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‘Of an Age’ Review: Small-Scale Gay Australian Romance Strikes Big Erotic Sparks
Focus Features was behind such memorable gay movies as Brokeback Mountain and Milk. They keep their tradition alive with a recent Australian film from director Goran Stolevski. Of an Age will not game those landmark films in terms of either box office or awards glory, but it could handle audiences that seek it out. In the tradition of an earlier same-sex attracted indie movie, Weekend, which unfolded over the course of just a couple of days, this fresh picture proves that economy can be a virtue.
The film opens strikingly with a young female, Ebony (newcomer Hattie Hook), waking up on a beach outside Melbourne as waves crash over her. The time is , so she has to find a pay device to call for support. She reaches Kolya (Elias Anton), a fellow teenager who was supposed to compete with her in a dance contest that morning. He is dressed in a gaudy outfit (something out of Strictly Ballroom) but insists that he is not lgbtq+. To track down the disoriented young woman, Kolya reaches her older brother Adam (Thom Green)
Australian Queer Archival Films
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First Australian female to male cross dresser on film ()
First Australian female to male cross dresser on film,
Theatre owner and entrepreneur, Sir Benjamin Fuller, chats to a male impersonator and several women at a stall at a fete.
‘Theatrical Character makes History : Sir Benjamin Fuller arranges most prosperous garden fete of year : Every shy rings a Bull’s Eye : Poverty Point, N.S.W.’
Australian soldiers in secure white uniforms ()
Australian soldiers in sexy tight white uniforms, very camp to those with homosexual sensibilities
One of Australia’s first tom-boys on film in ‘Silks & Saddles’ ()
One of Australia’s first tom-boys on clip. Check out the knowing lesbian glances between Bobbie & Mrs Fane at ′.
‘Silks & Saddles’ is a racecourse melodrama with a strong willed heroine, Bobbie Morton, who in the tradition of ‘The Lady of the Bush’ and ‘The Squatter’s Daughter’ is horsewoman, larrikin two-up player and dainty intimate in
Stephen Cummins’s moving films about queer Australian life have been restored to their glory, 30 years after his death
Two men peck passionately, the camera so shut it's almost a third party eager to join. We pan to their profiles, two men in suits, the words "Taste The Difference" appearing overlaid while they keep at it. Effectively banned from airing on television in , maybe this mock ad proved a little too tempting: Now, three decades later, you can find out for yourself.
Taste The Difference is one of nine short films by late Australian director Stephen Cummins that have been recently restored by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA).
The kiss between performers Chris Ryan and Herb Robertson was commissioned as part of a series of Australian artists making second films for late-night Perth television. Given that, in , Western Australia was amid its fifth (ultimately successful) attempt to decriminalise homosexual acts, Cummins and his friend and collaborator Simon Hunt (better established by drag persona Pauline Pantsdown) decided to make a mock ad selling hom
10 great Australian gay films
While same-sex marriage was only made legal in Australia in , the nation has a fairly powerful record on LGBTQIA+ rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-friendly cities in the world.
Australian cinema has had a rather strange relationship with male homosexuality. Before the s, the sexuality of probable gay characters was not made explicit, for example the effeminate sales assistant in Dad and Dave Come to Town (). The Set () is the first Australian film with homosexuality as a core theme, while gay men appeared in sexploitation favourites such as Australia after Dark () and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Australia Style (), in which H was for homosexuality.
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By signing up to emails you are indicating that you have read and agree to the terms of use and privacy policy.Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior () featured a gay villain (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slaying of his lover), while more sympathetic gay characters appeared in prison drama Stir