GAY PRIDE MONTH: Based on Penelope Gilliatt's sharp script, the movie holds important place film history, offerg the first posive image of homosexual lead role mastream movie--and the first gay kiss!
Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD FIRST GAY KISS: SCHLGER’S SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, STARRG PETER FCH, GLENDA JACKSON, AND MURRAY HEAD AS THE GUY THEY BOTH LOVE
- GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
- A YOUNG GAY MAN MEETS HIS FIRST LOVE IN THIS HARROWG SHORT FILM
HOLLYWOOD FIRST GAY KISS: SCHLGER’S SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, STARRG PETER FCH, GLENDA JACKSON, AND MURRAY HEAD AS THE GUY THEY BOTH LOVE
* first movie with gay kiss *
Gay Pri Month.
GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971): First Gay Kiss Hollywood Movie. Based on Penelope Gilliatt’s sharply observed screenplay, the movie holds an important place film history, offerg the first posive image of a homosexual character (and a Jewish one at that) a lead role a mastream movie. Schlger, the late Jewish, openly gay filmmaker, is better-known for his Osr-wng picture, Midnight Cowboy (1969).
That movie, starrg Dt Hoffman and Jon Voight, also had gay subtext the relatnship between s two loser-protagonists. Daniel Hirsch (Peter Fch), a gay Jewish doctor his forti, and Alex Gerville (Glenda Jackson), a reer unselor her thirti, are both love wh Bob Elk (Murray Head), a boyish, succsful sculptor who sually divis his time and affectns between them. Hirsch, a quiet, telligent surgeon who seems to have accepted his homosexualy and Jewishns.
A YOUNG GAY MAN MEETS HIS FIRST LOVE IN THIS HARROWG SHORT FILM
Hirsch is somethg of a first–a homosexual who is not pathetic, grotque, or pathologil–a man wh self-teem and digny.