Gay kiss in film
Five decades after it was made, Sunday Bloody Sunday is just as poignant and intelligent as it was back in 1971, when initially released. John Schlesinger’s mature tale was nominated for major Oscars and won the Golden Globe for Best English-Speaking Foreign Film (a category since discontinued), earning a Best Actor nomination for Peter Finch. Based on Penelope Gilliatt’s sharply observed screenplay, the movie holds an important place in film history, offering the first positive image of a homosexual character in a lead role in a mainstream movie.
Schlesinger, the late Jewish openly lgbtq+ filmmaker, is better-known for his Oscar-winning picture, Midnight Cowboy (1969). That movie, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, also had queer subtext in the affair between its two loser-protagonists. However, Sunday Bloody Sunday should be considered as Schlesinger’s finest film, a complex, remarkably modulated, emotionally efficient British movie about three Londoners and the breakup of two love affairs.
Dr. Daniel Hirsch (Peter Finch), a gay Jewish medic in his forties, and Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson), a career counselor in her
Some people say it is not a gay kiss, but a Judas smooch or a smooch of death, or a Blade Messenger kiss, etc... But I think it's not so important...
Sexuality can be seen as a way of communication, so I think Lawrence of Arabia's comment is a very nice summary of the scene in doubt. At the equal time we shouldn't forget that David kisses Daniels as well. That's why I say that it is pointless to claim that David is gay or bi or hetero, because these scenes do not hope for to reveal these possibilities.
In my opinion, these scenes are there to show that David has develop sexual, he has become more human.
Look at David in Prometheus, I mean stare at how he is shown, stare at his uniform, do you look his body? And look at David in Alien Covenant. First scene: snug uniform, muscles, upper body, leg, ass. And look at his appearance on planet 4, after the hair-cut, glance at how he is shown again. You see everything, and I'm sure it was an intentional approach applied by the filmmakers. The key synonyms is creation, David has to peek sexual. And Fassbender delivers the ingredients, no doubt.
You contain a boner or not, all the same.
10 Most Iconic Feature Kisses in Gay Movie History
Quality gay representation on screen is so vital for the Homosexual community to observe themselves and their stories shared on screen and their experiences recognized and validated. That said, the LGBTQ+ people has faced an uphill battle for queer representation in movies, going as far back as 100 years to the earliest days of cinema.
Historically, depictions of the Gay community have been less than flattering: LGBTQ+ characters were either queer-coded or portrayed as deviants to appease the inequitable Hays Code (1934-1968), which prohibited movie studios from producing favorable Gay content, as one was not allowed to portray subjects deemed “immoral.” During this time, it was a rarity to see a touching and feeling story with any truth to it, let alone any outright LGBTQ+ intimacy movies.
It wasn’t until the Stonewall Riots in 1969 that queer movies began to infiltrate the mainstream as feature studios began to see the untapped potential in the queer community and began creating stories to draw in queer audiences. By the 90s, the New Queer Cinema Movement took off wherein several independent filmmak
I distinctly remember in my prior teens sitting with my family and witnessing my first same-sex attracted kissing scene on TV whilst watching Coronation Street – at the time seeing a homosexual kiss on TV was a huge deal!
In an ideal nature, seeing gay kisses on screen would be not be noteworthy at all, it would be a boring everyday occurrence. [no_toc]
Unfortunately, that is not the nature we live in and in our lifetime alone I own seen the visibility of lgbtq+ couple on screen increase tenfold, still with mix of both celebration and pushback.
Don’t forget, movies still get banned in certain countries if they contain a gay kiss or at a minimum will get censored – this is fundamentally wrong and is one of the many reasons why the on-screen queer kisses in our list are iconic, important and somewhat revolutionary for all the right reasons.
A huge shout out to all those directors who have taken it upon themselves to breeze gay kisses and ignore any backlash they may receive. The impact they will have had on young gay people watching all around the world is huge.
Check out our personal shortlist of some of the most iconic on-screen gay kisses and gay kissing scenes we include seen: