Bruno, a bisexual but closeted young man lives in rural Hungary with his girlfriend Mari. Also on the scene is her homosexual brother Ringo. Mari doesn't know that when the boys go off to work together in the city they raise cash by turning tricks and burglarizing houses. Katrin Kremmler.
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Based on Romanian author Cecilia Stefanescu's novel of the same name, this coming-of-age story marks a coming-of-age for Romanian cinema as well. Less concerned with politics than with emotional and moral ambiguities, Love Sick manages to tackle its controversial subject matter with delicacy and sweetness. In spite of being surrounded by a large family and many friends, eighteen year old Martin feels completely forlorn.
In the tangle of crazy relationships he is looking for someone on his own wavelength, someone who, like himself, is different. Slowly Martin is drawn to Hanna and Her Brothers a local cabaret where Hanna is a man with a secret, the same one that Martin shares. From TLA Video. However, it only handles the realities of homosexuality obliquely and most of the time is engaged in a fantasy world. This is much of the film's charm, of course, but it is a far cry from a hard-hitting portrayal of life in Slovakia in or out of the closet. The film takes place in present-day Bratislava and focuses on the teenager Roland, just going through his coming out.
Roland is confused and lonely and when he finally finds somebody, he runs away. Of course this will not happen and Roland returns home.
Being still gay. Three girls' summer canoe trip down the river Kolpa becomes a journey into fear when they discover that the wooded riverbanks not only conceal the frontier between Slovenia and Croatia, but also the border between the permissible and the forbidden, and that it is the self-styled Guardian of the Frontier who draws the line. Zhelimir Zhilnik This film about drag queens in Beograd won a special Teddy prize at the Berlin festival in The heroines are 2 transvestite prostitutes, and they're much more together than their old boyfriend Johnny who returns from the war and screws everything up.
Imagine a politicized Priscilla.
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The aging 37 Merlin Marylin? Sanela "marries" a body-builder, Johnny ends up dead. There's also a wonderful scene in which Merlin tries to teach a "real" woman how to turn tricks. Merlyn is a lighting rod sheltering Belgrade, calming violent nighthawks, swanky big spenders, miserable loners and horny young studs, taking on the charge that would otherwise befall little girls, unprotected mothers and helpless old women.
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Combined with guns, this unbridled energy would eventually lead to bloodshed. Acting as a mighty Djerdap dam and the Wailing Wall at the same time, Merlyn cools the boiling blood of violent Dinarides and enriches it with love. Johnny comes home to Belgrade, from the war.
His motives are apparently similar, he also wants to cool the boiling blod, but he does it by letting it through the holes in the human body, which he makes with bullets or knives. This film is a treatise on the different methods of resolving conflicts, resorted to by Marlyn and Johnny.
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Directed by Srdjan Karanovic My articles on the film: Haworth Pr. Virgina i Marble Ass. Take a Deep Breath portrays a younger generation that blames parents for the dire situation of contemporary Serbia. Here we have a middle-aged conservative judge who attempts to retain patriarchal control over his family. His wife has a secret affair with a younger man, while his daughter Sasha plans to leave the country with her boyfriend. When the boyfriend is hospitalized after a car accident, Sasha switches her affections to his sister, who has come from Paris to help out.
This film, too, presents a soft-focus playful eroticism in the affair between the two women, but the father eventually has his way and uses his power to disrupt the girls' idyll.
Disturbingly, the film not only ends with vignettes of three happy straight couples, leaving the fate of the lesbian affair open to speculation, but it also hints at the evil father's latent homosexuality, presumably caused by a childhood molestation in an orphanage. The film thus argues for tolerance of lesbian love, but reinstates homophobia in the form of pedophilia as a root cause of the father's psychological trauma that drives the plot.
Back to East European Gay Culture. Go West Dir. Official Go West Website. Fine mrtve djevojke Fine Dead Girls Dir. Not Angels, but Angels A documentary about boy prostitution in Prague. Mandragora Prague beckons boys from their poverty to the promise of a better life.
Gay Transvestite: Biographical Drama: True life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, the best known transvestite in East Germany; a symbol of bravery and idealism for today's German lesbians and gays.
See the book as well! Transformed by this love he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is My review in Out in the Mountains. Legaturi Bolnavicioase Love Sick Dir. Tudor Giurgiu Based on Romanian author Cecilia Stefanescu's novel of the same name, this coming-of-age story marks a coming-of-age for Romanian cinema as well.
Elizabeth Englander, a psychologist and expert on the digital lives of minors, thinks yes: But it could certainly do more to try to verify ages. Some gambling sites, for instance, make users upload a credit card or ID to prove their age. Grindr could also use algorithms to detect conversations between minors and adults.
Age verification through social media is hardly foolproof, since minors can lie about their age on Facebook, too. In , a man who had been arrested for having sex with a year-old boy sued Grindr , claiming that its weak enforcement of age restrictions was to blame for the sexual encounter. And Grindr is hardly the only problem — there are many similar venues. Two minutes after I opened a gay chat room, a user wrote: In the end, it is largely up to parents to protect their children.
Parents can block apps like Grindr. Englander tells parents not to try to be experts on the technology. Children need to hear that naked photos and videos are permanent even when sent on Snapchat. They should know that sex between a minor and an adult is illegal.
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They need to know the risk of infections from unprotected sex. As a society, we have failed to create enough spaces for gay youth to thrive, pushing them online and underground. While we try to find ways to hold digital sites accountable, we need to talk to our kids about how to be safe online. A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A27 of the New York edition with the headline: