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Contents:
- THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
- THE BT GAY AND LBIAN FILMS OF THE 1960S
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
- GAY SEX THE '70S
- 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
- 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
"Felli Satyrin", "Funeral Para of Ros", "Victim", "Srp Risg", & "Reflectns a Goln Eye" are on The Bt Gay And Lbian Films of the 1960s on Flickchart. * gay 1967 films *
A te breakthrough and a film that has improved wh age, documentary filmmaker Shirley Clarke terviews gay Ain Amerin htler and aspirg baret performer Jason Holliday his apartment at the Hotel Chelsea.
THE BT GAY AND LBIAN FILMS OF THE 1960S
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay 1967 films *
Dorian reacts wh “Well hontly, the spicn of some people” – and after Sylvia’s “you homo” livers the movie’s classic le “Well, that don’t mean you’re a bad person”. However, the awful script by Abby Mann – dog for homosexuals what he did for Jews “Judgement at Nuremberg” – and the medcre directn by Gordon Douglas put the kibosh on everythg. Master sergeant Callan was Rod Steiger’s send gay role of 1968 but, unlike “Dorian”, his flamboyant hairstylist persona “No Way to Treat a Lady”, hardly anybody saw .
The subject matter, s release durg the Christmas season of 1968, and a uple of sthg (and homophobic) reviews by some of the major crics of the time (Kael, Crist, and Canby, were among them) that rembled a shark-feedg enzy, quickly sealed s fate. The gay thg is a b primive wh tortured souls gettg killed by their tricks and numero queer typ om The Village small parts so the dience will not clue to the more basic tails of the Joe Buck/Ratso Rizzo relatnship.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay, makg him the first out male ach a pro men's league. NBC Sports' Corey Robson explas why this is a big step for football. * gay 1967 films *
The tragic epilogue is that the five real-life gay actors were all unemployable major rol after the film’s release and all died of AIDS-related illns wh seven years of one another the late eighti and early neti.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
This documentary explor the birth of the gay pri movement New York after the Stonewall rts of 1969 and the sexual eedom that rulted. It touch on many aspects of gay culture the 1970s, cludg mic, dgs and art, followed by the vastatg impact that the onset of AIDS had on the homosexual muny. Told through several terviews and archival material, pats a picture of solidary and posivy while explorg the sexualy of a relatively new movement. * gay 1967 films *
The movie’s only sour note, a product of s tim, is that Langella’s character turns out to be gay th, explag all the nasty thgs he did to Ta over the urse of their relatnship. In “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, Murray Head plays a ee-spired bisexual who is havg simultaneo relatnships wh a divorced recment nsultant (Glenda Jackson) and a gay Jewish doctor (Peter Fch).
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
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All seems to go as planned until Jul overhears the newsflash on the televisn and like Madame Montpellier before him, he is immediately dispatched, his se, to that great gay sna the sky. This brgs to the film’s more overtly gay character Jordan Baker who driv a r, is a profsnal golfer, and whose last name is a reference to a certa sexually fluid Amerin ex-pat who, at the time of Gatsby’s publitn 1925, was the toast of Paris.
Oh, the one gay character the movie is Betty Buckley’s gym teacher who gets the plot rollg by g down hard on the girls (that would be Nancy Allen and Amy Irvg) after the “plug--up” scene the showers.
GAY SEX THE '70S
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10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
Cast a few top-shelf gay ins there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playg Joan Crawford — and pecially have them reparteeg bchy l tearg each other to piec, and have an athetic that’s outre and unironilly mp, and you’ve got the wng-formula starter-pack for somethg licly fabulo and queer, even if not by tentnal sign.
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
But settg a precent for movi now nonized by gay culture that don’t technilly have any (non-d, anyway) gay characters were some of Hollywood’s most all-time legendary actrs: Bette Davis “All About Eve” ma “’s gog to be a bumpy ri” an idmatic quip, while Elizabeth Taylor then ma Bette Davis’ “what a dump” even more inic aga the openg le of “Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf, ” livered while gnawg down on a chicken wg. Ed Bianchi’s 1981 “The Fan, ” meanwhile, livered perhaps the greatt gift to gay film fans of a certa era stg Lren Ball as an agg actrs stgglg to hold onto her legacy while beg stalked by, what else but, a psychotic gay fan. Films like “9 to 5” and “Steel Magnolias” keep ptivatg bee their sts are all top-to-toe, inic-among-the-gays women who n duce tears and lghs and shout unfettably quotable l the same scene.
There’s also, of urse, the trend many of the movi of men beg huiated and based — somethg the gay mal the dience love to partake — leavg our inic women wh all the chips the end and whom we n leave the theater rootg for.
Below, IndieWire rounds up some of the bt cidly non-gay films that are actually gay after all — and gayer than many ntemporary movi proclaimg themselv as such actually are. But even if you thk everyone the film is heterosexual, s gay appeal is unniable, wh an in like Davis the lead, geo stum, and all of the lightfully bchy snark between the magnificent actrs. Why ’s gay: Ameri’s arguably greatt director is normally regard as heteronormative (Wterns, war films, John Wayne, Amerin history), but his work is full of subtextual gay tert, rarely as much as here.