Out director Ira Sachs slams his new queer film’s NC-17 ratg, llg the MPA “anti-gay” - LGBTQ Natn

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY: JULY 9, 1983: ITALIAN MOVIE DIRECTOR FRAN ZEFFIRELLI COM OUT AS GAY.
• GAY ITALIAN DIRECTOR SUFFERS HOMOPHOBIC ASSLT ROME
• ITALIAN-TURKISH DIRECTOR FERZAN OZPETEK SHOOTG GAY ROMANCE ‘NUOVO OLIMPO,’ HIS FIRST NETFLIX FILM
• OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

GAY HISTORY: JULY 9, 1983: ITALIAN MOVIE DIRECTOR FRAN ZEFFIRELLI COM OUT AS GAY.

On this date 1983, Italian film director Fran Zeffirelli  out as gay an terview wh The Advote, sayg, “I’m gay….

Fran Zeffirelli’s legacy as an Italian film director, theater director, and opera producer and as a gay man remas unparalleled. " The film follows the explos of a closeted gay Korean Amerin teenager who works at a spa to help his fay only to disver a sexual unrworld at his new job. Jamie Babb is perhaps bt known for her but feature, 1999's "But I'm a Cheerlear, " the beloved queer classic that tells the story of two teenage girls who fall love at a gay nversn therapy mp.

GAY ITALIAN DIRECTOR SUFFERS HOMOPHOBIC ASSLT ROME

Brish wrer-director-producer Andrew Haigh is perhaps bt known for his ntributns to the HBO seri "Lookg, " which follows a group of young gay men San Francis. While his but feature was "Greek Pete" 2009, Haigh broke out two years later wh "Weekend, " a film about two gay men who have an extend one-night stand and explore the meang of nnectn the morn era. Many of Van Sant's films explore homosexualy through subtext, examg the relatnships of margalized outsirs.

While queerns is often subtextual his films, Van Sant explored homosexualy at the foreont of "Milk, " a historil bpic about Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected polician. Hayn' but feature "Poison" was even more ntroversial for s overt exploratn and pictns of homosexualy, but earned him two Film Inpennt Spir Award nomatns for bt director and bt first picture. The film stars his good iend and equent llaborator Julianne Moore as a 1950s suburban hoewife who learns her hband is gay and embarks on an affair wh her Black garner.

ITALIAN-TURKISH DIRECTOR FERZAN OZPETEK SHOOTG GAY ROMANCE ‘NUOVO OLIMPO,’ HIS FIRST NETFLIX FILM

Guadagno is probably bt known for "Call Me By Your Name, " a gay love story that tak place durg an Italian summer the 1980s. His 1976 but feature, "Sebastiane, " was ntroversial for s overt pictns of homosexualy. Outsi of his work, Jarman was a proment public figure Bra and advoted for gay rights durg the AIDS crisis.

Gay Italian film director suffers ser juri durg homophobic asslt by two men at his homeSebastiano Riso attacked by two men as he walked to his apartment RomeHe was punched the face and stomach while men hurled homophobic abeRiso left hospalised after attack, sufferg multiple abdomal and eye juri Published: 20:06 BST, 3 October 2017 | Updated: 20:08 BST, 3 October 2017. A gay Italian film director suffered ser juri after he was subjected to a btal homophobic asslt at his own home. The filmmaker was beaten days after his film 'A Fay', which foc on a hetrosexual uple that suppli children to gay fai, opened Italy.

Sebastiano Riso was punched the face and stomach by two thugs as he walked to his apartment RomeMr Riso was left hospalised by the savage attack and is believed he will not be released for another 10 director said the men hurled homophobic slurs at him as they land the a statement, he explaed: 'Yterday I was h three tim, and I feel is a threefold attack: as a homosexual, as a director and as a person. 'As a homosexual bee, while I was beg h, they addrsed me wh homophobic sults. 'As a director, bee the sults referred to the them I al wh my latt film, the possibily for gay upl to form their own fay, and bee the vlence was perpetrated agast how I exprs myself through my add: 'Dpe the fear and rage that I still feel.

OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

Pasoli was an avowed munist, homosexual, and atheist.

He has e unr cricism om the gay muny of the world bee he supports the Catholic Church’s stance on homosexualy (spe the fact that he is openly gay himself).

Prolific Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek has started shootg “Nuovo Olimpo, ” a Rome-set gay romance that marks his first llaboratn wh Netflix. “We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex — a lot of thgs which I’m not, ” he told the L. Both films picted gay relatnships.