I HAD HEARD of but had never seen the 1961 movie, The Victim, a breakthrough event in the history of LGBTQ+ liberation, probably the first mainstream (or is it "independent") movie to present us as sympathetic characters who shouldn't be illegalized and discriminated against. I came across it online and it reminded me what life before legalization of same-sex life was like, even if it was in a British context.
Who knows how bad it will get and if life could return to that or worse as fascism overturns liberal democracy, such as it became, remembering that for almost all of the history of liberal democracies LGBTQ+ People have been made illegal and even the most violent oppression against us and even murder against us was entirely OK with politics and the law.
The opening part of the movie is especially compelling though it is an outstanding script, by Janet Green and John McCormick, for its time and the acting, especially the outstanding main characters played by Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms and Peter McEnery whose run from the police is what the movie forms around.
You'll want to watch it on full screen.
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