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Contents:
- THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
- RSIAN FIGHTER PILOTS’ GAY ROMANCE – MOSW CALLS IT “SHAMEFUL” AND BANS
- ‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
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RSIAN FIGHTER PILOTS’ GAY ROMANCE – MOSW CALLS IT “SHAMEFUL” AND BANS
“After that, ” adds Prr, “there was a plat about beg ‘homosexual propaganda’.
Fans of romance, take heed: the trailer for the gay historil drama Firebird has arrived. Both a Cold War thriller and a te story of a secret love, Rebane's feature highlights the steamy passns of young gay romance an environment where exprsg such feelgs is lethal.
‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
It won an honorable mentn for Bt First film has also screened at Mosw Internatnal Film Ftival, Durban Internatnal Film Ftival, Outft Los Angel LGBTQ Film Ftival, and Hong Kong Lbian & Gay Film Ftival.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
Art imat life Firebird, a Brish-Estonian productn about a gay war-romance set agast the backdrop of 1970s Soviet-occupied Estonia.
Bis beg a sensive and betiful gay love story, Firebird now offers somethg unexpected and powerful; stands to reprent that fightg spir and how has always existed throughout history var forms. Acrdg to The Guardian, Prr’s ditn to Firebird was spired by wantg to tell Sergey Fetisov’s story fahfully and to reprent gay romance as betiful rather than tragic.