The Abominable Crime (2013)
When Your Love Is Against the Law
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 5分
演出 : Micah Fink
シノプシス
This is a story about a mother's love for her child and an activist's love for his country - and the stakes are life and death. Spanning five countries, THE ABOMINABLE CRIME explores the impacts of homophobia through the eyes of two gay Jamaicans who are forced to choose between their homeland and their lives. Simone, a young lesbian mother, survives being shot outside of her home by anti-gay gunmen. She must choose between living in hiding with her daughter in Jamaica or traveling alone to seek safety and asylum abroad. Maurice, Jamaica's leading gay-rights activist, is outed shortly after filing a lawsuit to overturn Jamaica's anti-sodomy law. He escapes to Canada, but decides to return to continue his activism.
高校生のサイモン(ニック・ロビンソン)は、ゲイであることをカミングアウトするか迷っていた。ある日サイモンは、ブルーと名乗る匿名のゲイが学校にいることを知る。ブルーとメールで連絡を取り合うようになったサイモンだったが、そのメール履歴を見た同級生にサイモンの女友達との恋の橋渡しをしろと脅されてしまう。
Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour hookup sites for older men.
Christian, a hunky, 20-something, West Hollywood party boy gets more than he bargains for when he tries to seduce 19-year-old Elder Aaron Davis, a sexually confused Mormon missionary who moves into his apartment complex.
After a night of drinking, Adam Hutcherson stumbles out of the closet to his three straight buddies. A disruption to their dynamic which they now must try and overcome through alcohol, Tinder dates and forgiveness.
The holidays get overly festive as Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson, an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his parents. But when his boyfriend, Nathan, shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?
1984, Sandusky, Ohio. A naive 17-year-old navigates heartbreak and self-expression as he explores his sexuality.
Steven spends his school days longing for all-star athlete John. But John has a gorgeous girlfriend, and Steven is still in the closet about being gay. The only one who knows the teenager's secret is his friend Linda. After a curious run-in with John in a public restroom, Steven starts to wonder if the jock is straight after all. When they start a romance, it threatens to expose the truth about both of them.
A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate.
Set in the beautiful high Pyrenees in south-west France, Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorised him.
恋愛カウンセラーでありながら、夫ロブ（ラファエル・バーカー）とのセックスでオーガズムを味わったことがないソフィア（リー・スックイン）。ある日、彼女はカウンセリングを受けに来たカップル、ジェイムズ（ポール・ドーソン）とジェイミー（PJ・デボーイ）の紹介で、ブルックリンにあるサロン“ショートバス”に足を踏み入れる。
Ezequiel, a sixteen-year-old gay teenager in his sexual awakening, meets a boy of twenty-one. They quickly start a relationship and the situation unravels unexpectedly.
1963年、ワイオミング州ブロークバック・マウンテン。定職のないイニスとジャックは、羊放牧の職を得て、共にひと夏を過ごすことになる。大自然の中でお互いを助け合ううちに、彼らに深い絆が生まれる。それがごく自然に男同士の関係へと変化していくのに、それほど時間はかからなかった。しかし、保守的な時代、閉鎖的な土地…厳しい社会の現実が２人の関係に影を落とし始める。
第2次世界大戦下の1939年イギリス、若き天才数学者アラン・チューリングはドイツ軍の暗号エニグマを解読するチームの一員となる。高慢で不器用な彼は暗号解読をゲーム感覚で捉え、仲間から孤立して作業に没頭していたが、やがて理解者が現れその目的は人命を救うことに変化していく。いつしか一丸となったチームは、思わぬきっかけでエニグマを解き明かす。
マイアミの貧困地域で、麻薬を常習している母親ポーラと暮らす少年シャロン。学校ではチビと呼ばれていじめられ、母親からは育児放棄されている彼は、何かと面倒を見てくれる麻薬ディーラーのホアンとその妻、唯一の友人のケビンだけが心の支えだった。そんな中、シャロンは同性のケビンを好きになる。そのことを誰にも言わなかった。
世界が熱狂した伝説のバンド＜クイーン＞。その光と影を数々の名曲とともに描く感動のミュージック・エンターテイメント。1970年、ロンドン。ライブ・ハウスに通っていた若者フレディ・マーキュリーは、ギタリストのブライアン・メイとドラマーのロジャー・テイラーのバンドのボーカルが脱退したと知り自らを売り込む。二人はフレディの歌声に心を奪われ、1年後、ベーシストのジョン・ディーコンが加入。バンド名は＜クイーン＞に決まり、4人はアルバムを制作し、シングル「キラー・クイーン」が大ヒット。個性的なメンバーの革新的な挑戦によって、その後もヒット曲が次々に生み出され、フレディは“史上最高のエンターテイナー”とまで称されるようになる。しかし、栄光の影で次第にフレディはメンバーと対立し孤独を深めていくのだった…。
アメリカで、同性愛者であることをカミングアウトして公職に就いた初めての人物、ハーヴィー・ミルク。波乱万丈の短い人生を送った彼の、最後の8年間に何があったのかを、ガス・ヴァン・サント監督が描き出す。
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