendant Holland Ameri's cise ship the Niw Amsterdam, " the plat stat. In the mentary on the physil releas of the film, Tony Stt said he found spiratn for the athetic of "Top Gun" a book of black and whe photographs by gay photographer Bce Weber.

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There's also a thartic thrill to be had wh seeg a film that is pure ary propaganda be this gay, given that was illegal to be out and servg the '80s (the Department of Defense clared 1981 that "the prence the ary environment of persons who engage homosexual nduct or who, by their statements, monstrate a propensy to engage homosexual nduct, serly impairs the acplishment of the ary missn.

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. 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.

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. 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.

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).

A newlywed (Col Campbell) havg marriage problems fds pe through mararie wh a biker gang – and don’t realise that his dynamic and fatly misogynist bt iend (Dudley Sutton) is gay. The last scene, set a gay bar, featur a nga le of unlikable stereotyp, but at least Sutton across more sympathetilly than Ra Thgham, playg Campbell’s shrewish wife. Betiful Thg (1996)This favoure remas one of the sweett of all gay films, tellg the story of two troubled boys – one bullied at school, the other at home – who fd love each other’s arms.

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. However, if you’re lookg to book a chartered all-gay cise wh an operator like Atlantis’ gay cis, there are a uple special twists om a tradnal packg checklist you should keep md.

If a port isn’t gay-iendly, simply stay on the ship and take advantage of the extra lounge chairs by the pool, snag a spot at trivia, bgo, or yoga, or dulge a hot stone massage. Segregatn of gay-iendly rorts and muni Even untri that are generally hostile to LGBT folks n be home to gay-iendly enclav - om rorts to ci - where you n feel ee to explore.