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

Contents:

• THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’

In an say analyzg queer thirst for straight actors, Grace Perry explas some thgs that certaly apply to the ncept of bi-awakeng movi — particularly how straight actors like Rachel Weisz and Cate Blanchett often bee gay ins and objects of queer sire after playg queer characters on screen. Thor: Ragnarok’s Hela be gayer bee of Cate Blanchett’s starrg role the sensuo sapphic perd drama Carol, while Weisz’s rol The Favoure and Disobedience may have ntributed to The Mummy’s retroactive addn to bi film non.

Once aga forced to make space for ourselv a medium that mak no space for , lookg for queer characters onscreen be like a game of Six Degre of Kev Ban: “Sure, ” I n tell myself, “she isn’t gay here, or gay realy, but I’ve seen Cate Blanchett have movie sex wh Rooney Mara another movie, which mak this movie gayer, too.

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

While Eternals clus a proment gay character, and the upg Taika Wai movie Thor: Love and Thunr has promised substantial queer reprentatn, Disney also has a lengthy history of queer-bag dienc, promisg queer reprentatn and stead offerg a throwaway le or unnamed character.

For example, homosexualy was crimalized Bra until 1967: Gay men adopted techniqu like wearg green rnatns the 19th century, or speakg Polari slang, which remaed proment through the mid-20th century, as methods of vert munitn. In Ben-Hur, bi screenwrer Gore Vidal was forbidn om givg Ben-Hur a textual gay relatnship wh Msala, but he told actor Stephen Boyd about his tent.

It’s the spy thriller Atomic Blon, when the protagonist has sex wh another woman (who is later vlently killed off), the gay Black Mirror episo San Junipero, and the poster for Moonlight. Th, while Twter ers and media crics have noted bi lightg John Wick 3, Bla Runner 2049, 2019’s Color Out of Space, and Spir-Man: Into the Spir-Verse, there’s often a ls gay logic for dog so. Cast a few top-shelf gay ins there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playg Joan Crawford — and pecially have them reparteeg bchy l tearg each other to piec, and have an athetic that’s outre and unironilly mp, and you’ve got the wng-formula starter-pack for somethg licly fabulo and queer, even if not by tentnal sign.