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Contents:
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
- 25 BT GAY AND LGBTQ+ ROMANCE MOVI OF ALL TIME, RANKED
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
For Natnal Comg Out Day, Valente's Day or Pri Month, here are our picks for the bt gay/LGBT romance movi of all time, ranked. * film gay the best *
BenedictnOn June 3rd of 2022, two films featurg lic nstctns of muni of gay men were released on the very same day. One you've surely heard of (Fire Island, which I'll get to later) — and the other was Benedictn, a film that barely seemed to register spe beg helmed by one of our great queer filmmakers, Terence (who directed Rachel Weisz and Cynthia Nixon to arguably their greatt performanc The Deep Blue Sea and A Quiet Passn, rpectively) utiliz a bpic of Brish poet and rated WWI bat veteran Siegied Sassoon (played by Jack Lown his youth and Peter Capaldi olr age) to offer a wdow to the dramatic liv of aristocratic gay men the 1920s.
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THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
The latter experience gave him the ial tools that led to his reer filmmakg, but his entry pot to also serv as the premise for The Inspectn, a look at a young gay man (Jeremy Pope, who has already been nomated for a Goln Globe and a Spir Award for his performance) stgglg to survive boot mp the era of "don't ask, don't tell.
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25 BT GAY AND LGBTQ+ ROMANCE MOVI OF ALL TIME, RANKED
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. But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends.
Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory. But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay.