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"Three times charm", or so the saying goes ... [message #63518]

Fri, 03 September 2010 00:28

The Gay Deceiver

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... and simply because I've introduced the subject of media downloaders in another thread here, I give you (although purely in context I might add) the following:

Struggle [2010] UPC: Unassigned

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Shortly thereafter the World Première of his first feature-length film at the thèâtre in the aging historic Gladstone Hotel (recently refurbished as a Hostel/Community and Outreach Centre in Toronto's West-end, director Bruce Stephen Locke placed the film in the "Public Domain" under a Creative Commons License respecting his rights to copyright, title and ownership and our fair use.

STRUGGLE is the story of Darren, a young gay man, who arrives in Toronto seeking a new life. Running out of money, and with nowhere to live, he quickly falls in with a group of gay rent boys. Complicating matters for himself, he falls in love with Steve, one of the group. Steve already has a boyfriend. While desperately trying to avoid becoming a prostitute himself, Darren's loneliness and infatuation with Steve eventually sets him on a downward spiral with tragic circumstances.

The "Three times charm" bit: Canada and it's film-makers have tried twice before to sufficiently document the hidden truths behind escalating youth homelessness, and the related issues of street prostitution, hustling and rent-boys now endemic in Canadian Urban Centres; the first produced by CanWest Global Communications and Media LLC and Poignant Productions Inc., in 2001, entitled "Inside Boystown" documented Vancouver's plight, and received much ballyhooed buzz when it aired nationally, but little came from the initiative in raising awareness and obtaining much needed funding to address the problems therein associated. The second was the 2009 PSA (produced by a Toronto firm, name not recalled, original thread found here: http://forum.iomfats.org/w-agora/index.php?site=forumiomfatsorg&bn=forumiomfatsorg_placeofsafety&key=1255295427&action=view, which Brody kindly featured in one of his articles here earlier this year. Locke's film represents the third major attempt to document this crisis (consequently the "Charm"), and he does it admirably. The film is worthy of your time to download and view, if you're not capable of streaming it directly to your screen.

The good folks at archive.org are making the film available for global distribution, and it may be found here:

http://www.archive.org/details/Struggle_482

If for whatever reason you are not able to screen or download the film, I have created a 800 Mb AVI-format distribution taken from the 1.5 Gb master featured at the site above which should be more than suitable for most viewers. An e-Mail directed to me will bring the links to my host file-server in reply.

This film is not pornography. It is a serious take on a very serious problem; one told with great compassion and veracity. That it features attractive youth, and a heart-wrenching story are simply a bonus.

Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada

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