Out director Ira Sachs slams his new queer film’s NC-17 ratg, llg the MPA “anti-gay” - LGBTQ Natn

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY: JULY 9, 1983: ITALIAN MOVIE DIRECTOR FRAN ZEFFIRELLI COM OUT AS GAY.
• GAY ITALIAN DIRECTOR SUFFERS HOMOPHOBIC ASSLT ROME
• ITALIAN-TURKISH DIRECTOR FERZAN OZPETEK SHOOTG GAY ROMANCE ‘NUOVO OLIMPO,’ HIS FIRST NETFLIX FILM
• OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

GAY HISTORY: JULY 9, 1983: ITALIAN MOVIE DIRECTOR FRAN ZEFFIRELLI COM OUT AS GAY.

On this date 1983, Italian film director Fran Zeffirelli  out as gay an terview wh The Advote, sayg, “I’m gay….

GAY ITALIAN DIRECTOR SUFFERS HOMOPHOBIC ASSLT ROME

Fran Zeffirelli’s legacy as an Italian film director, theater director, and opera producer and as a gay man remas unparalleled.

" The film follows the explos of a closeted gay Korean Amerin teenager who works at a spa to help his fay only to disver a sexual unrworld at his new job.

Jamie Babb is perhaps bt known for her but feature, 1999's "But I'm a Cheerlear, " the beloved queer classic that tells the story of two teenage girls who fall love at a gay nversn therapy mp.

ITALIAN-TURKISH DIRECTOR FERZAN OZPETEK SHOOTG GAY ROMANCE ‘NUOVO OLIMPO,’ HIS FIRST NETFLIX FILM

Brish wrer-director-producer Andrew Haigh is perhaps bt known for his ntributns to the HBO seri "Lookg, " which follows a group of young gay men San Francis.

OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

While his but feature was "Greek Pete" 2009, Haigh broke out two years later wh "Weekend, " a film about two gay men who have an extend one-night stand and explore the meang of nnectn the morn era. Many of Van Sant's films explore homosexualy through subtext, examg the relatnships of margalized outsirs.

While queerns is often subtextual his films, Van Sant explored homosexualy at the foreont of "Milk, " a historil bpic about Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected polician.