EDITORIAL.- Last week we read some statements from Fernando Tejero in which he claimed to have "Felt the accusing finger of society when being with a young boy". It is striking that the actor had felt signaled not by relating to another man but by the difference in age.
Stereotypes are fed by conventions and these, normally, respond to social or economic interests. The age difference in a relationship has not always been frowned upon, in fact marriages of convenience used to be agreed between a mature man and a teenage girl, which in practice meant a sale. In the end, it would be a purely reproductive issue, the young woman can guarantee heirs regardless of the age of her partner, otherwise neither the species nor the heritage are perpetuated. While the mature woman dating a younger man is vicious, the XNUMX-year-old with a younger partner is called a “scoundrel” and is given a complacent pat on the back.
However What happens in the LGTBI field with the difference in age? In the classical period the relationship between the mature man and the ephebe was not only accepted but also fulfilled a social function, that of the transmission of culture. It is evident that it would not be the same to talk about sexual attraction than about a loving relationship, but in either case there is a certain social prejudice, especially when the age difference is abysmal.
That prejudice confronts us Bruce LaBruce in his movie "Gerontophilia", a film that shatters the sex taboo between generations. Love and humor support the fetishistic relationship between the young Lake and the octogenarian Mr. Peabody, in a story that breaks a spear in favor of other forms of desire away from the dominant discourse. The director, known for a border cinema between gay eroticism and intimate discourse, opts on this occasion for a softer tone but with a clear vindictive intention, that of the legitimacy of love and desire beyond age or sex .
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