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Shelter is a film that follows the story of two Southern California gay guys who fall for each other while doing what they love most: surfing. Naturally, Jonah Markowitz, the film's director, knows what's going to happen next. Caution to all 19th-century warlocks seeking vengeance on a coven of rogue witches: When executing a plot to marry one of said witches, thus gaining access to the coven's most guarded secrets, be very, very sure that the bride-to-be doesn't catch you sleeping with the butler. Former ABC producer/director Joseph Lovett attempts to direct and document the New York gay scene in the aftermath of the 1969 Stonewall riots to the first cases of AIDS in 1981. Eating Out is a soft-core sex comedy that keeps throwing out comic variations on the idea of the line between gay and straight sexuality. In this cheerful but one-note low-budget farce, gay men pretend to be straight, straight or bisexual men pretend to be gay, lesbians pretend to be bigoted heterosexuals, and a homophobic ex-gay support group proves to be full of backsliders and hypocrites who keep getting caught out of the closet. This sequel revolves around the further exploits of Kyle, a gay character from Eating Out masquerading as a heterosexual. The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green quickly brings anyone not familiar with the gay comic strip of the same name up to speed: “Ethan is a man unlucky in love,” states the intro. “Don’t feel sorry for him. It’s his own damn fault. Really.” While developing ideas for the sequel to his critically acclaimed debut novel, A Time Before Me, author Michael Holloway Perronne went through what is often a traumatic experience for many gay men living in a youth obsessed culture. He turned thirty. The turning of thirty, which many in the gay community consider "middle-aged", led not only to the author's self reexamination of his life but to the plot of his follow-up book, Falling Into Me. The film is an unprecedented investigation into the Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system and its profound influence on American culture — including its impact on representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in film. Away at college and reveling in his sexual liberty, the gay son of a conservative U.S. senator becomes potential fodder for a gay activist. |
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