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HISTORIL GAY/BL/BROMANCE DRAMAS & FILMS
In many ways, Another Country seems to be the blueprt for the story of the gay kid and outsir as unlikely iends. The pair of boys have been marked as outsts by their peers and the school staff bee Bent is gay and Judd is a Marxist.
When their acquatance Visunt Risley (Mark Tandy) is exposed as gay and sentenced to hard labor, Clive fears what might happen to him if he’s outed. The noun ‘homosexualy’ was first ed the late-19th century, but the tras that we prently associate wh that word have likely appeared for thoands of years. As we e closer to the prent, queer history be a rerd of proximate events (such as Stonewall, AIDS and the murr of Harvey Milk) more regnisable unr the terms of today’s gay subjectivi.
Get the latt om the BFISign up for BFI news, featur, vios and filmmakers have long worked to show how homosexualy is neher morn dulgence nor historil aberratn. In Lookg for Langston (1989), Isaac Julien dreams of a Black, gay utopia spired by Jam Baldw and the eponymo Langston Hugh. Different om the Others (1919)Co-wrten by Atrian filmmaker Richard Oswald and sexologist Magn Hirschfeld, morn father of the study of human sexualy, the German silent film Different om the Others exriat societal homophobia Weimar Berl.