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Hundreds of photographs om the 19th and 20th centuri offer a glimpse at the life of gay men durg a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere.

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BETIFUL THG IS A MASTERPIECE OF GAY STORYTELLG

Ron Amato has been takg glorly romantic photos Provcetown and other bety spots for 18 years. Happily you n see them currently at Art Gaysel Miami. * a beautiful life gay *

Betiful Thg Is a Masterpiece of Gay StorytellgThe 1996 Brish film portrayed s workg-class LGBT characters wh remarkable sensivy and Pictur ClassicsWhen Jonathan Harvey’s love story Betiful Thg buted 1993 as a play, he had no ia would eventually be herald as a crown jewel of gay storytellg. “But wasn’t tend to be a gay play, jt a play that happened to have gay characters.

Remend ReadgDpe Betiful Thg’s tle, gay life the early 1990s was anythg but pretty. AIDS, then a terrifyg new disease, had started killg thoands of gay men the prev .

In 1987, Bra’s Prime Mister, Margaret Thatcher, gave a speech plag that, rather than learng to rpect “tradnal” valu, children were beg tght that they “have an alienable right to be gay. ” It was hardly a cince that Sectn 28—an amendment that prohibed lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” or teachg schools the “acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”—was enacted by Thatcher’s ernment the followg year. The film was genuely subversive for s time and place: Depictg gay kids who don’t succumb to the “plague” or ultimately bow to prsure om their bigoted peers was no small thg at a moment stricken by an pecially vilent, anti-LGBT mood.

A LTLE LIFE: THE GREAT GAY NOVEL MIGHT BE HERE

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Inially, neher boy has fully accepted his sexualy, and Betiful Thg is a lite exploratn of the often-paful procs of g out that evolv to a gay film is filled wh charmg and poignant moments that uld be found any romantic dramedy.

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

At another pot, a cur Jamie steals a gay magaze and, rrectly, tells Ste what “ottage” is (“It’s yogurt. Later, the two go to a gay jot—the first place they thk to go to where they n be public about their relatnship sans judgment— a scene that gently pots to the historil signifince of gay bars as safe spac. Wh the relatable and humane moments, the film telegraphed to s mid-1990s dienc somethg they hadn’t heard much before: Gay people are jt Betiful Thg div even eper.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Through the film’s two other central characters, viewers also get an illumatg glimpse of gay love crosshatched wh other forms of opprsn rooted inty—primarily class—as well as a broar, arguably fuller pictn of longg for, well, belongg.

” Jamie asks Ste at one pot)—when they’re also stuck another—on a uncil tate wh fay members who might be unaware of their own anti-gay prejudic or who might react vlently to learng about their sexualy.

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