We look back at the bt French gay cema.
Contents:
- 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
- DOZENS OF GAY MEN ARE OUTED MOROC AS PHOTOS ARE SPREAD ONLE
- 35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- ALA, 66 ANS, GAY : « PATRICK S’T ALLONGé SUR UN MATELAS PNMATIQUE, EN MAILLOT BA… »
- A LAT EXPERT’S ODYSSEY, FROM THE VATIN TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
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La Cage x Foll (1978)Tradnally France has been seen as one of the most liberal untri the world, and boasts an enviable rerd on gay rights, spe the ocsnal rantgs om Brigte Bardot.
But has this homoiendly attu translated to s cema? We’ve kept the list to films that are easily available to watch the UK, but honourable mentn should go to The Ostrich Has Two Eggs (1957), a dated farce that at least has a sympathetic gay son, albe one who never appears on screen, and L Amiés particulièr (1964), set a boys’ boardg school. Un chant d’amour (1950)French wrer Jean Ge is one of the key figur of gay culture, whose novels (cludg Querelle of Brt), plays and says have been champned by gay and straight rears alike.
DOZENS OF GAY MEN ARE OUTED MOROC AS PHOTOS ARE SPREAD ONLE
The ia was to show the hypocrisy of Morocn society by showg how many gay men are livg quietly straight society. It backfired badly. * gay mecs *
There’s nothg explicly gay here, but any film that shov Jacqu Perr a sailor su, squeez Gee Chakiris to tight whe troers and rat self wh lavish, lurid sets fely has a queer eye. La Cage x Foll (1978)“Une édie très gay” smirked the tagle for this box-office smash. Blier’s films often foc on two aquate men ung agast women (L Valss, the Osr-wng Get Out Your Handkerchiefs), and unrton of homosexualy have always lgered the air.
35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Here ’s ma explic, albe an ocsnally homophobic ntext – the scen where the hband is forced to don women’s clothg are particularly unfortable. The arrival of the betiful and charismatic Gill threatens both his thory and his mand on his sexualy, as an unrequed homoerotic attractn tak hold.
ALA, 66 ANS, GAY : « PATRICK S’T ALLONGé SUR UN MATELAS PNMATIQUE, EN MAILLOT BA… »
Anatomy of Hell (2004)Gay men hate and fear women, even more than straight men.
A LAT EXPERT’S ODYSSEY, FROM THE VATIN TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
When a woman (Amira Casar) slash her wrists a gay bar, she challeng her homosexual rcuer (Italian porn star Roc Sifedi) to spend four nights wh her to “watch me where I’m unwatchable”.
Fet the cliché of the gay bt iend, this guy n’t stand women.
It’s easy to snigger at the portento dialogue (“The elasticy of a boy’s an don’t lie about the tightns of the lower tt”) and the assumptn of misogyny may rile male viewers, gay or straight.