Gay Short Film ‘Requed’ Streamg Free On Its 10th Anniversary – DNA

Contents:

• 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
• MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
• GAY SHORT FILM ‘REQUED’ STREAMG FREE ON ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY

10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

Until 1949, havg gay sex was a hangg offence Victoria. It’s staggerg that homosexual acts between men were only ma legal throughout Atralia 1994, the same year The Adventur Of Priscilla, Queen Of the Dert explod joyfully to cemas the world over.

Wh such a hateful swamp of nservative legislators, was left to the movie dtry to fight for equal rights love, marriage and child ctody law, hence why, nearly all of the movi here, the gay relatnship is a ‘problem’ for wir society and the participants endure abe, vlence or hate. Big screen gay love stori rarely seem to end happily.

MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM

This was the first Atralian film that dared to feature an actual gay romance as s ma theme. Bizarrely, the film’s trailer seems to take a stand agast homosexualy, the narrator proclaimg that Tony is tryg “to pe om tangled, unnatural passns” and that “his relatnship is acceptable this age when moral standards are nfed”. It’s nontg to thk of how Atralia fell love wh a tr of outrageo drag queens prancg their glor way across the outback, parts of the untry that had the world’s tought penalti for gay sex.

One Tassie polician om the time, Robert Archer, even lled for homosexuals to be “tracked down and wiped out” by police. Crowe is the macho but vulnerable gay plumber wary of beg hurt and pg wh his overbearg widower dad.

GAY SHORT FILM ‘REQUED’ STREAMG FREE ON ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY

One of the most explic Asie films to ga a mastream release, this sexual melodrama starrg Alex Dimrias as Ari, a gay Greek Atralian teenager Melbourne, pulled no punch when me to nudy, vlence and culture clash.

An spirg do about the 2006 World Cup of Gay Rugby fal between the San Francis Fog and the Sydney Convicts, narrated by former NRL great Ian Roberts, one of the few Asie field sportsmen to have e out. The tournament is lled The Bgham Cup after Mark Bgham, a gay gby player who died a hero after helpg to storm the ckp of Uned 93 on 9/11, preventg the plane om beg a terrorists’ weapon. A gay Greek Atralian photographer (Ewen Llie) journeys to Europe to stter his dad’s ash, but unvers a sister fay curse which leads him to the seedit backwaters Greece, Paris and Budapt.

There have been plenty of high school g-out films, but none as raw or emotnally-charged as this (very) low-budget ’90s tale of two awkward teenagers clumsily workg out their feelgs for each other and pg wh their (very) dysfunctnal fai and latent homophobia.

Viewg today durg another viral panmic brgs home how cel some policians at the time were for blamg the homosexual muny for the so-lled ‘gay plague’.