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Gay + Lesbian
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 Based on Vito Russo’s groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream Hollywood films to illustrate how the movies have dealt explicitly — and more importantly, implicitly — with gay and lesbian themes. Layered between the clips are interviews with filmmakers whose works have touched on that subject. The popular films of the Golden Age could only hint at homosexuality and often portrayed gays as simpering characters, objects of scorn or merriment, or insidious villains.
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(5 votes, average 4.20 out of 5)
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 Zoo, a film by The Stranger columnist Charles Mudede and director Robinson Devor, and executive producers Garr Godfrey and Ben Exworthy, is a documentary on the life and death of Kenneth Pinyan (played by Adam T. McLain) a Seattle area man who died of peritonitis due to perforation of the colon after engaging in receptive anal sex with a horse.
The film's public debut was at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007, where it was one of 16 winners out of 856 candidates, and played at numerous regional festivals in the USA thereafter.
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 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims there are no gays in his country. This documentary was the first to reveal the little-known plight of gays in Iran, where beatings, flogging and death are everyday risks.
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Gay + Lesbian
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 Consider the following story line for the ultimate video nasty. Single man meets radical male masochist on the Internet. On their first date, the masochist offers up his penis as main course in a romantic dinner for two.
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Gay + Lesbian
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 An exhaustive compilation of gay-interest film clips, organized loosely by theme (the montage of lesbian and gay characters being killed off is particularly striking). Popular songs are used as an ironic counterpoint to many of the clips. While most of the clips are from mainstream Hollywood films and will be familiar to gay movie buffs -- the first gay bar
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