Love, Simon: at last Hollywood is sayg ‘I’m gay’ | Love, Simon | The Guardian

Contents:

• 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
• LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’
• LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?
• GAY THERAPIST DISCS “LOVE, SIMON” OM A GAY MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR OUT AS GAY

Bram realiz that Victor is feelg overwhelmed by the experience, wh him emg "too gay" and cis to take him to a basketball league, where they play, Bram then reveals that is a gay league, he wanted Victor to see that there is no one way to be gay.

Love, Simon is breakg barriers as the first major stud movie about a gay kid, and along wh that distctn, is also jt a really sweet, funny, and heartfelt high school rom-.

LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’

In Love, Simon, Simon Spier velops an timate email-based relatnship wh a fellow closeted gay kid at his high school, who sends him msag unr the alias Blue.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda — on which Love, Simon is based — Simon also ends up wh Bram, but that party make-out scene is not a part of the story. "Pollari, who has played a gay character once before TV seri Amerin Crime, said he stggled wh a sense of shame before g out. Lookg at the advanc civil rights, would seem that the liv of gays and lbians have much improved.

It is media reprentatns of gay men that the new “stealth homophobia” most clearly shows s face.

LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?

Gay men are out and proud on some TV shows — the new rnatn of Queer Eye for stance.

But Queer Eye still offers effemate gay men who make lgh when they remend sk products or drs hair.

This year’s Osr wner for bt movie, The Shape of Water, portrayed a sympathetic olr gay iend (played by Richard Jenks) who is gentle, effemate, and of urse, sad — an archetype that has domated Amerin cema sce Sal Meo’s Plato Rebel Whout a Cse.

GAY THERAPIST DISCS “LOVE, SIMON” OM A GAY MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

The theatre was filled wh llege-aged stunts who mostly seemed to sympathize wh the leadg character — a gay, closeted, high school stunt. ‘Love, Simon’ is nsired to be the first mastream teen romantic edy wh a gay lead character (played by Nick Robson, send om left).

The Guardian recently reported that “mastream cema has begun to treat gay love stori like any other romance.

There is no nudy, no sex and very ltle physil proximy between the gay characters what purports to be a gay romance. Of urse all gay men are not effemate, but Wtern culture, male on male sire is evably associated wh effemacy bee sex between men volv one man submtg himself to another.

Guy Hocquenghem, one of the first queer theorists, wrote about this his 1972 book, Homosexual Dire. To be sure, we have ma civil rights advanc gay rights sce those days, and rapidly sce 1969.

In this file photo, a member of the gay muny wearg a swastika and a sign statg ‘Fascism is alive and well and breedg Toronto’ walks past a police officer as he leav a police missn hearg, Toronto, Ont., Feb.

The Cy of Toronto officially regnized Pri Day Toronto around 1981 — the same time that the police Bath Hoe Raids Toronto galvanized support for the gay and lbian muny.

Gay men blamed homophobic lawmakers for their lack of support for rearch and treatment.