God have mercy, what a sobering visit to the past. How did the production company manage to make all the characters look like mannequins? Aside from that, I will only say that I give thanks to God that my coming-out was with a Christian organization! (You need not be offended if you are atheist; that is my belief system, not yours.)
It's a very "particular" film by a very "particular" filmmaker. German of course. Early 1970s. It was groundbreaking for its era. So I try to keep that in mind and focus on the lovely bearded man at the end of the film. Cheers, Sam!
It was, indeed, groundbreaking and much needed. I was unaware that Germany was as far behind as the United States in Gay awareness in 1971. Remembering that, there is much more good to be found in this film than any deficiency. She makes an absolutely vital point, that Gays must stop defeating each other and, too, must not build marriages like straight people who live against each other, but, instead, as fellows. The movie was made for a German audience of 1971, so there lies some fundamental cultural difference; and it was preaching (really) about a taboo subject, so that might be why it was caricatured.
. This movie is not especially pretty to watch, but yields an important lesson in Gay history, thus giving us some retrospective clarity on The Gay Liberation Movement. I think many of us subscribed to your channel here worked in that in the 1970s, so I do not need to tell them anything about it. A very important lesson I learned was that if we act queer, people will treat us that way. (And I mean, queer, as a slur in 1971.) If we act like the mentally normal, educated, sophisticated and (sometimes) spiritual people that we are, people will respond to that.
. Oh, my, it has been an odyssey, hasn't it? Thank you for presenting this for us, Mr. Collide.
God have mercy, what a sobering visit to the past. How did the production company manage to make all the characters look like mannequins? Aside from that, I will only say that I give thanks to God that my coming-out was with a Christian organization! (You need not be offended if you are atheist; that is my belief system, not yours.)
It's a very "particular" film by a very "particular" filmmaker. German of course. Early 1970s. It was groundbreaking for its era. So I try to keep that in mind and focus on the lovely bearded man at the end of the film. Cheers, Sam!
It was, indeed, groundbreaking and much needed. I was unaware that Germany was as far behind as the United States in Gay awareness in 1971. Remembering that, there is much more good to be found in this film than any deficiency. She makes an absolutely vital point, that Gays must stop defeating each other and, too, must not build marriages like straight people who live against each other, but, instead, as fellows. The movie was made for a German audience of 1971, so there lies some fundamental cultural difference; and it was preaching (really) about a taboo subject, so that might be why it was caricatured.
. This movie is not especially pretty to watch, but yields an important lesson in Gay history, thus giving us some retrospective clarity on The Gay Liberation Movement. I think many of us subscribed to your channel here worked in that in the 1970s, so I do not need to tell them anything about it. A very important lesson I learned was that if we act queer, people will treat us that way. (And I mean, queer, as a slur in 1971.) If we act like the mentally normal, educated, sophisticated and (sometimes) spiritual people that we are, people will respond to that.
. Oh, my, it has been an odyssey, hasn't it? Thank you for presenting this for us, Mr. Collide.