Arthoe Movie (Culture) Zürich Swzerland - gaYmeBoys Gay Gui

Contents:

• GAY PARTI & LGBTQ+ EVENTS
• THE CIRCLE: WHY IS GAY CEMA SO FIXATED ON THE PAST?
• GAY ZURICH
• GAY CULTURE
• GAY ZüRICH ZüRICH CY GUI

GAY PARTI & LGBTQ+ EVENTS

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Sce the year 2000 the "Warmer Mai" (Warm May), a cultural month, is held annually, focg on homosexual them the fields of art and culture. ” This story is about an early gay-rights group lled the Circle, which is also the tle of Hpt’s new film – one of a growg number of featur puttg stori om the LGBTQ archiv up on the big Circle (or Der Kreis German) was one of the world’s first anisatns dited to lbian and gay rights. Origatg 1932, aimed to offer reassurance, support and tn to homosexuals – first through s magaze, then through a social club – as well as gently lobbyg for reform.

Unually for a European untry, Swzerland did not outlaw homosexualy, and s ntraly ensured that the Circle, unlike other European gay groups, survived the war. As the pair beg a tentative romance, Ernst grows more polilly active; meanwhile, a murr draws attentn to gay subculture general and the Circle particular, sparkg a reactnary social, media and police film evotively recreat this te story through the nventnal trappgs of perd drama, such as judic productn sign and appropriate mic.

THE CIRCLE: WHY IS GAY CEMA SO FIXATED ON THE PAST?

It was a strategy spurred by fancial necsy – the film’s producers uldn’t secure fundg to plete an entirely dramatic feature as planned – but the rultg hybrid is a powerful document of a neglected perd of gay history wh much to tell about some ways, is not surprisg that the story of the Circle is unfaiar.

GAY ZURICH

Even if homosexualy was technilly legal Swzerland, “they had to be unrver.

Later, beg gay beme a huge subject wh Aids – but that was the subject, not lookg back history.

GAY CULTURE

Now I get the feelg many younger gay people Zürich really love to party but not thk about the past so much. ) As Hpt suggts, gay art and activism have often foced on crisis management and the pursu of legal equaly.

Such approach affirm the ia that gay and lbian progrs is part of the universal story of our natns’ social history. Pictur such as 1987’s Mrice, 1998’s Wil, 2005’s Brokeback Mounta, 2009’s A Sgle Man or this year’s The Imatn Game, meanwhile, ve to empathise wh the cshg social reprsn unr which their gay protagonists labour even as they imply the easg of such burns recent all their heartache, then, the films generally leave wh the reassurg sense that thgs have got better – and, of urse, wh a richer, more rmed unrstandg of how that change has e about.

After all, ’s about a gay subject, isn’t ?

GAY ZüRICH ZüRICH CY GUI

’ As if gay people would never watch a love story between a man and a woman.