The roots of gay shame | Matthew Todd | The Guardian

Contents:

• JAM FRAN DISS MICHAEL FASSBENR'S SHAME CHARACTER, HOW FILM PORTRAYS GAYS AND SEX ADDICTN
• JAM FRAN THOUGHT MICHAEL FASSBENR’S ‘SHAME’ WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY COMMUNY
• THE ROOTS OF GAY SHAME
• TOM ALLEN: THE IA OF GAY SHAME STILL PERVAS
• PROBLEMATIC FRIENDS STORYL THAT NEVER MA THE CUT – OM RACHEL MOVG WH GUNTHER TO THE BOMB SRE AND THE GAY CLUB
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
• ‘LOVE, SIMON’ DELETED SCENE FEATURG COLTON HAYN SHOWS AN AWKWARD EXPERIENCE AT SIMON’S FIRST GAY BAR
• ROANOKE’S GAY BAR SCENE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

JAM FRAN DISS MICHAEL FASSBENR'S SHAME CHARACTER, HOW FILM PORTRAYS GAYS AND SEX ADDICTN

Actor rents that film shows gay club as place "meant to signify everythg dark and praved"ByNov 15, 2013 3:04 PMTagsJim Spellman/WireImageIn the 2011 movie Shame, Michael Fassbenr played a sex addict who— a moment of speratn—had an R-rated enunter wh another male the back of a gay bar.

The film was received well by crics, but Jam Fran has some issu wh —particularly how the Steve McQueen-helmed movie picts sex addictn and gay culture. ""And that scene where he's at his lowt pot and wants to f--k and go to a gay club, " he wr, "and 's picted like the seventh level of hell...

I mean, go back to the horrible reprentatns of gays the '70s, where the gay club is meant to signify everythg dark and praved. Fran, who played a gay character Milk, has long been an outspoken supporter of the LGBT muny.

JAM FRAN THOUGHT MICHAEL FASSBENR’S ‘SHAME’ WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY COMMUNY

Before his Comedy Central Roast September, he told the Daily Beast, "Brg on the gay jok! Bee the aren't sults at all…I don't even re if people thk I'm gay, so was like, 'Awome!

THE ROOTS OF GAY SHAME

' I mean, I wish I was…I wish I was gay. "And like, for me, the greater scheme of thgs—gay jok as an issue is one thg but when people make fun of me beg gay 's like [shgs] do all day, " he went on.

CelebryJam Fran cricized the Michael Fassbenr movie, 'Shame, ' for s pictn of the gay muny, which he felt was a reprentatn. One cric Jam Fran, however, blasted the film for what he saw as a poor reprentatn of the gay muny.

TOM ALLEN: THE IA OF GAY SHAME STILL PERVAS

In his review, Fran cricized the film’s pictn of the gay muny. In Shame, Fassbenr’s character pays a vis to a gay club, where sexual acts are beg performed. “I mean, go back to the horrible reprentatn of gays the 70s, where the gay club is meant to signify everythg dark and praved.

PROBLEMATIC FRIENDS STORYL THAT NEVER MA THE CUT – OM RACHEL MOVG WH GUNTHER TO THE BOMB SRE AND THE GAY CLUB

News that rat of the vis gay men rema stubbornly high is prsgly predictable.

Dpe the "'s great beg gay the UK" mantra, people are dyg, and not jt bee of Aids.

There is an epimic of chronic alhol and dg mise, fuelled by society's homophobia. It plays out a gay culture that celebrat obleratn and quick, easy sex.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

It meets rponse the ang silence of the biggt HIV service provir, which seems too sred to speak the you thk homophobia has melted away wh the troductn of civil partnerships and the like, thk for a moment what 's like to be an average 11-year-old kid who has jt realised he is gay. You'll have learned that beg gay is wrong – maybe om your parents, school or policians, or om relig anisatns that nmn you, lerally, to hell. If you're able to weather the bullyg and e out of your teens alive and don't get married or hi away the church, you'll most likely e out on the gay performance artist David Hoyle has scribed the gay scene as "the biggt suici cult history".

He said this a few years ago, before a recent spate of dg aths snas, so I prume he was referrg to the apparent culture of self-harm all s bars and clubs are jt that, and they buckle unr the weight of the unrealistic expectatn of dog for gay people what society ref to.

‘LOVE, SIMON’ DELETED SCENE FEATURG COLTON HAYN SHOWS AN AWKWARD EXPERIENCE AT SIMON’S FIRST GAY BAR

A dysfunctnal relatnship velops wh the mercial forc of the gay scene suggtg to a nstant supply of eply shamed people searchg for validatn and love that they'll fd shirtls nightclubs, sex clubs and snas. Instead, the tst sucks up sh that other anisatns alg wh the root of self-stctive behavur – such as the gay mental health chary Pace and the gay dgs and alhol service Antidote – are sperate for. A huge number of gay people are livg happy, succsful liv and most of do practise safe sex.

ROANOKE’S GAY BAR SCENE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

Image source, Aemen SkarImage ptn, Allen says edy is a place where people n explore and celebrate their quirksAt the turn of the lennium, when edian Tom Allen was a teenager, a celebry g out as gay regularly ma headle late Boyzone sger Stephen Gately was splashed across the ont page of the Sun when he revealed he was gay 1999. When Brian Dowlg won the send seri of Big Brother 2001, the fact he was gay was notable and groundbreakg. Society was a perd of transn at the time, wh attus towards homosexualy beg ls hostile.

And wh them me chang the law to improve gay rights.

"Those were such seismic events 15 or 20 years ago, " says Allen, whose new memoir studi the shame he felt growg up gay.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

"Image ptn, Allen recently appeared on a Covid-safe edn of Mock The Week, alongsi Rhys Jam and Athena KugblenuOcsnally, a story volvg homosexualy still has the power to make the news headl today, but only when 's somethg really out of the ordary.