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- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- GAY PORN STAR GETS 6 YEARS IN JAIL FOR EXTORTG TECH TYON
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
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Classic films like The Children’s Hour and Sudnly, Last Summer often take up Gothic elements to nvey the paranoia and sense of entrapment felt by queer characters, but their plots are foced on dividual psychology rather than the tectn of a crime, as are more overt crime films, such Harold Prce’s gay murr mystery Somethg for Everyone om 1970. This disnnect between queer cema and crime film might be surprisg, given that, until fifty years ago, to be gay was more or ls synonymo wh dog crime. The famed orig story for the US gay rights movements is a police raid on a Wt Village dive bar the summer of 1969.
Perhaps prohibns agast homosexualy meant that queer crime uldn’t be the subject of mastream film, but a eper dive to film history shows that this wasn’t a hard and fast le. Himself a closeted gay man of nsirable renown, Bogar’s fely librated performance is enough to make Victim an important entry queer film history, but that’s not the only reason I love . In Victorian London, reer crimals turned prohibns agast of homosexual activy to a bs opportuny.
The culture of blackmail lends crence to the ia that, the neteenth century, homosexual men were thought to be isolated viants paranoid that law enforcement would fally tch up wh them. Paterson’s lawyer relied on what we now regnize as the “gay panic” fense: Paterson and his iends attacked Siddons bee he had “attempted an cency” (The York Herald, 3 Augt 1875).