10 movi that show how gay men were treated history. The list begs 1882 and ends 1987. Some of the films are difficult to watch.
Contents:
THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
Different om the Others (1919)Co-wrten by Atrian filmmaker Richard Oswald and sexologist Magn Hirschfeld, morn father of the study of human sexualy, the German silent film Different om the Others exriat societal homophobia Weimar Berl. Wh sights centred on Paragraph 175, the provisn the German penal that crimalised homosexualy, tells the tragic tale of Pl Körner (Conrad Veidt, later seen The Cabet of Dr Caligari and Casablan), a talented gay vlist blackmailed after ught elopg wh a male stunt.
It’s a fascatg social document: rarely are we afford such a ndid look at gay life the post-Stonewall and, ed, only 4 years after the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn had formally pathologised homosexualy.