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Contents:
- BETIFUL THG IS A MASTERPIECE OF GAY STORYTELLG
- A LTLE LIFE: THE GREAT GAY NOVEL MIGHT BE HERE
- 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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.
A LTLE LIFE: THE GREAT GAY NOVEL MIGHT BE HERE
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. * a beautiful life gay *
“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.
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100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
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. 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. At another pot, a cur Jamie steals a gay magaze and, rrectly, tells Ste what “ottage” is (“It’s yogurt.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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.