‘Barbie’: Ken Has Never Been Barbie’s Boyiend. He’s Her Gay BFF.

Contents:

• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• GAY PORNSTAR : TOP 25 HOTTT GAY PORNSTARS
• 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
• THE 14 BT GAY/LGBTQ MOVI ON NETFLIX
• THE 25 BT GAY MOVI OF ALL TIME
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI

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

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 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.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

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. — Mathew RodriguezThe InspectnActor Jeremy Pope has been stealg scen both on stage (Choir Boy) and on screen (Hollywood) for several years now, but never have his talents been ployed as brilliantly as they are  The Inspectn, Elegance Bratton’s tobgraphil feature but about his young adult years, when he joed the Mar to pe homelsns and try to rekdle his actured relatnship wh his homophobic mother.

The film jumps between World War I memori, a stt a mental stutn, a seemgly endls stream of gay love affairs, and one sexls marriage to pat a vividly plex portra of an unr-acknowledged but unniably signifint queer hero. — Rendy JonCloseAfter the ntroversial misstep that was Las Dhont’s 2018 but Girl, the 31-year-old director has ma a triumphant rebound wh his sophomore effort Close — a heartbreakg, timate tale about the makg and breakg of young iendship. In Brish wrer/director Geia Oakly’s but film, a high school gym teacher named Jean (Rosy McEwen) is livg 1980s England when the Conservative party, led by Margaret Thatcher, announced Sectn 28, which prohibed the “promotn” of homosexualy as a “pretend fay relatnship.

Somehow the movie is even gayer (and dare we say, better) than the amazg book, and arriv wh some of the most betiful animatn and one of the most powerful msag about seeg yourself and others for who they are you’ll see. Y, Tman Capote was gay, y he is portrayed as such, y shows his partner, BUT the primary foc of the film was Capote's alholism and his wrg of In Cold Blood (and that is FINE, aga, was an EXCELLENT film, jt not a LGBT film my opn). Terrific st wh excellent chemistry and some genuely funny moments, Fourth Man Out is a rehg gay edy that I thk many would enjoy (even the "manlit" men of this world), thanks to the rehg and likable performance of Evan Todd as the likable, awkward, r-mechanic Adam and his goofy well-meang straight "bros.

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Not nearly as good or funny as Borat, but the film do a good job revealg the nonsense that is homophobia (Brüno viss a gay-to-straight nverter, a group of redneck hunters, and a martial arts expert who shows him how to "fend himself agast the gays"). For margalized groups, tthful reprentatn film is imperative, even lifavg, and today’s stormy polil climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgenr people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetilly — and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like bee they live we’re a long way om total clivy and gay movi sans stereotyp, the film dtry has ma recent stris centerg LGBTQ+ characters.

Courty Everett CollectnMoonlight (2016)Based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alv McCraney, Moonlight buted to high cril praise for cematography, storytellg, and s portrayal of black gay male inty.

The film clus a number of ntroversial scen that uld be triggerg — so, watch at your own Now Advertisement - Contue Readg Below8 'The Bter Tears of Petra Von Kant' (1972) Courty Everett CollectnThe Bter Tears of Petra Von Kant is a sapphic classic that has bee a key entry the largely gay male-domated non of high mp.

10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS

In I Killed My Mother, Dolan documents the ght relatnship between a gay teenager and his sgle mother dreamy, heart-wrenchg NowAdvertisement - Contue Readg Below13 'Cisg' (1980) ©Uned Artists/Courty Everett CollectnA crime thriller set agast the backdrop of the 1970s leather scene, Cisg is a polarizg film wh a plited legacy. Set the world of the New York ballroom scene, Port Authory—which was executive produced by Mart Srse—tells of the love story between a whe man who has jt arrived New York whout a penny to his name (Fnn Whehead) and a Black transgenr woman wh ep ti to the cy’s ball culture (Leyna Bloom, the first Black trans actrs to star a film at Cann) Now Advertisement - Contue Readg Below15 'Young Soul Rebels' (1991) Courty EverettDcribed as a “part-thriller, part-gay love story, ” Young Soul Rebels—a film not often clud U.

The first Hollywood movie to center on Che-Amerins sce The Joy Luck Club some 11 years before , Savg Face tells the story of a closeted Che-Amerin woman fallg love for the first time and stgglg to rencile the relatnship wh her and her girliend’s tradnal (read: homophobic), close-kn New York Cy muny.

Wh tl like Love, Simon and Paris Is Burng to Tangere and Brokeback Mounta, the list has a wi range of genr and moods, but they all have somethg mon: they all "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.

THE 14 BT GAY/LGBTQ MOVI ON NETFLIX

Dirk Bogar’s extremely brave performance as a closeted barrister drawn to a gay blackmail se directly fluenced public opn, and played a part changg the law Bra when the Sexual Offenc Act was fally passed  1967. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.

THE 25 BT GAY MOVI OF ALL TIME

As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on. While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! Through highs and lows — meetg Michael’s WASP-y parents, movg together, and a health crisis — the movie prents a surprisgly hont portrayal of a relatnship that’s at once universal, but also specifilly gay, and is both strengthened and tted by Michael and K’s flaws.

Meanwhile, when Ellie's not spendg her ee time watchg classic Hollywood cema wh her father and mdg the tra that through the statn outsi their hoe, she and Pl navigate the nuanc of their unlikely film is a morn take on the playwright Edmond Rostand's Cyrano Bergerac, but 's also culled om director Alice Wu's iendship wh a straight male bt iend who helped her e to terms wh her gay inty and the emotnal timacy they movie is Wu's return to filmmakg after about 15 years. They fall love amid the crashg wav and yet-to-be unearthed relics of Lyme Regis England cir the early 19th director of the acclaimed gay-themed film God's Own Country, Francis Lee, helmed Ammone, which stars Wslet as a woman obssed wh her work, who bs the English seasi for fossils while livg a relatively solary existence wh her mother. Anyone terted gay experience or gay films already knows to distst mastream media's efforts to explo and tegorize queerns by promotg gay movi as different, and each so-lled advance as a breakthrough simply bee fally breaks to the media's ual the Hollywood film dtry go through s biggt sexual panic sce the 1920s, reflectg a breakdown heterosexual relatns, gay filmmakers who prevly were swept to the margs by wardly homophobic crics and gatekeepers, have steadily ma the only movi ncerned wh what means to be human among of the twelve superb films transcend Hollywood's nscendg approach to gay self-py disguised as romance.

10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

Regnized for his huy and the ease wh which he offers pleasure to his partners, Mathi Ferhati is a French gay pornstar who is not aaid of the ey and who n be found films wh a scenar that is sometim more advanced than average. Now based Spa, where he shoots and mols and promot gay nightclubs, Andy Star appears a large number of X-rated movi which he is often ready to satisfy the fantasi of his partners, whether they are alone, or several, and no matter the size of their penis. Dev Fran (who ow his nickname to his admiratn for the actor Jam Fran), has largely his place among the 10 most attractive gay pornstar and will be enough for you to look at one of his nghtit scen to make you an opn…!

Those who rema, like the gay pornstars this selectn, soon bee legends of male-on-male porn and the longer their filmography ntu, the more they enter the pantheon of pornstars who will be remembered for a very long time.

SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI

We’ve kept the list to films that are easily available to watch the UK, but honourable mentn should go to The Ostrich Has Two Eggs (1957), a dated farce that at least has a sympathetic gay son, albe one who never appears on screen, and L Amiés particulièr (1964), set a boys’ boardg school. Most reviews foc on the showy performance of the equently naked Nilas Cazalé as the rebel whout much of a e the first chapter, but the emotnal heart li the fal third, as Morel explor the plexi of the vulnerable gay youth who mt choose between aternal loyalty and a chance at romantic happs.

L Invisibl (2012)Sébastien Lifshz is bt known for his gay featur (Prque rien, Gog South), but his ft work to date is this revealg documentary which gay men and women their 60s and 70s talk about their liv and lov. Christopher Plummer, who won an Osr for the role, plays the senr who is relieved to fally embrace his inty and who is tryg to keep up wh a new (and much younger) boyiend while learng what means to be gay at age 75, jt five years before he would die of ncer.

The film, released after great polil turmoil Iran wh the electns of 2009, lv to a youth unterculture there which schoolmat and lovers-to-be Atafeh (The Bold Type's Nikohl Boosheri) and Shireen (Sarah Kazemy) jo a gay male iend clubs and helpg to secretly dub the gay-themed film Milk to Persian.

In the film directed by Wash Wtmoreland, who is gay, Keira Knightley embodi the pansexual bohemian femist who stepped out of her hband's shadow to bee the most famo female French thor the film chronicl Colette's rise to fame as she leav behd her untry upbrgg to bee the toast of Paris along wh her hband, Willy (Domic Wt), who spurs her to chronicle her life for his lerary factory where only his moniker appears on everythg that's published.

Origally banned by the homophobic head of Kenya's Film Classifitn Board, Ezekiel Mutua, bee he alleged would "promote lbianism, " the film enjoyed massive dienc when the ban was lifted for a brief time orr to make eligible for the foreign-language Amy Award. Fortunately, Netflix is host to a virtual library of movi om different genr and around the world that tell the stori wh, check out our favore gay romance movi, LGBTQ+ TV shows, and LGBTQ+ are our picks for the bt LGBTQ movi on Netflix right now.

Sgle All the Way (2021)Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Hoc Poc' Kathy Najimy and LGBTQ in Jennifer Coolidge (h off her bt performance ever, The Whe Lot) star Netflix's exclive high-profile rom- about gay bt iends who disver feelgs over the holiday season, as one pos as the other's boyiend. ©Strand Releasg/Courty Everett CollectnHold the ManSounds a b like a gay cliché, but this 2015 film (which is also based on a memoir by Atralian actor Timothy Conigrave) highlights the romance between a high school drama stunt and classic one particular r sex scene, they utter the words "Ahh, gentle, " and "Slowly—I said slowly!

But this extraordary turn the history of movi and gay culture never ma to the mastream media, which always distorts sex, polics, moraly, and was also the year when mastream media, which typilly margaliz gay movi, sudnly pretend to fd a rare gem (see the last sli). Beg 17Only Andre Teche has the breezy cematic mastery to make a story about high school enemi (one French, the other Algerian) reflect geopolil tensn and simultaneoly reveal the mols for gay alienatn and human nnectn fay and social dynamics--the roots of sire and self-nfince.