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Contents:

• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• GAY GERMAN MOVI
• QUEER KO: 1970S AND ‘80S GAY GERMAN ARTHOE CEMA
• LOST DURG NAZI LE GERMANY, ONE OF THE WORLD’S FIRST PRO-GAY FILMS HAS FALLY BEEN RTORED FOR MORN VIEWERS
• BENJAM (2018 *GAY* FILM)
• ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• 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”

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

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.

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.

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.

GAY GERMAN MOVI

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. Madchen Uniform ("Girls Uniform"), 1931: While homosexualy was simply allud to the aforementned flicks, was on full display Madchen Uniform, the tale of a boardg school girl who falls for her teacher.

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

Anrs als du und Ich ("Different From You and Me"), 1957: Not to be nfed wh the siarly gay 1919 movie Anrs als die Anrn ("Different om the Others"), this mid-20th Century narrative revolv around rich kid Kls's affair wh a lower-class peer named Maned. And drama also ensued when the picture me out -- not only were nservativ displeased wh the gay ntent, early gay activists were livid over an endg which, spoiler alert, Kls is "cured" of his homosexualy. Nicht r Homosexuelle ist pervers, sonrn die Suatn, r er lebt ("It Is Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Society In Which He Liv"), 1971: Perhaps one of the most ntroversial gay featur ever to e out of Germany, or anywhere else, this mouthful of a movie and s portrayal of gay men as shallow, fashn-obssed, limp wristed weaklgs created such a stir that the viotaped cricisms om gay activists nstute their own short.

LOST DURG NAZI LE GERMANY, ONE OF THE WORLD’S FIRST PRO-GAY FILMS HAS FALLY BEEN RTORED FOR MORN VIEWERS

Fstrecht r Freihe ("Fox and His Friends"), 1975: Inic New Cema filmmaker Raer Werner Fassbr directed, wrote, and starred this story of a gay man who falls for a wealthy heir. Taxi zum Klo ("Taxi to the John", or "Taxi to the Toilet"), 1981: Frank Ripploh's semi-tobgraphil drama about a prim and proper school teacher wh a hardre after-hours sex life was groundbreakg and sensatnal for s time, and ed remas a cult classic (and one of the sexit gay films acrdg to director John Cameron Mchell). Lola und Bilidikid (Lola and Billy The Kid), 1999: Wrer/Director Kutlug Ataman had hoped to film this story of a young man tryg to rencile his homosexualy wh Islam Turkey, the ma character's fay's homeland, but he uldn't shore up enough support.

Hanno Koffler (Summer Storm) and Max Riemelt (Before The Fall) -star as a pair of ps who fall love this German gay romance which has been pared to Brokeback Mounta for s achg mascule portrayal of forbidn love.

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.

BENJAM (2018 *GAY* FILM)

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. Admtedly there has bee some gree of fatigue for gay films that tra off the AIDS crisis, but aga, referencg the two recent films mentned above, when done well they are still this film there were too many terribly clichéd personali.

I gus 's a matter of distctn that this movie managed to renr the whole HIV crisis as well as the ath & love loss experienced by s lead characters, as somethg are far better choic for movg, emotnally-drag and spirg tal om this perd the gay muny.

The lp clus plenty of romance, tear jerkers, German ps havg gay shower sex, and classic tal of nocent young n check out the full movie scriptns and curated clips of their selected "Netflix and Chill" favor at the webse. Four were among the first natns to legalise gay marriage (Fland took a ltle longer, fally jog the club 2017), and Iceland beme the first untry to have an openly gay head of ernment (Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, 2009). Bergman’s pictn of female homosexualy was seldom flatterg – see the predatory lbian  Three Strange Lov (1949) or the possible readg of lbianism lkg to mental illns  Persona (1966).

‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY

Daddy and the Mcle Amy (1991)The erotic gay drawgs of Too Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Fland, are one of the Sndavian pensula’s most famo queer exports, and this documentary, the only film to feature the man himself, is a handy entry to his work and reer. Gay and lbian characters were among the mune dwellers the warm-hearted Together (2000), while the terr monologue of a trans woman was the foc of Contaer (2006), one of his most difficult films. The Begng or the End claimed the Amerin ary dropped warng leaflets about the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and that the Enola Gay me unr attack om Japane antiaircraft missile fire on s bombg n.

Did not drop leaflets warng of the atomic bomb specifilly, though pilots may have dropped more general notic of impendg attacks on Hiroshima, and the Enola Gay did not e unr antiaircraft fire. Its programmer, filmmaker Wieland Speck, says that “qutng our parents’ generatn, the war generatn, had a strong impact on the velopg gay movement, pecially the first femist ceast.

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

Rosa von Prnheim’s nontatnal It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv (1971) has been creded wh spirg the German gay liberatn movement, although Speck scrib this tone as “already strag at the leash. 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.

30 years later, the narrative of Heer Carow’s Comg Out (1989) seems a b basic: Philipp (Matthias Freihof), who is married to a woman, realiz that he’s gay after beg attracted to Matthias (Dirk Kummer). It avoids the mon impulse of queer cema towards tragedy, spe the openg scene’s pictn of Matthias gettg his stomach pumped after a suici attempt driven by self-hatred about his gayns. ) The novelty of s gay subject matter may have gotten more attentn than other East German films of the ‘80s, but genuely feels like a precursor to Andrew Haigh’s Weekend (2011).

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. Cast & crewUser reviewsTriviaOrigal tle: Sommersturm2004R1h 38mA close iendship between two crew teammat is tted when one slowly disvers he's gay and attracted to the other. A close iendship between two crew teammat is tted when one slowly disvers he's gay and attracted to the productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Btsweet road to self-disvery and intyNevermd that this is a movie about same-sex adulatn.

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

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web My Fay follows a gay man and his partner who chose to have children via-surrogacy. A perfect addn to any Baby Gay™’s g-of-age non, The Half Of It tells the tenr story of Elie, a bookish high schooler who fds herself an unlikely love triangle when a jock recs her help urtg Aster, her own csh. A gay man (Jse Plemons) returns home to his nservative fay to be wh his ncer-stricken mom (Molly Shannon) this sweetly ic semi-tobgraphil film wrten and directed by Chris Now20 The Death and Life of Marsha P.

Y, Tman Capote was gay, y he is portrayed as such, y shows his partner, BUT the primary foc of the film was Capote's alholism and his wrg of In Cold Blood (and that is FINE, aga, was an EXCELLENT film, jt not a LGBT film my opn).

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

Terrific st wh excellent chemistry and some genuely funny moments, Fourth Man Out is a rehg gay edy that I thk many would enjoy (even the "manlit" men of this world), thanks to the rehg and likable performance of Evan Todd as the likable, awkward, r-mechanic Adam and his goofy well-meang straight "bros. A pregnant New York Cy social worker begs to velop romantic feelgs for her gay bt iend, and cis she'd rather raise her child wh him, much to the dismay of her overbearg boyiend.

A young man returns to his fay farm, after a long stay ex-gay nversn therapy, and is torn between the expectatns of his emotnally distant father, and the memori of a past, lovg relatnship he has tried to bury.

Not nearly as good or funny as Borat, but the film do a good job revealg the nonsense that is homophobia (Brüno viss a gay-to-straight nverter, a group of redneck hunters, and a martial arts expert who shows him how to "fend himself agast the gays"). This is a siar le of thkg that, for example, led the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to list homosexualy as a disorr the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), leadg to harmful attempts to “cure” homosexualy; the fn was removed om the DSM 1973.