Sieger tries to make peace between the two, but his mind is elsewhere, as he finds it increasingly difficult to deny his feelings for Marc. Sieger keeps quiet about this to his father, who often clashes with the rebellious Eddy since their mother's death. At last, he counts for something in the eyes of his tough older brother Eddy, who is secretly using the track to tear around on a moped. Events soon take on a momentum of their own as Sieger quickly becomes involved with Jessica. With his best friend Stef, Sieger discovers a motocross track outside the village. He engages in a lonely struggle with himself when it emerges that Marc is also in love with him. Deep, Romantic, Dramatic and utterly hilarious, a Rainbow indeed. The friendship that develops seems nothing out of the ordinary, but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings for Marc. This website is especially dedicated to the LGBTQ Community and their straight allies and friends on Youtube. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. Project to promote more Knowledge and Equality by featuring of videos on LGBT topics from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and allies on Youtube. Even then I could see that those cultural dynamics and the way I thought I had to cover the truth as a closeted boy weren’t much different.BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. The way Pink Narcissus legitimizes eroticism by situating nudes in mythological and artificial settings is a strategy that was all the rage in the Golden Age of Hollywood, one of Bidgood’s major reference points. Today, the wild Orientalism of certain scenes and the cast of exclusively Caucasian men would place it in a dangerously problematic zone of culture. I found the film so relatable because, after all, it is about the daydreaming of a gay teenager - with all the limits of a product of its time. It reflected some of my own sexual fantasies, but it also drew on the decadent atmospheres of cultural expressions I was exploring at the time: Joris-Karl Huysmans’s novel À rebours (1884), Oscar Wilde’s plays, and Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations, which I would diligently copy for my drawing assignments at school. Pink Narcissus struck me as the erotic dream of a queer Fellini. Scenes were heavily constructed, and featured glowing effects, artificial and hyper-saturated colors. As in a cinematic version of a revue, Kendall sublimates the memory of a sexual encounter into a bullfight, turning himself into a toreador, a sultan, a Roman emperor and a Roman slave.īidgood worked on the project from 1963 to 1970 with very limited means, building set after set in his cramped Hell’s Kitchen flat, repurposing found objects and materials. He employed different lenses and extreme angles to create the illusion of depth, together with double exposures, color gels, and other basic cinematographic tricks.
The film follows the sexual dreams of a young male hustler, played by the ridiculously handsome Bobby Kendall. Its story has the taste of an origin myth. Directed by Ryan Murphy and written by Larry Kramer, based on his play of the same name, The Normal Heart follows gay men in New York City during the 80’s HIV-AIDS crisis. I discovered Pink Narcissus that way, almost by chance and knowing very little about it. The internet (quite different from today’s - Wikipedia was in its early days, Youtube hadn’t been launched yet) gave me access to the information I needed.
Homosexuality wasn’t particularly discussed at home or at school, and was scarcely represented on media.Ĭinema, I discovered, answered my need to both scrutinize and fantasize about the lives of other gay men.
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Back then I didn’t know any other gay person, grown-up or teenaged. Just like American Pie, but with a raucous and wild gay twist Four high school buddies make a pack to lose their virginity before the summers out and. Movie Culture at the American Video Store Daniel Herbert.