Party dg ed to rape, film atose gay men: UK documentary | Rters

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• BT 10 GAY RAPE SCENE MOVIE
• PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY
• 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

BT 10 GAY RAPE SCENE MOVIE

Sometim a movie reeks of homophobia (See: that ol' heart-warmer “Cisg”) and sometim 's jt a uple of moments a film that feel mean-spired to the LGBT muny (“Weddg Crashers, ” etc. While his father the Kg is obvly a paragon of celty, the scene which he sts Phillip out of a wdow to hurt his son is a vlent knock at the homosexual relatnship, and was shot such a sparse manner that practilly played for lghs, sensive to Edward II's loss. In rponse to the accatn that the film is homophobic and transphobic, Lee said, “The role of Kimmy was never meant to be a role mol, or someone that reprents the muny as a whole.

William Friedk had to cut a legendary 40 mut of footage om “Cisg” before uld get a pass om the MPAA, but that was mostly graphic sexualy and not the non-stop strg of slurs and rtoonish pictns of what the filmmakers tried to emphasize was a look at one subset of gay culture, but not the entire culture. There's ltle doubt that the hostile reactns om characters the film are perd-appropriate and shouldn't be taken as the POV of the film, but the film's POV on both the leather bar subculture, and on any gay characters who exist outsi the subculture ss somewhere between disgted and horrified. But 'd be equally silly to ny that a goodly percentage of the 115 precedg mut — Y, this movie is obscenely long — are mostly about Kev Jam and Adam Sandler's characters makg clear that orr for Chuck and Larry to do some silly thg volvg life surance, they have to lower themselv the most huiatg way they n image, by pretendg to be a gay uple.

What follows is a strg of “Beg gay is gross” and “Havg people thk you're gay is gross” farce, punctuated by “If you're gay, you n get ultra-close to hot women” icks, followed by “But really this is a great thg, even if straight guys might thk 's gross. Gawker did a great mashup of homophobic asis Michael Bay films 2014, cludg an extend “gay panic” scene “Bad Boys II” where Mart Lawrence and Will Smh realize that their nversatn about Lawrence's character beg shot the butt — which sounds like anal sex out of ntext (hilar! Now nsired a ic classic, at the time of s release, the movie’s blatant sexualy bed wh the homosexual implitns ed censors to challenge the movie wh claims that “promoted homosexualy, lbianism, and transvtism.

PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY

LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - A popular party dg is beg ed to rape atose gay and bisexual men at “chemsex” parti, their asslts then streamed onle, acrdg to a Brish documentary that airs on Sunday. A jot vtigatn by BuzzFeed News and Channel 4 Dispatch found that GHB, a dg ed to heighten sexual pleasure, is regularly ed to “sexually asslt gay men” wh footage of the rape broadst live on the dark documentary was partly based on a survey of 2, 700 gay and bisexual men Bra nducted earlier this said more than one four of the men surveyed reported beg sexually asslted after takg the dg, which rose populary on the gay club scene at the turn of the century. “The fact that [GHB] is beg weaponized by rapists and murrs should be of high alarm to the police and the ernment, ” he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn by show sh a spotlight on chemsex parti, where gay and bisexual men gather to take dgs and have by dgs, cludg GHB and crystal meth, parti n last for days, wh lsened hibns leadg to ncerns over the risk of HIV and other sexually transmted diseas.

”Stdwick said he first vtigated GHB and sexual asslt durg the trial of Stephen Port, a serial killer nvicted 2016 of the rape and murr of four gay was sentenced to a whole life orr – meang he will never be released – for the crim, as well as admisterg GHB wh the tent to m a sexual OUTOf the 2, 700 men who rpond to the documentary survey, half said they had passed out after takg GHB; 93% said they knew of someone who had done Hyyrylaen-Trett, a member of the LGBT advisory group to Bra’s Metropolan Police, said that he had bee atose “10-12 tim” after takg the said he was “pretty sure” he had been sexually asslted unr the fluence of GHB, but had no proof.

It is important to note that the time between Rso’s first and later revised edns, the AIDS crisis had taken hold, and wh that negative imag particularly of gay men gaed renewed currency, which did not nvce Rso of Hollywood’s progrsive polics wh regards to queerns but rather only renfirmed his ial outrage, as he stat at the very end of his study: “The history of the portrayal of lbians and gay men mastream cema is polilly fensible and athetilly revoltg. 2Twenty years after Rso’s landmark study on the homophobic history of Hollywood, Joe Wlodarz an say, aptly tled for the purpose of my paper “Rape Fantasi: Hollywood and Homophobia, ” affirms Rso’s earlier claim that there is no arth queer imag Hollywood cema as such, and siar to the many exampl showsed by Rso, Wlodarz also highlights that what is missg the stanc are sex-posive filmic pictns.

10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

Instead, takg films as an ditor of a cultural climate he argu that “the tensy of the gay sex phobia Hollywood speaks to (but don’t lim homophobia to) the overtermed signifince of gay sex domant society” (68). Referrg to a group of films that pict male rape and which he refers to as the “children of Deliverance”—John Boorman’s 1972 film famo for one of the most explic on-screen pictns of a man beg anally raped1—Wlodarz is trigued how “male rape be symbolilly d as homosexualy” (68). Furthermore, we also need to look at films which no longer homophobilly rrelate queerns, sexualy, and vlence whout crilly asssg this nflatn and offerg alternative viewpots, but which self-reflexively engage both the history of the stereotypil cematic otherg of queerns and ongog revaluatns of queer liv, cludg experienc of abe, shamg, and other forms of vlence sexualized ntexts.

While this is one of the scen that shows Steve’s still aquate assiatn procs, markg his creasg sexual secury, also pots to the ntrastg analogy of police officers and gay men that the film sets up general.

7Lookg back, Benshoff and Griff agree that “[d]pe the era’s facile bat over whether or not Cisg was a posive or negative velopment the reprentatn of gay men, has proved to be an endurg queer film that explor the borrs (however murkily or irrponsibly) between male homosexual sire, ‘straight’ homosocial bondg, and vlence” (183).