Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.This week commemorated the fallen victims of the Holocaust with Holocaust Memorial Day.
While pop culture tends to shorthand the Holocaust as a purging of Jewish people from Europe, the Nazis didn’t stop there: Poles, communists, the handicapped and political prisoners were targeted as well, along with LGBTQ people.Bent the 1997 film by Sean Mathias, retells the story of the persecution of gay men during the Holocaust era.
Clive Owen stars as Max, a gay man enjoying the hedonistic life of 1930s Berlin (see also: Cabaret). During the Night of Long Knives, soldiers arrest Max and his boyfriend, sending them off to a.