There is no blu ray release of what many would view as gay classics such as Beautiful Thing, Get Real, Trick, Were the World Mine, etc. We are still waiting for blu rays of the films of Andre Techine and Gael Morel, for example. True, some were good, some were bad, and some were downright ugly – but they were there, nonetheless.īut precious few of those titles have made it to a blu-ray upgrade. Through labels such as Water Bearer, TLA and Strand Releasing in the US and Peccadillo, Millivres and TLA in the UK, dozens upon dozens of queer films became easily accessible. DVD – and the era of the internet – changed that considerably. I remember having a handful of gay-themed films on VHS, but I would have been lucky here in the UK to have found more than two or three such films on the shelf in even the biggest of stores. The new, cheaper-produced, more easily accessible DVD allowed for more content for niche audiences. Through the DVD era of the late 1990s and up to about ten years ago, queer cinema blossomed on home video. It is undeniable that, more than a decade into the blu-ray era, queer cinema of the past is woefully under-represented on the “new” medium.
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