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The LGBT Club
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octobr
silence is scarier
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Reminds me of this video.
I wouldn't mind playing with one either...
So which of our lovely lesbians is gonna be willing to play test hamster...
I wouldn't mind playing with one either...
So which of our lovely lesbians is gonna be willing to play test hamster...
Lupine Volt
My name is...
Gardevoir Girl
^Don't call me that
Flazeah
Cloud eight-and-three-fifths
Welcome to the club, Animorph! :3
Congrats on figuring yourself out. Feels great not to be confused, nay? :D
I recommend joining some sort of club in your new area. You might not find any gay girls, but you might find some adorable ones and get to have fun discovering a new hobby at the same time.
Congrats on figuring yourself out. Feels great not to be confused, nay? :D
I recommend joining some sort of club in your new area. You might not find any gay girls, but you might find some adorable ones and get to have fun discovering a new hobby at the same time.
surskitty
「にがいのは いやだ」って…
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So I just spent the past few hours off in the land of the Kennedy Center. It's relevant, I guess.
Dannichu
Tragically unbeyachted.
Hurr, me too. Thing is, I'm perfectly fine with coming out to new people (of which there are many at uni), but it's so, so much harder with people I've known forever. I blame this on my being absolutely terrified of relationships changing. Which some would say is a tad unhealthy.
In other news, I've spent all day watching and trying to figure out what the hell the movie Mulholland Drive is about. I've read explanations where the first half is a dream, the second half's reality; where the entire thing is a dream/flashback of the main character in the moment of her death; where the film's a satire of Hollywood and what the pressures reduce people to; where one of the characters is merely a idealised projection of another character... although I have to admit my favourite 'interpretation' is "it has two hot women having sex, why do you need deeper meaning?".
Like 95% of gay movies, it has a sad ending, but I imagine it'd be one of the best things ever to watch while high because it's rather trippy already.
Harlequin
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no sry not falling back to the second page k.
I can agree with the relationships not changing part - that's one thing I hate about change. You never know where you are with some people. :( I need to watch more gay film but I can't find any. :(
In slightly related news, you know "If These Walls Could Talk"? I've been wanting to find it for a while. D: sounds interesting.
I can agree with the relationships not changing part - that's one thing I hate about change. You never know where you are with some people. :( I need to watch more gay film but I can't find any. :(
In slightly related news, you know "If These Walls Could Talk"? I've been wanting to find it for a while. D: sounds interesting.
Flazeah
Cloud eight-and-three-fifths
You mean on DVD or just anywhere? And do you mean specifically the first movie, which apparently is about abortion - I haven't watched a lot of it - instead of the second, which is about lesbian couples? The first part of the first movie can be found here, or if you're looking for the second movie, the first part of the 1961 part is here, part one of the 1972 part is here, and the first part of the one with Ellen DeGeneres in it is here.
Dannichu
Tragically unbeyachted.
I've only seen the second If These Walls Could Talk film, and it's really interesting, looking about the changing attitues and so on; I watched it online years ago, but because two of the parts have sex scenes, it gets taken down/edited a lot. On the other hand, the DVD is really hard to find; I found it by accident in a charity shop sometime last year and was like "...score". I really want to see the first one, too.
I found Saving Face in Bedford's CEX a couple of months ago, too, which was cool.
I wish gay movies were easier to find; I had a look in the big HMV in London's "Gay Cinema" section (which is tiny and between the porn and anime) and it was mostly adult m/m stuff. The only lesbian movie I found was Loving Annabelle, which I would've bought if it wasn't £20.
That said, the BBC 3-episode adaptation of Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet is £5 in HMV (at least, the Canterbury one) at the moment. It's nowhere near as good as the book and a bit weird at times, but it's sweet and has Keely Hawes (who plays Zoe in Spooks) playing one of the main characters which has meant I can't watch her in Spooks without imagining her as a male impersonator, which makes everything a little less serious. X3
Also, I bought (also from HMV) and watched The Hours yesterday, which was a very sad film. It's one of those "gay coded" films where you don't know it deals with gay characters unless you've read about it beforehand - which is really bizzare because all three of the female main characters (it's set around three women in different places/time periods) kisses another woman at some point. Unfortunately one of the women (Virginia Woolf, as played by Nicole Kidman) kisses her sister, which creeped me out a bit.
It was a good film, with really good performances from all concerned, but it's another strike in the "Gay movies that leave you feeling depressed as hell" column.
On that note, have some happy news! Okay, birds going extinct isn't happy as such, but the line "Attempts to breed a rare species of duck to avoid extinction in the UK have backfired after the only two remaining males fell for each other." made me laugh out loud.
I found Saving Face in Bedford's CEX a couple of months ago, too, which was cool.
I wish gay movies were easier to find; I had a look in the big HMV in London's "Gay Cinema" section (which is tiny and between the porn and anime) and it was mostly adult m/m stuff. The only lesbian movie I found was Loving Annabelle, which I would've bought if it wasn't £20.
That said, the BBC 3-episode adaptation of Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet is £5 in HMV (at least, the Canterbury one) at the moment. It's nowhere near as good as the book and a bit weird at times, but it's sweet and has Keely Hawes (who plays Zoe in Spooks) playing one of the main characters which has meant I can't watch her in Spooks without imagining her as a male impersonator, which makes everything a little less serious. X3
Also, I bought (also from HMV) and watched The Hours yesterday, which was a very sad film. It's one of those "gay coded" films where you don't know it deals with gay characters unless you've read about it beforehand - which is really bizzare because all three of the female main characters (it's set around three women in different places/time periods) kisses another woman at some point. Unfortunately one of the women (Virginia Woolf, as played by Nicole Kidman) kisses her sister, which creeped me out a bit.
It was a good film, with really good performances from all concerned, but it's another strike in the "Gay movies that leave you feeling depressed as hell" column.
On that note, have some happy news! Okay, birds going extinct isn't happy as such, but the line "Attempts to breed a rare species of duck to avoid extinction in the UK have backfired after the only two remaining males fell for each other." made me laugh out loud.
Vladimir Putin's LJ
your blood flows through my veins
HI THERE.
Okay, so I don't have very many films with me, but I have these two to offer:
One of the first gay films ever made: Anders als die Andern
(Different from the Others). Filmed in 1919 (!) as a protest against paragraph 175 of the German Law. It prohibited 'acts against nature' by men. I liked it a lot, and it's sadly topical ninety years later. Sad ending, as was to be expected, but I enjoyed it. Nice cameo by Hirschenfeld.
Beautiful Thing, a recent one this time. I like this one a lot. It's about a two boys from working class families who fall in love with each other, and it has a pretty happy ending for once! It's kind of hard to explain the plot without ruining it too much, but be sure to watch it.
All the other parts of the films can of course be found on the uploaders' accounts.
EDIT: Haha, that gay duck story. Kind of sad that the species is probably doomed but it's pretty cute when these things happen :v
Vladimir Putin's LJ
your blood flows through my veins
german is def. erotic as hell but no it's silent (1919).
the cue-cards and letters and things are in english.
Dannichu
Tragically unbeyachted.
Wow, the Germans were progressive with their gay moviemaking; they made the first lesbian motion picture, too; Madchen in Uniform.
Fun fact: they made two endings; one where the lead character accepts that the girl she's in love with can't be with her because of homophobia, etc., and one where she kills herself by throwing herself off a building. Guess which was the only ending they were allowed to show? Yup, lesbians are only allowed in cinema if they kill themselves, apparently.
(the depressing thing is, that was back in 1931, and it's still more or less true today)
I had a look, and can't find either of the ITWCT films online anywhere other than youtube ):
If it makes you feel better, the ducks are only extinct in the UK; I think they're native to NZ, so they're still alive out there, and are presumably hetero enough to keep the species going.
Fun fact: they made two endings; one where the lead character accepts that the girl she's in love with can't be with her because of homophobia, etc., and one where she kills herself by throwing herself off a building. Guess which was the only ending they were allowed to show? Yup, lesbians are only allowed in cinema if they kill themselves, apparently.
(the depressing thing is, that was back in 1931, and it's still more or less true today)
I had a look, and can't find either of the ITWCT films online anywhere other than youtube ):
If it makes you feel better, the ducks are only extinct in the UK; I think they're native to NZ, so they're still alive out there, and are presumably hetero enough to keep the species going.
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