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Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time.

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THE PROFOUND GAY LOVE STORI OF THE OLD GUARD AND SONG OF ACHILL

Joe and Nicky aren’t the ma protagonists director Ga Prce-Bythewood’s film, but sce the film’s release on July 10, they’re the characters who have garnered a lot of attentn bee of how rare is that gay men are featured actn movi. That The Old Guard’s Joe and Nicky are unapologetic about their love allows queer people, and gay men particular, the opportuny to see that throughout all of history, we’ve been there all along — and such a mastream, typilly heteronormative medium, no ls.

At s heart is a simple msage: that straight people might not ever fully unrstand what ’s like to be gay and to fd love.

16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN

Beyond that not-great movie, Achill and Patrocl’s homosexualy has been bated over and over, ually g down to dissectg ancient Greek culture and the semantics of “gay”.

20 GAY GREEK GODS

“I did not liberately set out to tell a liberately ‘gay’ love story; rather, I was eply moved by the love between the two characters—whose rpect and affectn for each other, spe the horrors around them, mol the kd of relatnship we all n aspire to. Though Miller says she didn’t liberately set out to create a gay love story, ’s a fantasy that unravels and jtifi the feelgs and vulnerabily of the LGBTQ experience, and of gay men particular.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* ANCIENT GAY MOVIES

20 Gay Greek Gods.

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