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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’

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. 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 BT GAY AND LBIAN FILMS OF THE 1960S

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. 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.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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). 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. Mankiewicz (1)Rben Greene (1) **William Wdom (1) Larry Peerce (1)Helmut Griem (1)Michael York (1)Pl Newman (1)Rex Harrison (1)Sannah York (1) Mart Rt (1)Irm Hermann (1) Nilas Roeg (1)Anne Heywood (1) Ken Rsell (1)Dt Hoffman (1) Mark Ryll (1)Jason Holliday (1) ** Jim Sharman (1)Bernard Hugh (1) Billy Wilr (1)Fred Znemann (1)*gay director **gay actor ***gay wrer. 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.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

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. Why ’s gay: Beyond s possible cln bee of the bare-chted Holn — a 1950s Hollywood beefke, seen here ep to his reer — what is notable is a possible alternative terpretatn of two female characters.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

From the tfight the powr room to the over-the-top dialogue to the jaw-droppg mil numbers and not one but two montag that serve as md-bogglg time psul of the ’60s, the film is so outrageo that spired generatns of gay viewers to scream, “Sparkle, Neely, sparkle! Why ’s gay: A wacky sexploatn film wh high mp productn valu and a killer theme song, Barbarella mt fight the evil Durand Durand (om which inic New Wave band Duran Duran took s name), while scg a shirtls Aryan angel and outlastg an evil sex mache. Why ’s gay: Endlsly quotable and drippg wh the fatigable spir of a stnch character, the tragic woman tak on a theatril magnificence wh Ltle Edie’s every twirl and outf change.

What is: Although has been staged wh two men ( 2015 London), the straight uple’s suatn “Brief Enunter” — a drama of two married people (Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard) meetg by chance and their growg mutual affectn — works fe as a metaphor for barriers to gay romance. Why ’s gay: More than the one-act Noel Coward play (the gay wrer expand the screenplay), this ni the possibily of realistic nsummatn, elevat the tratn impossible love, and als wh the sts of turng hont people to liars. Why ’s gay: Starrg a trifecta of hilarly talented legends, “9 to 5” slapstick, sexualy, and men’s huiatn to she a light on workplace harassment and discrimatn.

GAY SEX THE '70S

Why ’s gay: Although “Mommie Deart” was negatively received at the time of s release, attracted a strong gay fanbase pretty much immediately, due to Dunaway’s performance, which was received by many as mp — most famoly, the inic “no wire hangers” scene. Why ’s gay: What’s gayer than a movie wh Lren Ball beg stalked by a closeted mil buff than also that same movie segueg to an out-of-nowhere stage mil medley a la “Sg’ the Ra’s” entr’acte, featurg Ball speak-sgg onstage while beg lifted and twirled around by a pack of male dancers?

10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS

Why ’s gay: Ridiculo, silly, and totally over the top, this sleight piece of slapstick would be totally fettable were not for Toml and Midler’s performanc. Why ’s gay: Those who had already read queer cu “Top Gun” three years earlier saw some the story of Dalton (Patrick Swayze, his first major film after “Dirty Dancg”), as a “oler” imported to a Missouri small-town bar om New York to impose orr.

But they’ll also see themselv the spectacular rilience of Cher’s imperfect Rachel Flax, whose volatile outbursts are as gay as her bt l (“Don’t do anythg I wouldn’t do — or do anythg I would! Why ’s gay: A reverent rendn of “My Guy” that tly slaps, a breakout performance om Kathy Najimy as a jubilant nun, and Whoopi provg why she was edy queen of the ’90s. Why ’s gay: Collette is hilarly pathetic as the eccentric outst who longs to leave her podunk town, and Rachel Griffhs is fabuloly glib as her bt iend Rhonda.

10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

” But what really ph to the gay film non is Ga Gershon’s hammy performance as bisexual star dancer Cristal, and the love/hate chemistry she builds wh Berkley, which arguably sgle-handly lifts the film om so bad ’s good to jt pla good.

Why ’s gay: Any 1990s Bette Midler jot is herently gay on s own terms, but Hawn as a washed-out actrs pumpg herself wh fillers and Keaton as her ual shriekgly nrotic self certaly help. ) But what really elevat the film to gay movie stat is the soundtrack, which is full of sad bangers like “Never too Far” and regular bangers like “Loverboy. The lp clus plenty of romance, tear jerkers, German ps havg gay shower sex, and classic tal of nocent young n check out the full movie scriptns and curated clips of their selected "Netflix and Chill" favor at the webse.

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