canadian actor
portraits and text by FLORENT ROUTOULP
<img class="wp-image-170445 size-medium" src="https://static.purple.fr/2015/10/PGL_031-199×300.jpg" (New Real Films & 1976 Production, 2014) <img class="wp-image-170449 size-medium" title="Graphic cream wool sweater LACOSTE" src="https://static.purple.fr/2015/10/PGL_04-199×300.jpg" (New Real Films & 1976 Production, 2014)
Bruce LaBruce’s movie Gerontophilia is, surprisingly, just that: a young man’s physical love of an elder. Bruce LaBruce is an undisputed member of the Queercore movement — with the likes of Dennis Cooper, Slava Mogutin, Gio Black Peter — and his punk-porn filmography defines the opposition to normal heterosexual society. LaBruce also retracted from the gay and lesbian community, thus creating a politically violent queer artistic movement in its own right. But with Gerontophilia, there’s no zombie (like in Otto; or, Up with Dead People); there’s no prostitute (as played by Tony Ward in Hustler White); there isn’t a single gay skinhead…
