Deep Water: The Real Story: Directed by Amanda Blue. Wh David McMahon, Sue Thompson, Peter Rsell, Ted Rsell. Up to 80 murrs, 30 unsolved s, thoands of asslts. In the 1980s and 1990s a murro epimic grips Sydney. The attackers are uned by ntempt. Their targets uned by their sexual inty. All are gay. For the first time, DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY prents the full acunt of the gay hate crime epimic that bloodied Sydney's astle. It stirs up old s the hope that new evince will rise to the surface and brg peace and jtice to the loved on left behd." data-id="ma
Contents:
- 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
- DOCUMENTARY FILM EXPLOR HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT MELBOURNE
- WHIRLWD GAY ROMANCE 'OF AN AGE' HAS A TLY MOVG TRAILER
10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
We pay tribute to some of the bt Atralian gay films. * australian gay film 2016 *
The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert (1994)While same-sex marriage was only ma legal Atralia 2017, the untry has a fairly strong rerd on LGBT rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-iendly ci the world. Atralian cema has had a rather strange relatnship wh male homosexualy.
Before the 1970s, the sexualy of probable gay characters was not ma explic, for example the effemate sal assistant Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938).
The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release Max 2: The Road Warrr (1981) featured a gay villa (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slayg of his lover), while more sympathetic homosexual characters appeared prison drama Stir (1980) and fay melodrama Mull (1988). The 1990s were a goln era for gay Ozzie films, while the new lennium has seen a glut of low-budget gay surfer dramas, cludg the easy-on-the-eye Newstle (2008), the nihilistic Drown (2015) and the downright bizarre Tan L (2006).
DOCUMENTARY FILM EXPLOR HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT MELBOURNE
Deep Water: Wh Noah Taylor, Yael Stone, Jeremy Ldsay Taylor, Danielle Cormack. When a young gay man is btally murred near Bondi Beach, Detectiv Tori Ltigman and Nick Manng are assigned to vtigate. After more bodi are found, Tori lks the aths to a seri of murrs of gay men the 1980s and '90s." data-id="ma * australian gay film 2016 *
The Naked Bunyip (1970)Homosexualy was tnip to many of the filmmakers behd the wave of sexploatn documentari that flourished Atralia the 1970s, which often served as an exce to show tillatg shots of lbians gettg down to bs the bedroom. Gay men, if they appeared, were ually shown as unsympathetic, bchy queens.
Not so The Naked Bunyip, the grandfather of Atralian sexploatn, which a lengthy segment is voted to a gay male dock worker, who talks ndidly about his life. The film draws parallels between the close mascule relatnships that form unr the Atralian phenomenon of ‘mathip’ and homosexualy, while talkg heads discs the importance of crimalisg gay sex, which at the time of the documentary was a crimal offence Atralia. Although seldom tegorised as a gay film, viewers won’t need to dive ep for the queer subtext this vlent, male-domated world.
Bond himself was gay, an early bar scene looks like a scene om William Friedk’s S&M thriller Cisg (1980), while is clear that some sort of sexual act, probably a rape, tak place between the teacher and Doc after a vlent stggle, sendg the protagonist to another spiral of spair. The Clic (1982)In this fun and bawdy bo of scy edy and sex tn aid, we dip to a day the life of a VD clic, where a laid-back doctor (Chris Haywood) and a pdish medil stunt (Simon Burke) tend to patients of all walks of life, om ank sex workers to ashamed hoewiv, om promiscuo gay men to cheatg hbands. Appalled when a motached man the wag room flirts wh him, the stunt’s homophobia be manift the dramatic scene when he realis the doctor, too, is gay, snarlg: “Those men e here and they drop their pants for you.
WHIRLWD GAY ROMANCE 'OF AN AGE' HAS A TLY MOVG TRAILER
A new documentary film explor a group of Melbourne stunts the 1970s who took a stand for gay pri when homosexualy was crimalised. * australian gay film 2016 *
It’s boosted hugely by a very likeable performance om Haywood as the gay doctor, who eventually manag to fe a bond of iendship wh the nservative youngster. The Everlastg Secret Fay is one such film, an often homophobic tale of a young man who be termed to climb the social ladr and live the high life when he be the object of sire of a closeted homosexual polician.
It’s an easy film to mock, and s kky scen of bondage and a (thankfully off-screen) paful-soundg sex act wh a large crab teeter to mp, and suggt the filmmaker’s opn of gay men may not be very high. But ’s wickedly entertag, Arthur Dignam is excellent as the polician, and ’s a unique film that uld not have been ma at any other time, wh sex scen too graphic for before the 1980s and an anti-gay streak too unpalatable for the 1990s. Filled wh quotable l and gags (not least the monstroly polilly rrect “the only bang you’re ever gonna get” eback that Bernatte serv a homophobic woman), the film was adapted to a hugely succsful mil that toured worldwi.
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The Sum of Us is based on David Stevens’ play about a blokey gay guy who liv at home wh his lovg widowed father.