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bitter69uk · 2 months

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“After biker Reggie (Colin Campbell) and his hair-hopper girlfriend, Dot (Rita Tushingham), tie the knot, they head to a holiday camp for their honeymoon where things go sour in a flash. Yearning to escape the drudgery of his new married life, Reggie becomes fast friends with Pete (Dudley Sutton), a quick-talking fellow leather boy with whom he takes trips to the seaside, much to the chagrin of Dot, who struggles to make their house a home. When Reggie’s grandfather passes away unexpectedly, he asks Pete to join his grandmother (Gladys Henson) as a boarder and live-in companion in her spare room, where he also crashes after he and Dot have a row. Cohabitating with his new roommate, it soon becomes clear that Pete and Reggie have feelings for each other that go beyond mere friendship - feelings that neither of them may be willing or able to process.”

/ From Rocco T Thompson’s review of The Leather Boys for Slant website, 2021 /

Released on this day sixty years ago (8 March 1964): director Sidney J Furie’s gritty working-class British kitchen sink realist drama (and homoerotic biker classic) The Leather Boys (1964). (Tagline: “Three lives ripped savagely apart!”). Some scenes were filmed at London’s old-school transport café The Ace Café in Wembley; when I used to occasionally go to rockabilly gigs there years ago, it looked exactly the same. For the “leather jacket lover” crowd, Colin Campbell and Dudley Sutton resemble escapees from Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963) in their biker gear – and the great Rita Tushingham absolutely slays as the petulant Dot! Coronation Street fans will recognize a young Johnny Briggs (aka Mike Baldwin) in the supporting cast.

#lobotomy room #the leather boys #rita tushingham #sidney j. furie #kitchen sink drama #british cinema #homoerotic biker #leather jacket lover #working class drama #gay love triangle #the ace cafe #london #coronation street

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not-xpr-art · 2 years

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Some digital painting studies of films I watched in May and June 2022 ~

(also featuring a quote I particularly liked from the films & my ratings)

#artists on tumblr #film art #film studies #art studies #paintings #films #digital art #painting studies #screenshot redraw #the miseducation of cameron post #fight club #ear for eye #the leather boys #sweetheart #most of these are queer films because june was pride and i specifically wanted to try and only watch lgbtq films lol #i am honestly so excited to post all these film studies in a compilation cos i just know they're gonna look fab together lol

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zippocreed501 · 1 year

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The Smiths - Girlfriend In A Coma (1987)

The video features scenes from The Leather Boys (1964)

#the smiths #girlfriend in a coma #the leather boys #faces of the 60's #Youtube

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gayfilmbro · 2 years

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romeo + juliet (1996)//the leather boys wikipedia page//the leather boys (1964)

#offing myself i have gone too far w this one #oh my god ..oh my god .....#the leather boys 1964 #‚#movies #romeo + juliet #r+j #the leather boys #kitchen sink

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vintageleathersblog · 1 year

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#1960s #celebs #actor #Colin Campbell #Dudley Sutton #The Leather Boys #biker jacket #leather jacket #full leather #motorcycle

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skelkankaos · 6 months

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no but that scene where Dick goes to a gay bar by accident and is like "i'm not a homosexual even though i have never been attracted to a woman and also have a boyfriend that i'm like insanely obsessed with, because i am not like these guys" is just the 60s version of the "gays i respect" meme

#so sayeth skelkankaos #the leather boys #the leather boys 1961

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allgloryprincess · 12 days

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Would you kiss me on my bulge daddy💦🍑💐🍆💐

Inboxes 📥me privately

Telegram: @ellatrans_real1

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falsebooles123 · 1 year

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An Incredible Long Couple of Weeks. Diary of a Big Ole Gay.

Hey Whores, this is going to be a really long post because I may not have the energy to finish this this week.

So I guess I haven't done one of these in about two weeks and a lot of that is me being very busy. Last week of March I was working on like fifteen million different articles and videos and other content creation thingies and the first week of April literally started with my co-worker HAVING A MENTAL BREAK AND LEAVING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LITERAL COUNTRY.

(i'm posting a funny GIF but I'm actually kinda pissed)

so instead of having a lot of great help to ease into running a full ass kitchen by myself doing 70 heads a day. I was doing this with exactly one other person doing the bare minimum to help me. It was a lot of hard work, and of course it went great. But I was extremly exhausted.

I also didn't watch that many queer films because of it.

but lets get into it.

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) dir. John Huston

OK so I don't remember a lot about any of these films because I watched this one in particular, *checks notes* the 27th of last month. Yeah theres a reason why theres no date on this one.

So this one I think is based on a book or something and features Marlon Brando being a CLOSET HOMOSEXUAL. oh also he stays right in that closet.

(god this gif is something else. so creepy)

Hes like yeah I'm going to spend this entire movie staring at this naked guys ass, (yeah I'm not going to explain the plot your'll either love this movie or hate it but you can't say it doesn't have a plot), but I ain't going to act on it. I'm just going to fight with my beautiful neglected wife who beats my ass for beating her horse.

See the relationship is super toxic but its liz taylor and Marlon Brando so its also the hottest thing ever.

anyway lot of repressed homos in the background of the entire rest of the plot. One of the more fun dramas I watched cause it was MESSY!

Flesh (1968) dir. Paul Morrissey

ok so Flesh is one of those weird cineme verite movies that Morrissey made and it is very artsy and very gay but there isn't actually any guy on guy stuff. The main actor spends most of his time naked, and some of that is like eroticized but also its kinda meant to desexualize nudity. Or rather the film is using casual nudity as a way to lampshade the way we objectify people because after we see this long scene were hes just laying in bed with his dick out (relatable), we get a 5 minutes scene of him starting his day buck ass naked feeding his 1 year old real daughter a muffin. they actually use that as one of the posters

so like yeah hes naked but hes clearly not erotised in that moment in fact even though the main character is a hustler he never actually has gay sex on screen. His only client is a man who wants to draw him for like classical sculpture. Hes someone whose literally objectified scene for his body and not as a living person.

OMFG am I a film critic or something.

anyway this is another pretty cool film and especially something gay people should watch even through there isn't that much PDA.

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) dir. Toshio Matsumoto

ok first look at this iconic photo.

Pretty this follows a bunch of transwoman in like Tokyo just honestly vibing and being faggot punks. We love, we stan, we support.

theres a lot to enjoy about this film and honestly just iconic trans woman you need to watch this. oh also all these ladies are straight so theres no gay kissing.

My Hustler (1966) dir. Andy Warhol, Chuck Wein

NOTE: This is a clip from the 1961 SPORTS THRILLER "The Hustler" but also this is pretty good dupe to the experience of My Hustler

Yeah so My Hustler is the story of a rich gay bringing a gay whore for his vacation and then having his fag hag friend and then the hustler friend show up and they all get in to this contest about whos going to fuck him. So I guess more objectification of men through the queer lens. Noone actually fucks him and its a lot of naturalistic dialogue. Its warhol you get it.

The Children's Hour (1961) dir. William Wyler

Ok so Childrens Hour is about Audrey Hepburn and her GAL PAL Shirley McClaine who run a school together. They are in fact just roommates but doesn't stop snot nose little brats from spreading rumors that like she totally saw Mrs. Hepburn drowning in pussy. So yeah they have there lives ruined and there not even dykes da fuck. Its very Tea and Sympathy in that regard about how homophobia hurts those that arn't even faggots. Y'know the innocent. /s

except it turns out that Shirley McClaine is in fact like a totally LESBIAN HAROLD. and this was the push she needed to admit how fucking gay she is for audrey hepburn, (which like we get it girl it audrey), oh and then she fucking kills herself. Thanks I hate it.

The movie up to that points pretty good.

The Leather Boys (1964) dir. Sidney J. Furie

ok so this is another British New Wave movie and it manly follows this newly married couple. And like the wife Dot, is literally the worst fucking person. She spends all her money on her hair which 1. He doens't like and 2. Doesn't even look good on her. She doesn't have a job and she doesn't keep the house. And then she won't move into his mom's house after his dad fucking dies and his mom literally can't take care of herself which like sorry girl I get if you don't like your mother-in-law but um kinda a consequence of marrying someone at some point you kinda have to deal with there parents getting old and dying. Oh also shes cheating on him. SPOILERS.

Anyway so they spend most of the time seperated while this guy sleeps with his best friend.... in like the same bed. hahaha not like in a gay way that would be ..... gay.

Also I'm totally sure his best friend isn't like a faggot or something.

Yeah, basically this guy was sleeping next to a gay guy the whole time and everytime his friend was like "omg babe lets ditch your looser wife, (can confirm she sucks), and move to america together" that he meant it in like a gay way.

and so the dude just fucking leaves. Honestly I would try sucking dick just once if I was him. You guys have a great relationship and your wifes a bitch.

Advise & Consent (1962) dir. Otto Preminger

The Best Man (1964) dir. Franklin J. Schaffner

just going to throw these together. Basically there both about some future were the president wants to nominate some dude and people are like ew no. also some random other person is getting blackmailed for being a faggot in the war. Yeah both of these movies have like the same exact plot.

I like The Best Man a little bit more but there both kinda awful. Also Betty White is in the first one and SHES A SENATOR. yaaaas girl.

Manji (1964) dir. Yasuzo Masumura

THESE LESBIANS ARE TOXIC.

Like don't get me wrong they kiss, they suck, they fuck. Lot of Women absolutely just being the most, this is the most lesbian thing I've seen.

Oh also eventually they start a death cult it goes to some really weird places. Also theres like three remakes.

anyway whores, sorry that its taking so long for me to post this diary update. I'm going to draft the next post and try to get it out by the end of the month. Thanks love you.

#diary #queer cinema #early queer cinema #firstgaykiss #reflections in a golden eye #flesh 1968 #funeral parade of roses 1969 #my hustler 1966 #the childrens hour 1961 #The Leather Boys #Advise & Consent 1962 #The Best Man 1964 #Manji 1964 #slurs(reclaimed)#Buried Gays #CW Suicide

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kakecomics · 4 months

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Beach Boys, Part 2 by Tom of Finland

#Tom of Finland #Beach Boys #Kake #comics #male pits #gay leather #*#**#gayedit #holesrus #vintage gay

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taffywabbit · 11 months

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morality in fallout games

fallout 3: hmmm. is it bad to blow up the people you don't like?

fallout new vegas: every action has consequences, even actions you believe to be correct and that seem like the most straightforward way to improve society and free people from poverty and disease. war is hell and there are limits to how many problems can be solved with a revolver. every enemy you kill is someone's brother or daughter or lover, and you can't guarantee you won't meet that someone and have to stand by your decisions at some point. how strong is your conviction to do the "right" thing when you know that people you care about may hate you for it? how sure are you that your definition of "good" is more correct than someone else's? how often is your "good" really just the lesser of two evils? who are you to play god and decide what kinds of people deserve happiness more than others? would it be cowardly and wrong to remain neutral and detached when you hold the power to singlehandedly change everything? w

fallout 4: hmmm. is it bad to blow up the WAIT!!! POST CANCELED i just remembered this game has a mod that lets you replace Curie's humanoid synth form with a hot robot furry and you can date her and that kinda fucking rules actually

#buny text #look at my lop posts boy #fallout #this is not a serious post pleeeease do not send the fallout 3 fans after me. i know i was being unfair that's the joke #the part about curie is genuine tho #having a french robot jackal gf with a leather jacket and a sledgehammer DID improve my FO4 experience drastically

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disco-drunk · 1 month

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BDSM Club undercover investigation something something...

Basically my excuse to draw Harry in leather😭

God this came out so fantastic grrr

Also some close-ups cuz It's worth seeing in great detail 😌:

#art #digital art #my art #fanart #disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #de fanart #harrier du bois #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #harrykim #kim x harry #leather #leather daddy #he looks sooo good

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zippocreed501 · 1 year

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Rita Tushingham as Dot

The Leather Boys (1964)

#rita tushingham #the leather boys #faces of the 60's #drama #the smiths

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gayfilmbro · 2 years

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All for Pete- an excerpt of an article featured in The Spectator on 31st January 1964, written by Isabel Quigly.

transcript below:

The Leather Boys. (Em- pire; 'X' certificate.)— Zulu. (Plaza; 6U'. certifi- cate.)

As every film-goer now knows that the English

proletariat lives on baked 3 beans and bingo, there are no surprises in the social facts of The Leather Boys. Arthur Seaton's home-life may have caused a few eyes to pop but We were greenhorns then; and British films have since been putting across a way of life we have come to accept as widespread, if not quite universal. Indeed, it would take a brave film-maker now to show working-class people who actually cook, make beds, don't stack the washing up from week to, week, don't sit glued to telly/ racetrack/bingo and don't scream or swear at each other. Sidney Furie's much delayed -film has all the factual cliches that even a few months ago may have looked, like bold realism, and so suffers from the surfeit of similar bold realism we have had in the meantime.

Yet The Leather Boys comes out of it very much better than, from its well-worn air,, one might suppose. For one thing, among so much dogged, damp conformity of eye and mind as you

find among our new wave directors (all sticking cigarettes behind well-washed ears to show how proletarian they've grown), Mr. Furie's dash and individuality stand out. For another, he seems at home in his milieu; he has none of the touristic scenes and airs of the sociologist slumming, and the film's social setting isn't really its raison d'être, aggressively plugged, but a background to a story of character, a story not so much about social beings as about that most a-social of them all—a homosexual.

Pete is the film's hero and reason and charm. He is played with such accuracy and pathos by Dudley Sutton that no one and nothing else have much of a chance of getting our interest and sympathy; or by the look of it Mr. Furie's either, for everything is weighted in his favour— dialogue, looks, personality and the sheer awful- ness of his female rivals. Large, curly-headed and pug-faced (weirdly like Ettore Garofalo, the boy who played Anna Magnani's son in Mamma Roma two weeks ago), with a tough, skylarking manner and a glorious jingle of gags you almost miss (Gillian Freeman's excellent script gives him all the best lines), he is the antithesis of the general notion of a homosexual as frail and sissy. His chum, a simple-minded teenage mechanic baffled by domestic squalor and the crafty witlessness of his wife (Rita Tushingham), doesn't realise what's fairly plain to the audience from the word go; and his final awakening in a sailors' bar sends him back, wifeless and friendless, to the empty world he's left. Yet what we're left to wonder about is the long-shot figure of Pete and what he's to make of his loneliness. Between them Mr. Furie and Mr. Sutton have made a film about loneliness so acute that it spills over from the particular to the universal rather than vice versa, as generally happens in pictures with a 'problem' (like Victim, for instance). But then the best quality of The Leather Boys is the fact that it doesn't strike one as 'having a problem' any more than it strikes one as being 'about the proletariat': it grows out of character, out of faces, moments, people.

#the leather boys #‚#movies #the spectator #the leather boys 1964

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shu-bullshit · 5 months

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