Gui to the Richard Marshall Collectn of Gay Eroti and Pornography MSS.498

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• WORLD'S TOP CLIMATE SKEPTIC IS GAY! BJøRN LOMB
• IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
• THE TRAGIC CURSE OF BEG THE ‘MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD’WHERE ARE THEY NOWSUNDANCE FILM FTIVALBJöRN ANDRéSEN WAS 15 WHEN HIS ROLE 1971’S “DEATH VENICE” EARNED HIM THE TLE OF “THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD.” IT NEARLY ED HIS LIFE. KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDPUBLISHED JAN. 29, 2021 10:08PM EST THE STORY OF THE “MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD” UNFOLDS LIKE A DARK THRILLER.IT’S A STORY ABOUT THE PERILS OF CHILD STARDOM. IT’S A UTNARY TALE ABOUT THE EXPLOATN OF YOUNG STARS AND THE MODIZATN OF BETY. IT’S A HORROR STORY ABOUT THE STRIPPG OF ONE’S AGENCY AT A YOUNG AGE AND THE REVERBERATG EFFECTS THAT HAS ON THE RT OF THEIR LIFE. IT’S A GLIMPSE AT THE GENERATNAL CYCLE OF TRMA, GUILT, AND PRSN, AND THE SEEMG IMPOSSIBILY OF FEELG ONE’S OWN WORTH.PREMIERG AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL ON FRIDAY, THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD IS A DOCUMENTARY ENTRY THE BELOVED “WHERE ARE THEY NOW?” GENRE, ALBE ONE OF THE MORE CUR AND UNUAL ON WE’VE SEEN.IN 1970, WHEN BJöRN ANDRéSEN WAS 15, HE WAS PERSONALLY ST BY FAMED ITALIAN DIRECTOR LUCHO VISNTI THE FILM DEATH VENICE. THE ROLE OF TADZ REQUIRED A VSEL TO LIVE UP TO THE SCRIPTN WRTEN BY THOMAS MANN THE NOVELLA OM WHICH THE FILM WAS ADAPTED: “.. HONEY-LOURED HAIR, LIKE A GOD GREEK MYTHOLOGY. AND THE BOY IS NOT REALLY HUMAN—RATHER, AN ANGEL OF ATH.” WHEN THE FILM PREMIERED AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL A YEAR LATER, VISNTI PROUDLY HERALD ANDRéSEN “THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD,” A RONATN THAT MA TERNATNAL HEADL AND TURNED THE YOUNG TEEN TO AN OVERNIGHT STAR AND, TO HIS GREAT DISFORT, SEX SYMBOL.THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD MARRI ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE OM THE TIME WH NEW TERVIEWS WH ANDRéSEN, NOW AN AGG ACTOR AND MICIAN HIS SIXTI LIVG STOCKHOLM. (IN A GREAT PIECE OF TRIVIA, ANDRéSEN PLAYED THE MUNY ELR WHOSE DISTURBG, GROTQUE ATH IS THE TURNG POT TO MADNS THE 2019 FILM MIDSOMMAR.) LUCHO VISNTI AND BJöRN ANDRéSEN THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLDSUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL DIRECTORS KRISTA LDSTRöM AND KRISTIAN PETRI TOUR ANDRéSEN BACK THROUGH THE LOTNS THAT SHAPED HIS ULTIMATELY UNFORTUNATE ROCKET TO FAME: TOKYO, WHERE HE BEME ONE OF THE FIRST WTERN EUROPEAN TEEN IDOLS; PARIS, WHERE HE LIVED OFF THE MONEY AND GIFTS OM GAY MEN WHO TREATED HIM AS A “WANRG TROPHY”; AND, OF URSE, VENICE, WHERE THE FILM THAT WOULD CHANGE HIS LIFE WAS SHOT.ESPECIALLY EARLY S NNG TIME, THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD PLAYS LIKE A HORROR FILM. THERE’S A MENACG VIBE, AS IF WARNG THE VIEWERS OF DARKNS TO E. IT DMS UP AN ANXIETY THAT PERHAPS MIMICS THE SUDN PARANOIA AND LACK OF NTROL THAT A YOUNG ANDRéSEN FELT AS HIS INTY WAS YANKED OM HIM AND HE BEME A PRODUCT, AN ATHETIC TO BE NSUMED. BUT ALL FORHADOWS THAT THE FILMMAKERS HAVE MORE ON THEIR MD THAN JT THE OBJECTIFITN OF CHILD STARS.ANDRéSEN’S TRAGIC FAY HISTORY HNTS HIM. IN FACT, ’S A CCIAL PART OF HIS PHYSIL APPEAL, WH EVERYONE OM VISNTI TO JAPANE MANGA ARTISTS, WHO ED HIS IMAGE AS THE SPIRATN FOR ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ROMANTIC-FANTASY IC SERI AND CHARACTERS, PRAISG THE “SADNS TO HIS FACE.”THE MULTIPLE THREADS THE FILM—CELEBRY AND DTRY MENTARY, CHARACTER STUDY ON SURVIVORSHIP AND TRMA—OCSNALLY BEE KNOTTED, MAKG FOR A TRATG VIEWG EXPERIENCE AS YOU TRY TO UNTIE THEM. BUT THERE IS SOMETHG PROFOUND ABOUT THE CLEAR-EYED MELANCHOLY THROUGH WHICH ANDRéSEN’S STORY IS TOLD, A PERSPECTIVE THAT’S RARE FOR A FILM LIKE THIS, THAT ELICS EMPATHY AS MUCH AS IS SURPRISGLY MOVG. ADVERTISEMENT WHEN ANDRéSEN WAS 11 YEARS OLD, HIS MOTHER DIED, ABOUT A HALF A YEAR AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED, NEVER TO BE HEARD OM AGA. ANDRéSEN AND HIS SISTER WERE RAISED BY THEIR GRANDPARENTS, AND HIS GRANDMOTHER HAD AMBNS OF HIS BEG A STAR. SHE’S THE ONE WHO TOOK HIM TO THE DEATH VENICE STG LL STOCKHOLM. VISNTI HAD BEEN SURG EUROPE FOR THE ME FOR HIS NEXT FILM. THE DIRECTOR, WHO WAS OPENLY GAY, HAD BEEN PREOCCUPIED WH THE STORY OF DEATH VENICE FOR YEARS: AN AGG POSER ON HOLIDAY LIDO BE STCK BY THE OTHERWORLDLY BETY OF A VATNG ADOLCENT BOY NAMED TADZ. THE POSER IS DYG, BUT THE TRANSCENNT SIGHT OF TADZ’S ATTRACTIVENS REJUVENAT HIM.BY TODAY’S STANDARDS, THE NOVELLA, THE FILM ADAPTATN, AND VISNTI’S ENTHIASTIC STG SEARCH FOR THE ALLURG YOUNG BOY TO HIMSELF OBSS OVER WOULD BE RENRED ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE. THAT HDSIGHT ADDS CCIAL NTEXT TO THE FOOTAGE OF ANDRéSEN’S SCREEN TT AT JT 15 THAT WE WATCH THE FILM.“BETIFUL!” VISNTI EXCLAIMS. “ASK HIM TO UNDRS.” THE STG DIRECTOR NEXT TO HIM ASKS ANDRéSEN TO BARE HIS TORSO, AND WE WATCH AS PHOTOGRAPHERS BILY PHOTOGRAPH ANDRéSEN HIS UNRWEAR AS VISNTI ASKS HIM TO WALK AROUND THE ROOM AND STARE TO THE MERA.WHILE ANDRéSEN DID AT THE TIME HAVE ONE OF THOSE FAC SEEMGLY CHISELED OM STONE, ON WHICH EVERY EXPRSN IS SOMEHOW A SMOLR—SMOLRY NFN, SMOLRY APPREHENSN, SMOLRY EXCEMENT—YOU N CLOCK HIS DISFORT. HE GIGGL NERVOLY WHEN ASKED TO UNDRS. SMOLRY SHEEPISHNS. ADVERTISEMENT CASTG DIRECTOR MARGARETA KRANTZ REMEMBERS, “I WAS STANDG NEXT TO VISNTI, WHEN THIS BLOND BOY TURNED UP. IT WAS PLA TO SEE THAT VINTI’S WHOLE BODY ME TO LIFE. THE BOY WAS EXQUISELY BETIFUL, WH A TLY PHOTOGENIC FACE. HE WAS A REAL FD. HE WAS A BOY WH A VERY SPECIAL CHARISMA. HE SEEMS AIL. AND THAT’S REALLY BETIFUL A FILM. YOU NEED TO BE VERY REFUL ALG WH CHILDREN LIKE THAT.” “I WAS STANDG NEXT TO VISNTI, WHEN THIS BLOND BOY TURNED UP. IT WAS PLA TO SEE THAT VINTI’S WHOLE BODY ME TO LIFE. THE BOY WAS EXQUISELY BETIFUL, WH A TLY PHOTOGENIC FACE. HE WAS A REAL FD...” IT WAS CLEVER MARKETG ON VISNTI’S PART TO NSTANTLY TALK UP ANDRéSEN’S LOOKS AS A CEMATIC REVELATN, G THE “MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD” MONIKER THAT UGHT ON LIKE WILDFIRE. AT JT 16, ANDRéSEN WAS THE TOAST OF THE CROISETTE WHEN DEATH VENICE PREMIERED AT CANN. BUT EVEN AT THAT AGE, HE ULD TELL THAT HE WAS BEG ED.VISNTI WAS ALREADY MAKG DISPARAGG, GROSS JOK ABOUT HOW HE WAS LS BETIFUL NOW THAT HE WAS A YEAR OLR AND TALLER. AFTER THE POST-PREMIERE BANQUET, HIS HANDLERS ALL ABANDONED HIM, AND HE END UP DANGEROLY DNK RTED TO A GAY CLUB, WHERE HIS NOW-FAMO FACE WAS SEEN AS PREY.THE STUD SENT HIM TO TOKYO, WHERE HIS ARRIVAL WAS RECEIVED SIAR TO THE BEATL LANDG THE U.S. HIS FACE WAS ED MERCIALS. HE WAS ON A NON-STOP TOUR OF APPEARANC. HE EVEN RERD A JAPANE-LANGUAGE LOVE SONG. TO STA THE PACE, HE WAS FED PILLS.HE HAD A UFUL REER AS A TEENAGER TO HIS TWENTI. BUT THAT DIDN’T ABSOLVE THE ABE HE KNEW NOTHG BETTER THAN TO SUCCUMB TO. HE RELLS LIVG PARIS 1976 OFF THE ALLOWANCE AND GIFTS LIVERED BY WEALTHY GAY MEN WHO HE THOUGHT WERE SIMPLY NICE FANS AND IENDS, BUT WHO HE NOW REALIZ TREATED HIM LIKE AN RT. “THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD” TO BE SEEN ON THEIR ARMS. ADVERTISEMENT BJöRN ANDRéSEN MIDSOMMARA24 WOVEN THROUGHOUT THE REMISCENC IS A LOOK AT ANDRéSEN’S LIFE NOW. THAT WISPY HAIR WH THE FEATHERG THAT WOULD MAKE FARRAH FAWCETT WEEP IS NOW A S OF GRAY DOWN TO THE SMALL OF HIS BACK, AND A LENGTHY WHE BEARD TO MATCH. HIS SVELTE, BOYISH AME IS NOW THAT OF A AIL, SKNY OLR MAN. HIS APARTMENT IS A STATE OF SQUALOR, UNTIL HIS ON-AGA, OFF-AGA GIRLIEND RALLI TO CLEAN UP.MORN-DAY ANDRéSEN ISN’T JT NONTG THE REALY OF WHAT HE WENT THROUGH AS AN OBJECTIFIED TEEN, HE’S ALG WH THE EMOTNAL PA OF THE DISTRS HE NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS MOTHER, HIS OWN NEGLIGENCE AS A FATHER, HIS ALHOLISM AND PRSN. ALL OF , THE CELEBRY STUFF AND THE FAY SECRETS, BOIL DOWN TO ONE PAFUL TTH: HE HAD NEVER ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE HUMAN.IT TAK THE ENTIRE FILM FOR ANRSEN TO REVEAL HIS EPT, MOST FORMATIVE SECRETS, BOTH ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE FOLLOWG DEATH VENICE AND, THE MOST TRAGIC EVENT OF HIS ADULT LIFE.MAYBE THAT WAS A NARRATIVE CHOICE ON THE PART OF THE FILMMAKERS, AN ATTEMPT TO TEASE OUT THE BTAL REVELATNS UNTIL THE BTER END WHERE THEY LAND LIKE SLEDGEHAMMERS, TO MAKE THE POT THAT ’S NOT THE EVENTS THEMSELV THAT WE SHOULD BE FIXATED ON, BUT STEAD THE EMPATHY FOR A PERSON NAVIGATG A LIFE BURNED BY TRMA. FAIR, TOO, IS TO ASSUME THAT TOOK THAT LONG FOR ANRSEN TO FEEL SAFE ENOUGH TO ALLOW HIMSELF THAT VULNERABILY.THIS IS A PERSON STILL WEARG THE SRS OF HIS EXPERIENCE FIVE S PRR WH VISNTI, A DIRECTOR WHO ED AND DISRD HIM WHEN HE NEED TO BE PROTECTED MOST. IT APPARENTLY TOOK THREE YEARS FOR ANDRéSEN TO FULLY GIVE FILMMAKERS LDSTRöM AND PETRI HIS FULL TST. EMBARRASSGLY, ’S NOT UNTIL THE END THAT WE REALIZED THE HERENT TENSN AT THE CX OF MAKG A FILM LIKE THIS. HOW DO YOU MAKE A FILM ABOUT THE EFFECTS BEG EXPLOED HAD ON A PERSON WHOUT POSSIBLY EXPLOG HIM AGA? ADVERTISEMENT THE THARSIS AND, MAYBE, A MODICUM OF HEALG ANDRéSEN SEEMS TO ACHIEVE THROUGH HIS EVENTUAL NDOR IS POWERFUL. THE IAL AMG HERE MAY BE THAT OF CELEBRY AND A CHILD STAR, BUT ’S A UNIVERSAL QUTN THAT SOME OF , CLUDG ANDRéSEN, HAVE DIFFICULTY ANSWERG: WHO ARE YOU WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ACCS TO YOURSELF? KEV FALLON
• THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS

WORLD'S TOP CLIMATE SKEPTIC IS GAY! BJøRN LOMB

ROBIN SANCHEZIn a rare magaze terview, legendary gay porn director Kristen Bjorn talks ndidly to Scene magaze’s Jason Reid about startg out porn the 1980s, the evolutn of the dtry and how his own stud has had to change, survivg panmics, hop for the future, and much moreI image most people will be wonrg how and why you ially bee volved wh the porn dtry? As my mentor, Fred tght me about the gay magaze bs. But later, gay studs started filmg wh ndoms, while the straight studs relied on ttg.

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He is ced as "The 10 Most-Rpected Global Warmg Skeptics"Bjorn Lomb is gay and a vegetarian.

IS ANYONE BORN GAY?

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THE TRAGIC CURSE OF BEG THE ‘MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD’WHERE ARE THEY NOWSUNDANCE FILM FTIVALBJöRN ANDRéSEN WAS 15 WHEN HIS ROLE 1971’S “DEATH VENICE” EARNED HIM THE TLE OF “THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD.” IT NEARLY ED HIS LIFE. KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDPUBLISHED JAN. 29, 2021 10:08PM EST THE STORY OF THE “MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD” UNFOLDS LIKE A DARK THRILLER.IT’S A STORY ABOUT THE PERILS OF CHILD STARDOM. IT’S A UTNARY TALE ABOUT THE EXPLOATN OF YOUNG STARS AND THE MODIZATN OF BETY. IT’S A HORROR STORY ABOUT THE STRIPPG OF ONE’S AGENCY AT A YOUNG AGE AND THE REVERBERATG EFFECTS THAT HAS ON THE RT OF THEIR LIFE. IT’S A GLIMPSE AT THE GENERATNAL CYCLE OF TRMA, GUILT, AND PRSN, AND THE SEEMG IMPOSSIBILY OF FEELG ONE’S OWN WORTH.PREMIERG AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL ON FRIDAY, THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD IS A DOCUMENTARY ENTRY THE BELOVED “WHERE ARE THEY NOW?” GENRE, ALBE ONE OF THE MORE CUR AND UNUAL ON WE’VE SEEN.IN 1970, WHEN BJöRN ANDRéSEN WAS 15, HE WAS PERSONALLY ST BY FAMED ITALIAN DIRECTOR LUCHO VISNTI THE FILM DEATH VENICE. THE ROLE OF TADZ REQUIRED A VSEL TO LIVE UP TO THE SCRIPTN WRTEN BY THOMAS MANN THE NOVELLA OM WHICH THE FILM WAS ADAPTED: “.. HONEY-LOURED HAIR, LIKE A GOD GREEK MYTHOLOGY. AND THE BOY IS NOT REALLY HUMAN—RATHER, AN ANGEL OF ATH.” WHEN THE FILM PREMIERED AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL A YEAR LATER, VISNTI PROUDLY HERALD ANDRéSEN “THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD,” A RONATN THAT MA TERNATNAL HEADL AND TURNED THE YOUNG TEEN TO AN OVERNIGHT STAR AND, TO HIS GREAT DISFORT, SEX SYMBOL.THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD MARRI ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE OM THE TIME WH NEW TERVIEWS WH ANDRéSEN, NOW AN AGG ACTOR AND MICIAN HIS SIXTI LIVG STOCKHOLM. (IN A GREAT PIECE OF TRIVIA, ANDRéSEN PLAYED THE MUNY ELR WHOSE DISTURBG, GROTQUE ATH IS THE TURNG POT TO MADNS THE 2019 FILM MIDSOMMAR.) LUCHO VISNTI AND BJöRN ANDRéSEN THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLDSUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL DIRECTORS KRISTA LDSTRöM AND KRISTIAN PETRI TOUR ANDRéSEN BACK THROUGH THE LOTNS THAT SHAPED HIS ULTIMATELY UNFORTUNATE ROCKET TO FAME: TOKYO, WHERE HE BEME ONE OF THE FIRST WTERN EUROPEAN TEEN IDOLS; PARIS, WHERE HE LIVED OFF THE MONEY AND GIFTS OM GAY MEN WHO TREATED HIM AS A “WANRG TROPHY”; AND, OF URSE, VENICE, WHERE THE FILM THAT WOULD CHANGE HIS LIFE WAS SHOT.ESPECIALLY EARLY S NNG TIME, THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD PLAYS LIKE A HORROR FILM. THERE’S A MENACG VIBE, AS IF WARNG THE VIEWERS OF DARKNS TO E. IT DMS UP AN ANXIETY THAT PERHAPS MIMICS THE SUDN PARANOIA AND LACK OF NTROL THAT A YOUNG ANDRéSEN FELT AS HIS INTY WAS YANKED OM HIM AND HE BEME A PRODUCT, AN ATHETIC TO BE NSUMED. BUT ALL FORHADOWS THAT THE FILMMAKERS HAVE MORE ON THEIR MD THAN JT THE OBJECTIFITN OF CHILD STARS.ANDRéSEN’S TRAGIC FAY HISTORY HNTS HIM. IN FACT, ’S A CCIAL PART OF HIS PHYSIL APPEAL, WH EVERYONE OM VISNTI TO JAPANE MANGA ARTISTS, WHO ED HIS IMAGE AS THE SPIRATN FOR ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ROMANTIC-FANTASY IC SERI AND CHARACTERS, PRAISG THE “SADNS TO HIS FACE.”THE MULTIPLE THREADS THE FILM—CELEBRY AND DTRY MENTARY, CHARACTER STUDY ON SURVIVORSHIP AND TRMA—OCSNALLY BEE KNOTTED, MAKG FOR A TRATG VIEWG EXPERIENCE AS YOU TRY TO UNTIE THEM. BUT THERE IS SOMETHG PROFOUND ABOUT THE CLEAR-EYED MELANCHOLY THROUGH WHICH ANDRéSEN’S STORY IS TOLD, A PERSPECTIVE THAT’S RARE FOR A FILM LIKE THIS, THAT ELICS EMPATHY AS MUCH AS IS SURPRISGLY MOVG. ADVERTISEMENT WHEN ANDRéSEN WAS 11 YEARS OLD, HIS MOTHER DIED, ABOUT A HALF A YEAR AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED, NEVER TO BE HEARD OM AGA. ANDRéSEN AND HIS SISTER WERE RAISED BY THEIR GRANDPARENTS, AND HIS GRANDMOTHER HAD AMBNS OF HIS BEG A STAR. SHE’S THE ONE WHO TOOK HIM TO THE DEATH VENICE STG LL STOCKHOLM. VISNTI HAD BEEN SURG EUROPE FOR THE ME FOR HIS NEXT FILM. THE DIRECTOR, WHO WAS OPENLY GAY, HAD BEEN PREOCCUPIED WH THE STORY OF DEATH VENICE FOR YEARS: AN AGG POSER ON HOLIDAY LIDO BE STCK BY THE OTHERWORLDLY BETY OF A VATNG ADOLCENT BOY NAMED TADZ. THE POSER IS DYG, BUT THE TRANSCENNT SIGHT OF TADZ’S ATTRACTIVENS REJUVENAT HIM.BY TODAY’S STANDARDS, THE NOVELLA, THE FILM ADAPTATN, AND VISNTI’S ENTHIASTIC STG SEARCH FOR THE ALLURG YOUNG BOY TO HIMSELF OBSS OVER WOULD BE RENRED ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE. THAT HDSIGHT ADDS CCIAL NTEXT TO THE FOOTAGE OF ANDRéSEN’S SCREEN TT AT JT 15 THAT WE WATCH THE FILM.“BETIFUL!” VISNTI EXCLAIMS. “ASK HIM TO UNDRS.” THE STG DIRECTOR NEXT TO HIM ASKS ANDRéSEN TO BARE HIS TORSO, AND WE WATCH AS PHOTOGRAPHERS BILY PHOTOGRAPH ANDRéSEN HIS UNRWEAR AS VISNTI ASKS HIM TO WALK AROUND THE ROOM AND STARE TO THE MERA.WHILE ANDRéSEN DID AT THE TIME HAVE ONE OF THOSE FAC SEEMGLY CHISELED OM STONE, ON WHICH EVERY EXPRSN IS SOMEHOW A SMOLR—SMOLRY NFN, SMOLRY APPREHENSN, SMOLRY EXCEMENT—YOU N CLOCK HIS DISFORT. HE GIGGL NERVOLY WHEN ASKED TO UNDRS. SMOLRY SHEEPISHNS. ADVERTISEMENT CASTG DIRECTOR MARGARETA KRANTZ REMEMBERS, “I WAS STANDG NEXT TO VISNTI, WHEN THIS BLOND BOY TURNED UP. IT WAS PLA TO SEE THAT VINTI’S WHOLE BODY ME TO LIFE. THE BOY WAS EXQUISELY BETIFUL, WH A TLY PHOTOGENIC FACE. HE WAS A REAL FD. HE WAS A BOY WH A VERY SPECIAL CHARISMA. HE SEEMS AIL. AND THAT’S REALLY BETIFUL A FILM. YOU NEED TO BE VERY REFUL ALG WH CHILDREN LIKE THAT.” “I WAS STANDG NEXT TO VISNTI, WHEN THIS BLOND BOY TURNED UP. IT WAS PLA TO SEE THAT VINTI’S WHOLE BODY ME TO LIFE. THE BOY WAS EXQUISELY BETIFUL, WH A TLY PHOTOGENIC FACE. HE WAS A REAL FD...” IT WAS CLEVER MARKETG ON VISNTI’S PART TO NSTANTLY TALK UP ANDRéSEN’S LOOKS AS A CEMATIC REVELATN, G THE “MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD” MONIKER THAT UGHT ON LIKE WILDFIRE. AT JT 16, ANDRéSEN WAS THE TOAST OF THE CROISETTE WHEN DEATH VENICE PREMIERED AT CANN. BUT EVEN AT THAT AGE, HE ULD TELL THAT HE WAS BEG ED.VISNTI WAS ALREADY MAKG DISPARAGG, GROSS JOK ABOUT HOW HE WAS LS BETIFUL NOW THAT HE WAS A YEAR OLR AND TALLER. AFTER THE POST-PREMIERE BANQUET, HIS HANDLERS ALL ABANDONED HIM, AND HE END UP DANGEROLY DNK RTED TO A GAY CLUB, WHERE HIS NOW-FAMO FACE WAS SEEN AS PREY.THE STUD SENT HIM TO TOKYO, WHERE HIS ARRIVAL WAS RECEIVED SIAR TO THE BEATL LANDG THE U.S. HIS FACE WAS ED MERCIALS. HE WAS ON A NON-STOP TOUR OF APPEARANC. HE EVEN RERD A JAPANE-LANGUAGE LOVE SONG. TO STA THE PACE, HE WAS FED PILLS.HE HAD A UFUL REER AS A TEENAGER TO HIS TWENTI. BUT THAT DIDN’T ABSOLVE THE ABE HE KNEW NOTHG BETTER THAN TO SUCCUMB TO. HE RELLS LIVG PARIS 1976 OFF THE ALLOWANCE AND GIFTS LIVERED BY WEALTHY GAY MEN WHO HE THOUGHT WERE SIMPLY NICE FANS AND IENDS, BUT WHO HE NOW REALIZ TREATED HIM LIKE AN RT. “THE MOST BETIFUL BOY THE WORLD” TO BE SEEN ON THEIR ARMS. ADVERTISEMENT BJöRN ANDRéSEN MIDSOMMARA24 WOVEN THROUGHOUT THE REMISCENC IS A LOOK AT ANDRéSEN’S LIFE NOW. THAT WISPY HAIR WH THE FEATHERG THAT WOULD MAKE FARRAH FAWCETT WEEP IS NOW A S OF GRAY DOWN TO THE SMALL OF HIS BACK, AND A LENGTHY WHE BEARD TO MATCH. HIS SVELTE, BOYISH AME IS NOW THAT OF A AIL, SKNY OLR MAN. HIS APARTMENT IS A STATE OF SQUALOR, UNTIL HIS ON-AGA, OFF-AGA GIRLIEND RALLI TO CLEAN UP.MORN-DAY ANDRéSEN ISN’T JT NONTG THE REALY OF WHAT HE WENT THROUGH AS AN OBJECTIFIED TEEN, HE’S ALG WH THE EMOTNAL PA OF THE DISTRS HE NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS MOTHER, HIS OWN NEGLIGENCE AS A FATHER, HIS ALHOLISM AND PRSN. ALL OF , THE CELEBRY STUFF AND THE FAY SECRETS, BOIL DOWN TO ONE PAFUL TTH: HE HAD NEVER ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE HUMAN.IT TAK THE ENTIRE FILM FOR ANRSEN TO REVEAL HIS EPT, MOST FORMATIVE SECRETS, BOTH ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE FOLLOWG DEATH VENICE AND, THE MOST TRAGIC EVENT OF HIS ADULT LIFE.MAYBE THAT WAS A NARRATIVE CHOICE ON THE PART OF THE FILMMAKERS, AN ATTEMPT TO TEASE OUT THE BTAL REVELATNS UNTIL THE BTER END WHERE THEY LAND LIKE SLEDGEHAMMERS, TO MAKE THE POT THAT ’S NOT THE EVENTS THEMSELV THAT WE SHOULD BE FIXATED ON, BUT STEAD THE EMPATHY FOR A PERSON NAVIGATG A LIFE BURNED BY TRMA. FAIR, TOO, IS TO ASSUME THAT TOOK THAT LONG FOR ANRSEN TO FEEL SAFE ENOUGH TO ALLOW HIMSELF THAT VULNERABILY.THIS IS A PERSON STILL WEARG THE SRS OF HIS EXPERIENCE FIVE S PRR WH VISNTI, A DIRECTOR WHO ED AND DISRD HIM WHEN HE NEED TO BE PROTECTED MOST. IT APPARENTLY TOOK THREE YEARS FOR ANDRéSEN TO FULLY GIVE FILMMAKERS LDSTRöM AND PETRI HIS FULL TST. EMBARRASSGLY, ’S NOT UNTIL THE END THAT WE REALIZED THE HERENT TENSN AT THE CX OF MAKG A FILM LIKE THIS. HOW DO YOU MAKE A FILM ABOUT THE EFFECTS BEG EXPLOED HAD ON A PERSON WHOUT POSSIBLY EXPLOG HIM AGA? ADVERTISEMENT THE THARSIS AND, MAYBE, A MODICUM OF HEALG ANDRéSEN SEEMS TO ACHIEVE THROUGH HIS EVENTUAL NDOR IS POWERFUL. THE IAL AMG HERE MAY BE THAT OF CELEBRY AND A CHILD STAR, BUT ’S A UNIVERSAL QUTN THAT SOME OF , CLUDG ANDRéSEN, HAVE DIFFICULTY ANSWERG: WHO ARE YOU WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ACCS TO YOURSELF? KEV FALLON

I’ve wrten before about the ups and downs of growg up gay the 1990s. It is on sophomore album, Post, and her most recent release, Vulnicura, that Björk expos the very human nsequenc of relatnships reachg their end, both sonilly and lyrilly.

“I didn’t choose beg gay, ” I reasoned. I am gay. Gay nrologist Simon LeVay explas that sexual orientatn is “the tra that predispos to experience sexual attractn” (Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why, 1).

THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS

Beg Gay? This stems om the misunrstandg that “beg gay” clus appreciatg same-sex bety. However, if we broan sexualy to clu non-sexual and non-romantic appreciatn for bety, then everybody would be gay.