All of Us Strangers: heartbreaking film speaks to real experiences of gay men in UK and Ireland

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One evening, Harry (Paul Mescal), a younger man from downstairs, appears at his door.

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https://theconversation.com/all-of-us-strangers-heartbreaking-film-speaks-to-real-experiences-of-gay-men-in-uk-and-ireland-222628

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Lunedì, Febbraio 5, 2024

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Parent, BeLonG To, Homosexuality, Language, Fear, Noise, Government, Section 28, Child, Love, Crime, Homophobia, Disease, Heart, AIDS, Hope, Crash, Forgiveness, Death, Queer

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UK, IRELAND, WALES, ENGLAND

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Key Points:

One evening, Harry (Paul Mescal), a younger man from downstairs, appears at his door.
These crimes don’t belong to the past: in 2022, two gay men in Sligo were murdered by a man they met through a dating app.
It speaks to many of the real and heartbreaking experiences gay men in the UK and Ireland have had to navigate.
It also highlights the progress and more hopeful world that has been carved for younger generations of queer men.

Open to love

There is a spark between them; Adam reaches out to Harry and we see a relationship develop from an initial hook-up to long-lasting companionship and love.
This connection allows Adam to revisit two painful relationships he had left in the past.
Spurred on by a photograph of his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy), he returns to the suburbs where he was born, and meets them again.

Embracing the word ‘queer’

In the film, twentysomething Harry refers to continuing homophobia when he asks Adam if he is queer; it seems a more polite word than gay, he says, recalling children using the word as a slur.
In the 1980s, “gay” was the most positive word used to describe LGBTQ+ people, and “queer” was used by homophobes as a vicious insult.
“Queer-bashing” was the term used by the five youths who killed Declan Flynn in Dublin in 1982: a notorious Irish hate-crime.
But today’s Ireland is also a place where “queer” is no longer a hateful word: it’s used by many LGBT+ people to celebrate their identities.

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Diarmuid Scully does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.