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Global Gay Nation => Gay Identity - Queer as Volk? => Topic started by: Feral on November 13, 2006, 05:09:49 AM
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Some shameless lobbying from PageOneQ and yours truly...
We Belong (http://webelongthemovie.com/webelongthemoviev4final/index.htm) is a short documentary currently in third place in the Seeds of Tolerance. The first and second place documentaries have more than a 100 vote lead. Fortunately, the voting proceeds until December 2. Thanks to PageOneQ slapping a link to Mr. Wilson's film at the top of the page, that gap may be bridged. A simple registration is required at Current.tv to vote (or even view the entries).
The blurb on We Belong from the contest site:
We Belong
Producer: Joe Wilson
This is the story of two rural teens who had the courage to stand up to bigotry and intolerance in their schools – and the determination to tell their stories to the world.
Homophobia is one of the last “permissible” forms of prejudice. Its effects are especially acute for youth, who often suffer alone and in silence. Two thirds of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth experience harassment or violence in school, and the suicide rate for this group is four times the average.
When C.J. Bills is gay bashed in the school locker room, then arrested for disorderly conduct because he protests to an administrator about the harassment he has experienced, he decides to fight back by making a documentary about discrimination. With his family’s help, he also initiates an investigation by the state human rights commission and shames the school district into developing an anti-bullying and diversity training program.
C.J.’s documentary project also leads him to Tim Dahle, a former high school student who challenged the years of anti-gay harassment he suffered in a neighboring town. In Tim’s case, the school district that failed to protect him agreed to one of the largest sexual harassment settlements in history, sending a signal to school districts around the country that such behavior can be costly.
We Belong demonstrates that young people have the power to change their communities and the world, and that helping youth to tell their stories, in their own way and on camera, is enlightening, empowering, and effective.
C.J. was later found guilty on the disorderly conduct charge and sentenced to one day of community service.
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Holding Trevor
Should you get the chance, you're going to want to see Holding Trevor (http://myspace.com/holdingtrevor). It has Jay Brannon in it, if that's an inducement.
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This sounds like it could be good... (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=4934)
Interview: Sex, surveillance and gay royals
Surveillance is a fast paced sexual and political thriller set in London.
It stars Tom Harper as Adam, a gay teacher who lives in Surrey and comes to London on the weekends to go clubbing and pick up men.
A casual encounter with a handsome stranger, Jake (Sean Brenden Brosnan) brings Adam to the attention of powerful, unseen forces. They rob him of his job and follow his every move. Suddenly, Adam's life is a mess, and he’s in serious danger. But why him?
Then Adam discovers that Jake planted on him the only evidence of an affair with a gay royal. When Jake is found dead, Adam is forced to go on the run.
Director Paul Oremland shot the film using surveillance media techniques, such as CCTV, web cam, mobile phone cameras and video recorders.
PinkNews.co.uk spoke to Tom Harper about his role as Adam.
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None of them new, but...
Moments of Gay Movie Magic (http://www.gaynz.com/aarticles/templates/features.asp?articleid=1935&zoneid=16)
When a recent GayNZ.com competition asked: "What's your favourite LGBT-themed movie?" the responses got our memories jogged, and piqued our interest in a few we hadn't heard of before.
Here's just a few inspiring selections for the next time you're wandering the aisles of your local video vault.
Angels in America (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rxueVvmC3c)
Tipping the Velvet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG4gdTqKpcc)
Beautiful Thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRFgt7RZpTw)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osU8A4ci_48) (though this clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3KO-wtVSY) is better)
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I will vote for "Beautiful Thing", in a heartbeat. I loved it. It made me shed a tear, which is not (necessarily) an easy thing for a movie to do, especially if it's a tear of happiness.
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True, that. My vote's still with Maurice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmgUHhI0YDA).
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Oh, I *so* fell in LOVE with the gamekeeper in "Maurice" .... s'WOOOOON! :)
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Yes. Well.
You can't have him.
He's mine.
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1. Jeffrey
2. Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and his Friends)
3. Drôle de Félix (The Aventures of Felix)...that scene when he meets that guy and have sex in the woods. Oh my!
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1. Jeffrey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAsC3th8kCo)
2. Faustrecht der Freiheit (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2512375057735728119&q=%22Faustrecht+der+Freiheit%22&total=1&start=0&num=100&so=0&type=search&plindex=0) (Fox and his Friends)
3. Drôle de Félix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRlGcp2sMI) (The Aventures of Felix)...that scene when he meets that guy and have sex in the woods. Oh my!
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And how could I possibly forget: Torch Song Trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_Song_Trilogy)...sorry for not hyperlinking, Feral.
"Because everybody knows that queers don't matter, that queers don't love--and those that do DESERVE WHAT THEY GET!!!!"
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That line made me cry when I saw it in the theater (good thing too -- it was only in town for a day or two at most... I think the projectionist must have glanced up at some point and noticed what the film was about).
No need to apologize for not hyperlinking. I LIKE looking things up. I had only heard of "Jeffrey" and I wanted to see if there were any clips lying about. Voilà! There are.
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That line made me cry when I saw it in the theater (good thing too -- it was only in town for a day or two at most... I think the projectionist must have glanced up at some point and noticed what the film was about).
It's a wonderful movie and play. You have it all in that story. The pain of loving in many different ways, gay bashing, gay adoption, questions over whose love is real love...gay or straight...its an awesome amount of brain food to consume.
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I am still hoping to find a copy of Torch Song Trilogy. No luck on the 'net (so far)... Maybe once I move back to the city...
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Should you get the chance, you're going to want to see Holding Trevor (http://myspace.com/holdingtrevor). It has Jay Brannon in it, if that's an inducement.
What a marvelous looking film. maybe it will make it over here someday soon, too...
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I am still hoping to find a copy of Torch Song Trilogy. No luck on the 'net (so far)... Maybe once I move back to the city...
Berto, e-mail me at my real e-mail address: SchwulerVizier -at- Yahoo.de. I may be able to help you in your search. - Peter
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The Crying Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Game)
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Berto, e-mail me at my real e-mail address: SchwulerVizier -at- Yahoo.de. I may be able to help you in your search. - Peter
Oh, hey... I just noticed this. Thank you, Peter... I will write to you soon. :)
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Eytan Fox has not simply witnessed a radical, queer-friendly shift within his home country of Israel in the last decade; many credit Fox's films themselves with a large part of the change.
The celebrated gay director and writer's new film The Bubble pushes boundaries even further by not only examining gay life in Tel Aviv, but also taking on what may well be considered an even more shocking stigma: the love between two men, one Israeli, one Palestinian, in a country where a century of hatred —rooted in sovereign territory rights —deeply divides the two lands.
*click* (http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=4&STORY_ID=3465&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=2)
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Latter Days (http://www.latterdaysmovie.com/)
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Coming soon to an indy film festival near you...I intend to go see this one next month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's showing.
Documentary: The Godfather of Disco (http://www.thegodfatherofdiscodoc.com/)
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Two epochal bookends:
The Boys in The Band (http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/24/boysband.html) and Randy Shilts' And the Band Played On. (http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/vdh/vdh-title.html)
A set that encapsulates the beginning and the end of the gay liberation movement's golden age of innocence.
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Breakfast With Scot premieres tomorrow at Toronto Film Fest (http://www.afterelton.com/blog/brianjuergens/breakfast-with-scot-premieres-toronto-film-fest)
Well here's some unexpected news: Although it wasn't part of the originally announced lineup, long-awaited (for us, anyway!) gay sports dramedy Breakfast With Scot will make its premiere tomorrow night at the Toronto Film Festival. Considering that the fest has quickly become one of the hottest markets for new films, this is great news.
Those who remember my posts on this film in some other place (now wafted off into Neverland by the Interweb pixies) may recollect that this movie managed to spawn some small amount of controversy just being made at all.
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Toronto bartender Loriane Garrison comments about life in The Big City, as compared to life in A Small Town... (http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=2&STORY_ID=3572&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=7)
It was like a scene out of Small Town Gay Bar, the Kevin Smith-financed documentary about life in small communities in the US South. Or maybe not that bad, I don't know. The film won't be shown in Ottawa until October, as part of the return of queer film festival programming Toronto's Inside Out is bringing us.
Now, a year later, having moved to the big city, I still encounter — as I'm sure all of us do, from time to time — some forms of ignorance or prejudice, but it's a far cry from what I'm used to.
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Here in Ottawa — and Toronto and Vancouver and all the other major queer hotspots of the nation — we are more fortunate than we realize. Recently, I heard someone complain about the lack of night life in Ottawa for queers. I looked at them and laughed. There are gay bars and bathhouses and queer bookstores and Pride parties and restaurants which proudly display the rainbow flag on their windows. Back where I'm from, there wasn't even a queer department at my college — I guess, like the rest of the town, the school just assumed all its students were straight. Rainbows were for kids in kindergarten and the only thing queer about the community was how a small pocket of the 1950s had managed to survive untouched into 2007. Really, we were only queer — really, really, really queer, without worrying about being outed or what other people thought or would say — that one Saturday a month, up on the top floor of the Bohemian Penguin, drinking cocktails and listening to really, really bad dance music.
Want to imagine being gay in a small town? Smoke a joint, crack a beer, and sit down and watch an episode of I Love Lucy. Do absolutely nothing different, only assume Lucy and Ethel are secretly lesbian lovers. Now think about what would happen, based on the characters in the show, if it were discovered. It's an extreme example, and probably not quite that bad in reality, but that's how it feels. And if that's the way something feels then that's the way it might as well be. Now that you've got the picture, you can come back to the present age and be thankful you live where you do. There's nothing more alienating than being somewhere, where you're here, you're queer — and no one is used to it.
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Cruising (http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0736,lee,77663,20.html)
It caused a huge controversy when it opened here. I wondered what all the fuss was about as a kid. A few years later, I was wandering around looking for my own kinda gayness on those same streets.
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New documentary:
For the Bible Tells Me So (http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0740,hoberman,77941,20.html)
For the cream pie footage go HERE (http://fufbuf.gayrepublic.org/index.php/topic,786.msg3618.html#msg3618).