‘Lonome’ Review: Damaged Souls Meet Atralian Gay Cowboy Odyssey – The Hollywood Reporter

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• WHIRLWD GAY ROMANCE 'OF AN AGE' HAS A TLY MOVG TRAILER
• TAKE A FIRST LOOK AT GAY-THEMED ASIE FILM, OF AN AGE

WHIRLWD GAY ROMANCE 'OF AN AGE' HAS A TLY MOVG TRAILER

And next year is gog to be even the first major stud gay rom-, to queer-clive horror, to Harry Styl playg a queer p, the next year will have a ton of great LGBTQ+ ntent on the big screen. Billy Eichner wrote and starred this gay rom- wh an all LGBTQ+ prcipal st, cludg Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, Guillermo Diaz, and Le Macfarlane as Eichner's love tert. The movie, which is beg lled the first gay romantic edy by a major stud, jt wrapped filmg and is schled to h theaters Augt 22, 2022.

Tells the story of bt iends Jane and Lucy, when one of them gets a promotn to move to London and the other out as gay. Gay-themed films om Down Unr are notable rari but ually end up beg classics: Thk Priscilla, Queen of the Dert, All About E, or Head On.

TAKE A FIRST LOOK AT GAY-THEMED ASIE FILM, OF AN AGE

But grty, gay g-of-age dramas om the Great Southern Land are somethg to behold and worth puttg your viewg que. Set post World-War II Germany, this Atrian drama follows Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) who's imprisoned several tim for beg gay and durg his time prison shar an timate relatnship wh his cellmate, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), who is servg a life sentence for murr.

Directed by wife team Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, this film follows two bt iends, One and Lucy, as they face two major life chang: one is movg abroad and other out as gay. Based on a wild but te story, Potato Dreams of Ameri follows openly gay wrer-director W Hurley's move om Rsia to Ameri when his mother be a mail orr bri and marri a much olr and eccentric man.

Wolfe (Ma Raey's Black Bottom), wrten by Dt Lance Black, and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's productn pany Higher Ground, this film is a mt-watch this year, pecially wh Coleman Domgo as civil and gay rights in Bayard Rt.

This horror film g om Blumhoe is beg scribed as a queer empowerment story set at a gay nversn mp.

Powerful movie about the stggl of a young gay guy: survival, migratn toward a big, gay cy, and learng how to love (onelf and others) whout much help along the two ma actors are amazg and nvcg, the photography is stunng, and the plot has a pirque movie remd me of another Atralian queer film, Head On (1998), which als also about inty crisis, migratn, and the difficulty to be at peace wh onelf. Buildg upon the momentum spurred by Brokeback Mounta (the first gay movie to be nomated for Bt Picture at the Osrs), which ankly uldn't have been possible whout the movements ma by New Queer Cema that me before , the 2010s opened up the general dience's ey to the spectm, the bety, the glory of LGBTQ+ film. A queer and morn adaptatn of Jane Aten's Pri & Prejudice, Fire Island tak viewers to the famo gay statn, Fire Island P, as unravels a story of love, iendship, and chosen fay.

Unr Andrew Ahn's directn, Fire Island sh long overdue spotlight on gay characters — specifilly, Asian — whom you've never seen a movie before and nnot wa to see more of aga.

Shardul is gay, and Suman is a lbian, so, to keep their persistent fai off their backs, they ci to get married.

Directed by Juliana Curi, this documentary follows the eponymo Uýra Sodoma, a trans Indigeno artist who travels through the Amazon's riversi muni, g performance art as a means of teachg the Indigeno youth about stctural racism and homophobia Brazil. Hong on the near-universal experience of feelg everythg durg adolcence, while unrstandg nothg, Close is Las Dhont's sophomore feature, tracg 13-year-olds Léo and Rémi's (En Dambre and Gtav Waele, rpectively) sgular iendship, which blossoms one summer, but is met wh risn upon their return to school.

Of urse, set the latter years of Ameri's Don't Ask, Don't Tell era, his experience vari greatly once everyone learns that he is gay. Still, Ellis ph through to the end, hopg that what he has acplished is enough for his homophobic mother to fally accept him.