Two films about young gay life reveal how the boxes we put ourselves in haven't gone away – they've just got smaller
'Are you a heterosexual?" the filmmaker asks. "Ooh no!" comes the reply, "I've got three kids and a husband!" The scene is a market in London's East End in the early 80s, the film Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts.
The Greater London Council-funded documentary, a snapshot of young gay life, was screened again at this year's Lesbian and Gay film festival in London. It captures a very different era. The lo-fi VHS production, a soundtrack of Eurythmics and Soft Cell, the flimsy grasp of sexuality in, of all places, Dalston. Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles make before-they-were-famous appearances. True, the unchanging signposts of the gay experience are there too: the gradual realisation that you are different, the coming out, and the finally finding people with whom you can be yourself.
'Are you a heterosexual?" the filmmaker asks. "Ooh no!" comes the reply, "I've got three kids and a husband!" The scene is a market in London's East End in the early 80s, the film Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts.
The Greater London Council-funded documentary, a snapshot of young gay life, was screened again at this year's Lesbian and Gay film festival in London. It captures a very different era. The lo-fi VHS production, a soundtrack of Eurythmics and Soft Cell, the flimsy grasp of sexuality in, of all places, Dalston. Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles make before-they-were-famous appearances. True, the unchanging signposts of the gay experience are there too: the gradual realisation that you are different, the coming out, and the finally finding people with whom you can be yourself.
- 3/22/2013
- by David Shariatmadari
- The Guardian - Film News
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