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Contents:

• SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
• GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
• FAL FANTASY XVI’S GAY ROMANCE DISAPPOTS
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• THE 13 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW
• YOUNG GAY MEN STOCK VIOS
• 60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI

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.

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web this documentary, a gay filmmaker shows his Che fay's road to acceptg him and his growg fay the Uned Stat. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Kramer's semi-tobgraphil drama to life this HBO film, tellg the story of the creatn of the Gay Men's Health Crisis at the height of the AIDS epimic.

Tellg the te story of a young man who is subjected to a gay nversn therapy program, the film featur a number of LGBTQ+ intifyg stars, cludg Cherry Jon and Troye nowMy Own Private Idaho (1991)This ntent is imported om youTube. 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. And next year is gog to be even gayer.From the first major stud gay rom-, to queer-clive horror, to Harry Styl playg a queer p, the next year will have a ton of great LGBTQ+ ntent on the big screen.

GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE

Loosely based on Shakpeare's plays, G Van Sant’s 1991 unterculture classic drama My Own Private Idaho is not jt a poetic and btersweet story of two gay street htlers, Mike (River Phoenix) and Stt (Keanu Reev), journeyg om Portland, Oregon, to Idaho, and then to Rome search of Mike's mother.

Unlike most gay movi that start off wh a protagonist fdg difficult to accept his inty, this particular film attempts to part om this trope and foc on the plitns and the challeng faced any relatnship. Happy Together follows the story of a gay uple who attempt to navigate life a foreign place, enunterg the difficulti of feelg alienated a muny that do not remble home (somethg many gay men, pecially Asia, may relate to).

This Hong Kong romantic drama directed by the great Wong Kar-wai, who also received the Bt Director award at the 1997 Cann Film Ftival, is a fe wner as tak a novel approach terms of gay films, utilizg the director's signature romantic, woozy style. While the film ially off as sgularly foced on the cursy and excement of disverg a romantic relatnship, go on to display the btal realy that gay men have had to face a society that is adamant nyg them their right to love.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

The Boys In The Band was adapted to the screen om the play by Mart Crowley, and has laid the foundatn for queer reprentatn films by beg the first Amerin motn picture to explicly foc on gay characters. (Image cred: Netflix)Heartstopper (2022-)Heartstopper follows Nick (K Connor), a gby player who fds himself fallg for a boy for the first time, and Charlie (Joe Locke), an openly gay stunt who hasn’t had the bt luck wh guys om his school.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

A few of Sex Edutn’s ma characters are members of the LGBTQ+ muny, cludg Eric (Ncuti Gatwa), a proudly gay character who fds himself a b of a romantic dilemma the first three seasons of the show.

There are plenty of gay and queer romantic edi and LGBTQ+ movi that are romantic, light-hearted, pellg, and edic, like Love, Simon, Bros, and Happit SeasonLove, Simon gaed a lot of attentn and buzz durg s 2018 release, maly bee was one of the first mastream gay romantic edi. This classic directed by John Schlger (Midnight Cowboy) centers around a ee-spired young bisexual artist (Murray Head) and his simultaneo relatnships wh a divorced recment nsultant (Glenda Jackson) and a gay Jewish doctor (Peter Fch).

This charmg edy follows Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a popular, suburban cheerlear who is bldsid when her iends and fay stage an terventn for her homosexualy and subsequently send her to a gay nversn mp. Mothers who enjoy the sensivy and shared terts of gay sons may lean too much on them, g them to fulfill their unmet emotnal believ that the dynamics n prevent adult gay men om formg long-term romantic bonds. Many gay men seek affirmatn not through an endurg, lovg relatnship, he said, but cultivatg large works of iends, pursug transient sexual liaisons, focg on profsnal succs and creatg flawlsly appoted environments for his new book, Commment and Healg: Gay Men and the Need for Romantic Love, Isay scrib how therapy n help provi gay men wh sight to the effects of childhood fluenc on the pacy to m to a partner.

MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM

A clil profsor at Weill Medil College of Cornell Universy and a faculty member at the Columbia Universy Center for Psychoanalytic Trag and Rearch, Isay draws upon his experience as a Manhattan psychotherapist wh mostly gay published his first book, Beg Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development, 1989, at a time when he was g out. His 1996 book, Beg Gay, outl the ways which gay teenagers and adults velop said that his new book has stirred up some ntroversy bee he argu that gay upl who tolerate sexual adventur outsi the partnership may do so out of an unnsc fear of closens rather than a sense of liberatn om tradnal heterosexual strictur. “It ns unter to the prevailg doctr of the gay muny that mata that our relatnships are fe, more mocratic and better than heterosexual relatnships, ” said hop that his new book will help gay men to exame the patterns of their romantic relatnships and perhaps seek the guidance of a therapist attuned to gay issu.

Gay_D, Apr 2023Dner was lovely, we were met by tour gui, taken to a b after dner, got off for the Eiffel tower, had to wa the ra and given an unrealistic timele to go up to the Tower and get back to the b by 9. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

FAL FANTASY XVI’S GAY ROMANCE DISAPPOTS

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Officially, was bee veloper Square Enix refed to alter scen the game for the terrory, which led to mors and speculatn that the 16th game the long-nng RPG seri would have explic gay sex scen, which spawned mem and earnt excement. But when to actually portrayg the timate exprsns of queer inty, such as a kiss between two men who love each other, Fal Fantasy XVI falls short of s own unapologetic ials, while lgerg on Dn and Terence’s straight gam nearly always relegate gay men to optnsSadly, this is par for the urse the vio game dtry.

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

Sure, gam like Mass Effect and Assass’s Creed may let you play as a gay man (though the latter seri has twice now unrmed that Odyssey and Valhalla), but male-seekg-male timacy is almost never at the foreont of AAA vio gam unls ’s sought out by gay players. 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. We sat down and dreamed up a list of queer experienc every LGBTQIA person should have their lifetime cludg a few novel on that might not be on your gaydar yet, but are sure to tickle you, um pk.

As the queer muny assiat, gayborhoods are beg srce, but the Castro district San Francis is still a rabow-lored bean and s bt feature is s movie palace of the same name which opened 1922 and whose sign is a cy in. Ibiza, Sg and Gran Canaria attract queer sun seekers by the thoands, but none que touch the eternal fascatn wh the island of Mykonos thanks part to the Ancient Greeks and their societal acceptance of homosexualy.

10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

This sun-drenched sert metropolis belongs to many cludg Hollywood A-listers, mid-century sign fanatics and gay male sun seekers, but for one week annually the cy turns Sapphic as party promoters Club Skirts turn the town to a nonstop party and mic ft that is bar none the largt gatherg of lbians the Uned Stat and has attracted the lik of Lea DeLaria and Lady Gaga among others. This sunny cy by the sea is hardly Brazil’s biggt (that distctn belongs to São Plo), but LGBT Carns dance to the beat of their own Samba-fed rhythm day and night pecially at Farme Amoedo, an vg stretch of gay beach Ipanema.

INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

One of the most eloquent and provotive queer wrers of all time, Amerin novelist turned expat Jam Baldw left que a footprt on gay Paree and visors to the Cy of Lights who trace his steps n take numero legendary hnts cludg fé L Dx Magots, Café Tournon, Le Select, Brasserie Lipp, Le Montana, and Café Flore among others.

More than twenty-five years later (and still not sanctned by Disney) draws together an timated 150, 000 people for a week-long gatherg that clus pool parti, A Taste of Gay Days, and Miss Gay Days Pageant and is beloved by both a party crowd and same-sex fai. The Dutch pal is servg of s reputatn as a breezy and tolerant mec for people of all kds as evinced by s tolerance for sexual pleasure and dg e, but between cisg the nals and the bars, save a moment for reflectn at the Homomonument, a nal si tr of triangl that memorat people who have been persecuted due to beg LGBTQIA.

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

Between gay karaoke and go-go bars, 24 hour snas, sweaty nightclubs, and iendly (wk, wk) massage parlors, rowdy Bangkok is Southeast Asia’s undisputed queer pal and famo among nightlife offergs are ladyboy barets which transgenr women (katoey Thai) perform genr illns to the tun of popular gay divas. Osr-wng actor Kev Spacey has said he is attracted to mascule men but is not able to tell whether someone is gay jt by lookg at cross-examatn durg his trial on sex abe charg, the Hollywood star nied he was a “sexual bully” and told the jury he did not have a “power wand” to make people want to sleep wh about his sexual preferenc, Mr Spacey said he had prevly had romantic enunters wh men who would not scribe themselv as homosexual.

Hawley’s “Manhood” (the jok do, rather unfortunately, wre themselv) went on sale are gier dividuals, such as the onle figure known as “Bronze Age Pervert” (BAP for short, real name Cost Alamariu), who beme cult-famo for his Twter feed, a stream of far-right culture-war tak terspersed wh homoerotic photos of bodybuilrs. We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable mentn mt go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharg (1969), a swgg slice of the 60s that hted at terracial homosexualy.

THE 13 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW

Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release list should really be a Top 11 – the omissn of Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), the first Brish film to feature a gay kiss, is borrle excable. A few d homosexuals n be found  Aled Hchck’s early work (check out the swishy drsmaker 1925’s The Pleasure Garn), while Ivor Novello’s films play up the flamboyant star’s androgyny, playg very odd, allegedly heterosexual men  The Lodger (1926) and The Man whout Dire (1923).

YOUNG GAY MEN STOCK VIOS

Victim (1961)Dirk Bogar, an actor who never acknowledged the mours of his homosexualy durg his lifetime, took a real reer risk playg a lawyer who, followg a strg of blackmail attempts agast gay men, begs to realise his own sexualy. It took another 10 years before partial crimalisatn took effect wh the Sexual Offenc act 1967, which allowed homosexual acts, private, between two men over the age of 21 – many feel Basil Dearn’s film helped liberalise attus and pave the way towards tolerance towards gay people.

60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI

The Leather Boys (1964)The Brish ‘kchen sk’ dramas, foced around workg-class liv, that prevailed the late 50s and early 60s ocsnally ntaed sympathetic gay characters, such as Murray Melv’s stunt  A Taste of Honey (1961) and Cicely Courtneidge’s ageg actor  The L-shaped Room (1962). It’s a super play, but the film jt about tmps , thanks pecially to the performanc – Glen Berry retired om actg, Stt Neal played another gay role  The Bill, while the scene-stealg Lda Henry beme a fixture on Bad Girls and EastEnrs. Set post World-War II Germany, this Atrian drama follows Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) who's imprisoned several tim for beg gay and durg his time prison shar an timate relatnship wh his cellmate, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), who is servg a life sentence for murr.

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

Wolfe (Ma Raey's Black Bottom), wrten by Dt Lance Black, and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's productn pany Higher Ground, this film is a mt-watch this year, pecially wh Coleman Domgo as civil and gay rights in Bayard Rt.

That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country.