'Passag' director nounc 'dangero' NC-17 ratg on a film pictg a gay love story

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• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
• FROM GAY CONVERSN THERAPY TO LEATHER COMPETNS: 11 MT-SEE LATO MOVI PLAYG OUTFT
• ‘I CARRY YOU WH ME’ TRAILER: LOVE CROSS THE MEXIN BORR HEIDI EWG’S GAY ROMANCE
• NEW NETFLIX FILM TELLS THE STORY OF THE BIGGT GAY SNDAL MEXI’S HISTORY
• 'I CARRY YOU WH ME' BLENDS REALY AND DRAMA IN A WRENCHG GAY LOVE STORY
• MY BROTHER / MI HERMANO [2015 SHORT FILM] BY MIGUEL LAFUENTE (ENG/RUS SUBS) GAY, DRAMA, SOCIAL, LGBT, LGTB, FAY
• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• AT MEXI’S GAY WBOY NVENTNS, MEN NNECT WH EACH OTHER — AND THEIR UNTRY’S GGED PAST

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

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. 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!

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

“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.

“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. As his wife, Amada (Mabel Cana), begs to grow spic of his whereabouts, Ignac begs to velop a fatal attractn to a man named Evaristo Rivas (Eiano Zura), whom he troduc to his clanste club of homosexual film’s tle — s origal Spanish is "El Baile los 41" — refers to the night of Nov.

MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE

NetflixAs someone who is nsistently the procs of “re-tg myself” — a value he and his wife, Diana Vázquez, would like to pass on to their young children — Herrera unrstands the potential ntroversy surroundg his cisn to play a gay character. Explicly nceived as a haven for gay men, was known for s youthful clientele, celebry patrons, and notorly hedonistic vibe; beme even more of a draw wh the openg of “The Backlot, ” an adjacent performance venue that featured some of the biggt “A-list” acts of the era.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

Built on stunng, powerful mil performanc and peppered wh surprisg and revelatory historil terpretatn – as well as edic banter and form-transcennt dience teractn – wove a narrative piled om “between the l” of monly-held history, exposg thgs like the sual bigotry at the heart of many of Ameri’s earlit popular songs and the misogyny and homophobia that has ntued to permeate s mic until the prent day; an hour was dited to each , wh Mac cked out an elaborate new era-specific stume – signed by longtime llaborator Mache Dazzle and rporatg humoro referenc to Amerin life each of the 24 s vered the show – for each one; each hour, one of 24 onstage micians would part the stage, until Mac, alone and unacpanied except for a ulele, was left alone to perform origal songs for the fal hour. Standard crime thriller terrory, you might thk, but for the fact that Angel and Nene are gay lovers known as the ‘tws” and Cuervo brgs his own sexual tensy along wh his hottie girliend Vivi, and BTW all of this is based on a te story.

OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

The new Netflix film Dance of the 41, tells the tragic te story behd one of the biggt gay sndals Mexin history.Dance of the 41 shows a night over a hundred years ago when 41 men belongg to Mexi's upper-class ele were arrted followg a police raid on a Mexi Cy hoe. He would have been one of the important Mexin figur om our history, but he was taken away om that bee he was gay."After the arrts, some of the men charged were forced to go to labor mps, and some were ma to perform labor while drsed as women so that others uld mock them.

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 GAY CONVERSN THERAPY TO LEATHER COMPETNS: 11 MT-SEE LATO MOVI PLAYG OUTFT

"Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments. More tobgraphil than his prev "Celtial" trilogy (A Thoand Clouds of Peace, Broken Sky and the epic Ragg Sun, Ragg Sky), this figuratively mundane drama ncerns a Mexin filmmaker, Eiano (Hugo Catalan), attracted to young dancer Octav (Alan Ramirez) but unsettled by that urge to roam--a sense of possibily that is practilly a gay male gene lked to the pennce and self-sufficiency of mascule stct.

This aspect of gay male life is out of step wh the current monogamo trend--Eiano giv a TV terview fendg his opposn to gay marriage, his distst of mment--and that challenge is not jt polil but a spirual quandary. He is overlooked by most film reviewers and film culture gatekeepers--even the gay on--who rema ignorant of his work while celebratg ls signifint but trendier gay filmmakers are ually propelled to the mastream by the media's patronizg fascatn wh polil rrectns and stereotype pathology. Add that to Hernanz's appreciatn of Eiano and Octav's ongog, lovelorn search--articulated a shared recatn of Jose Jose's Mexin h "Dos"--and you have the most ravishg and powerful exprsn the history of out gay cema.

‘I CARRY YOU WH ME’ TRAILER: LOVE CROSS THE MEXIN BORR HEIDI EWG’S GAY ROMANCE

4Genremelodrama, dramaCountryMexi, NetherlandsCharactersGayPlotLonels, Death, Love triangle, Rad, DreamsPlaceBeachStyleTo cry, Soulful, Mak me thkA lenary language agoniz: Its last two speakers, Evaristo and Isro (70´s) had a quarrel 50 years ago and haven't spoken to each other sce. 3Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, tectiveCountryFrance, Mexi, LuxembourgDuratn02:12CharactersLbians, Gay, Serial killers, DirectorsPlotOn real events, Obssn, Death, ArtStyleActn, Fascatg, DisturbgIn the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most amb film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a myster killer. 3GenredramaCountryMexi, GermanyCharactersGay, GangstersPlotLove, Revenge, Mental disorrs, ChasePlaceIslands, Germany, SwenStylePsychologil problems, Actn, Tense, DisturbgMiguel and Johnny know each other sce childhood.

4Genremelodrama, dramaCountryMexiDuratn01:50CharactersGayPlotLove triangleStylePsychologil problems, FascatgFour terwoven stori about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy stggl to keep secret the attractn he feels towards his male . 6GenreedyCountryChile, MexiCharactersHors, Gay, Psychologists, PsychiatristsPlotSoccer, BreakupStyleLight, FascatgRaúl, Eduardo and Santiago have led a happy and "straight" life sce their childhood, until, one day, Santiago nfs to them that he is, Lus, Aaron, Nora and Lola live a buildg the chaotic Mexi Cy,.

6Genremelodrama, dramaCountryVenezuela, MexiDuratn01:53CharactersGay, Fay, FriendsPlotLove, Revenge, PassnStyleRomantic, Actn, Mak me thkExam the stggl of a man petrified by the notn of human ntact and timacy. 7Genremelodrama, drama, wternCountryUSA, CanadaDuratn02:14CharactersGay, CowboysPlotLove, Adventure, Passn, Relatnship, WeddgStyleSoulful, Atmospheric, Fascatg, Touchg, Sad onTwo morn-day wboys meet on a shepherdg job the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns to a lifelong relatnship nflictg wh the liv they are supposed to live.

NEW NETFLIX FILM TELLS THE STORY OF THE BIGGT GAY SNDAL MEXI’S HISTORY

5Genremelodrama, dramaCountryUSADuratn01:40CharactersGay, Teachers, Stunts, FriendsPlotObssn, Lonels, Death, DeprsnStylePsychologil problems, Soulful, Philosophil, Heavy, TouchgAdapted om a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day the life of Gee Falner, a Brish llege profsor reelg wh the recent and sudn loss of his longtime partner. Markimdb: 7Genrethriller, drama, tectiveCountryFrance, CanadaDuratn01:43CharactersGayPlotLife, Lonels, Chase, Fay lifeStylePsychologil problems, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Ser, DisturbgA young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn to a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggrsive brother. 4Genredrama, bgraphyCountryUSA, Uned KgdomDuratn01:45CharactersGay, Friends, Maids, GarnersPlotFriendship, SctnPlaceLos AngelStyleTo cry, Fascatg, Gloomy, Touchg, SerIt's 1957, and Jam Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenste, " "Bri of Frankenste" and "The Invisible Man" is long behd him.

4GenredramaCountryUSADuratn01:59CharactersTeens, GayPlotMoney, Dg addictPlaceGhetto, Beach, USAStyleOsrs, Heavy, Ser, Sad onThe tenr, heartbreakg story of a young man’s stggle to fd himself, told across three fg chapters his life as he experienc the ecstasy, pa, and bety of fallg love, while grapplg wh his own sexualy. 9Genremelodrama, dramaCountryItaly, France, USA, BrazilDuratn02:09CharactersGay, Scientists, Fathers, Pianists, MothersPlotLove, Relatnship, First love, Love wh age difference, SctnPlaceSea, Italy, Small ciTimeSummerStyleSoulful, Touchg ViosEl Perlman is spendg the summer wh his fay at their vatn home Lombardy, Italy. 9Genreedy, melodrama, dramaCountryUSACharactersTeens, Lbians, Gay, Micians, StuntsPlotLove, Love triangle, Relatnship, Lonels, First lovePlaceSchool, Small ciStyleRomantic, Light, For sgle girls, Womens ma rol, TouchgShy, straight-A stunt Ellie is hired by sweet but articulate jock Pl, who needs help woog the most popular girl school.

3Genreedy, melodrama, dramaCountryUSADuratn01:43CharactersGay, Girliends, FrogsPlotLove, Cancer, SctnPlaceSchool, USSRTimeGraduatn ViosAlex Telove is on a qut to lose his virgy, an event eagerly awaed by his patient girliend and cheered on wh wele advice by his rowdy iends. 5Genreedy, dramaCountryUSADuratn02:00CharactersHors, Gay, Teachers, Childrens, CooksPlotDancg, Money, Dg addict, Friendship, BreakupPlaceSchool, Party, DertsTimeNew YearStyleSoulful, Fascatg, Mak me thkA uple is gog through maral troubl ma worse when a prevly unknown grandson shows up.

'I CARRY YOU WH ME' BLENDS REALY AND DRAMA IN A WRENCHG GAY LOVE STORY

Markimdb: 8Genremelodrama, dramaCountryEstonia, Uned KgdomCharactersGay, MilaryPlotLovePlaceUSSRTimeCold WarAt the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidn love triangle wh a darg fighter pilot and his female ra amid the dangero surroundgs of a Soviet Air Force Base. 2Genremelodrama, dramaCountryUned Kgdom, USA, AtraliaDuratn02:35CharactersLbians, Gay, LawyersPlotTravel, Passn, Relatnship, Art, Love wh age differencePlaceParty, Hotels, USA, New YorkTimeNew YearStyleRomantic, Gloomy, SerIn 1950s New York, a partment-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an olr, married woman. Daniel Nolas’s sexy and morn film terpos live re-enactments of enticg Tom of Fland illtratns — known for their licly homoerotic tak on leathermen and men uniform — wh the liv of the five men vyg for the tle of Mr.

Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release nsirg this Lat Amerin top 10, many ntenrs narrowly missed the fal selectn, cludg Argentian gay crime flick Burnt Money (2000), Uguayan g-out chamber piece Leo’s Room (2009) and lbian bpic Reachg for the Moon (2013), about the romance between Amerin poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian archect Lota Macedo Soar. Kiss of the Spir Woman (1985)The only English-language film on this list is also the bt known, thanks to William Hurt’s Osr-wng performance as Luis, a flamboyant gay perast servg time a Brazilian jail cell wh polil prisoner Valent (Rl Julia).

The late Argente-born Brazilian director Hector Baben also featured homosexual characters his grty gang drama Pixote (1981), but Kiss of the Spir Woman is his bt film, a damng crique of the Brazilian ary ernment. Strawberry and Cholate (1993)The first (and, to date, only) Cuban film to be nomated for the bt foreign language film Osr, Strawberry and Cholate starts out like a cute gay rom before velopg to somethg far more provotive.

MY BROTHER / MI HERMANO [2015 SHORT FILM] BY MIGUEL LAFUENTE (ENG/RUS SUBS) GAY, DRAMA, SOCIAL, LGBT, LGTB, FAY

Dpe a reputatn for reprsn, this sharp, irristible edy, spiced wh a love of mp that breath the same air as Pedro Almodóvar, is surprisgly cril of the Castro regime and sympathetic to s gay protagonist (Néstor Almendros’s 1984 documentary Improper Conduct is a damng dictment of Cuba’s homophobic polici). The blend of fantasy and realism is betifully realised by filmmaker Javier Fuent-León, who origally nceived the story about a hetereosexual affair wh a sex worker, before changg the characters when he himself me out as gay. Each man 4 Moons is all 's the rt of 2014's Gay Bt:Priby Matthew Warch: This ultimate Brish workg-class edy-mil-drama ptured the solidary among urban gays and Northern mers fightg and dancg for their & You by Bernardo Bertolucci: Lorenzo's (Japo Olmo Antori) g-of-age is a g-out shown wh pth, tenrns and g Bowie's "Space Oddy" as a ravishg Way He Looks by Daniel Ribeiros: The story of a gay Brazilian teen (Ghilherme Lobo) who, spe bldns, se himself whout guilt.

Maladiby Carter: 1960s gay reprsn ma poignant and poetic through reer-high performanc by Jam Fran, Cathere Keener, and David Bird a Blizzard by Gregg Araki: Jokey, flirty, and Sirkian, Araki still fights gay guilt while baskg hypermascule sensualy and female empathy. Filmmaker Heidi Ewg told NPR's Morng Edn, "For me, there's a lot of nuance the film bee even though you see the nflict at tim vergg on vlent between fathers and their gay sons, you also see tenrns, nfn and ignorance that's drivg the anger of the fathers.

Others felt more fortable wh the ia of gay men, wh some admtg to havg gay iends, though no one terviewed self-intified as gay, while others terviewed felt that gay men uld never be nsired te men (Gutmann 2006, 202).

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

In another narrative, the dutiful, wronged wife might have been a rote role, one left at the margs to better be ignored by story, characters and dienc alike, her pa necsary llateral damage for the sun-dappled gay affair at s center. A lot of the gay-flavored fare I remember beg on the service has been phed down between the metaphoril uch chns, replaced wh a smaller, more selective platter of if you know where to look, there are still queer movi on Hulu.

However, while s ma character is cidly need of growg up, Milkwater’s immediate foc is on the oft-unrreprented, shark fted topic of queer a spl cisn, irrponsible twentysomethg Milo (Molly Bernard) agre to bee the surrogate for Roger (Patrick Breen), an olr gay man who owns a drag bar and is sperate to raise a baby. For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans.

AT MEXI’S GAY WBOY NVENTNS, MEN NNECT WH EACH OTHER — AND THEIR UNTRY’S GGED PAST

It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years.

That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist.

Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End). In the theatre, Matthew Lopez's exploratn of gay male history The Inherance triumphed London before transferrg to New York, where opened the year after a well-received revival of Mart Crowley's semal 1968 play Boys the Band.