'Two boys snoggg was revolutnary': the greatt gay moments cema | Film | The Guardian

Contents:

• 'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
• GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA

BOYS!, the platform om The Ltle Black Gallery to promote queer and gay photography, is openg a new onle exhib featurg the work of French photographer Stephane Gizard, known for his "gentle, kdly eye" which ptur "the bety and agily of his subjectn, which have clud many celebri and strangers. - The world's first fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay 2 - the Pri Issue featur ten photographers om ne untri: AY (UK), David Charl Colls (Atralia), Matthew Fley (USA), Ashish Gupta (India), Manuel Monyo (Mexi), Juan Anton Papagni Me (Argenta), Sebastian Perotti (Argenta), Mric A. Art platform to promote queer and gay photography.

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

It now reprents more than 67 photographers om 27 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant have been onle and physil exhibns, and two sold out BOYS! Said:"Dpe the panmic we managed to lnch a new pennt magaze dited to queer and gay photography. It jt go to show that there is a market for a well-produced prt magaze showsg fe art photography by queer and gay photographers that is not jt a dick magaze!

Funny and erotic, Benjam tells a memorable story on a mimal budget—one which will feel very te to life to many gay viewers. We want to give a special shout-out to The Capote Tap, director Ebs Burnough’s documentary about Tman Capote’s lost fal novel; The Obuary of Tun Johnson, the story of an Ain-Amerin gay man relivg his own ath over and over; Breakg Fast, the Haaz Sleiman-led queer romantic edy (which jt picked up the prtig Audience Award at aGLIFF, no ls), and Cured, a fascatg new documentary about the queer activists who lobbied the APA to classify homosexualy as an illns. A Gay Man Speaks Out.

Bt Gay Scene: Murray Bartlett, Las Gage 'The Whe Lot'. Bt Sp-Roastg a Gay Married Couple: Jake Weary 'Animal Kgdom'. It was spired by the succs of a mpaign based Boston's gay muny to fend agast a lol wchhunt.

WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?

operatg wh lbian, gay, femist, and other liberatn movements;. "You may ask why do we need a platform and magaze for queer and gay photography? "The simple answer is that queer and gay photography is grossly unrreprented the fe art world, and even more so the mastream media.

Is phg back agast this and attemptg to make mastream and showsg queer and gay photography the ntext of fe art photography.

It prents a ntemporary llectn of queer and gay photography, full of variety, power, and tensy. It featur more than 50 queer and gay photographers om more than 20 untri. It cis wh the lnch of new onle art platform -- the home of queer and gay photography.

GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG

After buildg a fanbase for the sumptuo queer and gay photography books and onle prence they've built unr the BOYS! In certa cultur, homosexual behavur may be nmned among adults but permted as play between adolcent boys, or men may have discreet relatnships wh other men so long as they also marry and have children.

Some men may intify themselv as "homosexual" or "gay" (specific terms exist almost all cultur) and have long-term or ocsnal sexual relatnships wh other men. Negative social attus often lead to strs for men who see themselv as homosexual; an Atralian study found that around 28% of young men who preferred sex wh other men had attempted suici, pared wh unr 8% of heterosexual young men. In some untri, homosexual men started the first support anizatns for people wh AIDS, the absence of actn by ernments and tradnal NGOs.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

The handheld phantasmagoria of The Last of EnglandG Van Sant, director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Huntg, To Die For, MilkDerek Jarman’s The Last of England is an amazg barrage of memori, obssns, taclysmic visns, where Derek plays a gay memoirist wrg his thoughts down.

An amazg soundtrack by the geni Simon ’n’roll blar, as England falls, a fairy danc, betiful soldiers drk vodka and have gay sex.

Halfway through the film, on a hot summer night, the two teenage boys sneak off to a gay pub for the first time their liv.

Omar and Johnny’s hedonistic, forbidn soapy sex the lnrette was a slap the face to Conservativ g the Aids epimic to further monise gay people.

Here was another woman – like me – gleefully takg ntrol of her own passn VictimTerence Davi, director of Distant Voic, Still Liv, The Long Day Clos, The Hoe of Mirth, A Quiet PassnIn Victim, Dirk Bogar plays a closet homosexual barrister who risks both his reer and marriage to break a blackmailg gang when his young iend kills himself rather than implite is a small scene towards the end of the film when Bogar lls for his clerk to jo him. Idaho was clearly the film for s release, Gay Tim ran a ver featurg an embrace between the two leads. But, for the generatn of young gay men watchg the early 90s, somethg more explosive than a kiss – or even full-on sex – had already happened.