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Contents:

• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
• MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
• GREAT FREEDOM REVIEW – POWERFUL GAY​​ PRISON DRAMA​ ​SET POSTWAR GERMANY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

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

Featurg epic romanc, steamy dallianc, touchg dramas and tal of self disvery, the are jt some of the many engrossg, unmissable films about gay men at Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Ftival.

Leonardo Sbaraglia livers a tour--force performance as a middle-aged gay man who los his way durg an eventful summer Buenos Air and R Janeiro, this powerful and erotilly charged story. As his wife, Amada (Mabel Cana), begs to grow spic of his whereabouts, Ignac begs to velop a fatal attractn to a man named Evaristo Rivas (Eiano Zura), whom he troduc to his clanste club of homosexual film’s tle — s origal Spanish is "El Baile los 41" — refers to the night of Nov. But a sndal ensued when ial reports placed a 42nd man attendance, and the story spread that was la Torre, the print’s son--law, markg the first time homosexualy was openly discsed the Mexin media.

MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM

NetflixAs someone who is nsistently the procs of “re-tg myself” — a value he and his wife, Diana Vázquez, would like to pass on to their young children — Herrera unrstands the potential ntroversy surroundg his cisn to play a gay character.

MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE

And next year is gog to be even the first major stud gay rom-, to queer-clive horror, to Harry Styl playg a queer p, the next year will have a ton of great LGBTQ+ ntent on the big screen. Billy Eichner wrote and starred this gay rom- wh an all LGBTQ+ prcipal st, cludg Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, Guillermo Diaz, and Le Macfarlane as Eichner's love tert. The movie, which is beg lled the first gay romantic edy by a major stud, jt wrapped filmg and is schled to h theaters Augt 22, 2022.

Acrdg to Deadle, the movie will start the late 90's, "when the arrival of elrly valid Patrick to Marn and Tom's home triggers the exploratn of seismic events om 40 years prev: the passnate relatnship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexualy was illegal. "I thk the fight, as were, is not about havg only gay people play the gay parts but to ensure that all parts are open to all actors, " Jim Parsons recently said, addg that 's not jt about the stg, 's about the rol themselv.

And Franz Rogowski’s remarkable, ntaed performance as Hans Hoffman, a gay man who spends much of his life prison, persecuted for his sexualy acrdance wh paragraph 175 of the German penal ceas to have the same meang behd bars, but thanks to a strikg physil transformatn, Rogowski guis through a nonlear storyle spanng 1945 – Hans is released om a ncentratn mp only to be imprisoned immediately for the crime of his homosexualy – to 1969 and the repeal of paragraph 175. In this paper, I exame a succsn of am nstcted for this story, their rpective sponsors, and the ame elements whose shared meang unrli the temporal nstctns of “gay, ” “homosexual, ” and “queer. Supreme Court cisns the late 1950s and early 1960s enabled distributn of homophile publitns, cludg those ntag gay male eroti (Watson, 2006).

GREAT FREEDOM REVIEW – POWERFUL GAY​​ PRISON DRAMA​ ​SET POSTWAR GERMANY

And the days of rts outsi the Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn the summer of 1969 are almost universally nsired to have signaled the start of the morn gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat and other wtern societi. But Augt of 1962 when Mansfield police staged their public rtroom stg operatn, the cultural view of gays rooted the 1950s prevailed. Most equently, gays were reprented by quot om policians and medil experts as sex perverts the same class wh rapists, sadists, and pedophil.

Journalists themselv generally avoid ntact wh lbians and gays and did not e them as sourc, bee they did not want to be perceived as pro-gay or munist. [1]The associatn between gays and their alli and munism appears to have two sourc: the liberatn iology of some early lears of the homophile Mattache Society, and the McCarthy-era belief … Contue readg De Jong argu the news media of the perd were plic the negative portrayal of gays, sce they never qutned policians’ negative statements about them.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

Generally speakg, then, lbians and gays were amed as “others, ” which allowed society’s domant groups to perceive those who do not nform to cultural norms as a threat to social stabily ( Jong, 2006). Domant ncepts wh the ame clud gays as sners, gays as medil viat, and gays as bad cizens, sce they would betray their untry rather than have their sexualy exposed.