Dan Ferriegel, the hunky actor om 'Spartac: War of the Damned,' talks about playg one of TV’s first gay actn hero
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ALEX PETTYFER TO PLAY GAY ACTN HERO NEW LEE DANIELS FILM
Netflix movie 'The Old Guard' subverts actn genre expectatns wh cln and reprentatn, centerg a Black woman and gay uple's love story. * gay action movie *
So jt like my feelgs towards “Deadly Ski”, I both enjoy this film bee the fact the ma character is gay is not a ccial part of the plot, but equally I disklike bee of how easy is to erase away the gay aspect. After punks at school hand him multiple savage beatgs, gay teen McCla Evans (Michael O’Laskey II), discreetly begs martial arts trag wh Karen O’Neil (Diana Lee Inosanto), a myster woman who had her own cross to bear wh the prejudiced and bigoted small town muny.
As the film progrs, Joe and Nicky's love story be an creasgly proment part of the film's overall plot, and much of the onle excement around The Old Guard has centered on a scene which Joe giv an impassned speech about jt how much Nicky means to Joe speaks of his lenia-long love for Nicky, lends weight to the scene bee the viewer n only beg to image how much bigotry a gay uple would have experienced through the centuri. When the van door opens and we see that Joe and Nicky have slghtered their homophobic ptors, 's a moment that the movie plays for lghs—but their relatnship is never the ntent is imported om twter.
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WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A GAY ACTN HERO YET?
Celebrate the bt gay movi wh our list of the 50 most sential LGBTQ+ films ever ma * gay action movie *
For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life.
AIDS awarens was only jt startg, homosexualy was still very much misunrstood and taboo, and as the Reagan era tried to swg Hollywood to the right, very much failed to see what was dog to our favoure actn hero. Quent Taranto famoly livered a monologue the movie Sleep Wh Me (of all thgs), which he argued that Top Gun was a story of one man’s stggle wh homosexualy, but regardls, there’s still that volleyball scene.
While rearchg and wrg this article, I’ve e to appreciate how certa clothg disasters n make thgs seem to be more homoerotic than they should, but stg on another man’s thstg lap, while eatg an ice cream is jt not cricket. I’ve actually wrten before about the requise homoeroti ntaed the Transporter movi, (specifilly the expectatn of number three, which you n fd here) and, no doubt, a lot of you will have seen the origal Transporter already.
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We get -- there's a lot movi that "Suggted For You" sectn of your streamg que, but how do you sift through all the straight-to-DVD whe gay rom s starrg D-list celebs to fd somethg of te substance? Eventually, one ntracts productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Well worth watchg unls you're homophobicI saw this nice ltle movie Luxembourg one week or so after 's premier here. Y, Tman Capote was gay, y he is portrayed as such, y shows his partner, BUT the primary foc of the film was Capote's alholism and his wrg of In Cold Blood (and that is FINE, aga, was an EXCELLENT film, jt not a LGBT film my opn).
Terrific st wh excellent chemistry and some genuely funny moments, Fourth Man Out is a rehg gay edy that I thk many would enjoy (even the "manlit" men of this world), thanks to the rehg and likable performance of Evan Todd as the likable, awkward, r-mechanic Adam and his goofy well-meang straight "bros. A young man returns to his fay farm, after a long stay ex-gay nversn therapy, and is torn between the expectatns of his emotnally distant father, and the memori of a past, lovg relatnship he has tried to bury.