The gay film ftival circu is ripe wh excellent foreign films that prove queer stori don't have to skimp on qualy.
Contents:
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * gay movies international *
That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country. ” Set 1981 South Ai at the apex of the South Ain Borr War, the film’s story of gay unrequed sire turns out to be a sg for somethg far more lethal s marrow.
It’s 1981, South Ai, which means ’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effemacy is a sign of weakns, and beg gay is also illegal. Frears’ film nonts all manner of taboos, not only terms of the gay relatnship at s center, but also the entrenched xenophobia and natnalism that challenge their bond. Raer Werner Fassbr’s fal howl of anguish om the soul was 1982’s “Querelle, ” his last and possibly gayt movie.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . * gay movies international *
It’s an adaptatn of a novel by French liberte and gay in Jean Ge, settlg to a French port cy where a madame played by Jeanne More ns the world, and sailors engage explic sex acts that turn vlent. Ala Guirdie’s sexy and sry “Stranger by the Lake” has earned cricisms for nflatg homosexualy wh crimaly, but ’s hard not to be drawn to the world of a nu beach that serv as a regular cisg spot for lonely gay men.
” Set durg the fal years of the Edo perd Japan, “Taboo” centers on an androgyno-lookg samurai (played by Ryuhei Matsuda) whom his manr spects to be gay. It ma the shortlist, but py didn’t go all the way bee this spirg movie provis need reprentatn for young gay people stgglg to e out. Set Cuba, the film centers on J (Héctor Meda), a young gay hairdrser whose aspiratns of beg a drag performer are upend by the return of his nservative (and not to mentn tranged) father.
MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * gay movies international *
Risg star Josh O’Connor will soon steam up the tennis world Lu Guadagno’s “Challengers, ” set for a 2023 release, but he first ught the world’s eye Francis Lee’s blisterg gay farm romance om 2017.
François Ozon’s sexy, melancholic, gay g-of-age romance “Summer of 85” sizzl wh the hot heat of first love, set agast the banks of a seasi rort Normandy.
A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . “Unr the headg ‘Protts, ’ one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg ‘Court Cas, ’ there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
SiegedSec, a group of gay furry hackers, took their skills to US ernments June, breachg agenci across five stat and to release data. * gay movies international *
She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. Milk was believed to be the first openly gay person elected to public office California. Rt assured, there are still plenty of cematic treats on the horizon: We’ve got an Atralian ballroom romance, a Bayard Rt bpic, Pedro Pasl playg a gay wboy, and loads of lic queer horror.
Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cab tells the story of a gay uple (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) and their adopted dghter Wen (Kristen Cui) as they grapple wh an impossible ultimatum: sacrifice someone or else the world will end.
Hontly, the whole thg sounds like Booksmart meets, well, Fight Club, and that’s exactly the kd of energy queer-themed teen edi — TBDDavid Lee / NetflixRarely has there been a bpic stg cisn as perfect as tappg Tony and Emmy-wng actor Colman Domgo to play gay civil rights activist Bayard Rt, a man who was an enormo fluence on Mart Luther Kg, Jr., among other key lears, but who mostly worked behd the scen. So if you make him a gay wboy a short film directed by Pedro Almodóvar — who, by the way, was once poised to direct Brokeback Mounta — I’ll s up straight my chair and pay rapt attentn. As Variety noted last year, Jul hatch the scheme after spottg Prton a gay sna and realizg that, bee he was drag when the attack occurred, his assailant won’t regnize him.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Malaysia’s ernment has cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance * gay movies international *
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. Surrogacy is illegal Italy, and gay marriage has not been legalized. “There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent.
Stori ncerng Amerin queer life often favor whe gay men, and Moonlight, a 2016 film that looks at three pivotal chapters a black gay man’s journey to adulthood, is a wele parture om the norm.
Tbilisi, Geia, a former Soviet republic at the tersectn of Europe and Asia, is also at the crossroads of a fiery bate ncerng homosexualy igned by the ntroversial 2019 film And Then We Danced. Rafiki (2018), a film about the romance between two Nairobi-based women, was ially banned Kenya for s posive portrayal of homosexualy.
MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
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This iatn procs, known as ulwalo, is The Wound’s jumpg-off pot, but a forbidn gay romance is s emotnal re. In 2017, st and crew members received ath threats rponse to the film’s ntroversial pictn of ulwalo and homosexualy, provg how antiquated ias surroundg heteronormativy are still eply graed Xhosa culture.
Although Viva (2015) tends toward the emotnally melodramatic — is, after all, a story about a young gay hairdrser wh daddy issu who’s lnchg a drag-queen reer — ’s worth watchg if only for the cematography featurg Havana, Cuba. Tristan Ferland Milewski’s 2017 documentary about a week-long gay cise Europe follows five men om five different untri as they navigate universal ncerns plagug the gay muny.
The ternatnal mashup of personali prov that no matter where they travel, most gay men the wtern world still pack the same emotnal baggage — and a speedo. This Wong Kar-Wai classic is one of the bt gay films out there.