LGBT Movies: The Set (1970) — The Avocado

Originally posted on LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival:
The Set follows the coming of age of an Australian artist. He romances a nice woman and a cruel man. Both relationships are diluted by a sprawling screenplay filled with underwritten characters and subplots. The melodrama, camp and copious nudity give it the feel of a Valley of…

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LGBT Movies: It is Not the Homosexual… (1971) — The Avocado

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The full title of Rosa von Praunheim’s 1971 manifesto is It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. A young man moves to Berlin, samples gay subcultures (the art world, the leather world, the bar scene, the toilets, etc.) and finds…

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