Contents:
- HOW HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST OUT GAY STAR CHOSE LOVE OVER REER
- LOST DURG NAZI LE GERMANY, ONE OF THE WORLD’S FIRST PRO-GAY FILMS HAS FALLY BEEN RTORED FOR MORN VIEWERS
HOW HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST OUT GAY STAR CHOSE LOVE OVER REER
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. It’s nsired the first pro-gay film ever ma.
There his sexual tratn manifts the makg of nu statu out of breadcmbs, but also some homoerotic tensn wh fellow mate Aled Marquis. Let’s beg 1895 wh the very first glimpse of queerns on mera: William Dickson’s experimental sound film “The Gay Brothers”.
LOST DURG NAZI LE GERMANY, ONE OF THE WORLD’S FIRST PRO-GAY FILMS HAS FALLY BEEN RTORED FOR MORN VIEWERS
While was normal for two men to dance together the 19th century, some viewed this as the first pictn of queerns on the screen—seeg as was Vo Rso that troduced as “The Gay Brothers” his semal work “The Celluloid Closet. Durg the end of the scene, the gay wboy blows a kiss at Cannister—Cannister who wav him off disgt—while the tle rd reads “My Hero! For stance, the German law Paragraph 175 that outlawed homosexual acts between men, but did not mentn acts between women, is a law that Richard Oswald’s “Different om the Others” (1919) advot agast.
The emotnal passns and queer subtext displayed Oswald’s “Different om the Others” is nsired one of the first explicly gay films, one of the early pneers of queer cema, for s open portrayal of queer inty. It was also seen as part of the early gay liberatn movement Germany at that time for s advocy to repeal Paragraph 175, and also bee was -wrten by sexologist Magn Hirschfeld.
Hirschfeld, known for his advoci for gay men Weimar, was a huge part of the film’s msage support of homosexualy and nmng the laws that sought to harm them. While the film’s msage was important, “Different om the Others” end wh the tragic mise of the queer character, played by Conrad Veidt, who kills himself, rercg a vastatg image and the “bury the gay” trope.