Yterday at Salon, Caleb Cra, thor of the highly praised novel Necsary Errors, talked a b about beg a gay novelist and the effects non-heterosexual subject matter has on the chanc for a novel’s publitn. In rponse to a qutn…
Contents:
- GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
- 15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
- GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
- 16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
In typil Hchck-ian fashn, the "Master of Spense" often employed his films subtle referenc to gay culture, fyg nservative attus of the late '50s. * old movies with gay subtext *
I was readg a book about Stanley Kubrick, and said that he wanted one of the male characters The Killg to be love wh the Sterlg Hayn character, but the censors ma him tone downCan you thk of any other productn era movi wh gay unrton?
In DESERT FURY (1947), the gay subtext practilly be 's how gangster Eddie (John Hodiak) tells of meetg his "partner" Johnny (Wenll Corey): "It was the tomat off Tim Square at two the morng. The year he hosted the Osrs was the year of Brokeback and they had a montage of wterns where there appeared to be gay subtext all the clips and I saw him later an terview claimg to have jt remembered wterns beg the gayt thgs ever and that's where he'd gotten the ia.
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15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time. * old movies with gay subtext *
My favore gay subtext movie, which is practilly text, is Howard Hugh productn of the outlaw, where there is a love triangle between Doc Holliday, Billy the kid and Pat Garrett, where Pat Garrett is bt iends wh Doc Holliday until Billy the kid the picture; Billy and Doc flirt like crazy, leavg Pat madr than a wet hen. Sir Ian McKellen, who played the olr Mago X-Men: Days of Future Past, said, “As a gay man, some people thk that ought to be cured and ma normal aga, and I fd as offensive as someone sayg that they have a cure for the lor of their sk. From 1955, the gay subtext was kept pretty much on the down-low, but actor Jam Dean, who played Jim, was known to be bisexual and actor Sal Meo, who played Plato (ntug wh the ancient Greek theme), was known to be gay.
GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
Back 1994, the late Roger Ebert said his review, “The ial meetg between Louis and Ltat tak the form of a sctn; the vampire seems to be urtg the younger man, and there is a strong element of homoeroticism the way the neck is bared and the blood is enged.
16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
Parallels between vampirism and sex, both gay and straight, are always there all of Rice’s novels; the good news is that you n dulge your lts night after night, but the bad news is that if you stop, you die. Hardre fenrs of the duo sist that people are simply readg more to the relatnship than is actually there, but all the fetish clothg, p and nippled cht armor really add to the homoerotic dogma. While was normal for two men to dance together the 19th century, some viewed this as the first pictn of queerns on the screen—seeg as was Vo Rso that troduced as “The Gay Brothers” his semal work “The Celluloid Closet.
For stance, the German law Paragraph 175 that outlawed homosexual acts between men, but did not mentn acts between women, is a law that Richard Oswald’s “Different om the Others” (1919) advot agast. The emotnal passns and queer subtext displayed Oswald’s “Different om the Others” is nsired one of the first explicly gay films, one of the early pneers of queer cema, for s open portrayal of queer inty. While the film’s msage was important, “Different om the Others” end wh the tragic mise of the queer character, played by Conrad Veidt, who kills himself, rercg a vastatg image and the “bury the gay” trope.
Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema.