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

Contents:

• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY UNRTOW TO NEWSTLE SURF FILM
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• NEWSTLE GAY VILLAGE
• GAY DATG NEWSTLE UPON TYNE

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

STARS: Shane Jabson, of Kenny fame, and Joy Smhers a scene om the The first day of filmg last year at Nobbys THE SURF: Young actors a scene om the feature film Newstle will premiere s namake cy next month but s distributor is playg down the movie's gay followg overseas for fear of ighteng off mastream dienc movie about three young surfer brothers was filmed Newstle last year.

Newstle had s world premiere at New York's famo Tribe Film Ftival crics have not been kd to the film, praisg the Newstle backdrops and surfg actn but lambastg s g-of-age plot and most enthiastic reviews have e om gay dienc and publitns. Newstle was among 212 films om 25 untri featured July at Outft 2008, the 26th Los Angel Gay and Lbian Film Birchall wrote LA's Cy Beat newspaper that the film played like "a pilot for Boy Baywatch". "Castle, whose prev films clu the 2005 documentary Zona Rosa about male ge-dancer strippers workg the gay nightclubs of Mexi Cy, was nomated for an AFI Award for his Atralian-ma short The Visor, which won bt short film at the 2002 Seattle Lbian & Gay Film, who hails om New Castle, the US state of Delaware, has said he wove aspects of his own experienc as a surf-mad teen to his Newstle In Film Distributn is playg down the film's gay them, fearg s potential dience of surfers and teenage girls will be sred refed to discs Newstle's enthiastic gay receptn overseas, except to say the film would not be marketed Atralia as a "gay film" acquired the distributn rights to Newstle followg s $21 ln purchase of arthoe distributn and cema group Dendy pany is -owned by Lethal Weapon star and Passn of the Christ director Mel group marketg director Lisa Garner said Newstle showed the rough si of s namake cy as well as s sun, surf and sand.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

GAY UNRTOW TO NEWSTLE SURF FILM

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

It was a fairly dreadful look at homosexualy and Asie surf culture, a thoroughly tertg topic I might like to add, that treated s queer topic wh a strange pched level of surprisg earntns and poor executn and unrealistic storytellg.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Another Atralian film that was through siar terrory, released late 2008, was Dan Castle's Newstle, which is a far more succsful - and yet, at tim, jt as tratg - attempt at the surfer-via-homos theme. The film predomantly foc of Jse (Lachlan Buchanan of TV's Blue Water High so surfg experience wh the package), but is the relatnship between his gay tw brother Ferg, played by the risg star Xavier Samuel (September), and one of Jse's alpha surfer buddi that provi the thst of the character of Andy (Kirk Jenks his actg but) is one of those credibly unrealistic fantasy character that every socially awkward gay teenager daydreams about.

It's a character that almost every gay g-of-age tale has, and yet I didn't feel that railed Newstle.

It's never ma explicly clear whether he is gay or not - Ferg most fely is sce he has purple streaks his hair and, apparently, hangs around at beach toilet blocks - but he sure do e off that way. It's a fe example of the sort of thg movi like Another Gay Movie jt do not unrstand. Jt bee your characters are gay don't mean a gay dience is gog to want to watch them.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

I'm sure plenty of the film's gay male dience will film as a whole, spe not beg entirely queer-centric, is very much queer-iendly.

Far too often Atralian films of this variety, the actg is as amatrish as the wrg, but the actors fill their characters wh spir, playfullns and all have moments of note even if is jt a lgh or a sgle le of wrer/director Dan Castle is openly gay (his queer-themed short films have won awards) actually mak Newstle more disappotg. It's obv that the gay storyle is the film's most powerful asset, but I suppose wasn't the fanciers bt tert to dch the ls tertg Jse storyle to foc on the Ferg/Andy one. Films that foc solely on a gay romance are all but always phed asi and rigned to the queer ftival circu.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. 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.

NEWSTLE GAY VILLAGE

“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. Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

GAY DATG NEWSTLE UPON TYNE

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. 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.