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Contents:

• SUNSET CEMAS & RABOW GAY CEMA
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• CEMA LISTGS FOR GAY FILMS LONDON AND THE UK
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• 10 GREAT CANADIAN LBIAN, GAY AND TRANSGENR FILMS
• PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY
• GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• GAY AND LBIAN STUDI
• MY TRODUCTN TO GAY LONDON

SUNSET CEMAS & RABOW GAY CEMA

“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. '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. 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.

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

It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. 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.

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!

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).

10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

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. Set post World-War II Germany, this Atrian drama follows Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) who's imprisoned several tim for beg gay and durg his time prison shar an timate relatnship wh his cellmate, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), who is servg a life sentence for murr. 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.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

In the wake of this first step towards equaly, we were treated to unpleasant stereotyp galore  The Killg of Sister Gee (1968) and Stairse (1969), but the 1970s saw progrs wh the sophistited bisexual love triangle of John Schlger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Derek Jarman’s homoerotic Sebastiane (1976) and Ron Peck and Pl Hallam’s Nighthawks (1978), the first explicly gay Brish feature set the gay muny. Dream A40 (1965)Wh mastream cema still reluctant to tackle gay characters and plots the mid-60s, Jamain actor-director Lloyd Reckord took matters to his own hands wh this extraordary unrground short that terrogat the psychologil impact of persecutn.

JT Leroy (2019)Wily regard as one of the most gay-iendly untri the world, beg the fourth untry to legalise gay marriage and wh thrivg LGBT muni Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vanuver, as no surprise that Canada has ma some of the most excg queer cema the world, and ntu to ntribute wonrful featur and shorts to the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Ftival. ” Asked by the sger to her distant male lover Cl Jutra’s classic À tout prendre (1963), a h and val film wh all the cky swagger of the French New Wave, this le is one of the first referenc to homosexualy Canadian cema and leads to a crisis of self the male lead.

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

Narciss (1983)Gay Brish-Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren is renowned for his pneerg animated shorts, cludg pixilatn classic Neighbours (1952), which won an Osr, and the madp A Chairy Tale (1957), starrg director Cl Jutra as a man’s attempts to s on a chair, which has other ias.

(2005)Before beg a major Hollywood player wh Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and Wild (2014), Jean-Marc Vallée sred a huge dience h wh this g-of-age drama about Zac (Marc-André Grond), a gay youth growg up wh four brothers and a homophobic father Quebec om 1960 to 1980.

A jot vtigatn by BuzzFeed News and Channel 4 Dispatch found that GHB, a dg ed to heighten sexual pleasure, is regularly ed to “sexually asslt gay men” wh footage of the rape broadst live on the dark documentary was partly based on a survey of 2, 700 gay and bisexual men Bra nducted earlier this said more than one four of the men surveyed reported beg sexually asslted after takg the dg, which rose populary on the gay club scene at the turn of the century. “The fact that [GHB] is beg weaponized by rapists and murrs should be of high alarm to the police and the ernment, ” he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn by show sh a spotlight on chemsex parti, where gay and bisexual men gather to take dgs and have by dgs, cludg GHB and crystal meth, parti n last for days, wh lsened hibns leadg to ncerns over the risk of HIV and other sexually transmted diseas.

CEMA LISTGS FOR GAY FILMS LONDON AND THE UK

”Stdwick said he first vtigated GHB and sexual asslt durg the trial of Stephen Port, a serial killer nvicted 2016 of the rape and murr of four gay was sentenced to a whole life orr – meang he will never be released – for the crim, as well as admisterg GHB wh the tent to m a sexual OUTOf the 2, 700 men who rpond to the documentary survey, half said they had passed out after takg GHB; 93% said they knew of someone who had done Hyyrylaen-Trett, a member of the LGBT advisory group to Bra’s Metropolan Police, said that he had bee atose “10-12 tim” after takg the said he was “pretty sure” he had been sexually asslted unr the fluence of GHB, but had no proof. Dpe the prence of large numbers of homosexuals New York Cy and other urban centers the Uned Stat and throughout the world, their history has often been neglected or margalized, a ttimony to the hibg factors of legal rtrictns on certa forms of sexual nduct, the lack of anizatn among gay men and lbians, and the unwillgns of the larger society to regnize the value and mer of different forms of erotic and affectnal exprsn. Although the pneers of the gay rights movement are ld by civil libertarians and activists for their ntributn to the polil and social liberatn of homosexuals, they are also signifint for their ncern regnizg the importance of llectg and prervg materials relatg to homosexuals and their vehicl of self-exprsn and intifitn.

Yet this nascent attempt at intifyg and llectg materials relatg to the homosexual experience was self hibed and circumscribed by the need of many lbians and gay men to lead hidn liv, fearful that self-disclosure would rult a loss of employment or legal difficulti. Of urse, this very secrecy has ma rearch strategi to the area of gay studi problematic, wh scholars eher attemptg to tu meangs not overtly exprsed historil rerds or employg materials (such as urt or police reports) to intify behavr not discsed more nventnal sourc.

The published materials the Rearch Librari are plemented by mancript llectns reflectg the donatn to the Library of var archiv, the most signifint beg that of the Internatnal Gay Informatn Center, the ventory for which is available at the Informatn Dk room 315. The archiv clu the rerds of anizatns such as the Gay Activists Alliance and the Mattache Society; the personal papers of Arthur Bell, Jonathan Katz, and other gay men and lbians; gay- and lbian-related perdils, both domtic and foreign; ephemera such as posters, flyers, announcements, gay ic and lorg books, t-shirts, buttons and gam; and d-visual materials.

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

For example, enterg Gays Milary as a subject headg retriev no rerds; however, utilizg the terms as keywords do rult retrievg a catn which, when displayed as a full rerd, yields the appropriate subject headgs through which other relevant tl n be found. The qutn of appropriate subject headgs for this new disciple and the value of same for rearchers is ably addrsed by Ellen Greenblatt her say "Homosexualy: The Evolutn of a Concept the Library of Congrs Subject Headgs" Gay and Lbian Library Service (JFE 91-2095) which provis an excellent overview and guil.

It is a movement that, by reachg eply to the shared and dividual experienc and plexi of homosexual life, is layg claim to all the potential for exprsive thought that lerature offers, takg issue wh the unte and illumatg the universal human need and sire for self-worth, affirmatn, pleasure, gratifitn, and love.

Camera Obscura, Disurse, and Jump Cut rry some lbian/gay studi work on film and popular culture, while Raran, ELH: A Journal of English Lerary History, Reprentatns, Cril Inquiry, and Yale Journal of Cricism rry some lerary cricism. It also provis, every issue, a list of the var disciple-specific bullets lbian/gay studi (such as the Associatn of Lbian/Gay Psychologists Newsletter and G&L Cc News of the College Art Associatn), and of the bullets produced by specific centers for lbian/gay studi (such as Center/Fold: Toronto Centre for Lbian & Gay Studi Newsletter and Homologie Documentatiecentm Homostudi, Universy of Amsterdam), along wh rmatn on how to subscribe to them.

10 GREAT CANADIAN LBIAN, GAY AND TRANSGENR FILMS

"The missn of the GLBT Historil Society is to llect, prerve, exhib, and otherwise make available to the public historil, cultural, and artistic materials related to gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr muni, inti, and practic, as well as of other sexual mori.

"The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) is dited to promotg and ensurg fair, accurate and clive reprentatn of dividuals and events all media as a means of elimatg homophobia and discrimatn based on genr inty and sexual orientatn.

The newspapers did not “out” Hawthorne, but rather they reprimand him for steppg too far out of the closet, implyg that the acceptance of homosexuals as “purveyors of culture” was ndnal upon them remag discreet about their “unspeakablens” (Sfield, Fltl, 295). This say nsirs what the gay Englishman signifi Amerin culture by examg the reprentatn of this figure two ntemporary novels, Gilbert Adair’s Love and Death on Long Island(1990) and Christopher Bram’s Father of Frankenste (1995), and their crilly acclaimed film adaptatns, Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and Gods and Monsters (1998).

PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY

The nnectn between English masculy and male homosexualy is rerced by a tradn of English actors playg homosexuals and by Brish films, cludg two of the most succsful of the 1990s, Four Weddgs and a Funeral (1994) and The Full Monty (1997), which feature memorable gay Englishmen (Rso, 119-120, 126-35, 192-96; Clum, 86-89).

Cema’s gay Englishman Ameri is a scendant of Wil’s–wty, charmg, sarstic, wise, and often tragic; his Amerin appeal is a rult, as Wil’s was a century earlier, of a natnal stereotype eclipsg a problematic sexual one and the way this nfirms Amerin manhood as paradigmatic (Sfield, Fltl, 276). Even more provotively, both Love and Death on Long Island and Father of Frankenste / Gods and Monsters foc on a iendship between a gay Englishman and a much younger, straight Amerin man, offerg an alternative example of male homosocialy that acknowledg homoeroticism rather than ntralizg or stigmatizg .

GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS

The twentieth-century f--siècle novels and films reerate the preoccupatns and them of the nonil and foundatnal texts of morn gay inty: Osr Wil’sThe Picture of Dorian Gray(1891), Thomas Mann’s Death Venice(1912), and Herman Melville’s Billy Budd (1924). On one level, the Englishmen nform to the stereotype of effemacy, homosexualy, and cultivatn; however, they display a form of mastery and ntrol ually associated wh masculy, whereas like Billy Budd and Dorian Gray the “epistemologil simplicy and vulnerabily” of the Amerin men is “attted by [their] beefke ontaly” (Sedgwick, Epistemology, 116). But he, who nstantly needs to differentiate himself om others, rejects the inti of morn nsumer and male homosexual, and any associatns between the two (Sfield, Wil, 190); this affirms his natnaly’s privilege of judgg others while remag unjudged.

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

He suggts that he bypassed the homosexual phase the velopment and tn of Englishmen of his class, “the heated fumblgs and scufflgs [at public school] … the tiptoeg to and o om one bed to another, the obscene ltle baret held eveng after eveng the munal lavatory” (Adair, 44). Although Boone feels that this revelatn “poisons all the pleasure he took knowg the man” (Bram 180), eventually his feelgs of amy toward Whale outweigh the fears: “So what if the guy’s a homo, as long as he keeps his hands to himself? Although his adoptn of upper-class characteristics Ameri might nnote his homosexualy, might equally symbolize cultivatn and taste; moreover, his reventn, self-fashng, and social mobily make him an example of the Amerin ial of the self-ma man.

Followg his namake Daniel Boone, the loner and ontier hero, Boone is the typil vlate man of Amerin lerature, who se himself as “Thore wh a lawn mower” (Bram, 162) and favors eedom over personal attachment, whether heterosexual or homosocial; he says, “I like my life. His e of Whman also signals the importance of this poet, and neteenth-century Amerin lerature more generally, shapg morn gay nscns on both sis of the Atlantic; this draws attentn to the fact that transatlantic fluence go both ways (Price, 135-36). Death the tle Love and Death on Long Island refers simply to the thor’s surname, and Whale’s eventual ath is a rult not of a homophobic attack but of suici; neher text is there the vlent homophobia and murr evint films such as Amerin Bety (1999) and The Talented Mr Ripley (1999).

GAY AND LBIAN STUDI

Even when De’ath clgs to his wrist and whispers “the evable, irreplaceable words, hackneyed and sacred: I love you, ” the homophobic anger and threat which one might expect is not prent; Bostock is merely anx that nobody has wnsed this scene (Adair, 136). The iendships exist sharp ntrast to nventnal unrstandgs of male homosocialy as shaped by fear of and rivalry wh other men, which lead to aggrsive and vlent petn for material goods, stat, and women (see Kimmel, “Homophobia”; Sedgwick, Between; Greven). However, the gay Englishman Ameri the texts is also a challengg figure, who is not the abject other of male heterosexualy or the tragic victim of his own sexualy; stead, the texts explore the plexi and nuanc of the men’s personali, unsettlg and naturalizg natnal and sexual typestg (Butler, 3; Rso, 129-132).

MY TRODUCTN TO GAY LONDON

Fally, the gay-straight iendship between the gay Englishman and straight Amerin offers a new paradigm of male homosocialy, which obft the homophobia that shap male-male teractn: Amerin men fear that other men, regardls of sexualy, will emasculate them and expose their failure to measure up as “real men” (Kimmel, “Homophobia, ” 277).

In the same way that “the most openly acknowledged gay male” stands outsi the opprsive imperativ of masculy (Sedgwick, Epistemology, 164), a non-sexual iendship between an openly gay man and straight man n facilate the kd of timacy, closens, and affectn, borrg fortably on the homoerotic, that is so often proscribed homophobilly charged iendships between male heterosexuals. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When 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 blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. 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".He 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."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said.