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Contents:
- 25 OF THE GAYT STRAIGHT MOVI EVER MA
- THE 10 GAYT STRAIGHT MOVI
- LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
25 OF THE GAYT STRAIGHT MOVI EVER MA
Larry Haworth's List: Gay Porn Tube * gay movies straight *
Back 2015, yet somehow Bros, which opens this weekend, reprents the first mastream gay romantic edy ever released by a major stud—or so the marketg partment of distributor Universal Pictur would have you believe. Soaked as I am gay edi, this claim stck me as rather dub, if not based on a fnal technily (didn’t we all cheer on Fire Island, om the Disney-owned “die” Searchlight Pictur, earlier this year?
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THE 10 GAYT STRAIGHT MOVI
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The effete and sassy “roommat”—played by Farley Granger (who me out late life) and John Dall (who is wily believed to have been gay, though he never me out publicly)—hold a party at which the body of their murr victim has been ncealed. Screenwrer Arthur Lrents, who was gay, was an expert at dodgg the rtrictns of the Hays orr to sneak subtext that was jt subtextual enough, a trick Hchck likewise excelled tly lost on 1940s dienc that the characters were more than iends?
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Where to stream: Digal rentalThe more recent Hntg of Hill Hoe Netflix seri, also based on the Shirley Jackson novel, ma the subtext text, but the gay vib between chic and sassy Theo (Claire Bloom) and reprsed, moy Eleanor (Julie Harris) radiate through the early ‘60s origal. The movie muddl s msage; we’re not necsarily meant to cheer for gay Satan climactic rampage, but plenty of viewers to stream: Digal rentalThe subtext here through so strongly that n hardly even be nsired subtext, but back 1985, plenty of straight dienc still missed . ” Late director Tony Stt pped to g books of gay beefke photography as his primary reference for how to photograph the movie’s man meat—which probably explas the proliferatn of slightly porny to stream: Paramount+There’s a lot gog on here, and I’m not sure how much of was tentnal (out director Joel Schumacher, later of Batman & Rob, wasn’t known for subtlety).
LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
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Even before he spoke about explicly terviews, however, queer fans got ; at the very least, Stu is obvly way to to stream: Showtime, FuboStart wh the generally mp sensibili of gay director Joel Schumacher (who once claimed to have had sex wh tens of thoands of men durg his life; not that queer cred is a functn of mathematics, but damn), and throw a batsu wh pronounced nippl, a massive dpiece, and eper-than-strictly-necsary ass cleavage, and you’ve got a recipe for the gayt superhero epic ever. And that’s all before Gee Clooney’s Batman adopts a nearly grown man only ne years his to stream: HBO MaxThere’s a pot at which hyper-masculy starts to look an awful lot like homoeroticism, and you have to wonr how many sweaty, shirtls men you n lerally toss together a space that exclus women entirely before starts to look like a gay club.
The wise old drag-queen-as-mentor is an age-old trope of explicly gay movi, and, though his wardrobe is limed, Ian McKellen’s Gandalf, wh his luxuriant hair and mid-trilogy glow-up, fs the role to stream: Prime Vio, HBO Max300 practilly screams “no homo!
We’re meant to see the queer-dg the heavily ma-up and bejeweled Persians (Snyr has been explic terviews about his tentn to make the Persians srier to his tend male dience by makg them gayer), but that feels like a movie missg s own pot, while also wildly overtimatg the heterosexualy of the ancient to stream: TubiThe story of four young men (oddly old for high schoolers) who are scend om wch and have to fight some kd of evil or plot don’t really matter, and the movie’s not very good. It’s ironic when mastream movi aimed at gay dienc have leads wh no romantic nnectn, when some movi about straight characters have sexual tensn simply oozg off the screen.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Straight Men & the Men Who Love Them: Directed by Javier Agirre, Je Ameer, Alequ Eerer, Stewart Wa. A llectn of shorts that explor the relatnships between gay men and straight men. The llectn clus Espac Dos (Spa) In the Name of the Father (Brazil), My Straight Boyiend (US), Tth or Consequenc (Brazil), Coffee Date (US), Poprn & Coke (UK), and Unhibed." data-id="ma * gay movies straight *
The “gay straight movi” provi an outlet for gay men lookg for characters that ronate wh them, a subtext of romantic relatnships, and pure, unadulterated man ndy. Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema.
And we regnize that some of the films the list will re-igne healthy bat that have been fixtur of discsn around LGBTQ+ films — straight actors playg gay characters, cis actors playg trans characters, and the historil domance of whe male perspectiv. For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life. Crics Consens: We Were Here reviss the cris facg the gay muny the early 1980s -- and offers a powerful tribute to the spirg rolve shown at a time of turmoil.
In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
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“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. The lp clus plenty of romance, tear jerkers, German ps havg gay shower sex, and classic tal of nocent young n check out the full movie scriptns and curated clips of their selected "Netflix and Chill" favor at the webse.
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Starrg Sean Penn and Ee Hirsch, the 2008 movie tells the story of Harvey Milk, who beme inic the LGBTQ+ muny for beg the first openly gay person to be elected to California ernment. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Hanks and Denzel Washgton star one of the first mastream Hollywood movi to tackle the subject of HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia. Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual.