Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time.
Contents:
- 16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
- 15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
Yterday at Salon, Caleb Cra, thor of the highly praised novel Necsary Errors, talked a b about beg a gay novelist and the effects non-heterosexual subject matter has on the chanc for a novel’s publitn. In rponse to a qutn… * classic movies with gay undertones *
—Emma SpecterFire Island (2022) Matt Rogers, Zane Phillips, Tomas Matos, Joel Kim Booster, Torian Miller, and Bowen Yang Fire Courty Everett CollectnThis (very loose) adaptatn of Jane Aten’s Pri and Prejudice, om director Andrew Ahn and wrer and star Joel Kim Booster, follows a group of gay iends who take their yearly summer trip to inic queer vatn statn Fire Island, only to fd that their days the sun may be numbered. Chartg the forbidn romance between a peasant girl servg as a maid to a wealthy heirs through a seri of ntradictory, Rashomon-style perspectiv, The Handmain is a meticuloly librated erotic thriller for the ag.
15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
* classic movies with gay undertones *
Directed by Barry Jenks and adapted om a play by Tarell Alv McCraney, Moonlight serv as a powerful g-of-age story across three chapters the life of a gay Black man growg up an impoverished rner of Miami. Is the Warmt Colour (2013)Adèle Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux Blue Is The Warmt Courty Everett CollectnFirst premierg to a divisive cril rponse at the Cann Film Ftival 2013—both for s graphic pictns of gay sex, and the allegatns of mistreatment by director Abllatif Kechiche on set—Blue Is the Warmt Colour still serv as a powerful ttament to the tumultuo love between s two ma characters, Emma and Adèle, as they drift an out of each other’s liv over the urse of many years.
Weekend (2011)Tom Cullen and Chris New Courty Everett CollectnAndrew Haigh’s sensual, tenr, utterly charmg portra of two young Brish men (Tom Cullen and Chris New) meetg and fallg love over the urse of 48 hours is ank s pictn of sexualy as well as emotn, touchg on the specifici of gay life today as well as the universal aspects of an electric and immediate nnectn.
Adapted for the screen by Mike Nichols, Tony Khner’s sprawlg “gay fantasia”—a Pulzer, Tony, and Drama Dk-wng phenom centered on the AIDS epimic 1980s New York—beme a vasatgly good miseri, starrg Al Paco, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Patrick Wilson, Jefey Wright, and a brilliant, shape-shiftg Meryl Streep. Starrg Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the wild-livg Brish mician Brian Sla, loosely based on David Bowie, and Ewan McGregor as his Amerin unterpart Curt Wild, loosely based on Iggy Pop, the story trails Arthur (Christian Bale), a gay journalist attemptg to track down the now-reclive Sla for a magaze story, wh the heady days of his life at the height of global fame revised through flashbacks. When Bowie himself was asked about this apparent tribute to his life and legacy, he said, “When I saw the film I thought the bt thg about was the gay scen.
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
Which gay movi serve a bigger dience? We asked our favore directors, entertaers, and artists to help pile a h list. * classic movies with gay undertones *
Photo: Courty Everett CollectnAnother director whose non featur a number of queer masterpiec, Derek Jarman’s radil adaptatn of Christopher Marlowe’s history play Edward II saw the director apply his signature time-hoppg spir to draw parallels between the life of the ntroversial medieval kg and the vibrant spir of gay life ’90s London.
(The film featur both members of a ntemporary gay rights anizatn as Edward’s army, and a meo by Annie Lennox sgg a Cole Porter song to the film’s central lovers. It se a gay doctor, Daniel (Peter Fch), and a divorcee, Alex (Glenda Jackson), an open relatnship wh the same handsome young artist, Bob Elk (Murray Head), whom both are aaid of losg.
BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
Yterday at Salon, Caleb Cra, thor of the highly praised novel Necsary Errors, talked a b about beg a gay novelist and the effects non-heterosexual subject matter has on the chanc for a novel’s publitn.