Inspired by the Dodge Ram Super Bowl commercial "God Made a Farmer," gay magazine Crewhas produced a touching tribute to the strength of gay men, appropriately titled "So God Made a Gay Man."
Opening with a phrase reminiscent of the book of Genesis, the video declares that on the eighth day, God made a gay man, and said "I need someone with a will strong enough to rustle rejection from those who love him, to repel the abuse from those who condemn him, wish him ill, call him 'fairy,' and 'flamer, and 'freak,' and 'faggot.' And yet, someone forgiving enough to open his arms when they finally understand his heart and soul are no different from their own. So God made a gay man."
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"It seems that there is a trend afoot among many politically self-conscious gay men. From an effort to counter the notion that all gay men are effeminate, they have moved toward the position that all gay men should present an image of red-blooded American masculinity" - The Cult Of Gay Masculinity - www.huffingtonpost.com
"Gay men in particular, who used to frighten the horses with flamboyant displays of sexual outlawry, gender treason and fabulousness, have supposedly dropped their insignia of tribal belonging and joined the mainstream. Gay men, it seems, have become indistinguishable from normal folk. Now, that’s progress for you!" - NYT
Daniel Squadron, a New York state senator, responds to a “This Land” column by Dan Barry.
February 5, 2013
Gay Identity in New York
To the Editor:
Re “Sewers, Curfews and a Ban on Gay Bias,” by Dan Barry (“This Land” column, Jan. 29): If Vicco, a small town in Kentucky — and 16 other states and the District of Columbia — can protect its residents from discrimination based on gender identity or expression, there is no reason New York can’t.
Most people would be shocked that in New York State you can lose your job or be evicted from your home because of your gender expression — and in Vicco you can’t.
It’s time for the New York Senate to stop blocking the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, of which I am the sponsor and which would ensure that all New Yorkers are treated with the fairness and dignity everyone deserves.
DANIEL SQUADRON
New York, Jan. 29, 2013
The writer represents Manhattan and Brooklyn in the New York Senate.
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Movie TESTOSTERONE,
2003, Director:David Moreton Writers:James Robert Baker (novel) and Dennis Hensley (writer)
Uploaded on Aug 17, 2011
A film by David Moreton (based on James Robert Baker's novel). Starring David Sutcliffe and Antonio Sabato Jr.
Plot : Dean is obsessed with finding his lover Pablo who went out for cigarettes and never came back...
Excerpt in English with French subtitles.
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Disarm (2010) HD
Published on Mar 30, 2012
Two men meet online for a hook-up, but after an initial confrontation, they fall into conversation and have something they did not expect: a connection.
Director: Nathan Keene
Produced by: Will Faulkner
Written by: Will Faulkner & Nathan Keene
Starring: Taris Tyler, David Kinsman
Born out of the desire to
create an annual international short film prize that would recognise, celebrate
and promote the gay, lesbian and transgendered moving image, one that would also
promote tolerance, acceptance and further understanding of the art of filmmaking
itself, the IRIS Prize is now
recognised as one of the leading LGBT cinematic events of the year, held right
in the heart of Wales.
The 4th edition of the IRIS
International Film Festival took place in Cardiff, between the 6th – 9th
October, 2010. In an unprecedented move, Peccadillo Pictures thereafter made almost all of the thirty
short film nominees available to view online for one month via their Video on
Demand service, thereby creating the first ever LGBT short film festival
streaming viewing experience.
During this period, UK and
Ireland viewers were able to vote for their favourite short film, resulting with
Peccadillo Pictures' very
own Public Short Film Prize awarded to the best gay and lesbian work
with the most votes, together with the offer of a major distribution
deal.
The competition as ever
featured a mix of styles and narratives, with many a traditional theme no-where
to be found. Instead on offer were shorts with a twist in their tale, a poignant
political message to be found or stories in which few, if any words were spoken,
leaving a moving score to emotionally convey the unspoken feelings of its
players.
The following are summary
reviews to each of the thirty works aired, listed in the order of the six
programmes in which they were VOD presented, with promotional footage featured
at the bottom of the page. Enjoy.
the raw emotions
of grief and loss, transgender style.
This poignant piece tells
the story of transgendered Fidelia; a big girl with a big heart who shocked by
the sudden death of her best friend Alma Flora, wishes to do the decent thing
and bury her, in her favourite red dress. What Fidelia didn’t anticipate
however, was the unexpected arrival of Alma Flora’s disapproving parents, who
having disowned their son Alejandro years ago, now wish to do the right thing
and oversee the funeral arrangements of their child. Only what’s right in
burying a transgendered girl, as a man? Based in the latino communities of Los
Angeles, this beautifully rendered work packs an emotional punch by tapping into
the raw emotions of grief and loss. In doing so, writer and director Hector
Ceballos raises Alma Flora from the dead, surreal style, so as to have her
ghostly presence converse with her soul sister Fidelia. The result is a work
that speaks volumes about friendship, love and of saying a tearful farewell to a
loved one, in the sexuality of their choosing.
starring: Mariana
Marroquin / Fidelia, Maria Roman / Alma Flora, Angel Zermen / Flaco,
Tina
D'Marco / Mrs Ramos, Mario Z Alvarez / Mr Ramos, Kenya Sandoval /
Linda,
Alex Castillo / Eduardo Serra and with Executive Producer
Moises
Zamora as the Priest.
This bilingual piece tells
the story of Korean-American loner Bobby; a reclusive high school student who
works part-time in the family run dry cleaners. Clearly bored by the business,
his attempts to shut shop early for the day are disrupted by a Prom Queen’s
desperate plead to have her dress serviced in time for the big night. Only who’s
the real prom queen here? Told deliciously tongue-in-cheek fashion and complete
with the young girls’ cute boyfriend on hand to add to the gay fantasy element
of the piece, here writer and director Christina Choe delights in presenting a
mirror ball styled prom night for the boys. Sweet and tender as they come, kind
of goes without saying.
starring: Sean
Tarjyoto / Bobby, Erika Helen Smith / Prom Queen, Tamir Kapelian /
The
Boyfriend and with Kay Choe as Bobby's Mother.
Affectionately known as
Room 109, this dialogue driven short tells of two online strangers who
arrange to meet for a night of man sex. Only when a battle of who’s gonna be
on top turns into a kick out styled standoff, raised voices result in
two-way conversation of the like that neither of the men has engaged in for
quite some time. In short, this is a work in which emotions, rather than bodies,
are laid bare, that of a circular piece in which the only fu*kin’ going on, is
courtesy of a porn video and the expletive laden narrative. Yet in between all
the f’s and c’s lies a meaningful conversation, as talk of boyfriends,
relationships and sex, gives rise to the issue of just what is a real
man meant to be? That both men worked on perfecting their straight acting
personas so as to mask their gay insecurities, one by learning how to fight and
the other by hiding a lisp, speaks volumes on homophobia, society itself, if not
the need felt by many to cover up anything that is not seen as being manly
enough. A telling work from down under.
starring: David
Kinsman as The Younger Man and Taris Tyler as The Older Man.
Reve, a novelist travels from Amsterdam to Vlissingen to speak; his stories, he says, "lie the truth." A listener, Christine, a seductive beautician, invites him to stay the night. Next day, he sees a photo of her boyfriend, a buff plumber from Köln. He convinces her to bring Herman to town and sets out to seduce him. Gradually, aided by visions and nightmares, he's sure Christine's a murderous witch who's killed three husbands; he or Herman will be the fourth man. Is he mad or prescient?
Três jovens vigilantes amontoado de la linea prontos para perseguir imigrantes ilegais cruzando a fronteira para o México... Mas eles logo descobrem que há fronteiras no fundo de cada um deles que somente eles, devem atravessar.
Song Theme: Mama DC - Ley Low
This is the second of two scenes in the movie The War Boys (2009) where the male lead and his best friend have sex (in the first scene earlier in the film, they have an argument that ends with a brief but intense kiss). Although some may refer to this as a sex scene, it is so sweetly tender that it is more appropriately called a love scene...all the more so because it takes place between two long-time best friends who are romantically (and not just physically) attracted to each other. The actors are Benjamin Walker (who plays David, the one lying in bed at the beginning of the scene) and Brian J. Smith (who plays George, the one with the little wooden toy at the beginning of the scene). Brian J. Smith may be familiar to science fiction fans for his work on the Stargate Universe television series. He also appeared in the film Hate Crime (2005), where he played a gay man who is the victim of a brutal hate crime
The War Boys is a 2009 American independent drama film directed by ... The film premiered at the Birmingham Gay and Lesbian Film Festival on May 30, 2009
Nureyev choreographs & dances Romeo 1/6 Dance of Knights
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The Prokofiev-Shakespeare ballet Romeo & Juliet, in Rudolf Nureyev's choreography, premiered London 1977. This is Nureyev's video of his 1980 La Scala production with himself as Romeo, Carla Fracci as Juliet, Margot Fonteyn as Lady Capulet and Tiziano Mietto as Tybalt. Conductor Michel Sasson.
Masculinity is possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate to a man. The term can be used to describe any human, animal or ...
Jun 21, 2012 – But all that foofy stuff looks irrelevant to modern gay men, who don't see ... society and conventional masculinity, and who don't aspire to belong to any ... bodybuilding or Art Deco as “gay” styles is to seek the content of gay...
Gay men in particular, who used to frighten the horses with flamboyant displays of sexual outlawry, gender treason and fabulousness, have supposedly dropped their insignia of tribal belonging and joined the mainstream. Gay men, it seems, have become indistinguishable from normal folk. Now, that’s progress for you!
Jun 28, 2012 – It seems that there is a trend afoot among many politically self-conscious gay men. From an effort to counter the notion that all gay men are ...
The Cult Of Gay Masculinity
www.huffingtonpost.com
It
seems that there is a trend afoot among many politically self-conscious gay men.
From an effort to counter the notion that all gay men are effeminate, they have
moved toward the position that all gay men should present an image of
red-blooded American masculinity
by FJ Sánchez - 2009 - Cited by 20 - Related articles This exploratory study used consensual qualitative research methodology (Hill et al., 2005) to analyze what gay men associate with masculinity and femininity, ...
The grief of the emperor knew no bounds, causing the most extravagant veneration to be paid to Antinous' memory. Cities were founded in his name, medals struck with his likeness, and cities throughout the east commissioned godlike images of the dead youth for their shrines and sanctuaries.[7] Following the example of Alexander (who sought divine honours for his beloved general, Hephaestion, when he died) Hadrian had Antinous proclaimed a god. Temples were built for his worship in Bithynia, Mantineia in Arcadia, and Athens, festivals celebrated in his honour and oracles delivered in his name. The city of Antinopolis or Antinoe was founded on the site of Hir-wer where he died (Dio Cassiuslix.11; Spartianus, "Hadrian"). One of Hadrian's attempts at extravagant remembrance failed, when the proposal to create a constellation of Antinous being lifted to heaven by an eagle (the constellation Aquila) failed of adoption.
After deification, Antinous was associated with and depicted as the Ancient Egyptian god Osiris, associated with the rebirth of the Nile. Antinous was also depicted as the Roman Bacchus, a god related to fertility, cutting vine leaves. Antinous's was the only non-imperial head ever to appear on the coinage.[8]
Worship, or at least acknowledgment, of the idealized Antinous was widespread, although mainly outside the city of Rome. As a result, Antinous is one of the best-preserved faces from the ancient world. Many busts, gems and coins represent Antinous as the ideal type of youthful beauty, often with the attributes of some special god. They include a colossal bust in the Vatican,[9] a bust in the Louvre (the Antinous Mondragone), a bas-relief from the Villa Albani,[10] a statue in the Capitoline museum (the so-called Capitoline Antinous, now accepted to be a portrayal of Hermes), another in Berlin, another in the Lateran and one in the Fitzwilliam Museum; and many more may be seen in museums across Europe.
There are also statues in many archaeological museums in Greece including the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the archaeological museums of Patras, Chalkis and Delphi. Although these may well be idealised images, they demonstrate what all contemporary writers described as Antinous's extraordinary beauty. Although many of the sculptures are instantly recognizable, some offer significant variation in terms of the suppleness and sensuality of the pose and features versus the rigidity and typical masculinity. In 1998 the remains of the monumental tomb of Antinous, or a temple to him, were discovered at Hadrian's Villa.[11]
Antinous bust of the Prado museum, Royal collection, Madrid
Antinous (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος, Antinoös) (27 November, c. 111 – before 30 October 130[1]) was a Bithynian youth and a favourite of the Roman emperor Hadrian.[2] He was deified after his death, although his exact status in the Roman pantheon was uncertain.[3]
Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods: An Exploration into the Religious Significance of Male Homosexuality in World Perspective is an eye-opening look at the traditions of particular religions and their edicts concerning gay sex. This book examines the origins of holy directives involving homosexuality—whether forbidden, tolerated, or mandatory—and establishes a link between theology, sex roles, and the sensitive issue of masculinity. This text draws a parallel between homosexuality and the idea of religion, suggesting that gay rights can be understood as a freedom of religion issue. While most readers are familiar with the traditional Islamic, Christian, and Hebrew prohibitions against sex between two males, this book also reveals other historic religions from around the world that neither opposed nor looked down on homosexuality. Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods argues that masculinity is the universal theme that formed historical interpretation—warriors and men of high status could not be sexually receptive or “feminine” and still be called “men.” This intriguing text shows how the modern homophile movements are in effect redefining masculinity to obliterate the stigma of being a sexually receptive man.
Without question, the media have perpetuated stereotypes of gay men, often portraying them as effeminate. Such a limited depiction illustrates the problematic ...
Without question, the media have perpetuated stereotypes of gay men, often portraying them as effeminate. Such a limited depiction illustrates the problematic conflation of gender roles and sexual orientation, raising important questions about the relationship between the two. The articles collected in this volume represent an attempt to understand how contemporary gay men in the United States engage in, contest, and modify controlling notions of masculinity. Peter Nardi, with contributions from leading scholars in the field of gay studies, examines the ways in which gay men develop a sense of masculine identity, with a special emphasis on the every day lives of gay men. These essays consider a great range of issues, from gay masculine identity in business, church, home, and community, to interpersonal relationships of gay men. A fascinating and thought-provoking addition to the Research on Men and Masculinities series, Gay Masculinities is a must read for any scholar of sociology, gender studies, education, anthropology, psychology, or communication
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