Geia Oakley and Rosy McEwen discs their film about a 'Don't Say Gay'-style law imposed on U.K. schools 1988 — and s current relevance.
Contents:
- COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
- NEW FILM ‘BLUE JEAN’ SHOWS HOW ANTI-GAY ‘MORAL PANIC’ NSUM SCHOOLS — THEN AND NOW
- COLUMN: THE MOVIE ‘BROS’ FLOPPED BUT SUCCEED JT BY BEG A GAY ROM
- CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
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NEW FILM ‘BLUE JEAN’ SHOWS HOW ANTI-GAY ‘MORAL PANIC’ NSUM SCHOOLS — THEN AND NOW
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” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.
COLUMN: THE MOVIE ‘BROS’ FLOPPED BUT SUCCEED JT BY BEG A GAY ROM
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CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
I didn’t want to dimish “the first major stud movie wrten by and starrg a gay man” or spoil s Rotten Tomato sre or dance on the grave of s box-office prospects. I certaly didn’t want to attack the star of “Billy on the Street” and “Difficult People, ” two of the most succsful screen adaptatns of the gay sensibily recent memory. ”Do that make too the “homophobic weirdos” of Eichner’s nfoundg post-bomb tweet spiral or simply the silent Benedict Arnolds of his self-proclaimed march to the history books?
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