Gay Themed Movies - What is a Good Video to rent Guys?

For a good laugh try “Sordid Lives”. This was a big hit at the Palm Springs festival and has the bi-line of “A Black Comedy about White Trash”. The cast includes Delta Burke (Designing Women) and Olivia Newton-John. Check it out and be prepared to snicker a lot. Favourite scene has the Psychiatrist trying to convert “Brother Boy” who believes he must carry the torch for Tammy Wynette. Hysterical!

This is a great movie. It is about a young south asian canadian man living in the UK with his partner.

His mother makes a surprise trip from Toronto to see if she can get her only son married off and all "heck" breaks out.

The flat they live in is "degayed" and Mother arrives.

The movie is funny and thought provoking as the mother faces the fact her son won't be marrying some nice girl, he is gay.

A great movie to take your mother too. I saw this at the theatre in Victoria. It was funny to watch the different reactions of the "straight" audience vs the out-gay audience.

Expect to laugh and cry during this movie. I highly recommend it!

Go to the film's official site: Touch of Pink

Great Australian film. Starring Russell Crowe, as the boy who lives with his dad. Russell's character is gay and both son and father are proud of each other.

It is an amazing film.

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GAY MOVIES

Compiled by J. McRee Elrod and Richard J. Violette
Last updated: 23 April 2004

The following is a selected list of movies in which gay male
characters and themes are central to the story, or have
important supporting parts.

Some of the earlier films contain characterizations that might
be
considered stereotypical or offensive today, but are important
to gain
an historical perspective on the changing perceptions toward
gays.
These films to a greater or lesser degree reflect our reality
and help
us see ourselves. Most of the films are in English, with some
better
known foreign- language films and TV movies represented.

Not included are gay porn, movies about lesbians (e.g.,
"Silkwood", "Desert Hearts", "I've Heard the Mermaids
Singing", and the more recent silly spoof of gay deprogramming
"But I'm a Cheerleader"), campy and/or homoerotic cult films
with male or female gay icons lacking explicit gay content
(e.g., "The Women", "Auntie Mame", "Mommie Dearest", most John
Waters' films, Steve Reeves' "sword and sandal" films), or
movies in which transsexuals or transvestites are used as a
plot device with little reference to homosexuality (e.g.,
"Glen or Glenda?", "Some Like It Hot", "Tootsie", "Mrs.
Doubtfire", "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean", "The
World According to Garp", "Crying Game" and even "Different
for Girls"). Drag queens are, however, well represented by
such films as "The Adventures of Priscilla ...", "To Wong Foo
." and "Torch Song Trilogy". Also omitted are movies in
which the gay element although important is largely
suppressed, e.g., "Suddenly Last Summer", "Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof", "The Servant", as are films in which the gay element
is subordinate to some other subject such as murder, e.g.,
"Rope", "Swoon", and "Compulsion"; again, there are exceptions
such as "Cruising" (a controversial film deserving of
reappraisal) and "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil".

Some films have a gay sensibility, address our issues, and
have helped form our attitudes, but have no clear gay content,
from "Show Boat" (especially that rendition of 'Bill"), "The
Member of the Wedding", and "Auntie Mame", to the more recent
"Billy Elliot" and "Good Will Hunting" (although lacking an
overt gay character, reflects its gay director's sensibility,
and addresses issues important to gays such as alienation and
mentoring). On the other hand, "American Beauty" is listed
here because of its gay sensibility, the fact that the gay
couple briefly appearing in it is shown as the best-adjusted,
most "normal" relationship, and the key role homosexuality
plays in the climax. The one brief gay encounter in "Full
Monty" wasn't considered quite enough for inclusion, nor the
gay character(s) in "Titus", "Big Daddy", "Flirting with
Disaster", and "Plunkett and McCleane". The inclusion of all
films with gay characters would create too long a list.

It is interesting to watch these films and see how the
portrayals of gay men have evolved, from the early portrayals
of repressed, self-loathing, and often suicidal characters in
films like "Advise and Consent", "The Sergeant", "Reflections
in a Golden Eye", and "The Boys in the Band", through more
sympathetic, yet still often stereotypical, characters in the
last twenty years, though such films as "Longtime Companion",
"Jeffrey", "The Birdcage", and "Philadelphia". Recent common
themes have been coming out or coming of age stories, coping
with AIDS, and the social and amorous couplings of a group of
friends =E0 la "Love! Valour! Compassion!" Foreign films
offer
surprisingly unusual perspectives; some of the most original
and enterprising portrayals of gays have come from Catholic
countries like France and Spain, or repressive societies such
as China, while such liberal cultures as those of Scandinavia
or the Netherlands have yielded few. English Canadian film
makers lag behind their Qu=E9b=E9cois and even First Nations
cohorts in examining gay characters and issues.

This list is selective, subjective, and far from
comprehensive; any suggestions for additions are welcome. An
asterisk (*) indicates those we find particularly enjoyable
(e.g. "Beautiful Thing") or significant (e.g. "Bent").

--

24 Nights (1999)
Gay book store clerk expects Santa to provide Mr. Right.

*C0 corps perdu [aka Straight from the Heart] (1988; Canadian
[French])
Bisexual photographer's male and female lovers pair off and
leave him.

C0 toute vitesse [aka Full Speed] (1998; French)
Three men and one woman are inter related by unrequited
loves.

Adventures of Felix =3D Dr=F4le de F=E9lix

*Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994;
Australian)
Gay man travels Australian outback with drag queen friends to
visit son. Cf. To Wong Foo ...

Advise and Consent (1962)
Closeted gay senator blackmailed for political purposes.

All Over the Guy (2001)
Rocky relationship of two gay men who meet on blind date set
up by friends

All the Rage (1998)
Gay man in Boston South End.

*American Beauty (1999)
Suburban man's mid-life crisis has a few gay twists.

And the Band Played On (1993; made-for-TV)
Docudrama based on Randy Shilts work on reaction to AIDS
crisis.

And Your Mother Too = Y tu mam tambi

*Angels in America (2003: HBO))
Kushner's two part apocalyptic view of America at the turn of
the
century.

Another Country (1984)
How British private school treatment created a spy.

Antes que anochezca =3D Before Night Falls

Apartment Zero (1988)
Prim young man takes on identity of street hunk.

Apo tin akri tis polis [aka From the Edge of the City] (1998;
Greek)
Young male Kazakhstan immigrant in Greece takes up hustling
and pimping.

As Good as It Gets (1997)
Obsessive-compulsive homophobe comes to befriend gay artist.

As Is (1986; made-for-TV)
Male couple reconsiders relationship when one is revealed to
have AIDS.

Bedrooms & Hallways (1999)
Gay man joins new-age men's group and falls for Irish
member, who
experiences his first gay relationship.

Beefcake (1999)
Semidocumentary about models in homoerotic muscle magazine of
the fifties and early sixties.

Being at Home with Claude (1992; Canadian [French])
Hustler explains why he killed john whom he loved.

*Beautiful Thing (1996)
Lower class English boys fall in love.

*Before Night Falls [aka Antes que anochezca] (2000)
Life of gay Cuban poet and novelist Reynaldo Arenas.

*Bent (1997)
Tragic gay love in a Nazi concentration camp.

Best in Show (2000)
Dog show mokumentary.

Bewegte Mann, Die [aka Maybe, Maybe Not] (1994; German)
Thrown out by his girlfriend, a womanizer moves in with an
appreciative gay friend.

*Big Eden (2000)
New Yorker returns home to Montana to discover a too-good-to-
be-true gay-friendly rural community, and the love he has
been
missing.

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)
Young gay photographer has unrequited love for hunk.

Birdcage, The (1996)
Unconventional gay parents cope with son's marriage to
daughter of conservative Senator; Americanized version of La
Cage aux Folles (q.v.).

Birds of a Feather =3D Cage aux Folles, La

Boca a boca [aka Mouth to Mouth] (1995; Spanish)
An aspiring actor becomes involved with a repressed
homosexual and his alleged wife in Madrid.

Boyfriends (1996)
Relaxing English country weekend for gay friends turns out to
be anything but.

Boys in Cellblock Q, The (1992; Australian)
All the boys in a prison work farm are gay.

Boys in Love
Three gay fictional shorts

Boys in the Band, The (1970)
Tragicomic revelations at a gay birthday party; outmoded and
stereotypical, but a milestone.

Boys Life (1995)
Three short coming-of-age films: "Pool Days", "A Friend of
Dorothy", "The Disco Years"

Boys Life 2 (1997)
Four more short coming-of-age films: "Must Be the Music",
"Nunzio's Second Cousin", "Alkali, Iowa", "Trevor"

Boys Life 3 (2000)
Five more short coming-of-age films: "Majorettes in Space",
"Hitch", "Inside Out", "Just One Time"

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema (1993)
Six short films of gay life.

Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (1996; made-for-
TV)
Movie-of-the-week treatment of the gay Olympic diver.

Broadway Damage (1996)
Two gay would be actors and woman friend tackle New York,
with mixed but comic results.

Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, The (2000)
Gay buddies fall in and out of love in West Hollywood.

Business of Fancydancing, The (2002)
Tensions develop when Native American gay writer returns to
reservation for friend's funeral.

*Cabaret (1972)
Gay man has bisexual affairs in Berlin as Nazis rise to
power.

Cage Aux Folles, La (aka Birds of a Feather) (1978; French)
Gay male parents cope with marriage of son.

Cage Aux Folles II, La (1980; French)
Gay couple becomes entangled in espionage plot.

Cage aux Folles III - "Elles" se marient, La (1985; French)
Partner in gay couple will inherit a fortune if he marries a
woman within a year.

California Suite (1978)
Multiepisode film includes one with Oscar-nominated actress
and her gay husband.

Carrington (1995)
Artist Dora Carrington's relationship with gay writer Lytton
Strachey.

*Celluloid Closet, The (1995)
Documentary on the history of portrayal of gays in film.

Change of Heart, A (1998; made-for-TV)
Woman is shocked to discover her husband is a closeted gay
man.

Cheun gwong tsa sit [aka Happy Together] (1997; Hong Kong
[Chinese])
Hong Kong Chinese gay lovers make-up and break-up their way
across Argentina.

Chorus Line, A (1985)
Prospective dancers, some gay, tell their stories.

Chuck & Buck (2000)
Social misfit's crush on childhood friend.

Closet, The =3D Placard, Le

Come Undone = Presque rien

Common Ground (2000; made-for-TV)
Three stories of being gay in a small Connecticut town
through the years.

Consenting Adult (1985; made-for-TV)
Mother has difficulty coming to terms with son's
homosexuality.

Cosas de Quere, La = Love's Doing (1989 : Spanish)
Gay Spainish singer is persecudted in Franco's Spain.

Crocodile Tears (1998)
Man with AIDS makes a deal with the Devil.

Cruising (1980)
Straight cop goes undercover in New York's gay leather
community to investigate serial killings; controversial at
the
time due to objection to gay stereotypes; cf Partners.

*De-Lovely (2004)
Cole Porter's bisexual life set to his songs.

Death in Venice = Morte a Venezia

Deathtrap (1982)
Gay playwrite and lover plot to kill the playwrite's wife.

Defying Gravity (1997)
Closeted gay fraternity member deals with gay bashing of
lover.

Devil in the Holy Water (2001)
Confused documentary concerning the Gay Pride demonstration
in Rome during the year of Jubilee.

Different Story, A (1978)
Gay man and lesbian in marriage of convenience.

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Gay man holds up bank to pay for lover's sex change.

Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992; made-for-TV)
College student brings his fianc=E9e home to meet his
dysfunctional family and faces his true sexuality.

Dong gong xi gong [aka East Palace, West Palace] (1999;
Chinese)
Chinese gay man, questioned by police, recalls his repressed
life.

Donna Herlinda y su Hijo (Mexican)
Mother builds menage including gay son, his wife, and his
lover.

Don't Tell Anyone =3D No se lo digas a nadie

Drift (2000)
Gay Asian Canadian writer, illegally in L.A., has
relationship problems and imagines various outcomes.

Dr=F4le de F=E9lix [aka The Adventures of Felix, Funny Felix]
(2000)
HIV positive man hitchhikes across France in search of his
father.

Early Frost, An (1985; made-for-TV)
Young man comes to terms with AIDS and homosexuality.

East of the Wall = Westler

East Palace, West Palace =3D Dong gong xi gong

*Eclipse (1994; Canadian)
Bisexual variation on "La Ronde" in Toronto during a solar
eclipse.

Edge of Seventeen (1998)
Gay coming-of-age in mid-eighties midwest.

Edward II (1991)
The story of England's 13th century homosexual king filtered
through a late 20th century sensibility.

Entertaining Mr. Sloan (1970)
Amoral bisexual hustler seduces brother and sister.

Escorte, L' (1996; Canadian [French])
Gay couple gets male "escort" as a "gift".

Fag Hag =3D Okoge

*Far From Heaven (2002)
1950's-set drama of the effect of husband coming out on
traditional wife, who turns to Black gardener for comfort and
understanding.

Fate ignorante, Le (2001; Italian)
Roman widow discovers and becomes friend with dead husband's
gay lover.

Feluettes, Les =3D Lilies

Finding North (1998)
Kooky straight woman befriends suicidal gay man whose lover
has just died of AIDS.

Five Senses, The (1999; Canadian)
Five individuals, one gay, each has a failing sense, creating
relationship problems,

Flawless (1999)
Former cop undergoes stroke rehabilitation with the help of a
drag queen.

Fluffer, The (2001)
Young man enters sex trade to get close to straight star of
gay porn movies.

Food for Love (2003)
Based on David Leavitt's novel "The Page Turner", a young
piano
students falls for a concern pianist and has passionate
affair in
Barcelona.

For a Lost Soldier =3D Voor een verloren soldaat

Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971)
Young man goes to prison and is initiated into gay sex.

*Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Friends attending these events include a gay couple.

Fourth Man, The = Vierde man, De

Fresa y chocolate [aka Strawberry and Chocolate] (1993; Cuban
[Spanish])
Cuban gay falls for straight man who becomes his friend.

From the Edge of the City =3D Apo tin akri tis polis

Full Speed =3D A toute vitesse

Fun Down There (1988)
A week in the life of Buddy, newly arrived in Manhattan from
upstate New York and ready to fall in love.

Funny Felix =3D Dr=F4le de F=E9lix

Get Real (1998)
Teenage boys in an English school fall in love.

Giornata particolare, Una [aka A Special Day] (1977; Italian)
Roman housewife and gay man form friendship on the day in
1938 that Hitler visited Mussolini.

*Gods and Monsters (1998)
In 1950s Hollywood, gay movie director James Whale is
attracted to his straight gardener.

Gohatto [aka Taboo] (2000; Japanese)
Homosexual desire among samurai in 1865 Kyoto.

Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brulantes [aka Water
drops on burning rocks] (French ; 1999)
A young man, who is sexually confused, falls in love with an
older
man who mistreats him.

Green Plaid Shirt, The (1996)
Gay man recalls his relationship with recently deceased lover
and friends.

Haman (Turkish director : 1997)
A Frenchman goes to Turkey to see a steam bath he has
inherited, and discovers gay affection.

*Hanging Garden, The (1997)
Gay man, formerly a fat, troubled teen, revisits Nova Scotia
home for sister's wedding.

Happy Birthday (2002)
Snippits from the lives of some urbanites sharing the same
birthday,
including several gays, and an "ex-gay".

Happy Together see Cheun gwong tsa sit

Head On (1998; Australian)
Young Greek man in Australia struggles with gay identity,
family relationships.

Hey, Happy (2001; Canadian)
Gay ravers party in a Winnipeg junkyard.

His Secret Life =3D Fate Ignorante, Le

Hollow Reed (1996)
Child is caught between gay father and his mother's abusive
lover.

Home at the End of the World, A (2004)
Menage a trois (2 men, 1 woman) have a baby; based on Cunningham's novel.

Home for the Holidays (1995)
Thanksgiving with dysfunctional family which has gay son.

Hsi yen [aka The Wedding Banquet] (1993; Taiwanese
[English/Mandarin])
Taiwanese Chinese gay man in marriage of convenience.

I Think I Do (1997)
Gay man comes out to best friend at wedding.

In & Out (1997)
Gay teacher outed by former student's Oscar speech.

In the Flesh (1997)
Troubled hustler suspected of murder saved by detective who
falls in love with him.

In the Gloaming (1997; made-for-TV)
Gay man with AIDS causes emotional upheaval when he returns
to his suburban family to die.

Interview with a Vampire (1994)
Anne Rice's homoerotic vampire story

It's In the Water (1996)
Improbable comings out in the midst of a small town reaction
to an AIDS hospice.

It's My Party (1995)
Gay man dying of AIDS plans his suicide.

Jeffrey (1995)
Gay man finds it difficult to accept love in time of AIDS.

Johns (1996)
Male prostitute spends Christmas Eve turning tricks.

Just One Time (1999)
Prospective bride substitutes gay man for groom's fantasy of
a threesome.

Kiss Me Guido (1997)
Straight hunk looking for apartment thinks GWM means guy with
money.

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Gay man entertains cell mate with movie stories.

KM.0 (2000 : Spanish)
Mixed up meetings at the kilometer zero marker in Madrid lead
to some
odd and interesting couplings.

Labor of Love (1998; made-for-TV)
Gay man and woman best friend decide to have a baby together.

Law of Desire =3D Ley del deseo, La

Leather Jacket Love Story (1998)
Twinky young poet falls for older working-class leather stud.

Leaving Metropolis (2002)
Well-known gay painter has affair with straight, married,
diner owner. Outstanding love scenes.

Ley del deseo, La [aka Law of Desire] (1987; Spanish)
Young Spanish man stalks a gay film director.

Lie Down with Dogs (1995)
A man spends a summer sleeping around in Provincetown.

Like It Is (1998)
A young gay English boxer takes out his frustrations by
fighting.

Lilies [aka Les feluettes] (1996)
Prison inmates in 1952 Qu=E9bec reenact tragic young love
affair.

Lion in Winter, The (1968)
Richard I of England has affair with Philip II of France amid
12th century royal squabbles.

Living End, The (1992)
Two HIV-positive gay men go on a murderous spree.

Longtime Companion (1990)
AIDS takes its toll on group of friends in New York gay
community.

*Lost Language of Cranes, The (1991; UK; made-for-TV)
Gay son causes bisexual father to come out.

Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
Middle-aged widowed English author becomes obsessed with
young actor; cf Morte a Venezia

Love Is the Devil (1998)
British painter Francis Bacon dominates working-class
model/lover.

*Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
Group of gay friends gather at country house throughout the
seasons.

Love's Doing see Cosas de Querer, La

M. Butterfly (1993)
Male female impersonator fools diplomat

Madagascar Skin (1995)
Scarred young gay man falls for older, supposedly straight
man.

*Making Love (1982)
Married doctor decides he is gay.

Mambo Italiano (2004)
Italian family in Montreal is upset when son comes out as
gay.

Man of No Importance, A (1994)
Closeted, middle-aged bus conductor in 1963 Dublin takes
Oscar Wilde as his hero and role model.

Man of the Year (1995)
Semidocumentary account of what happens when Playgirl's Man
of the Year turns out to be gay.

*Maurice (1987)
When English university students' repressed love is thwarted,
one takes a gardener as lover.

Maybe, Maybe Not =3D Bewegte Mann, Die

Men, Men, Men =3D Uomini, uomini, uomini

Mexican, The (2001)
Gay hit man kidnaps woman while her boyfriend seeks a
mysterious Mexican gun.

Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Bisexual New York hustlers attempt to escape to Florida.

Midnight Dancers = Sibak

Midnight Express (1978)
Jailed Westerners experience homosexuality in Turkish prison.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Trial of gay man in Atlanta who shot his working-class lover.

Morte a Venezia [aka Death in Venice] (1971; Italian)
Middle-aged composer becomes obsessed with beautiful boy in
Venice; cf Love and Death on Long Island.

Mouth to Mouth =3D Boca a boca

Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler (2003)
Young hustler hired for company by late middle aged man on
the run,
the real reason coming out later.

Music Lovers, The (1970)
Tschaikowsky in love with men and women.

My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Young woman fails to break up her best friend's wedding and
winds up with charismatic gay man.

*My Beautiful Laundrette (1986)
Punk and Pakistani find romance in Thatcher-era London.

My Father Is Coming (1991; German)
German lesbian in NYC enlists gay male roommate to pose as
her husband when her father visits.

My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Hustlers have difficulty with love.

Next Best Thing, The (2000)
Alternative family of gay man, straight woman, and child
falls apart.

Nico and Dani (2000; Spanish)
Coming-of-age story of two gay and straight Spanish teen
friends.

Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me (2002)
David Drake's one man stage show about growing up gay,
effectively filmed and sparingly enriched by sound and
visuals.

No Ordinary Love (1994)
Ambisexual household copes with death, pregnancy, robbery,
and mixed relationships with tragic results for some.

No se lo digas a nadie [aka Don't Tell Anyone] (1999;
Peruvian)
Young gay Lima student survives coming out with prejudiced
father, overly devout mother, and closeted lover.

Object of My Affection, The (1998)
Straight women hopes to create family with gay man.

Okoge [aka Fag Hag] (1992; Japanese)
Woman falls in love with gay couple.

Opposite of Sex, The (1998)
Unscrupulous teen girl seduces her gay half-brother's lover.

Ordinary Sinner (2003)
Young prospective priest has crisis of faith when attempts to
help a
gay street youth fails. Complications in a love triangle and
death
of mentor further challenge him.

Our Lady of the Assassins =3D Virgen de los sicarios, La

P.S. Your Cat is Dead (2002)
A relationship develops between disgruntled actor/author and
young
Latino who robs him.

Parting Glances (1986)
AIDS affects and ends relationships.

Partners (1982)
Straight and gay cops go underground in gay community to
solve murders; cf Cruising.

Pecker (1998)
Counter cultural photographer makes it big in spoof of
cultural fads. Sister is gay bar hostess featuring male
strippers.

Philadelphia (1993)
Gay lawyer with AIDS hires homophobe to sue law firm that
fired him.

*Placard, Le [aka The Closet] (2001; French)
Dull man pretends to be gay to keep job, and finds his life
becomes interesting.

Portrait of a Marriage (1990; UK; made-for-TV miniseries)
Marriage of bisexual authors Harold Nicholson and Vita
Sackville-West.

Pourquoi Pas! [aka Why Not!] (1977; French)
Gay couple become menage =E0 trois, then menage =E0 quatre.

Presque Rien (French/Belgian 2001)
Nineteen year old has difficulty accepting his mutual
homoerotic attraction with another young man, while his
family
disintegrates.

Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Biography of British gay playwrite Joe Orton.

Priest (1994)
Gay Roman Catholic priest in England faces moral and ethical
dilemmas.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert =3D Adventures of Priscilla,
Queen of the Desert, The.

Queer as Folk [both UK (1999-2000) and US (2000- ) TV
series]
Life in the gay fast lane in Manchester (UK)/Pittsburgh (US)

Querelle (1982; German)
French sailor makes bet with couple: if he wins, he has sex
with wife; if he loses, he has sex with husband.

Reality Bites (1994)
Gen-X friends coping with life include young gay man coming
to terms with his sexuality.

Red Dirt (2000)
Young Mississippi man tempted from incestuous love affair by
homoerotic attraction.

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Repressed army officer in 1940s South lusts after soldier,
who is sleeping with the officer's wife.

Relax... It's Just Sex (1998)
Relationship, personal, and social problems of a group of gay
and straight urban friends, including retaliation for gay
bashing.

Rites of Passage (1999)
Gay son of homophobic father falls for convict.

Ritz, The (1976)
Man hides out from gangsters in a bathhouse.

Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975)
"Sweet transvestite transsexual Transylvanian" Dr. Frank N.
Furter beds innocents Brad and Janet and creates muscleman
Rocky Horror as boy toy.

Roseaux sauvage, Les [aka Wild Reeds] (1994; French)
Boy loves boy, but loses to girl in 1960s Provence.

*Salut Victor! (1989; Canadian [French])
Unexpected gay love in a retirement home.

Sergeant, The (1968)
Closeted gay army officer trying to seduce a young recruit.

Sibak [aka Midnight Dancers] (1995; Filipino)
Filipino country boys attempt to make it as homoerotic
dancers.

Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Young gay Black man cons rich WASPs by pretending to be
Sidney Poitier's son.

Sleepin' Round (1985; Australian)
A man comes to grips with his new relationship status.

Something for Everyone (1970)
Ambitious servant seduces female and male members of noble
Bavarian family.

*Sordid Lives (2000)
Bizarre death of Texas grandmother changes lives of her gay
son and
grandson.

Special Day, A =3D Giornata particolare, Una

Staircase (1969)
Middle-aged gay couple's relationship is strained when one of
their mothers comes to live with them.

Steam =3D Haman

Stonewall (1995)
Fictionalized account of 1969 bar raid seen as beginning of
gay liberation.

Strawberry and Chocolate =3D Fresa y chocolate

Straight from the Heart =3D =C0 corps perdu

*Sum of Us, The (1994; Australian)
Aussie Dad works a bit too hard at accepting his gay son.

*Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Bisexual British artist juggles affairs with a man and a
woman.

*Swan Lake (1996; UK; made-for-TV)
Homerotic version of classic ballet, with male swans and
black swan as leather queen.

Taboo =3D Gohatto

*Tales of the City (1993), More Tales of the City (1998),
Further Tales of the City (2001)
Stories of freewheeling 70s San Francisco as TV mini-series
trilogy.

Tantrums & Tiaras (1997; made-for-TV)
Behind the scenes with temperamental gay performer and icon
Elton John.

Taste of Honey, A (1961)
Gay man wishes to help pregnant friend.

Taxi to the John = Taxi zum Klo

Taxi zum Klo [aka Taxi to the John] (1981; German)
German school teacher explores alternative sex.

That Certain Summer (1972; made-for-TV)
Son visits his gay father and lover.

Three to Tango (1999)
Straight pretends to by gay, wins girl

These Old Broads (2001; made-for-TV)
Gay son directs mother and two other former stars from the
sixties in musical comeback.

Three to Tango (1999)
Man pretends to be gay to get project, wins girl

Threesome (1994)
Gay man, straight man, and woman share dormitory suite and
eventually bed.

Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984)
Documentary about martyred gay San Francisco politician.

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Drag queens cross U.S. in convertible. Cf. Adventures of
Priscilla ...

To Be or Not to Be (1983)
Theatrical troupe in Nazi-dominated Poland includes gay
hairdresser.

Together Alone (1993)
Two guys hook up for uninhibited sex and conversation.

Tongues Untied (1991)
Documentary about gay Black men.

*Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Drag queen has and loses beautiful lover, a bisexual lover,
and adopts a gay son.

*Total Eclipse (1995)
Stormy affair between French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine.

*Touch of Pink, A (2004)
Blissfully happy Indo-Canadian and British gay couple visted
by
Indo-Canadian mother. It helps to know Cary Grant movies.

Trembling before G-d (2001)
Documentary of Jewish gay men and lesbians struggling to
reconcile their sexuality with Orthodox Judaism.

Trick (1999)
Boy next door type is attracted to male stripper.

Trio, Das = The Trio (1998 : German)
Gay grifter and daughter attracted to same bi-sexual young
man.

Trip, The (2002)
Young Republican discovers he's gay, after writing homophobic
book.

Twilight of the Golds (1997; made-for-TV)
Woman must decide whether or not to abort fetus that will
result in gay child.

Under Heat (1998)
Brothers, one gay, cope with eccentric mother, sensual hired
man.

Uomini, uomini, uomini [aka Men, Men, Men] (1995; Italian)
The problems of four middle aged gay Italian men.

Urbania (2000)
Bereft gay man roams among urban myths seeking revenge on gay
basher.

Very Natural Thing, A (1974)
Young teacher has mismatched ideas of relationship with two
successive partners.

Victim (1961)
Closeted British MP blackmailed.

Victor/Victoria (1982)
Gay man helps woman pretend to be male drag queen in 1920s
Paris.

Vierde man, De [aka The Fourth Man] (1983; Dutch)
Bisexual man seduces woman, then her boyfriend.

Violet's Visit (1995; Australian)
Gay couple lives are disrupted when the adolescent daughter
of one of them shows up.

Virgen de los sicarios, La [aka Our Lady of the Assassins]
(2000 Colombian/French)
Dark saga of relation of older Colombian poet to two young
members of feuding gangs.

Voor een verloren soldaat [aka For a Lost Soldier] (1993;
Dutch)
Young Canadian soldier and Dutch boy have affair at end of
World War II.

Water drops on burning rocks = Gouttes d'eau sur pierres
brulantes

We Think the World of You (1988)
Gay man given a hard time by his jailed lover's family.

*Wedding Banquet, The =3D Hsi yen

Westler [aka East of the Wall] (1985; German)
Gay Cold War love story with men on opposite sides of the
Berlin Wall.

Withnail and I (1986)
Two actor friends pretend to by gay monogamous lovers to
escape advances of host

Why Not! =3D Pourquoi Pas!

Wild Reeds =3D Roseaux sauvage, Les

*Wilde (1997)
Biography of Oscar Wilde.

Women in Love (1970)
Platonic homoerotic love with nude wrestling scene in front
of fire.

*Wonder Boys (2000)
Academic author's editor beds star student.

World and Time Enough (1995)
Parental problems, monogamy issues, and HIV threaten a
relationship.

Y tu mam=E1 tambi=E9n [aka And Your Mother Too] (2001;
Mexican)
Two young men explore their sexuality with a slightly older
woman on a trip to the beach.

Zero Patience (1993)
Musical about explorer Sir Richard Burton and the first AIDS
patient.

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Richard J. Violette
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1742

J. McRee (Mac) Elrod
Homepage: http://www.islandnet.com/~jelrod/mac.html

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada