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A look back at the Cannes Film Festival’s history of LGBTQ representation
A look back at the Cannes Film Festival’s history of LGBTQ representation
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The 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival announced its lineup this week, boasting eight LGBTQ-inclusive films, including Port Authority, which is the first Cannes premiere to star a transgender woman of color.
In honor of this breakthrough, we’re taking a look back at the ups and downs of Cannes’ history of LGBTQ representation. Below is a timeline of notable LGBTQ-inclusive feature films that have screened at Cannes throughout the years.
Our synopsis discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly, including various harmful LGBTQ tropes that have occurred throughout the years. The list also includes spoilers for several films, so if you haven’t seen them, be forewarned!
1962 – Advise and Consent (dir. Otto Preminger) This political drama uses a past love affair between two senators as a plot device that leads one of them to commit suicide, which is representative of a long-running trope that LGBTQ love stories cannot end on a happy note.
1969 – if… (dir. Lindsay Anderson) This film is one of several to screen at Cannes in the 1960s that feature gay men as sadistic murderers. if… won the Golden Palm, the most prestigious award at Cannes.
1970 – Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (dir. Otto Preminger) This romantic drama includes a gay paraplegic who moves in with the main character. The film shows the social prejudice three social outcasts face in their lives.
1982 – Another Way (dir. Károly Makk, János Xantus) This Hungarian political drama follows an army officer’s wife and a journalist who fall in love in the aftermath of the failed Hungarian uprising. Both women are shot, one fatally, invoking another harmful trope that would persist for decades. The film is awarded Cannes’ Best Actress Award for Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak.
1984 – Another Country (dir. Marek Kanievska) This film follows a group of schoolboys struggling to fit in, with a cast that includes Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. One boy, Bennett, must navigate what it means to be openly gay in the 1930s, dealing with bullying and homophobia. The film is awarded Best Artistic Contribution. (not to be confused with the James Baldwin novel from the ’60s, with the same title)
1985 – Kiss of the Spider Woman (dir. Héctor Babenco) This film follows a revolutionary who falls in love with a transgender woman while in prison only to find that she is working against him. William Hurt is awarded Best Actor, as a cisgender man playing the role of a trans woman.
1986 – Mona Lisa (dir. Neil Jordan) The film follows George as he realizes he has been bamboozled by a queer, female sex worker who tricks him into helping her find her lover, promoting the trope and stereotype that queer people use their sexuality for trickery.
1992 – Basic Instinct (dir. Paul Verhoeven) Nick Curran is a police detective investigating the brutal murder of a prominent rockstar. His prime suspect is a bisexual author named Catherine, who is found to be psychopathic and obsessive. The LGBTQ community strongly criticized the film upon its release.
1993 – Farewell, My Concubine (dir. Chen Kaige) This Chinese drama follows two actors who play across one another at the Beijing Opera House. Cheng specializes in female parts while Duan plays the male lead. The film discusses gender identity and is awarded the Golden Palm.
1996 – Crash (dir. David Cronenberg) This thriller explores the human tendency to eroticize danger, featuring LGBTQ relationships. The characters become turned on by watching car crashes. It wins the Jury Special Prize, which is awarded to works that “embody the spirit of inquiry.”
1997 – Happy Together (dir. Wong Kar-wai) Following Lai and his boyfriend Ho as they move to Argentina in hopes of a better life, this film explores how tumultuous relationships can build only to fall apart. Happy Together wins Cannes’ Best Director Award.
1998 – Velvet Goldmine (dir. Todd Haynes) -This musical drama follows fictional glam rocker Brian Slade who fakes his own death only to get caught. Ten years later, a journalist wants to tell the story of Slade’s downfall. The film is awarded Best Artistic Contribution.
1999 – Todo sobre mi madre (dir. Pedro Almodóvar) All About My Mother is a Spanish drama film about Manuela, who recently lost her son, as she goes in search of his father. There are several trans characters and the film touches on the HIV/AIDS crisis. Almodóvar is awarded Cannes’ Best Director Award.
2001 – Mulholland Drive (dir. David Lynch) A woman survives a car crash, suffering from amnesia. She meets another woman who helps her solve the mystery behind what happened. Lynch wins Cannes’ Best Director Award.
2003 – Elephant (dir. Gus Van Sant) This film is based on the shooters who terrorized Columbine, but there’s a twist. The film hints at a romantic relationship between Alex and Eric. Elephant wins the Golden Palm and Cannes’ Best Director Award.
2007 – The Edge of Heaven (dir. Fatih Akin) This film is a collaborative feature from Turkey and Germany that follows a lesbian couple, one of whom is thrown into prison while the other is killed. The Edge of Heaven wins Cannes’ Best Screenplay Award.
In 2010, Cannes becomes the third European film festival to create an award for LGBTQ films (following Berlin in 1987 and Venice in 2007.) The Queer Palm is an independently funded award that recognizes films for their treatment of LGBTQ themes.
Upon the creation of this award, more LGBTQ-inclusive films than ever before began to premiere at Cannes. Instead of barely seeing one LGBTQ-inclusive narrative per year, Cannes began to boast large selections nearly every year. Eleven LGBTQ-inclusive films premiere in 2011, thirteen in 2012, 2014, and 2015, eight in 2013, twelve in 2016, and seven in 2017.
As of now, the 2018 Cannes Film Festival holds the record with fifteen LGBTQ-inclusive selections screened that year. Several of these selections also won general awards during their respective years, most notably, the highly controversial Blue Is the Warmest Color (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche), which won the Golden Palm in 2013. LGBTQ representation at Cannes has continued to flourish as the years have progressed.
Winners of the Queer Palm include: Kaboom (dir. Gregg Araki) in 2010, Beauty (dir. Oliver Hermanus) in 2011, Laurence Anyways (dir. Xavier Dolan) the 2012 feature in which yet another cis male actor plays a trans woman, L’Inconnu du lac (dir. Alain Guiraudie) in 2013, Pride (dir. Matthew Warchus) in 2014, Carol (dir. Todd Haynes) in 2015, the documentary The Lives of Thérèse (dir. Sébastien Lifshitz) in 2016, 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (dir. Robin Campillo) which was also awarded Grand Prix in 2017, and 2018’s dangerous and controversial Girl (dir. Lukas Dhont).
This year’s Cannes Film Festival runs from May 14th – May 25th. For a full list of LGBTQ-inclusive films premiering at Cannes this year, click here.
April 18, 2019
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Be Yourself and the Rest Will Follow: Julie and Darren’s POF Love Story
Be Yourself and the Rest Will Follow: Julie and Darren’s POF Love Story
Sometimes love takes time. You can be ready for a serious commitment, open yourself up to online dating, put all the necessary effort in, and still find yourself without the connection you crave. After a period of frustration such as this, it can become easy to give up. Julie and Darren didn’t, and after they […]
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Passover: May We All Find Joy Together
Passover: May We All Find Joy Together
On Friday night, Jews around the world will sit down to celebrate the start of Passover, a weeklong holiday commemorating the deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible in the book of Exodus.
Passover is marked in a variety of ways in the Jewish community, including with a seder. A seder, which means “order” in Hebrew, is a ritual feast that proceeds in a specific order and includes eating certain foods, reading, sharing stories and singing.
As Passover begins, Rabbi Barry H. Block of the Congregation B’nai Israel in Little Rock, Arkansas, shares a reflection on the intersections of our struggles for equality.
The Torah, also known as the Five Books of Moses and Judaism’s foundational scripture, repeats one commandment 36 times: “Remember the heart of the stranger, for you were strangers in the Land of Egypt.”
If we did not know it already, the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh this past October reminded us that Jews have been and often still are “strangers” — not only in Egypt but in America, too. We identify with all who are deprived of rights, liberties and love because they are regarded as less than “real” America.
Therefore, American Jews have stood with Black Americans on the front lines of the struggle for racial justice from the 19th century to this day. We stand with immigrants and refugees, recalling that many of our own people were brutally murdered after being denied entry to the “Land of the Free.”
We have also pioneered LGBTQ+ rights among religious Americans. Reform Judaism, the branch of our faith to which Congregation B’nai Israel and I belong, started with tolerance, moved to acceptance and ultimately to celebration of the LGBTQ+ folks that are among us.
Our diverse congregations are often led by LGBTQ+ rabbis and congregational presidents, who live their truths out loud and proud. We live by non-discrimination policies in our own congregations and organizations, and we fight discrimination everywhere it is found. We are always seeking to learn new ways we can fully embrace all who would pass through our portals.
These days, a disproportionate percentage of those seeking conversion to Judaism are LGBTQ+ folks who, sadly, have felt rejected and unloved elsewhere. In our congregations, LGBTQ+ seekers find an embracing welcome at the temple, and all hear a message of God’s love.
When Jews sit down to our Passover tables on April 19, we shall recite an ancient injunction: “All should see themselves as though they personally had gone free from Egypt.”
Exodus did not merely happen once in the past to bring freedom to all any more than the Civil War or the Little Rock Nine ended racism. As important as Windsor and Obergefell were, they did not end hatred, violence or discrimination toward LGBTQ+ Americans.
My prayer this Passover is that my LGBTQ+ siblings of every faith and those with none none may find inspiration in the Exodus, faithfully affirming that the sea will part one day and we will all reach the Promised Land where we may all cry out in joy together.
This project and other public education work with faith leaders in HRC’s Project One America states and HRC’s Religion and Faith Program is made possible in part by the generous support of the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.
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Sarah Huckabee’s Lies, Tim Gunn, CBD Burger, Julian Assange, Billy Budd, Jason Momoa, Lauv: HOT LINKS
Sarah Huckabee’s Lies, Tim Gunn, CBD Burger, Julian Assange, Billy Budd, Jason Momoa, Lauv: HOT LINKS
MORE MUELLER. Sarah Sanders lied to press about Comey firing: ‘The special counsel’s report, released Thursday, cited Sanders’s multiple false statements to reporters as part of its review of whether President Trump obstructed justice in firing Comey. Sanders told investigators that her misstatements were a “slip of the tongue,” and that the claims were not founded on anything.’
DAYS AFTER NOTRE DAME FIRE. Man arrested carrying gasoline into St. Patrick’s Cathedral: ‘New York Police Department (NYPD) deputy commissioner John Miller said the man claimed he was taking a shortcut through the cathedral after his car ran out of fuel, but his answers were “inconsistent and evasive.”’
ARE THEY HIGH? Carls Jr. coming out with CBD burger on 4/20.
NETFLIX. Streaming platform will open 100,000 sq. ft. production hub in NYC.
TIM GUNN. Project Runway star comes for Marie Kondo: “I can only take so much of her! And I learned nothing…”
POLL. Church membership plummets over two decades: ‘Gallup said church membership was 70% in 1999 — and close to or higher than that figure for most of the 20th century. Since 1999, the figure has fallen steadily, while the percentage of U.S. adults with no religious affiliation has jumped from 8% to 19%.’
THE LAST STRAW. Julian Assange smeared the walls of the Ecuadorian embassy with his feces, says President Lenin Moreno: “He exhausted our patience and pushed our tolerance to the limit.”
2020. Terry McAuliffe not running: “I love campaigning. I love fighting,” McAuliffe told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “I would love to have been on that debate stage with Donald Trump, but, you know, we’ve got to move forward and we’ve got to bring our party together.“
BILLY BUDD. The modern gay anti-hero who almost didn’t speak his name? ‘However it’s interpreted, a hundred years after its rebirth, Melville’s seafaring story is almost refreshing in its simplicity and shattering tragedy. In an era when the “Will & Grace” reboot constitutes a re-analysis of gay consciousness, the in-the-shadows subtleties of Melville’s tale are thrilling to ponder.’
STATE TV. Trump told aides to keep an eye on FOX News’ loyalty to him: ‘In the midst of all this, there was another question weighing heavily on the president’s mind: Was Fox News, his favorite organ of conservative media and pro-Trump messaging, being sufficiently subservient to him? “Keep an eye on it,” Trump started telling aides, according to two people with direct knowledge of his directive, in conversations about what was going on behind-the-scenes at Fox, and if there was any cause for concern for even the slightest positive coverage of any Democrat.’
JEOPARDY. Alek Trebek gives update on cancer diagnosis: “Despite what you may have heard, I’m feeling good. I’m continuing with my therapy.”
RICHARD AKUSON. Nigeria is a cold-blooded country for gay men.
TRUMP’S FINANCES. Democrats subpoena nine major banks in search of answers: “JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank.”
FACEBOOK. Social media giant uploaded 1.5 million people’s email contacts without their consent. ‘Since May 2016, the social-networking company has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new to the social network, Business Insider can reveal. The Silicon Valley company said the contact data was “unintentionally uploaded to Facebook,” and it is now deleting them.’
THROWBACK THURSDAY. Robert Mueller and John Kerry played on the same prep school hockey team.
How am I just now learning that Robert Mueller and John Kerry played on the same prep school hockey team pic.twitter.com/xIxTaOFskE
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) April 18, 2019
CLEAN SHAVE OF THE DAY. Jason Momoa.
COOKING VIDEO OF THE DAY. Lauv and Troye Sivan cook spicy fusilli pasta.
THIRSTY THURSDAY. Felipe.
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