Crime Novel classic remembered: Everywoman heroine with typical bourgeois values but an unusual black housekeeper ally + straight and gay movie versions.
Gay Movies
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(See previous post: “Gay Pride Movie Series Comes to a Close: From Heterosexual Angst to Indonesian Coup.”) Ken Russell’s Valentino (1977) is notable for starring ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev as …
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Turner Classic Movies’ 2017 Gay Pride film series comes to a close this evening and tomorrow morning, Thursday–Friday, June 29–30, with the presentation of seven movies, hosted by TV interviewer …
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‘Making Love’: Groundbreaking romantic gay drama returns to the big screen As part of its Anniversary Classics series, Laemmle Theaters will be presenting Arthur Hiller’s groundbreaking 1982 romantic drama Making …
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Cannes Winners vs Oscar Nominations: Joaquin Phoenix and AIDS Drama that made Pedro Almodóvar sob plus rare Swedish Palme d’Or winner chances?
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Turner Classic Movies continues with its Gay Hollywood presentations tonight and tomorrow morning, June 8–9. Seven movies will be shown about, featuring, directed, or produced by the following: Cole Porter, …
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2016 Movies: Isabelle Huppert as the year’s Emmanuelle Riva while widely acclaimed gay film among NSFC winners plus honoring cinema’s black pioneers.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.
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Joan Crawford Movies: The Women 1939, Controversial Christian-Themed Drama (banned in parts of the U.S.) and going berserk for love.
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Lord Montagu (movie 2013) review: Real-life victim of British anti-gay bigotry went on to become a successful businessman and popular jet-setter.
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Love Is Strange (movie 2014) review: John Lithgow and Alfred Molina add depth to Ira Sachs’ moving gay romantic drama. Marisa Tomei and Cheyenne Jackson costar.
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James Garner. James Garner movies: ‘Grand Prix’ & ‘Victor Victoria’ among TCM highlights James Garner, whose film and television career spanned more than five decades, died of “natural causes” at …
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Gay Marriage Legal in Utah and Lesbian Movie wins 2 Utahn Awards showing Timing is Everything + Academy announces ‘fierce’ Oscar competition.
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Daniel Radcliffe: Gay sex scene with Dane DeHaan in Kill Your Darlings will “startle” fans. Daniel Radcliffe: Gay sex scene in ‘Kill Your Darlings’ will ‘startle’ fans Daniel Radcliffe, 24, …
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Cary Grant and Randolph Scott having some pool fun. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott marriages (See previous post: “Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay Lovers?“) The English-born Cary Grant was …
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Randolph Scott and Cary Grant ca. 1933: Gay lovers? Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay lovers or good friends and roommates? (See previous post: “Randolph Scott Movies: From Westerns to …
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Call Me Kuchu (movie 2012) review: Though focused on anti-gay bigotry in Uganda, this well-made documentary is a reminder that deadly hate is a global plague.
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Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson. ‘Behind the Candelabra’ HBO Hit: Liberace movie starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon nearly breaks record …
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Gay Erotic Thriller Wins Cannes Award + Jerry Lewis ‘Disastrous’ Comeback + ‘Pussy Riot’ Documentary
Gay erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake: Cannes Film Festival’s Queer Palm winner. Gay erotic thriller ‘Stranger by the Lake’ is Cannes’ Queer Palm winner Writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s gay erotic …
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James Franco “gay sex movie” Interior. Leather Bar. will replace the sexually explicit “gay sex movie” I Want Your Love, featuring Jesse Metzger and Brenden Gregory. James Franco ‘gay sex …
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Gay Movie Scenes: Paul America in Andy Warhol’s My Hustler. Controversial Gay Movie Scenes at LACMA: Andy Warhol & Gus Van Sant + Jean Genet Whether or not you find …
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John Kerr. John Kerr: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ gay teen on stage and screen has died John Kerr, best known for playing the sensitive (and suspected to be gay) adolescent opposite …
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‘Kill Your Darlings’ Daniel Radcliffe: Gay poet Allen Ginsberg. Daniel Radcliffe gay poet in ‘Kill Your Darlings’: Sundance movies Beasts of the Southern Wild, Keep the Lights On, Middle of …
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Transgender movie tops Madrid lesbian, gay, and transsexual film festival Movies about gender – or rather, transgender – identity were the top winners at the 2012 edition of LesGaiCineMad, Madrid’s …
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Lon McCallister: Boy-Next-Door troubled gay relationship with William Eythe If remembered at all, Lon McCallister is associated with Boy-Next-Door roles in several 20th Century Fox “family” movies of the mid- …
More ‘Gay Hollywood’ movies: Montgomery Clift & Anthony Perkins On the day a U.S. appeals court lifted an injunction that blocked a Mississippi “religious freedom” law – i.e., giving Christian …
Michel Galabru dead: La Cage aux Folles right-wing politician and César Winner was embodiment of ‘family values’ in international blockbuster.
The Way He Looks movie: Gay teen love story about blind boy who falls in love with a school friend is Brazil entry for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Edouard Molinaro: La Cage aux Folles’ Oscar-nominated filmmaker. La Cage aux Folles director Edouard Molinaro collaborated with Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau & Orson Welles Edouard Molinaro, best known internationally for …
Ramon Novarro ca. 1925. Ramon Novarro: Mexican-born actor was first Latin American Hollywood superstar Mexican-born actor Ramon Novarro, the original Ben-Hur and one of MGM’s biggest stars of the late …
Richard Griffiths in The History Boys with Dominic Cooper. ‘Harry Potter’ actor Richard Griffiths dead at 65: Renowned for gay roles in ‘The History Boys’ & ‘Withnail & I’ Richard …
I’m So Excited 2013 with Miguel Ángel Silvestre. I’m So Excited: Flamboyant Pedro Almodóvar trailer just can’t hide it Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming movie, I’m So Excited / Los amantes pasajeros …