We pay tribute to some of the bt Atralian gay films.
Contents:
WHIRLWD GAY ROMANCE 'OF AN AGE' HAS A TLY MOVG TRAILER
Watch the trailer for "Of An Age," a whirlwd gay romance om Macedonian Atralian director Goran Stolevski. * gay movie melbourne *
The Club X Ram Lounge Cema screens gay adult films to a gay male dience, and is a small timate lounge space, wh private rooms off.
The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert (1994)While same-sex marriage was only ma legal Atralia 2017, the untry has a fairly strong rerd on LGBT rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-iendly ci the world.
Atralian cema has had a rather strange relatnship wh male homosexualy. Before the 1970s, the sexualy of probable gay characters was not ma explic, for example the effemate sal assistant Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938). The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy.
10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release Max 2: The Road Warrr (1981) featured a gay villa (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slayg of his lover), while more sympathetic homosexual characters appeared prison drama Stir (1980) and fay melodrama Mull (1988). The 1990s were a goln era for gay Ozzie films, while the new lennium has seen a glut of low-budget gay surfer dramas, cludg the easy-on-the-eye Newstle (2008), the nihilistic Drown (2015) and the downright bizarre Tan L (2006).
The Naked Bunyip (1970)Homosexualy was tnip to many of the filmmakers behd the wave of sexploatn documentari that flourished Atralia the 1970s, which often served as an exce to show tillatg shots of lbians gettg down to bs the bedroom. Gay men, if they appeared, were ually shown as unsympathetic, bchy queens. Not so The Naked Bunyip, the grandfather of Atralian sexploatn, which a lengthy segment is voted to a gay male dock worker, who talks ndidly about his life.
The film draws parallels between the close mascule relatnships that form unr the Atralian phenomenon of ‘mathip’ and homosexualy, while talkg heads discs the importance of crimalisg gay sex, which at the time of the documentary was a crimal offence Atralia. Although seldom tegorised as a gay film, viewers won’t need to dive ep for the queer subtext this vlent, male-domated world. Bond himself was gay, an early bar scene looks like a scene om William Friedk’s S&M thriller Cisg (1980), while is clear that some sort of sexual act, probably a rape, tak place between the teacher and Doc after a vlent stggle, sendg the protagonist to another spiral of spair.