‘Imatn Game,’ Alan Turg and the Chemil War on U.K.’s Gays – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN
• THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN
• <I>THE IMATN GAME</I>'S ALAN TURG -- A GAY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
• ‘IMATN GAME,’ ALAN TURG AND THE CHEMIL WAR ON U.K.’S GAYS
• BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME
• THE IMATN GAME FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS WH TURG'S 'UNFAIR' STORY
• OSRS: ‘IMATN GAME’ DIRECTOR ON WHY THE FILM DIDN’T PORTRAY AN ALAN TURG GAY RELATNSHIP
• ‘THE IMATN GAME’ ISN’T REALLY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS. BUT S OSRS MPAIGN IS.

THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN

Later, he pneered digal putg and artificial telligence before killg himself 1952 followg his nvictn for gross cency – that is, gay sex.

THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN

But mak his gayns unambiguoly clear and shows how his adolcent sire for another boy is bound up secrecy, reprsn, shame and grief – a tragic ndn but one that also fuelled his tellectual foc and self-sufficiency wh such tremendo plex chicken-and-egg relatnship between persecutn and perceptn is at the heart of queerns, but gets ltle regnn the tim of bland pop monoculture and the LGBT mastream’s yearng for normaly.

It’s kd of prejudiced to say that if you have a gay character a movie, you need to show explic gay sex. They were both outsirs: she beg a woman, he beg this socially awkward gay man. It wasn’t jt that he was a closeted gay man — he was also a man who had a md that worked differently.

If I have a gay character a movie, I need to have a sex scene — jt to prove that he’s gay?

<I>THE IMATN GAME</I>'S ALAN TURG -- A GAY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

His whole relatnship, how he falls love and the importance of him beg a gay man, was all about secrecy.

The only reason to have a sex scene the film would be to satisfy crics who feels that every gay character needs to have a gay sex scene.

‘IMATN GAME,’ ALAN TURG AND THE CHEMIL WAR ON U.K.’S GAYS

”The Imatn Game is up for eight Osrs, cludg bt picture and bt actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, who has ed the film to support a mpaign to get other gay men arrted durg the same perd pardoned for their crim. It’s this gets sticky is when to the fate of Turg himself, who was gay when was still illegal and nvicted for gross cency, opted for chemil stratn rather than imprisonment, and died a year later, probably by his own hand, while sufferg this digny. The Imatn Game marks the return of spoiler-gate, that endls argy-bargy between crics and rears about how much rmatn is too other problem wh The Imatn Game is that tri to have s gay martyr ke and eat .

Homosexualy was still a crime Great Bra at the time, and Turg was nvicted of “cency. The laws at the time prevented Turg om beg openly gay, but he never kept his sexualy secret eher.

BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME

The punishment for homosexualy was chemil stratn, a seri of hormone jectns that left Turg impotent. In fiance, he traveled abroad to Norway and the Mederranean, where the gay rights movements were buddg. Homosexualy was nsired a secury risk at the time, and the nvictn st Turg his secury clearance.

“After he’d been revealed as gay 1952, he uldn’t do any more secret work, ” Hodg said. The new movie The Imatn game is brgg h attentn to a dark perd early 20th century, when homosexuals the U. Dpe his geni, Turg was prosecuted England 1952 for engagg a homosexual relatnship wh a man.

THE IMATN GAME FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS WH TURG'S 'UNFAIR' STORY

The film picts the Turg’s unjt prosecutn and punishment for homosexualy, though slightly accurately (for more rmatn, the Guardian did a helpful analysis of the film’s facts). S., was “the worst time to be queer bee you are not beg ignored, you are actively searched for and persecuted, ” said John D’E, a profsor of gay and lbian studi at the Universy of Illois at Chigo. ” Durg Alan Turg’s life, public ncern over the possibily that homosexuals servg the ary or aidg the war effort uld be blackmailed by enemi tensified the stigma of homosexualy Bra.

The 1950s, was the begng of the end for Bra’s laws agast homosexual sex, as the prosecutn of proment people stoked a public backlash agast the laws.

OSRS: ‘IMATN GAME’ DIRECTOR ON WHY THE FILM DIDN’T PORTRAY AN ALAN TURG GAY RELATNSHIP

In 1954, a well known journalist, Peter Wilblood was nvicted of homosexual acts wh two proment and wealthy men, Lord Montagu and Michael Pt-Rivers, a public trial that rulted prison time for all of the men and public opposn to laws agast homosexual sex. The trial lead to the creatn of the Wolfenn mtee of ernment reprentativ, misters, tors, and psychiatrists, which 1957, published a report remendg the disntuatn of laws agast homosexualy.

The report eventually led to the 1967 Sexual Offens Act, which end the crimalizatn of homosexual sex between nsentg men over the age of 21 Bra and Wal. The fervent prosecutn of gay sex didn’t start to happen earnt until the very perd durg which Turg lived. As England, ncerns that homosexuals uld be blackmailed by Communist spi—an ia popularized by Senator Joe McCarthy—drove some of the fervor agast homosexuals durg that perd.

Police officers went unrver public parks where homosexuals went to meet each other for sexual enunters, orr to unver them. “This is the height of what I ll the homosexual terror Ameri, ” said William Eskridge, a profsor at Yale Law School and the thor of Dishonorable Passns: Sodomy Laws Ameri.

‘THE IMATN GAME’ ISN’T REALLY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS. BUT S OSRS MPAIGN IS.

MORE: TIME reviews The Imatn Game Durg this same perd, Eskridge said, stat began to pass laws that allowed urts to stutnalize gay people fely mental stutns for havg “psychotic personali, ” where were experimented on, lobotomized, and given shock therapy. Some very bright mds who, but for their homosexualy, might have been allowed to ntribute more to society.