Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival nearly upon , we take a look at some of the bt Lat Amerin gay, lbian and trans films om years past.
Contents:
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- ASí SURGIó LA TEORíA QUE KEN GAY
- MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival nearly upon , we take a look at some of the bt Lat Amerin gay, lbian and trans films om years past. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release nsirg this Lat Amerin top 10, many ntenrs narrowly missed the fal selectn, cludg Argentian gay crime flick Burnt Money (2000), Uguayan g-out chamber piece Leo’s Room (2009) and lbian bpic Reachg for the Moon (2013), about the romance between Amerin poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian archect Lota Macedo Soar.
Fans of betiful, paed men sufferg silence lap up the cema of Julián Hernánz, while the gentle teen drama The Way He Looks (2014), about a gay bld kid, was a huge h wh crics.
Kiss of the Spir Woman (1985)The only English-language film on this list is also the bt known, thanks to William Hurt’s Osr-wng performance as Luis, a flamboyant gay perast servg time a Brazilian jail cell wh polil prisoner Valent (Rl Julia). The late Argente-born Brazilian director Hector Baben also featured homosexual characters his grty gang drama Pixote (1981), but Kiss of the Spir Woman is his bt film, a damng crique of the Brazilian ary ernment.
ASí SURGIó LA TEORíA QUE KEN GAY
Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * spanish gay movie *
Only thg is, he’s gay and shacked up wh a botted mil stunt Guadalajara. Strawberry and Cholate (1993)The first (and, to date, only) Cuban film to be nomated for the bt foreign language film Osr, Strawberry and Cholate starts out like a cute gay rom before velopg to somethg far more provotive.
MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
Dpe a reputatn for reprsn, this sharp, irristible edy, spiced wh a love of mp that breath the same air as Pedro Almodóvar, is surprisgly cril of the Castro regime and sympathetic to s gay protagonist (Néstor Almendros’s 1984 documentary Improper Conduct is a damng dictment of Cuba’s homophobic polici).
The sweaty mararie of the two men has homoerotic ton om the get-go – the men are far more terted each other than their girliends and have a weird need to sleep wh women the other has already bedd. Like the two gay abductors, the film has a warmth beneath s timidatg exterr and lov all of s eccentric characters. Berger clearly lov the laddish mararie between men, even as he gently satiris machismo and emphasis s homoerotic unrton.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
The fact that the protagonists are women fightg agast male opprsn is of far more tert to Puenzo than their homosexualy.
The blend of fantasy and realism is betifully realised by filmmaker Javier Fuent-León, who origally nceived the story about a hetereosexual affair wh a sex worker, before changg the characters when he himself me out as gay. Every year, June is celebrated as LGBT Pri Month to honor the 1969 Stonewall Rts New York Cy that set off the gay rights movement the Uned Stat.