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• THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
• 'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
• 'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
• IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE
• SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
• CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE
• THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'

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

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'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'

The magil Fantastic Beasts sp-off is, however, slowly explorg Dumbledore's (Ju Law) te inty–illtratg a masterful and strong gay leadg character. Adam don't f to any stereotype prevly displayed LGBTQ+ cema, and the film also tackl the unique relatnship between a gay guy and his supportive, straight-guy pals.

IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE

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SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI

Starrg Sean Penn and Ee Hirsch, the 2008 movie tells the story of Harvey Milk, who beme inic the LGBTQ+ muny for beg the first openly gay person to be elected to California ernment. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Hanks and Denzel Washgton star one of the first mastream Hollywood movi to tackle the subject of HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia. Members of the LGBTQ+ muny formed the group Lbians and Gays Support Mers after realizg police harassment agast the muny dropped off durg the strike.

Milk was based on the real life of Harvey Milk, Ameri's first openly gay person to be elected as a public official.

CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE

Milk served as a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and while the tle might not seem like a lot, the fact that a gay person was elected by the public to any posn 1978 was a huge tone for the LGBTQ+ muny.

THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME

It's a heartbreakg but very real look at what life was like for gay men an era when a adly vis was ravagg the muny while society refed to step up and help, and stead, isolated and ostracized the gay muny.

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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Instead, highlights the actors' disforts wh the material, their fears of beg perceived as gay, the relatnship and ntrast between art and pornography, and homoeroticism and stigmatizatn. " Woodroof was diagnosed wh HIV the mid-80s and though many who knew him claim he was gay, Woodroof sisted he wasn't and ntracted the disease through dg e. "The Inspectn" is a new feature about a young man who turns his life around the Mare Corps after beg kicked out of the hoe as a teen for beg gay and livg homels for several years.

JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER

The trailer for Bratton's film brgs a lot of the Mare Corps' re valu, so looks like we n expect a movie that portrays lead character Ellis French's ary experience a posive light spe of the herent problems a gay Mare would have faced that era.

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.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

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.

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. Unls, that is, you’re a 13-year-old boy, secretly attracted to other boys, and you’re watchg at home 1984 wh your parents, not expectg to be nonted by a man a donkey jacket, armed wh a guar and a sneer, sgg about how glad he is to be gay.