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.
Contents:
- VTAGE GAY FICTN
- THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
- ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
- 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
- 16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
VTAGE GAY FICTN
Vtage gay , queer, fictn, stori, books, ebooks, sex, sexualy, love, lt, romance, men, homo * gay classic *
Now, don't get wrong, there are lots of fantastic scen of homosexual sex, all behd the backdrop of a '80s romantic background. 'Adam & Yv' (1974) (Image cred: Hand In Hand Productns)This 1974, X-rated film was geared toward gay male dienc and followed a French man named Yv and his pursu of a an Amerin, Adam Paris. 'Centurians of Rome' (1981) (Image cred: Bijou Vio)Centurians of Rome is one of the most expensive gay porn films of all time.
'A Night at the Adonis' (1978) (Image cred: evart)This Jack Wrangler film is nsired part of the Goln Age of gay pornography.
THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
Our celebratn of post-war gay, bisexual, and straight movie stars wearg next to nothg at all. * gay classic *
'Boys the Sand' (1971)(Image cred: Wakefield Poole)Another Goln Age classic, Boys the Sand is an important work of gay pornography, and is said to be the first gay film to achieve cril relevancy. 'Rurrectn of Eve' (1973)(Image cred: Mchell Brothers Film Group)This 1973 film om the creative team of Behd the Green Door (also on this list), ma history by targetg gay male dienc and cludg man-on-man oral sex IT53.
‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
Wele to the Gay Classic Car Group * gay classic *
Cast a few top-shelf gay ins there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playg Joan Crawford — and pecially have them reparteeg bchy l tearg each other to piec, and have an athetic that’s outre and unironilly mp, and you’ve got the wng-formula starter-pack for somethg licly fabulo and queer, even if not by tentnal sign. But settg a precent for movi now nonized by gay culture that don’t technilly have any (non-d, anyway) gay characters were some of Hollywood’s most all-time legendary actrs: Bette Davis “All About Eve” ma “’s gog to be a bumpy ri” an idmatic quip, while Elizabeth Taylor then ma Bette Davis’ “what a dump” even more inic aga the openg le of “Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf, ” livered while gnawg down on a chicken wg.
Ed Bianchi’s 1981 “The Fan, ” meanwhile, livered perhaps the greatt gift to gay film fans of a certa era stg Lren Ball as an agg actrs stgglg to hold onto her legacy while beg stalked by, what else but, a psychotic gay fan.
Films like “9 to 5” and “Steel Magnolias” keep ptivatg bee their sts are all top-to-toe, inic-among-the-gays women who n duce tears and lghs and shout unfettably quotable l the same scene. There’s also, of urse, the trend many of the movi of men beg huiated and based — somethg the gay mal the dience love to partake — leavg our inic women wh all the chips the end and whom we n leave the theater rootg for.
100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri. Home movi pture their easy affectn and reee dancg. But… * gay classic *
Below, IndieWire rounds up some of the bt cidly non-gay films that are actually gay after all — and gayer than many ntemporary movi proclaimg themselv as such actually are.
16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
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“All About Eve” has long been analyzed through a queer lens, wh many terpretg Eve and the character of Addison DeWt (Gee Sanrs) as gay.
But even if you thk everyone the film is heterosexual, s gay appeal is unniable, wh an in like Davis the lead, geo stum, and all of the lightfully bchy snark between the magnificent actrs.