Favorite gay movie

[jorgex]

Your favorite gay movie is...

 

[petrovic]

Trick

 

[Shelter]

WATERCOLORS from 2008

 

[topdog]

There are a lot of great gay movies, but for me, picking my favorite is easy.

Brokeback Mountain



It's the Dr. Zhivago of gay cinema.

 

[gb2000ie]

I'll always have a soft-spot for "Beautiful Thing" (1996) - it's not a cenematic masterpiece like Brokeback Mountain, but it spoke to me very deeply when I was coming to terms with my own sexuality.

B.

 

[gorgik9]

I'm afraid that picking out a single movie as my singular favourite gay movie is impossible to me.

The movies mentioned by topdog and gb - Brokeback Mountain & Beautiful Thing - are wonderful. Let me continue with a few more I consider equally wonderful:

- Paul Morrissey / Andy Warhol : Flesh (1968)

- Stephen Frears: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

- James Ivory: Maurice (1988)

- Lukas Moodysson: Fucking Åmål (1998)
("Fucking Åmål" is the original Swedish title. In the US it became "Show Me Love"...)

 

[topdog]

I'll always have a soft-spot for "Beautiful Thing" (1996) - it's not a cenematic masterpiece like Brokeback Mountain, but it spoke to me very deeply when I was coming to terms with my own sexuality.

B.

In addition to being a touching film, Beautiful Thing is also one of my favorite soundtrack albums. I love me some Cass Elliott!

GB, here is a clip of those young stars all grown up at a reunion in 2013 attending a revival of the play the movie is based on.

 

[brmstn69]

From Dink Flamingo (@ctive Duty) Starring former porn star David Alanson a.k.a. David Bradberry on Bravo's "Below Deck" and David Townson at @ctive Duty and Horror icon Stephen Geoffreys (Fright Night, 976-Evil) turned porn power bottom (a.k.a. Sam Ritter, Stephan Bordeaux)

 

[gb2000ie]

In addition to being a touching film, Beautiful Thing is also one of my favorite soundtrack albums. I love me some Cass Elliott!

GB, here is a clip of those young stars all grown up at a reunion in 2013 attending a revival of the play the movie is based on.

Thanks so much for sharing that - nice to see them back together, and the music at the end over the photo shoot took me right back to my first time watching the film - lovely!

B.

 

[AutumnLeaves]

Big Eden

 

[turkeyboy]

The Original 1978 version of La Cage aux Folles

 

[haiducii]

Beautiful Thing (1996)



Gay or straight, this is one of the finest movies ever made about self discovery and teenage love. :heart:

 

[gorgik9]

Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean (2012)

Directed by Matthew Mishory and with James Preston as JD.

This is a black&white wonder of visual beauty, definitely my personal favourite of all biopics about JD and the movie most articulate about his sexuality.

 

[larrywar]

A gay porn film entitled "Fratrimony." It's a two-actor story about brothers who discover that they enjoy sex with each other. The stars are Tim Lowe and Butch Taylor, and it's an oldie: All Worlds Video, 1989. Highly recommended.

 

[cacc]

The King and the Clown

 

[pornoboy]

oh there are so many...

Maurice
My Beautiful Laundrette
Sommersturm
Weekend
Gods And Monsters
Holding The Man
Where are you going Habibi ?

just to mention a few...


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[elbe00]

The first gay movie I ever saw was Parting Glances. It remains my favorite although I really love Make The Yuletide Gay.

 

[gb2000ie]

... although I really love Make The Yuletide Gay.

Sooooo not high-brow fancy-pants great cinema, but yea, love that film. It's pitched just right, it has a message, but it doesn't take itself seiously, and has just the right amount of inuendo to be funny without being annoying. Oh - and it helps that Gun is cute

B.

 

[brmstn69]

Partners (1982)

A straight police detective is unnerved when ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk, as a couple, to solve a series of murders in the gay community.

Written by Francis Veber (La Cage aux Folles and La cage aux folles II )



Full streaming movie posted HERE...

 

[mmarty]

My favorite gay movie is SORDID LIVES. It's a great comedy but somehow it always makes me cry.