''Kg and the Clown'' lacked a sgle top star om South Korea's boomg film dtry, or the other ual gredients of a surefire blockbter. And a untry where homosexualy was removed om the Youth Protectn Commissn's list of ''socially unacceptable'' acts only 2004, the film centered on a gay love triangle a 16th-century royal urt: a young male clown torn between his love for a fellow clown and an amoro kg.
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THE CLOWN THAT HIS OM GAY PEOPLE
Energy is eternal light." – William Blake[1] Beg gay is lked wh lghter, etymologilly and ontologilly. Gay, om the Old French gai, means we are * clowns are gay *
Beg gay is lked wh lghter, etymologilly and ontologilly. Gay, om the Old French gai, means we are full of merriment, bright appearance, and loose our ways of livg.
Today homosexuals are equently the butt of jok. In this culture, homosexuals stand as ntemporary Tricksters, Clowns, and Fools – the genr-bendg, lghter-provokg, life-transformg archetype found every culture around the world. To assume the hazards of homosexualy, we need a relaxed spir, and an ebullient sense of lt and eedom.
Shadow: GLBTQ people n fight homophobic stereotyp wh nformist unter-stereotyp, provg we n be jt as ponro, prospero, and dull. One-dimensnal uber-mp clowns, storyl centred on “beg gay”, potential sexual menac who want to get to the pants of straight men, lbians whose sexualy mak them a challenge for men to turn: here are how LGBT characters often appear on our screens.
GAY-THEMED FILM GIV CLOSET DOOR A TUG
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)Take Get Hard, the new so-lled “edy” starrg Will Ferrell, which taps to the revulsn of some straight men at the very ia of gay sex.
Attus towards trans people are stuck roughly where they were for gay men back the 1980s: a toxic rhetoric of disgt abounds, wh a ighteng prejudice that trans people are sexual predators who will somehow trick the unassumg to havg sex wh them.
But many gay wrers have suggted that the portrayal of gay characters is sometim analogo to those old mstrel shows, which are now rightly seen as unacceptable. Silly, rdboard cut-out gay men, illy mcg around for our general TV and film reflect society’s general attus, but they also help rerce them.