German film Romeos present attitudes which director Sabine Bernadi said she has encountered among straight audiences.

By Shuan Sim

On the screen of the Světozor cinema in Prague, the movie Romeos was screening. A man emerges completely naked from a car with tinted windows, lights a cigarette and talks to the lead character of the movie. Moments later, two more men emerge from the car, also in various stages of undress.

None of the audience stirred. After all, they were attending the 12^th Mezipatra Film Festival, which celebrates and screens movies that deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer (LGBTQ) issues. What’s more interesting, however, is that approximately half of the attendees were straight, not gay.

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