OUT ON FILM

There seems to be no end to the list of straight actors desperate to play gay roles, including passionate kissing, explicit sex scenes, going as far as blow-jobs, anal sex and rimming. It seems that Broke Back Mountain did break the mould when it was released in 2005, and since then we have had the fortune of seeing mainstream actors clamouring to be in mainstream films playing gay, trans, lesbian and bi-sexual characters to perfection – I think it’s great! After all, as Daniel Craig described his role in Netflix’s Glass Onion playing the detective character Benoit Blanc as “obviously gay” … “It’s all good. The less of a song and dance we make about that, the better, really, for me, because it just made sense.” Adding, “And also, who wouldn’t want to live with the human being that he happens to live with? It’s nice, it’s fun,” Craig added. “And why shouldn’t it be? I don’t want people to get politically hung up on anything.”

More importantly, it’s called acting - for those readers who only want to see queer actors in queer roles!

So, it is unsurprising that Daniel Craig, the 007 action hero is set to play another gay character in Queer, the latest offering from director Luca Guadagnino, who directed the critically acclaimed Call Me By Your Name, which won numerous awards and earned a best picture Academy Awards nomination.

Queer, written by William S. Burroughs is recognised as a modern literary classic, and is Burroughs second novel after the celebrated Junkie. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, (because of its the heavy homosexual content – unacceptable at the time), Queer is described as an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscating political novel, it is Burroughs’ only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch.

Although set in Mexico City, Queer will be filmed in its entirety at Cinecittà Studios in Italy.

Set in the late 1940’s, it follows the story of Lee, who after fleeing from a drug bust in New Orleans ends up in Mexico City, a corrupt, seedy den, with its low-down, drug filled clubs, frequented by American expatriate college students, discharged soldiers, and other characters on the edge of society.

Whilst cruising the city’s seedier side, Lee meets and becomes infatuated with an ex-American Navy serviceman named Allerton, a drug user, who, although initially indifferent to his advances, eventually relents — but only just enough to make Lee’s sexual yearnings become even more of an obsession…

Allerton is played by Drew Starkey (who is known globally for his role on Netflix’s Outer Banks as Rafe Cameron, the handsome often violent teen with a killer streak, a cocaine addiction, and an identity crisis.)

But above all, Queer is a love-story, full of self-deprecating black humour, which under the brilliant penmanship of American playwright Justin Kuritzkes, who has adapted the Burroughs novel for the big screen, pretty-much guarantees another triumph in gay cinema. No release date has been given but hopefully will be available towards the end of the year ... something to look forward to!

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