Twelve-year-old Leo thinks he’s going to faint when he finally gets to the nudist camp where his mother has dragged him. But then an encounter with Antoinette and her magic mushrooms makes him change his mind entirely.

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Update: "Outrage" premieres on HBO this week.

From Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick  comes OUTRAGE, a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians with appalling gay rights voting records who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to. Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the United States’ most powerful policymakers, OUTRAGE takes a comprehensive look at the harm they’ve inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media’s complicity in keeping their secrets.

With analysis from prominent members of the gay community such as Congressman Barney Frank, former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, radio personality Michelangelo Signorile, and openly gay congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (Representative, Wisconsin 2nd district), OUTRAGE probes deeply into the psychology of this double lifestyle, the ethics of outing closeted politicians, the double standards that the media upholds in its coverage of the sex lives of gay public figures, and much more.

These polemics have a kind of natural charge to them, but there are glimpses in the movie of something more complex and in a way more interesting -- the way closet psychology mixes with political ambition to create a fascinating hybrid of warring desires. -- Philadelphia Daily News

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Six Short Films about Guys who hustle

The hustler is a common figure in gay arts and culture. While sex workers of all sorts appear in straight cultural productions, the queer hustler is different from his female other. Rarely, to the best of my knowledge, are female sex workers in heterosexual arts subject to the kind of sympathetic characterization and subcultural adulation as the queer hustler, gigolo, rent-boy, or street-corner cocksucker.

The hustler is simultaneously tragic, romantic, and heroic. Often his tragedies appear the result of dysfunctional if not outright abusive families, and are further tied to a general and pervasive societal homophobia. So, in Boys Briefs 4‘s Into the Night, Marcus’ (Bryan Marshall) father has rejected him, presumably because of his son’s homosexuality, and in Boy, Sam’s (Jesse Lee) life is characterized not only by poverty, but also by seemingly casual homophobia and violence. The hustlers’ stories represent all too common experience of anti-queer violence and self-determination in the face of intolerance.

The hustler is romantic as far as the audience’s fantasy extends to “rescuing” him. This is a role commonly fulfilled by a caring john. In Rock Bottom, Billy (John Militello), a sweet, overweight, 30-something, picks up twinkie street hustler Jason (Timothy Lee DePriest) and takes him home. Typical hustler-john shenanigans take place; Billy makes awkward small talk, Jason cases the apartment, insists he doesn’t kiss. Yet a real rapport develops between the two, and the film ends with Jason crossing his own hustler boundaries to kiss Billy, suggesting things might get better for both. In Gold, the aging, nearly blind artist Cal (Aron Tager) employs hustler Jay (P.J. Lazic) not for his body, but to assist him in painting new canvases; in teaching Jay about passion and beauty, he leads the young man to a kind of salvation.

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XXY is a tastefully discreet, deeply moving drama that addresses the awkward dilemma of an "intersex" teenager with remarkable sensitivity. ("Intersex" being the preferred term for those born with shared sex chromosomes and what doctors call "genital ambiguity.") For 15-year-old Alex having an intersex body is a constant source of anguished confusion. Alex has been raised as a girl by loving parents, who moved from Argentina to an island off the coast of Uruguay to spare Alex from adolescent torment by insensitive schoolmates. But now Alex has stopped taking the hormone pills that suppress male characteristics, suggesting a pivotal life choice has been made. When Alex’s mother invites a plastic surgeon and his family to the island, she quietly hopes Alex will consider "reassignment" surgery, while her husband allows Alex more freedom of choice. When Alex and the surgeon’s teenage son Alvaro act upon a tentative, mutual attraction, XXY deepens into a poignant study of sexual identity and self-acceptance.

Making her remarkably assured directorial debut, Argentine writer-director Lucía Puenzo has fully accounted for the turbulent emotions that swirl around Alex and her family. "XXY" is the first film to address intersex identity with graceful compassion, and Puenzo tells Alex’s story with simple, honest and forthright integrity.

What ensues between them, both psychologically and sexually, is one of the strangest, most fascinating dysfunctional relationships I’ve seen in a movie. The acting is outstanding. – Boston Globe

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I’ll abuse you guys as my personal information army again ;p I’m looking for a short film. The still above is a scene of it. It might be Dutch but I’m not sure about that. And the plot was something about his baby brother having wings. That’s all I know, sorry :/ Here is another still. So, who can solve this challenge? :)

Solved by hosenhaus within 3 hours!

That Oskar had a tougher problem accepting that Eli(as) is a boy than that he is a vampire.
That tells so much about us humans and the fears implemented by our society.
(Worry not, Oskars last message to Eli in the film is .- -. ..- … …)

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Cutest/Sexiest movie I ever seen! It’s about this 14 (or 13) year old boy named Logan, and he has teh ghey. He’s a loner at school (which is a little hard to buy considering he also has teh sexy) and he only has one friend who is a nerd and is kinda fugly. Anyways he meets this older guy who really reminds me of Jared Leto from My So-Called Life. The two hang out, older guy sort of – kinda develops a crush on Logan, Logan falls head over heals for him. So Logan get his digits and calls him up pretending to be a chick. Logan talks to dirty to him and they both end up wanking it to each other over the phone. More shit happens, Logan goes to a school dance and gets beat up, (I’ll nurse you back to health! :D) Logan’s mom yells at him (btw Logan’s mom is kinda cute, she has this whole "Amelie-If-She-Did-Drugs" thing going on.) Logan puts on make up and calls his fugly bff over and they take pictures, and there is also a whole bundle of "artistic" stock footage of bugs and trees and toilets and other crap that people find "deep" if you edit it in photoshop.

Through out this time Logan and older cutie are still phone sexing it up, eventually Logan says "Ohhh Bab-bay, meet in this cave and will sex it up!" or something along those lines, and dude is all "Yeah. Cool. Whatever" because he’s to cool to care.

So they meet in the caves, (Woo-hoo! Action! *drools*) and dude finds out that hot chick was actually LOGAN! *Le gasp* So he’s all and leaves (If you don’t want that I’ll take it) Logan is also feeling so he goes home feeling disappointed (I know how he feels grumble grumble.) All in all, all three of us did not get the action we expected. So you don’t see ungrateful dude again in the movie. So, more bullying happens to Logan, Logan comes out to mom and mom is totally chill about it (I had a good feeling about her from the start) then he comes out to fugly bff (well sort of, he just questions himself.) and Logan says "If I am gay, do you think your mom will still let me go camping with you guys?" and I was like "AWWWWWW! TOO CUTE! ^_^"

So then more shit happens and Logan is at school and there is a lion at school so everyone is running around looking for a place to hide (why the teachers sent them all outside instead of inside out of the lion and animal controls way I’ll never know. Seriously, it was in the middle of class and the teacher evacuated the school because of the lion. Not an orderly evacuation either. People were running every where) then the lion and Logan come face to face and they make it seem as though he died so I’m sitting there sobbin’ and sobbin’ then they show him with the words "It Didn’t Kill Me" written on his chest and I was like "………oh." 

So that’s pretty much the end of the movie, the only thing I didn’t like was they added gobs and gobs of supposedly artistic crap that got really annoying really fast.