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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
* 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.
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 *
Remend ReadgDpe Betiful Thg’s tle, gay life the early 1990s was anythg but pretty.
100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
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.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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.