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The story of a sexy song & homoerotic music video—too hot for ’80s airwaves—is headed to the big screen

Relax, from filmmaker Bernard Rose—who happened to direct the hit song’s original video.The news comes from Deadline, which also reports the biopic has found its lead: Queer actor Callum Scott Howells, who made quite the impression with his first-ever screen role in It’s A Sin.Howells, of course, will play Johnson, the flamboyant frontman of the band, whose 1994 autobiography A Bone In My Flute serves as the basis for the film. The musician penned the memoir after he was diagnosed with HIV in ’91, believing he would not survive.excited and honoured welcome to the pleasuredome ? https://t.co/CJ8P6od4v8The actor shared the news on social media, commenting that he’s “excited and honored” to step into the role, welcoming audiences to the “pleasuredome” (a reference to the band’s first album).Frankie Frankly, this is all very exciting.
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30.06 / 19:49
Pride LGBTQ+ It's A Sin ‘Layered, nuanced stories are missing in TV representation’: Why we need more LGBT variation on-screen
Russell T Davies’ Queer as Folk, another series that focused solely on the lives of LGBTQ+ people – many continue to be amazed at how far we’ve progressed.In 2021, everyone was talking about Davies’ Channel 4 masterpiece It’s A Sin, which stars Olly Alexander and Neil Patrick Harris and follows the lives of a group of young men who together endure the horror of the HIV/Aids epidemic of the 80s, as well as the pain of rejection and the prejudices that their peers faced throughout the decade. However, while LGBTQ+ representation has reached all-time highs in some facets of the media with shows like Modern Family and Orange Is The New Black, filmmaker and director Kevin Morosky believes there is more to be done, and has called for future TV shows to create space for ‘truly intersectional’ characters.‘With It’s A Sin, don’t get me wrong, it’s about a particular moment in time, but I think it’s a little dangerous when the narrative comes from a negative place,’ he told Metro.co.uk.Morosky – who retold his experience of heartbreak through short, poetic vignettes in his self-published novel Notes – expressed there were ‘other ways’ of telling stories like this ‘that give more power to the character.’‘I know a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this,’ he added.‘I didn’t think that show was super progressive, of course; it was a story that needed to be told.
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