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• JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
• FANS ARE EXCED ABOUT JOAQU PHOENIX STARRG A GAY ROMANCE FILM SPE HIM BEG STRAIGHT
• JOAQU PHOENIX SET FOR ‘GAY ROMANCE FILM’ SET 1930S LA
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO LEAD GAY ROMANTIC DRAMA FROM TODD HAYN
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO TAKE ON GAY ROLE TODD HAYN’ NC-17 FILM & THE TER IS LOSG THEIR MDS
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR TODD HAYN’ UPG GAY ROMANCE
• TODD HAYN’ JOAQU PHOENIX-LED GAY ROMANCE MOVIE WILL BE RATED NC-17
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• JOAQU PHOENIX PHED TODD HAYN TO 'GO FURTHER' WH THEIR GAY PERD ROMANCE SO 'S NOW NC-17
• TODD HAYN SAYS HIS GAY ROMANCE STARRG JOAQU PHOENIX ‘WILL BE AN NC-17 FILM’
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR GAY ROMANCE OM CAROL DIRECTOR TODD HAYN
• 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
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR TODD HAYN’ UPG GAY ROMANCE
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO TAKE ON GAY ROLE TODD HAYN’ NC-17 FILM & THE TER IS LOSG THEIR MDS
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR GAY ROMANCE OM CAROL DIRECTOR TODD HAYN
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO LEAD GAY ROMANTIC DRAMA FROM TODD HAYN
• TODD HAYN’ JOAQU PHOENIX-LED GAY ROMANCE MOVIE WILL BE RATED NC-17
• JOAQU PHOENIX PHED FOR HIS TODD HAYN-LED GAY ROMANCE TO EARN AN NC-17 RATG
• JOAQU PHOENIX'S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
• JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR GAY ROMANCE MOVIE, PHED FOR NC-17 RATG
• JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
• 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
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY

Joaqu Phoenix is takg up another notch after Ari Aster’s “Be Is Aaid, ” teamg up wh Todd Hayn for an NC-17-rated gay romance film. It’s a gay love story set 1930s L.

FANS ARE EXCED ABOUT JOAQU PHOENIX STARRG A GAY ROMANCE FILM SPE HIM BEG STRAIGHT

Fans are exced for Joaqu Phoenix to star Todd Hayn' film centerg around a gay Joker actor is set to star the Poison filmmaker's next project that uld start filmg next director told L Inrockuptibl durg Cann Film Ftival: “There’s another movie I want to do early 2024. This is, I believe, his first gay role. Joaqu Phoenix is set to star a new NC-17-rated gay romance movie.

The ‘Be is Aaid' actor will star ‘Far From Heaven' director Todd Hayn' upg new project, which the filmmaker has scribed as a “gay love story” set Los Angel the 1930s. It's a gay love story set 1930s L.

JOAQU PHOENIX SET FOR ‘GAY ROMANCE FILM’ SET 1930S LA

Nearly a sce the theatril release of the acclaimed drama Carol, director Todd Hayn has fally found his next gay romantic drama project.

If May December weren’t enough to exce gay movie buffs, Hayn let slip that he’s already got his ey on his next project. Hayn, who is gay, is famed for some queer classics, Includg Far From Heaven, Carol and Velvet Goldme.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO LEAD GAY ROMANTIC DRAMA FROM TODD HAYN

Hayn noted that if they pull off, this project would mark Phoenix’s first explicly gay role.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO TAKE ON GAY ROLE TODD HAYN’ NC-17 FILM & THE TER IS LOSG THEIR MDS

There’s no further word on the project, but onle, many are already exced at the prospect of Phoenix (actually born Joaqu Rafael Bottom – we kid you not), 48, a historic gay romance.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR TODD HAYN’ UPG GAY ROMANCE

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Hold onto your funrpants people, bee Joaqu Phoenix is set to officially play gay a new Todd Hayn film. The gays are already llg the male answer to Carol.

TODD HAYN’ JOAQU PHOENIX-LED GAY ROMANCE MOVIE WILL BE RATED NC-17

He f asked for Rooney's advice and she said ''listen if you wanna be gay a perd settg then Todd Hayn is your man'' Nafss (@nafss_1998) May 21, 2023. But is the film Phoenix’s “first” gay performance? What was 2012’s The Master if not a eply homoerotic love story between Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman?

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

And we n’t fet his other extremely homoerotic turns To Die For and The Immigrant, where he plays characters who worship inic women. It’s a gay love story set 1930s LA. “NOT GAY ENOUGH!

” - Todd Hayn and Joaqu Phoenix are makg a gay love story set the '30s, and the director says Phoenix kept phg him to 'go further': 'This will be an NC-17 film.

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

Featur clu Gay, Straight, and Bisexual movi. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “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.

JOAQU PHOENIX PHED TODD HAYN TO 'GO FURTHER' WH THEIR GAY PERD ROMANCE SO 'S NOW NC-17

Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

TODD HAYN SAYS HIS GAY ROMANCE STARRG JOAQU PHOENIX ‘WILL BE AN NC-17 FILM’

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR GAY ROMANCE OM CAROL DIRECTOR TODD HAYN

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.

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

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

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

Todd Hayn is h off the but of his latt film and he’s already teasg wh excg news about his next is one of the bt directors Hollywood, and his gay perd piec are some of his most beloved. Hayn is one of the great gay trs of his day, and Phoenix is one of the bt actors of his generatn, so this will surely be a movie for the ag!

He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend. 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.

But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR TODD HAYN’ UPG GAY ROMANCE

Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory. But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends.

” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual. ), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”. ) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver.

Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck. 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.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO TAKE ON GAY ROLE TODD HAYN’ NC-17 FILM & THE TER IS LOSG THEIR MDS

Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns. 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! Joaqu Phoenix phed Todd Hayn to 'go further' wh their gay perd romance so 's now NC-17 Bls you, Joaqu Phoenix.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR GAY ROMANCE OM CAROL DIRECTOR TODD HAYN

At Cann, Hayn was discsg his next film, "a gay love story set 1930s L. " Hayn is no stranger to phg the gay envelope wh queer classics like 1991's Poison and 1998's Velvet Goldme, as well as the exquise Far From Heaven starrg equent llaborator Julianne Moore, and the geo Carol featurg another impecble Cate Blanchett performance.

There’s only so much hangg out wh Lady Gaga one actor n do before endg up gay a movie. It’s TBD how much explic gay sex that bpic will clu (our gus: not a lot! “The next film is a feature that’s an origal script that I veloped wh Joaqu Phoenix based on some thoughts and ias he brought to me … It’s a gay love story set 1930s L.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO LEAD GAY ROMANTIC DRAMA FROM TODD HAYN

” Okay, but if they want to make this a te portrayal of ’30s gays, they should probably clu a scene which Phoenix eaks out after Bette Davis isn’t nomated for an Osr for Of Human Bondage. Notably, the tr revealed that he and Phoenix -veloped a perd gay romance wh equent Kelly Reichardt llaborator Jonathan Raymond that Hayn plans to shoot as his next film.

Akers as a director and wrer (here sharg the creds wh Sandon Berg) and as wh his other two featur 'Matrimonium' and 'Gone, But Not Fotten' there is a sense that Akers knows how to tell a good story, a story based on universal them but jt happeng to be g gay characters to expla a siary all manners of love whether they be straight or Dylan (Chad Bartley) is celebratg his 23rd birthday by settg his apartment wh flowers and dner, expectg his love of one year to arrive for the surprise. But the end the film is succsful that do prent the joys, trials, and disappotments love relatnships the gay muny that uld have easily been a straight character movie - and that is rehg! A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments.

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. "We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group.". "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.

TODD HAYN’ JOAQU PHOENIX-LED GAY ROMANCE MOVIE WILL BE RATED NC-17

Joaqu Phoenix has set his next project – and he's llaboratg wh director Todd Hayn on a gay romance set Los Angel the '30s. Joaqu Phoenix has land his next lead role a gay romance film directed by Todd Carol director, whose film May December recently buted at Cann Film Ftival, nfirmed that Phoenix will appear his next project, which the Joker star actually helped -velop wh Hayn. After all, Phoenix's own agent "had refed to pass" the opportuny to the young star the first place bee the homosexual sex work element of the film was so "taboo mastream" movi (via Grantland).

Look back on jt about any terview wh River Phoenix or Keanu Reev om the time of "My Own Private Idaho" and you'll see the immense ncern that journalists seemed to have that two of "Hollywood's hunkit heart-throbs" might stroy their reers by pictg gay htlers. Later the same terview, for stance, the two passnately discsed the importance of pictg characters that the gay muny uld "intify wh" on screen, even if "My Own Private Idaho" might not "necsarily reprent the gay muny.

JOAQU PHOENIX PHED FOR HIS TODD HAYN-LED GAY ROMANCE TO EARN AN NC-17 RATG

Joaqu Phoenix and Todd HaynJoaqu Phoenix has set his next project – and he's llaboratg wh director Todd Hayn on a gay romance set Los Angel the '30s. ”Although plot tails rema clanste, Hayn did drop some small but hearty bread cmbs about that next film, scribed as “a gay love story set 1930s L.

Hollywood star Joaqu Phoenix is takg up another notch after Ari Aster's 'Be Is Aaid', teamg up wh Todd Hayn for an NC-17-rated gay romance film.

JOAQU PHOENIX'S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY

And those Heyer kids will grow up to hate rabows and/or gay people. While speakg wh prs at the event, Hayn told IndieWire that his next movie will star Phoenix, and along wh scribg the untled film as a "gay love story, " was also revealed that will be rated NC-17. Joaqu Phoenix is takg up another notch after Ari Aster’s “Be Is Aaid, ” teamg up wh for an NC-17-rated gay romance spoke to IndieWire at the Cann Film Ftival followg the Saturday premiere of his romantic drama “May December, ” starrg Natalie Portman and.

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

Taylor Ksch and Mark Ruffalo play gay activists tryg to raise awarens of the AIDS epimic the early 1980s HBO's film adaptatn of The Normal Heart. Ruffalo's openly gay ma character Ned Weeks is based on playwright Larry Kramer while Ksch plays closeted vtment banker Bce Nil. Ruffalo rells: “I said to Ryan [Murphy, who directs], ‘Aren’t we at the age when a gay actor should be playg this?

Simon Bishop (Knear) is a stgglg gay artist livg New York Cy, where he is asslted and nearly killed. In this remake of the 1978 French film La Cage x Foll, Williams plays the gay owner of a South Beach drag club, whose newly engaged son asks him to pretend to be straight orr to imprs his fiancée's ultra-nservative father (Gene Hackman), an Oh Republin senator.

After the ath of his wife, Hal (Plummer) out to his son (Ewan McGregor) and, spe his advanced age, begs to explore his life as an openly gay man, while simultaneoly retablishg a relatnship wh his son.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR GAY ROMANCE MOVIE, PHED FOR NC-17 RATG

Frank (Dennis Quaid) is a succsful advertisg exec 1950s suburban Connecticut, whose wife (Julianne Moore) disvers that Frank is havg several homosexual extramaral affairs.

The 1965 film is generally regnized as one of the early pictns of a gay or bisexual character Amerin cema. After his release, Mola is eventually shot and left for ad by a homophobic police chief, who believed Mola to be a member of a leftist revolutnary group. This 2008 bgraphil feature se Penn play real-life polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who 1977 beme the first openly gay person to be elected to California public office.

Andrew Beckett (Hanks) is an associate at a rporate Philalphia law firm who, spe livg wh his long-term partner, is not open wh his -workers about his homosexualy or his AIDS.

JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY

Smh plays a real-life, gay n artist David Hampton, who ns an Upper East Si fay to believg that he is a close iend of their Ivy-league children. Along wh claimg that 80% of the men the dtry beg gay, Phoenix also says transgenr Mia has been wh men more famo than Tyga!

Categori: Arts & Entertament, Gay, News. For example, I n image the temptatn to make the olr gay uple ( 2 scen) to the "wise sag, " but here they're much more the bchy queens (but not que to the pot of beg gratg; you still kd of like them). The characters are VERY real, and the story is one we all have been through some form, gay or straight.

Wh none of the firepower of a Hollywood blockbter like Philalphia, this film ptur the very sence of the gay gtalt of two distct generatns: youth and early middle age.

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

I have seldom seen more poised gay performanc than those by the two leads: Chad Bartley (Dylan) and John Castle (Demetri).

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

The script is realistic wh no bows to the bothersome bad hab of most gay productns the days: sistent multi-culturism.

If not, jt s back and admire one the bt gay films ever ma.

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

Word to future film stunts, pecially when makg gay-themed featur: Please aim higher. The only way gay-themed films n go ma-stream, is wh rpect; rpect to character pth, rpect to strong and origal scripts and rpect to the dience.

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

Do the publishers of the Silhouette Romance novels have a le of romance novels for gay men? " The plot promot the current thkg the gay world--bee like a heterosexual uple!

Chad Bartley looks like the kd of guy who turns up regularly gay porn films. The premise of a gay versn of "L'avventura" seemed like uld be a very tertg twist on a you remember most gay movi suck terribly and do more harm than good.

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

The actg was equally bad, a ltle over dramatic parts, and they throw a gay uple, old married geezers an open relatnship.

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

"In 1991, even 14 years before Brokeback Mounta, the nventnal Hollywood wisdom was that was reer suici for a leadg man to be intified as gay, " Gav Edwards, thor of Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behd, tells BBC Culture. The homoerotic tensn mounts as Van Sant ptur the moment of tellg your bt iend you are love wh them wh the same theatril tensn as guns beg drawn a Wtern. Registerg as a reverential artefact their filmographi, My Own Private Idaho took s stars to plac where Hollywood wouldn't take s heartthrobs: to polil and artistic exprsn wh dg-dazed homosexual htlers.

The film was distributed by Uned Gay Network.

This film was spired by Michaelangelo Antonni's film L'Avventura and obvly adds a gay official trailer 1 2013 joaqu phoenix srlett johansson movie hdPhoenix official trailer lqSynopsisCastScreengsReferencPhoenix is the story of a spenseful and myster journey of two jilted lovers followg the trail of their mutual betrayer. Sullivan as Detective SmhDeven Green as rort traeeJoel Bryant as secury guardStephen McCarthy as jazz sgerThe film was an official selectn on many ftivals cludg:Reelng Chigo Gay & Lbian Film FtivalPhilalphia Internatnal Gay & Lbian Film FtivalPtsburgh Internatnal Film FtivalPhoenix (2006 film) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SAPhoenix (2006 film) IMDb Phoenix (2006 film). This film was spired by Michaelangelo Antonni's film L'Avventura and adds a gay twist.