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THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY

Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time. * gay movie history *

The noun ‘homosexualy’ was first ed the late-19th century, but the tras that we prently associate wh that word have likely appeared for thoands of years.

As we e closer to the prent, queer history be a rerd of proximate events (such as Stonewall, AIDS and the murr of Harvey Milk) more regnisable unr the terms of today’s gay subjectivi.

16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN

Get the latt om the BFISign up for BFI news, featur, vios and filmmakers have long worked to show how homosexualy is neher morn dulgence nor historil aberratn.

In Lookg for Langston (1989), Isaac Julien dreams of a Black, gay utopia spired by Jam Baldw and the eponymo Langston Hugh.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY MOVIE HISTORY

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