10 of the Sexit Gay Romantic Films You Can Watch Right Now

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While unually tthful and credible alg wh experienc mon to a great many gay men, Andrew Haigh's chronicle of a weekend the liv of two men who fd themselv wakg up together one Saturday morng is also notable for s gentle romanticism. Rope may be known to most as Hchck's experimental attempt to shoot an entire film what appears to be a sgle shot, but 's also the filmmaker’s gayt. The classic psychologil thriller is about a gay uple who murrs a man, then throws a dner party g the ad body's tnk as the buffet — que lerally "be gay, do crime, " Hchck-style.

Of urse, this was 1948, and that queerns is all subtext, but roars to the surface thanks to gay screenwrer Arthur Lrents's script and performanc by s notably gay leads, Farley Granger who plays Phillip Man wh an anx flamboyance, and John Dall, whose Brandon Shaw embodi a more rerved, posh queerns. Often dubbed the gay Thelma & Louise, Gregg Araki's The Livg End follows the reckls road trip of two HIV-posive, anti-tablishment gay men who go on the n after killg a homophobic p. It's love at first sight, as they say, and th begs a sweet love story between Rachel, who's only ever dated men, and Luce, an openly gay florist the most '00s lbian wardrobe you've ever seen.

This 1969 Japane New Wave film f avant-gar edg wh meta-documentary style filmmakg and non-lear storytellg to follow Eddie (played by androgyno cis actor Peter), a trans woman who works as a hosts as a gay bar — the l between trans and gay inty are msy at bt, given when this was ma.

God's Own Country (2017)Sometim gay romance dramas are tenr, and sometim they're jt super hot. Set on a farm the Yorkshire untrysi, Francis Lee's film trac the lonely and paed day-to-day life of Johnny (Josh O'Connor), a young gay man who buri his anger at his father wh bge drkg and anonymo hookups.

If sexy emotnal gay farmre was a movie, this would be . In this 1935 film that marks the first llaboratn between Hollywood gay ins Hepburn, Grant, and director Gee Cor, Hepburn plays Sylvia, the meek dghter of a bookkeeper who disguis herself as a boy to help her father flee gamblg bts. For Octavia, they're jt a person who drs like a du wh du ways, while to Tiffany, means rryg a femme-aggrsive attu and actg more like a gay guy.

In Caravagg, Jarman queers the history of the Italian Baroque pater Michelangelo Merisi da Caravagg by takg the highly homoerotic subtext of his work (along wh age-old spicns about his sexualy) and jectg right to the text, reimagg the artist openly gay affairs. Wh a fe w, bold style, and a big heart, wrer/director Todd Stephens's film pays dazzlg tribute to a generatn of gay men who were cimated by AIDS and societal difference. Tongu Untied (1989)Artist Marlon Riggs's experimental film Tongu Untied addrs the onslght of racist and homophobic prejudic Black gay men have been forced to endure and navigate for s.

Love, Simon, starrg the always charmg Nick Robson, broke ground as the first major stud film to foc on a gay teen romance.

Cama remembers the tastrophic fire that took the liv of 32 people at New Orleans gay bar UpStairs Lounge on June 24, 1973. Teamg wh documentarians Tyler Jensen and Roman Chimienti, this fascatg leadg man steps back to the spotlight to share his story as a closeted gay actor who survived public mockery and the AIDS crisis to fd a love and muny that tak pri him. The first openly gay man to be elected to public office California, Milk progrsed the rights of LGBTQ Amerins by unprecented leaps and bounds.

Rafiki (2018)Starrg Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva as burgeong lovers, Rafiki was banned Kenya "due to s homosexual theme and clear tent to promote lbianism Kenya ntrary to the law. Wele to Chechnya (2020)The third film om Amy Award-nomated documentarian David France, Wele to Chechnya tak viewers on a guerilla-style vtigatn to the anti-gay purg that still plague the nstuent republic of Rsia.