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Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD FIRST GAY KISS: SCHLGER’S SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, STARRG PETER FCH, GLENDA JACKSON, AND MURRAY HEAD AS THE GUY THEY BOTH LOVE
- SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY (1971): SCHLGER’S ROMANTIC TRIANGLE, GAY MAN (FCH), STRAIGHT WOMAN (JACKSON) AND GAY MAN BOTH LOVE
- 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
- GAY KISS ‘BLOODY SUNDAY’ BROKE RUL: THE RAER FILE
- ELRGAYS TELL ME ABOUT FILM "SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY"
HOLLYWOOD FIRST GAY KISS: SCHLGER’S SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, STARRG PETER FCH, GLENDA JACKSON, AND MURRAY HEAD AS THE GUY THEY BOTH LOVE
GAY PRIDE MONTH: Based on Penelope Gilliatt's sharp script, the movie holds important place film history, offerg the first posive image of homosexual lead role mastream movie--and the first gay kiss! * sunday bloody sunday gay kiss *
Based on Penelope Gilliatt’s sharply observed screenplay, the movie holds an important place film history, offerg the first posive image of a homosexual character (and a Jewish one at that) a lead role a mastream movie.
SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY (1971): SCHLGER’S ROMANTIC TRIANGLE, GAY MAN (FCH), STRAIGHT WOMAN (JACKSON) AND GAY MAN BOTH LOVE
John Schlger's multi-award wng Sunday Bloody Sunday, often ced as a landmark film the history of gay cema. * sunday bloody sunday gay kiss *
Schlger, the late Jewish, openly gay filmmaker, is better-known for his Osr-wng picture, Midnight Cowboy (1969). That movie, starrg Dt Hoffman and Jon Voight, also had gay subtext the relatnship between s two loser-protagonists. Daniel Hirsch (Peter Fch), a gay Jewish doctor his forti, and Alex Gerville (Glenda Jackson), a reer unselor her thirti, are both love wh Bob Elk (Murray Head), a boyish, succsful sculptor who sually divis his time and affectns between them.
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
From Victim to Weekend, we remember some of the bt Brish gay films. * sunday bloody sunday gay kiss *
Hirsch is somethg of a first–a homosexual who is not pathetic, grotque, or pathologil–a man wh self-teem and digny.
In July 1971, when Sunday Bloody Sunday me out, viewers–pecially gay men–uld ga solace om the passnate film.
GAY KISS ‘BLOODY SUNDAY’ BROKE RUL: THE RAER FILE
The film reprents a happy nouement for a gay character whose rignatn is not a product of his sexual orientatn.
” The speech has ltle to do wh homosexualy, suggtg that gay relatnships, even fleetg on, are “somethg. Schlger shows a remarkable gift for brgg together all the elements of moviemakg: The movie has been nsistently ced as one of the first “posive” gay films.
ELRGAYS TELL ME ABOUT FILM "SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY"
Unfortunately, this mature drama never found s dience and s box-office failure was ed by Hollywood as “proof” that gay ntents was not a money-makg proposn. It would take at least two more s for Hollywood to fally regnizg the artistic–and mercial value–of posive or at least nonjudgmental gay-oriented entertament.