호주 최초의 게이, 원주민 의회의원이 호주의 미래를 말하다
지난 19일(현지시각) 호주 의회에 등장한 28세 하원의원은 열정적인 연설로 모두를 놀라게 했다. 그의 이름은 챈시…

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LGBT Movies Galore: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, and NewFest

Don’t Call Me Son, The Pass, The Handmaiden, and Moonlight. So many LGBT films this week!

Sing the following to the tune of Kylie Minogue’s “Your Disco Needs You”:

♫ Queer movies, Queer movies, Queer movies need you!
Queer movies, Queer movies, Queer movies need you!♫

If there was ever a weekend to get your gay ass to the movie theaters it’s this one. The choices are suddenly abundant and very pleasurable… at least on the coasts (consider this a November preview if you’re further inland).

This is a crucial moment because we get not one but two new must-see art films, Moonlight and The Handmaiden, which couldn’t be more different but for their immense quality. Together they remind us of the range and diversity and aesthetic power that queer cinema is capable of. They’re also both platform releases and how well such releases do and how many cities they expand to always comes down to us; if we don’t support LGBT cinema we eventually get much less of it.

On top of these two arguably masterworks, those near New York City have even more options because NewFest opens today and runs through the 25th.

Chiron’s first gay experience in “Moonlight”

Must See #1 Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight
We’ve already warned you that Moonlight is an Oscar contender (see our Best Picture preview) but the excitement is growing as more people get a chance to see this remarkable picture. Even the queen herself, Madonna, was just raving about it on Instagram! Critics are saying it’s a rich original film about growing up gay and black. That’s true. The film will provoke many identity politics discussions, but it’s so much more than that. The director Barry Jenkins’ artistry is so strong that the film is universally relatable to the gay experience.

Expect an Oscar nomination for Naomie Harris

Moonlight, which is told in three acts, has a stunning bruised beauty throughout. We watch, aching, as “Chiron,” a black boy with a homophobic addict mother (Naomie Harris, ferocious and revelatory) struggles to grow up and come to grips with his sexuality at different stages in his life. It’s one of the first “coming of age” films to understand that coming of age isn’t as automatic as the term applies. You don’t just arrive there through the passage of time, you actually have to decide who you are.

The incredibly twisty tale of two girls in love (and lust) in The Handmaiden

Must See #2  Park Chan Wook’s The Handmaiden
Park Chan Wook is best known in the States for the ultra violent cult hit Old Boy. The one thing that unites all of his outre films, though, is that they’re ravishingly sensual experiences. You can practically taste, smell, and hear every last inch of them.

The director has really outdone himself with The Handmaiden, a superb, funny, and strange adaptation of the Victorian lesbian novel “Fingersmith.” He reworks the story into a crazily erotic stylized costume drama set in 1930s Korea in which a thief masquerading as a ladies maid falls in love with her mark, the fragile wealthy Lady Hideko. Lady Hideko can drive men wild merely by reading to them (the reading sequences in something like a library/dungeon are out of this world amazing).

I don’t want to spoil a single wonderfully odd moment but you may never hear bells, see octopuses, or think of personal libraries in quite the same way again after this unforgettable movie.

A still from the film “Retake”, one of dozens of new gay features playing at NewFest

Must See #3 NEW FEST
New York City’s LGBT film festival NewFest just opened with a Voice & Visibility Award for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Tituss Burgess and the Opening Night Film The Pass starring out hunk Russell Tovey. Also among this year’s entrants is the film Retake, produced by Towleroad’s own Sean Mandell. The festival runs through October 25th – you can see the full lineup here. A wide variety of wonderful LGBT films awaits you!

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Join your favorite celebs in going purple for #SpiritDay

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A 'Temptation' Is a Sweet Start to Vegas Pride

www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/10/17/temptation-sweet-start-vegas-pride

The Gay-Themed, Fan-Made Vid Of Britney Spears’ “Change My Mind” Is Here

Two gay men, one gay anthem: See them prancing and dancing and romancing to the perky pulse of Britney Spears’ “Change My Mind” single. God, this is real.

Related: Acquaint Yourself With Britney Spears’ Harem Of Male Backup Dancers

It’s the inevitable gay-themed video that none of us asked for, but all of us deserve: A hodgepodge of probably conceptual dance moves intercut with familiar scenes from boilerplate passionate relationships: making out while an annoying sunset gets in your eyes, mussy sex followed by broody mornings, over-drinking, smashed cocktail glasses, and looking knowingly into each other’s eyes. That kind of thing.

Related: Britney Spears: “My Twenties Were Horrible.” Well, Yes.

They flit. They flirt. They flounce.

Watch: 

www.queerty.com/gay-themed-fan-made-vid-britney-spears-change-mind-20161020?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Keith Olbermann to GOP: ‘Compel Trump to Withdraw Now! This Is Your Responsibility’ – WATCH

Keith Olbermann called on the GOP to force Donald Trump to withdraw from the presidential race by any legal means necessary.

Olbermann was responding to Trump’s comments during the third presidential debate in which he refused to say he would accept the results of the election.

RELATED – Trump Promises to ‘Totally Accept’ the Election Results–If He Wins: WATCH

Said Olbermann,

“It was the first time in American history, through dozens of venomous painful campaigns and a series of impossibly close elections, the first and only time that a candidate of a major party had violated the fundamental precept of our democracy. It shakes every one of our freedoms, it mocks every dead American soldier, it spits in every sacrifice made under our flag.”

“Donald Trump is not invested in Democracy! Donald Trump is not invested in our Constitution! Donald Trump is not invested in America! Donald Trump is not invested in preventing people from being killed on the streets after an election like this were a Third World police state!

He declared, “Burn. In. Hell!”

Addressing Republicans, Olbermann said,

“Compel him to withdraw now! Litigate against him, find enough doctors and have him declared psychiatrically incompetent. At minimum, cut off his funding completely and denounce him in the strongest possible terms because this nightmare, this fascist, this Trump is now your responsibility.”

Watch, below.

[h/t Raw Story]

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Keith Olbermann to GOP: ‘Compel Trump to Withdraw Now! This Is Your Responsibility’ – WATCH

MTV turns up the purple for #SpiritDay

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Moonlight Subverts Stereotypes About Being Queer, Black

Moonlight is a tour de force that captures the beauty and intimacy of coming of age as a queer person of color.

www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/10/20/moonlight-subverts-stereotypes-about-being-queer-black