80s gay movies

Riggs keeps things personal but purposefully widens his lens on the subject as well, bringing in other queer black voices, highlighting gay dancers and poets of color, submitting evidence that pop culture has traditionally emasculated black men, and opening up about homophobia among the larger African American community.

Queer Kino: 1970s and ‘80s Gay German Arthouse Cinema

The Aids crisis devastated queer communities and unleashed a terrible wave of homophobia in the media and politics, but also in everyday life. Gay men were particularly stigmatised and let down by those in power, even as laws prohibiting gay sex were gradually relaxed.

LGBTQ Films in the Ithaca College Library

Praunheim fought desperately against this possibility. In love with a man who lived in East Berlin, the film was intended as a way to get him out of the country. Thomas and Felix get along great and quickly become a couple. Felix has the ability to travel east to see him periodically, but the frequency of his visits makes the East German government suspicious.

The filmmakers knew the audiences were coming to indulge their more prurient sides, but the ending reaffirmed that they were morally upstanding for watching the film. Hanging Heart was designed more or less explicitly to appeal to gay men, with endless scenes of hunky shirtless dudes and even a sex dream sequence with explicit gay content.