A film clip from 1927
This is really interesting - the first known cinema kiss between two men, from a 1927 film about WW1 pilots. The relationship is ostensibly platonic, and it's an interesting comment on how times change that it could be seen so. I doubt that such an intense physical and emotional moment could be accepted as such now, and I'm not quite sure what to make of that. (I realised that I forgot Boromir's death scene in the first LOTR movie, and I can think of at least one non-fannish review which commented on the overtones.) It is a death scene, about three and a half minutes long.
http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/brokeback_before_brokeback_the_first_same-sex_kiss_in_cinema_1927.html
This makes me think about Starsky and Hutch, and how wider popular culture and fandom still argues about exactly how to interpret their relationship. I guess that my only final word is that love is always a good thing, however it's expressed.
http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/brokeback_before_brokeback_the_first_same-sex_kiss_in_cinema_1927.html
This makes me think about Starsky and Hutch, and how wider popular culture and fandom still argues about exactly how to interpret their relationship. I guess that my only final word is that love is always a good thing, however it's expressed.