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LGBT Culture In Mexico
In Culture of Mexico, Mexican culture, it is now relatively common to see gay characters represented on Mexican Sitcom, sitcoms and Soap opera, soap operas (Telenovela, ''telenovelas'') and being discussed on Talk show, talk shows. However, representations of male homosexuals vary widely. They often include stereotypical versions of Effeminacy, male effeminacy meant to provide Comedy, comic relief as well as representations meant to increase social awareness and generate greater acceptance of homosexuality. However, efforts to represent Lesbian, lesbians have remained nearly non-existent, which might be related to the more general invisibility of lesbian subcultures in Mexico. Until the prominence of such openly gay luminaries as singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel, artist Juan Soriano (artist), Juan Soriano, and essayist Carlos Monsiváis, gay life was safely closeted and officially unmentionable in the mass media. A Lesbian-Gay Cultural Week has been held annually since 1982 in Mexic ...
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Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundary, maritime boundaries with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. Mexico covers 1,972,550 km2 (761,610 sq mi), and is the List of countries by area, thirteenth-largest country in the world by land area. With a population exceeding 130 million, Mexico is the List of countries by population, tenth-most populous country in the world and is home to the Hispanophone#Countries, largest number of native Spanish speakers. Mexico City is the capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city, which ranks among the List of cities by population, most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Human presence in Mexico dates back to at least 8,000 BC. Mesoamerica, considered a cradle ...
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El Lugar Sin Límites (film)
''The Place Without Limits'' (, also released as ''Hell Without Limits'') is a 1978 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein, produced in Mexico and based on the 1966 novel of the same name written by Chilean José Donoso. The film was selected by Mexico as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. In July 2018, it was selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. Plot The film opens on a man driving a truck. He stops in front of a house and begins honking the horn. Inside, Manuela ( Roberto Cobo) and her daughter, known as Japonesita (Ana Martín), are asleep. Manuela panics, recognizing the honk as that of Pancho ( Gonzalo Vega), a man who has attacked her before, destroying her red flamenco dress. Manuela wakes the other women in the brothel in search of red thread to mend the dress. She is sent instead to Ludovinia, an elderly, deaf woman who gi ...
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Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( ; ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. List of awards and nominations received by Alfonso Cuarón, His accolades include four Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and seven BAFTA Awards. Cuarón made his feature film debut with the romantic comedy ''Sólo con tu pareja'' (1991), and directed the film adaptations ''A Little Princess (1995 film), A Little Princess'' (1995), and ''Great Expectations (1998 film), Great Expectations'' (1998). His breakthrough came with the coming-of-age film ''Y tu mamá también'' (2001) which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He gained greater prominence for directing the fantasy film ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' (2004), the dystopian drama ''Children of Men'' (2006), the science fiction drama Gravity (2013 film), ''Gravity'' (2013), and the semi-autobiographical drama Roma (2018 film), ''Roma'' (2018) ...
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Y Tu Mamá También
''Y tu mamá también'' (Spanish for ''And Your Mother Too'') is a 2001 Mexican Coming-of-age story, coming-of-age comedy drama Road movie, road film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who co-wrote the script with his brother Carlos Cuarón, Carlos. It follows two teenage boys who take a road trip with a woman in her late twenties and stars Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, and Maribel Verdú, with narration by Daniel Giménez Cacho. It is set in 1999 against the backdrop of Mexico's political and economic realities, specifically at the end of the uninterrupted seven decades of presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the rise of the opposition led by Vicente Fox. In addition to directing and co-writing the film, Cuarón also produced it with Jorge Vergara and edited it alongside Alex Rodríguez (film editor), Alex Rodríguez. The film's explicit depiction of sex, nudity, and drug use caused complications in its rating. In Mexico, it earned $2.2 million its first weeken ...
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Jorge Fons
Jorge Fons Pérez (23 April 1939 – 22 September 2022) was a Mexican film director. He belonged to the first generation of film directors of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His short film, ''Caridad'' (1973), is still considered one of the best films in Mexican cinema. Two of the most important films of his filmography are ''Rojo amanecer'' (1989) and '' El callejón de los milagros'' (1995) based on the homonymous book by Naguib Mahfouz, '' Midaq Alley'' of 1947 (زقاق المدق), which breaks the classic lineal plots in films. His 1976 film, '' Los albañiles'', won the Silver Bear at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival The 27th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1977. The festival opened with ''Nickelodeon'' by Peter Bogdanovich. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' The Ascent'' directed by Larisa Shepitko. Since this edit .... In 1995, his film '' El callejón de los milagros'' won a Special Menti ...
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Midaq Alley (film)
''Midaq Alley'' (, also released as ''The Alley of Miracles'') is a 1995 Mexican film adapted from the novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, written by Vicente Leñero and directed by Jorge Fons. The film deals with complex issues such as gay and lesbian related topics, the lower-middle class of Mexico City, and the lives of many people. The story is told from three perspectives: Don Ru (Ernesto Gómez Cruz), the owner of a cantina where most of the men in the story gather to drink and play dominoes, Alma (Salma Hayek), the beautiful girl of the neighborhood who dreams of passion, and Susanita (Margarita Sanz who won an Ariel Award for this role), the owner of the apartment complex where Alma and many of the other characters live. The film was critically acclaimed by international critics. It earned 11 Ariel Awards, including Best Picture at the 37th Ariel Awards and more than 49 international awards and nominations. ''Pan's Labyrinth'' and ''El Callejón de los Milagros' ...
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Alejandro Pelayo
Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander. Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander (Czech, Polish), Alexandre ( French), Alexandros (Greek), Alsander ( Irish), Alessandro (Italian), Aleksandr (Russian), and Alasdair (Gaelic). People with the given name Alejandro * Alejandro Alvizuri, Peruvian backstroke swimmer * Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-born Spanish director * Alejandro Aranda, American singer, musician, and reality television personality * Alejandro Arguello, Mexican footballer * Alejandro Avila, Mexican TV actor * Alejandro Awada, Argentine actor * Alejandro Balde, Spanish Footballer * Alejandro Betts, Argentine historian * Alejandro Bermúdez, Colombian swimmer * Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine architect * Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and novelist * Alejandro Casañas, Cuban hurdler * Alejandro Castillo, Mexican footballer * Alejandro Cercas, Spanish politician * Alejandro Chataing, Venezuelan architect * Alej ...
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Miroslava (film)
''Miroslava'' is a 1993 Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Pelayo and starring Arielle Dombasle, Claudio Brook and Milosh Trnka. The film portrays the life of the Czech-born actress Miroslava, who became one of the biggest stars in Mexico before her suicide in 1955.Montes Garcés p.134-166 Partial cast * Arielle Dombasle as Adult Miroslava * Claudio Brook as Alex Fimman * Milosh Trnka as Dr. Oscar Stern * Arleta Jeziorska as Young Miroslava * Evangelina Martinez as Rosario * Pamela Sniezhkin Brook as Child Miroslava * Verónica Langer as Miroslava's Mother * Rosa María Bianchi as Sofía * Josefo Rodríguez as Luis Miguel Dominguín * Alicia Laguna as Graciela * Demián Bichir as Ricardo * Miguel Pizarro as Jesús Jaime * Brígida Alexander as Miroslava's Grandmother * Juan Carlos Colombo Juan Carlos Colombo (born 7 November 1950 in San Juan, Argentina) is an Argentine–Mexican actor. He has resided in Mexico since 1975, where he studied acting and ...
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María Novaro
María Novaro (born María Luisa Novaro Peñaloza; September 11, 1951, in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director. She was among the first generation of female filmmakers to graduate from a film school in Mexico. She has made five feature films and fourteen short films. Within the Mexican film industry, she has been a cinematographer, sound mixer, director, screenwriter and editor. Today, Novaro is one of the best known Mexican filmmakers to come out of the New Mexican Cinema and her films express Millian's idea of cinema in feminine. Education María Novaro studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. After gaining some interest in filmmaking she decided to study film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos based in UNAM.Sutherland, Romy. "Senses of Cinema: Maria Novaro". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved May 1, 2010. In 1981, while at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos, she made her first short films Lavaderos, sob ...
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Danzón
Danzón is the official genre and dance of Cuba.Urfé, Odilio 1965. ''El danzón''. La Habana. It is also an active musical form in USA and Puerto Rico. Written in time, the danzón is a slow, formal partner dance, requiring set footwork around syncopated beats, and incorporating elegant pauses while the couples stand listening to virtuoso instrumental passages, as characteristically played by a charanga or típica ensemble. The danzón evolved from the Cuban contradanza, or habanera ( 'Havana-dance'). The contradanza, which had English and French roots in the country dance and contredanse, was probably introduced to Cuba by the Spanish, who ruled the island for almost four centuries (1511–1898), contributing many thousands of immigrants. It may also have been partially seeded during the short-lived British occupation of Havana in 1762. Haitian refugees fleeing the island's revolution of 1791–1804 brought the French-Haitian kontradans, contributing their own ...
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Cinema Of Mexico
The cinema of Mexico dates to the late nineteenth century during the rule of President Porfirio Díaz. Seeing a demonstration of short films in 1896, Díaz immediately saw the importance of documenting his presidency in order to present an ideal image of it. With the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Mexican and foreign makers of silent films seized the opportunity to document its leaders and events. From 1915 onward, Mexican cinema focused on narrative film. During the Golden Age of Mexican cinema from 1936 to 1956, Mexico all but dominated the Latin American film industry. In 2019, ''Roma (2018 film), Roma'' became the first Mexican film and fourth Latin American film to win the Academy Awards, Oscar for best Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, foreign language film. Roma also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards. Emilio Fernández, Emilio "El Indio" Fernández was rumored to be the model for the Academy Award ...
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Same-sex Couple
A same-sex relationship is a romantic or sexual relationship between people of the same sex. ''Same-sex marriage'' refers to the institutionalized recognition of such relationships in the form of a marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...; civil unions may exist in countries where same-sex marriage does not. The term ''same-sex relationship'' is not strictly related to the sexual orientation of the participants. As people of any orientation may participate in same-sex relationships (particularly depending on the legal, social and scientific definition of sex), some activists argue that referring to a same-sex relationship as a "Gay men, gay relationship" or a "lesbian relationship" is a form of bisexual erasure. In history The lives of many historical figures, ...
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