Xvios VCA Gay - The Bigger The Better - scene 5
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VCA DIGAL ARCHIVE: GAY EXPERIENCE
The short films al their own way wh the lived experience of beg gay, and my own vigt below I’ve reflected on my own experienc this regard. Stori shared by the three gay men Some Rabows Never Grey is also the story of my father. In the documentary, Allan, Jim and Ian reflect on what was like for them as gay men the 1960s who ma the nsc choice to marry women, and the nsequenc of livg wh this cisn.
I’m a gay man, and the son of a gay man. Scenar the openg scene of Heart Statn – a g-of-age drama about a young gay man’s fatuatn wh a straight man his three-month ‘HIV wdow’ – mt surely be faiar to nearly every gay man: anxly wag to get an HIV tt, or to get the rults om one. I didn’t really know what beg gay meant let alone anythg about havg sex wh another guy and g ndoms to protect both om ntractg Statn.
VCA GAY - THE BIGGER THE BETTER - SCENE 5
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