drama
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Joe Bell : a gay film for straight eyes
Mark Wahlberg may be the headliner in this poorly conceived melodrama, but it is 21-year-old Reid Miller who shines through as the real star. Based on a true story, which has been disappointedly adapted for the screen by Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain) this is a gay drama made specifically for straight eyes. It…
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Ronnie Larsen : Sex (with smiles) in South Florida
Wikipedia always says it like it really is For out-gay South Floridian Ronnie Larsen, the entry says he “is a playwright and film director specializing in writing plays about sex”. Like his play Making Porn which was about the gay porn industry in the 1980s, and the production was notable for casting gay…
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SAINT NARCISSE from queer auteur Bruce La Bruce
A new film from the Canadian queer auteur Bruce La Bruce is always an event. We are careful not to include him as part of the wave of new queer cinema that the leading Film scholar Ruby B Rich first recognized. LaBruce is one of the leaders of the queercore movement which is. noted…
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1980’s classic queer drama JERKER is revived
Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty (commonly known simply as Jerker) is a 1986 one-act play by Robert Chesley. Chesley wrote the play because he believed it was “important to remove the stigma…
