'70s Gay Film Has Low Esteem / `Boys' attu seems dated

Contents:

• 16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• GAY SEX THE 70S
• BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
• '70S GAY FILM HAS LOW ESTEEM / `BOYS' ATTU SEEMS DATED
• THE TE STORY OF ‘A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL’ AND THE TRIALS OF A CLOSETED GAY POLICIAN
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• 15 FILM TENTANG PASANGAN GAY PALG POPULER, ADA FAVORMU?
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• QUEER KO: 1970S AND ‘80S GAY GERMAN ARTHOE CEMA
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
• THE BT GAY AND LBIAN FILMS OF THE 1960S
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN

Spoiler alert: Sebastian ed Cathere to lure attractive young men for him to have sex wh, and a group of them killed Sebastian an pecially barbaric the time, the release of a film pend on whether met the standards of the Productn Co (this was before the Motn Picture Associatn of Ameri's ratg system) and the film was approved to pict Sebastian as gay only "sce the film illtrat the horrors of such a liftyle, n be nsired moral theme even though als wh sexual perversn. Spoiler alert: One of the women is ed gay and love wh her worker, and thgs don't end well for a box office flop, the movie opened to cril acclaim, and received five Amy Award nomatns and three Goln Globe nods, cludg one for MacLae for Bt (1962)This Brish film, wrten by a woman (Ja Green wh John McCormick), was a repudiatn of that natn's harsh antigay laws.

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

Wrten by mored lovers Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perks (that would be the famo poser and the star of Psycho), The Last of Sheila lifted a mpy veil on the gay athetic that remas so tegral to Trouble (1974)For any lennial unfaiar wh out wrer-director John Waters: Shame on you!

The movie attacked every Amerin nventn (for example, an obe nt played by Edh Massey repeatedly tri to nvce her straight nephew to go gay bee "If they're smart they're queer, if they're stupid they're straight") Cage x Foll (1978)This French-Italian film about a middle-aged gay uple, Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Alb (Michel Serrlt), who try to pose as straight to w over their son's fiancee and her nservative parents, walked the tightrope between homage and stereotype -- the gay characters were over-the-top but still lovable (pare that to The Boys the Band).

(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.

GAY SEX THE 70S

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. Red River (1948), a film laced wh nuendo which John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, a closeted gay man, admire each other's firearms, was labelled a queer touchstone – alongsi Calamy Jane (1953) and Johnny Guar (1954), which also upend genr rol – Vo Rso's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi, and the documentary of the same name (1995). Zachariah picts men, even if they're not terpreted as gay, as unbound by the mascule paranoia that surrounds touch, feelgs and emotnsIn 1969, Midnight Cowboy would repackage the them and athetics to ask qutns about Ameri's mols of masculy.

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! When the Brish parliament passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 – which stated that: “a homosexual act private shall not be an offence provid that the parti nsent thereto and have attaed the age of 21 years” – sought to legimate gay inty Bra, at least partially. As Andy Medhurst explas his entertag and thoughtful search for “nebulo nanci” Brish films ma between the 1940s and 1960s, the aim of the queer spectator was to pick up on visual and verbal clu which would give away a character’s or actor’s “gayns”.

BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

Stairse (Stanley Donen, 1969), featurg Richard Burton and Rex Harrison as a uple of “flamg queen” hairdrsers, drew the cril ire of Roger Ebert (and, one imag, some of the gay muny) for their portrayal of Harry and Charlie as a parodic “sishow attractn”. Whether one is Lookg for Langston (1989) – the tle of Julien’s 1989 film about gay black Amerin poet Langston Hugh – or Cght Lookg (1991) – Constante Giannaris’ 1991 film about risque fantasi – the sire to see and be seen has been ccial the advancement of gay rights. Dyer propos that the signifince of the “look” of the films, and perhaps why so much vigoratg queer film-makg was beg done penntly and shown unrground venu (as well as for mercial reasons), was a reflectn of the “surface” homosexuals had to manage orr to pass for heterosexual.

Caravagg (1986), Edward II (1991) and Wtgenste (1993) n be terpreted as a “queerg” of history, to emphasise the sexualy of their rpective central figur orr to rve a space for gay visibily wh the largely heterosexual (not to mentn, whe and male) amy. Playwright Joe Orton (very much the theatril scendant of Wil’s risqué high society satire) is memorably portrayed by Gary Oldman Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Ian McKellen plays Frankenste director Jam Whale Gods and Monsters (1998) and, The Imatn Game (2014), Benedict Cumberbatch’s Alan Turg rac to crack the enigma durg World War II as he wrtl wh his homosexualy. Disney’s live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast (2016) featured a (very) brief scene of a supportg male character dancg wh another man, and the crew of horror sequel Alien: Covenant (2017) clud a gay uple – and, later, Michael Fassbenr’s cyb lockg lips wh “himself”).

'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.

10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

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. Go back even further time than the homoerotic unrton of The Diamond Castle or the “queer Marxist” readgs of other animated Barbie movi and one will see plenty of ways that the ncept of Barbie dolls has been tertwed wh the LGBTQIA+ muny.

WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)

While gay characters were equently ed for lghs or not explicly stated to be queer most early mastream Hollywood films, a brief relaxatn Germany's film productn the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like Anrs als die Anren and Mädchen Hollywood, the strict Hays Co forba explic pictns of homosexualy on film for three s, durg which there were a slew of queer-d villas.

'70S GAY FILM HAS LOW ESTEEM / `BOYS' ATTU SEEMS DATED

The history starts 1894, wh the very first gay film, and ends 2021 wh a mastream children's movie featurg a ma character who is may also like: Bt Emmy-nomated shows of all time1894: 'The Dickson Experimental Sound Film' as first gay filmAlso known as "The Gay Brothers, " this short film showed two men dancg together. 1919: 'Anrs als die Anren' advot for LGBTQ acceptanceAnrs als die Anren (a German film whose tle translat to Different om the Others) is one of the olst survivg movi wh a gay protagonist and was ma durg a rare perd where German film censorship was relaxed after World War I.

1922: Gay llaboratn durg the filmg of 'Salome'Charl Bryant's adaptatn of gay wrer Osr Wil's play of the same name reportedly featured several queer llaborators—namely, bisexual lead actrs Alla Nazimova and set signer Natacha Rambova (her mored lover). Although one uld argue that such a gelg terview procs was exploative, Holliday's mgs about his life, dreams, and art the face of societal anti-Blackns and homophobia provi the kd of tersectnal look at LGBTQ+ inty that '60s media sorely may also like: 30 Stunng Photos From the Goln Age of Jazz1968: 'The Killg of Sister Gee'Produced durg the fal months of the Hays Co, Robert Aldrich's film about the breakdown of an agg lbian TV actrs clud a lbian sex scene that broke down a major taboo associated wh the Co's erasure of gay characters onscreen. "1982: 'Makg Love' sets out to produce gay role molsGay screenwrer Barry Sandler cid to wre a script about a married man who realiz he's gay and falls love wh another man, an effort to make up for the many negative gay film stereotyp om prev s.

1986: 'Partg Glanc' als wh the AIDS crisisGay first-time director Bill Sherwood's Partg Glanc is regard as the first film to al wh the AIDS crisis, which had a vastatg impact on gay and bisexual men particular the late 1980s and early 1990s. 2019: A rerd year for reprentatn, wh notable asterisksGLAAD, the LGBTQ+ media advocy anizatn, puts out a yearly report on queer reprentatn media, and s report on 2019 showed hopeful signs that media is beg more clive, wh a rerd number of gay characters on-screen. 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.

THE TE STORY OF ‘A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL’ AND THE TRIALS OF A CLOSETED GAY POLICIAN

Dx ans pl tard, le céma allemand ntue son rôle précursr lorsque Rosa von Prnheim sort le provotr Ce n’t pas l’homosexuel qui t pervers mais la société dans laquelle il v, œuvre fondatrice qui lance le mouvement libératn homo en Allemagne. Sf que Gee enseigne dans une éle tholique, et lorsque la nouvelle son mariage se répand, il t licencié… Ira Sachs explore ux fas société, le mariage s upl même sexe et l’homosexualé s senrs, avec toute la doucr et la fse émotnnelle qu’on lui nnaît. But as wh so much of Hchck, ’s hard to say that this is an outright homophobic visn, pecially when the script has the souciance of Osr Wil: “Before this day is out I fear we’ll hear that terribly old-fashned but que exprsive term ‘foul play, ’” Sanrs says, all while munchg on a chicken leg.

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).

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.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

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).

15 FILM TENTANG PASANGAN GAY PALG POPULER, ADA FAVORMU?

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. 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.

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

There was a powerful work of olr succsful gay men like theatril agent Milton Goldman and entertament attorney Arnold Weissberger who troduced younger gay men to succsful showbiz typ at their betiful apartment on Sutton Place overlookg the East River.

Tommy Nutter, who was known for the betiful pipg on the cloth he signed for Mick and Bian Jagger, picked me up at a dis New York one night and I end up at Stigwood’s offic at 135 Central Park Wt, n by Peter Brown, who ed to be Tommy’s boyiend and who had worked for the very gay Beatl manager Brian Epste. By the time "Boys" was released 1970, starrg members of the stage st and energetilly directed by William Friedk, had already earned among gays the sta of Uncle Tomism -- even though the tablishment media praised the film and Time magaze ced s "landsli of tths.

QUEER KO: 1970S AND ‘80S GAY GERMAN ARTHOE CEMA

Set durg a gay birthday party Manhattan, "Boys" opens on a playful note wh party hosts Michael (Kenh Nelson) and Donald (Frerick Combs) snipg at each other and guts arrivg to a volley of dishy one-lers ("Who do ya have to f-- to get a drk around here?

The panic over homosexualy ntued after World War II, wr historian Michael Bloch Closet Queens: Some 20th Century Brish Policians: “A fiercely homophobic Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, aid by an equally puranil Director of Public Prosecutns, Sir Theobold Matthew, was termed to ‘rid England of this plague. In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc. In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them.

Film yang berhasil meraih penghargaan Bt Feature Film di Valladolid Internatnal Film Ftival i disebut-sebut sebagai salah satu film tentang pasangan gay yang meiki alur Love, Simon berfok pada penrian jati diri dan kegelisahan Simon tentang orientasi seksualnya sendiri. 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.

SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

The film juggl several narrative l, cludg an edor who spreads misrmatn her tabloid paper and a woman who fetishiz sex wh gay men, endg up a dystopian 1987, where 70% of German prisoners are HIV-posive and the ernment has ma HIV tts mandatory. The fact that AIDS killed off half a generatn of gay men, while the closet renred many of the survivors visible, meant that our imag of gay life the ‘70s and ‘80s are domated by that tragedy, which wiped out filmmakers like Marlon Riggs, Bill Sherwood, Derek Jarman, and Arthur J. Michael then acc Alan of beg a "closet" homosexual and goads him to llg a former llege iend whose advanc Alan had once spurned; Alan dials a number and blurts out his love to the person on the other end, but Michael's brief victory is ed when the person turns out to be Alan's tranged wife.

THE BT GAY AND LBIAN FILMS OF THE 1960S

" In the years sce, the cril pendulum has swung back and forth on the film, om Vo Rso's pronouncement his book about gay imag film, The Celluloid Closet (1980), that "The ternalized guilt of eight gay men at a Manhattan birthday party formed the bt and most potent argument for gay liberatn ever offered a popular art form", to the more recent Gary Morris' 1999 re-evaluatn Bright Lights Film Journal: Wrg about a revival of the film 1999, San Francis Chronicle cric Edward Guthmann put perspective: "In the attus of s characters, and their self-laceratg visn of themselv, belongs to another time.

The Stonewall rts were a seri of spontaneo, vlent monstratns by members of the gay (LGBT) muny agast a police raid that began the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York Cy. Charl Piece 1926-1999 was what might be lled a female impersonator (he lled himself a Male Actrs) who found favor wh dienc both straight and gay wh his knowg imprsns of Bette Davis, Mae Wt, Tallulah Bankhead and Carol Channg, Such impersonatns were que tradnal for a ic performer of this sort.

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

Her assertn that “lbians and gay men have a great al to offer terms of rtcturg the world culture, ” is articulated by femist Sally Gearhart, who claims all humans are born wh bisexual potential but are ma half-persons by society’s strict genr programmg.