Homosexuals have always played a creative role Hollywood. But gay stori almost never ma to celluloid. Or did they? On Monday, Turner Classic...
Contents:
- MOVIE SERI SHOWS GAY FILMS, BEFORE AND AFTER THE CO
- 16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
- 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
MOVIE SERI SHOWS GAY FILMS, BEFORE AND AFTER THE CO
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Throughout the film, the characters’ attractns are fluid, makg this one of the earlit films to feature lbian, gay, bisexual/pansexual, and transgenr them. The film was ma rponse to Germany’s then law agast homosexualy.
16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time. * gay pre code movies *
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There his sexual tratn manifts the makg of nu statu out of breadcmbs, but also some homoerotic tensn wh fellow mate Aled Marquis. Homosexuals have always played a creative role Hollywood. But gay stori almost never ma to celluloid.
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
From Victim to Weekend, we remember some of the bt Brish gay films. * gay pre code movies *
On Monday, Turner Classic Movi ble channel began “Screened Out, ” an amb seri on how Amerin movi om 1912-70 alt wh homosexualy. “What people don’t realize is that 77 years ago homosexual them were nsired viable enough to be part of mastream entertament, ” said Richard Barrs, whose 2005 book “Screened Out” is the basis for the seri.
Any open mentn of homosexualy was forbidn. From the ’50s there are social dramas such as “Tea and Sympathy” that take a veiled approach to homosexualy (effemate young men aren’t gay, they’re “sensive”). The thaw that began the late ’60s is reprented by such movi as “The Fox” and “The Boys the Band” that palized on new artistic eedom to unambiguoly pict homosexualy.
It’s easy to see the potential for gay ntent a movie such as 1955’s “Women’s Prison.