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Contents:

• TYLER CHILRS' NEW VIO 'IN YOUR LOVE' HAILED FOR SHOWG GAY LOVE RAL AMERI
• SHJIRO ATAE OUT AS GAY AS JAPAN FAC PRSURE TO PASS PRO-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN
• 'RED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE' DIRECTOR SAYS HE'S 'SURPRISED' HIS GAY ROM-COM GOT AN R RATG (EXCLIVE)
• ‘HEARTSTOPPER’ SEASON 2 REVIEW: A PROFOUNDLY GEO, AGONIZG CHAPTER OF NETFLIX’S VAL GAY ROM-COM
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

TYLER CHILRS' NEW VIO 'IN YOUR LOVE' HAILED FOR SHOWG GAY LOVE RAL AMERI

Related: Bt Gay Movi Streamg on NetflixTo make sure the movi liver all the passn, fatuatn, urtship and flirtatn you may be cravg, our remendatns only clu movi where romantic relatnships are ont-and-center—which means such LGBTQ+ gems as, say, Can You Ever Five Me? )Bt Gay/LGBTQ Romantic Movi of All TimeNew Le Cema25. Fire Island (2022)Pri and Prejudice leans to pri Spa Night and Driveways director Andrew Ahn's magnificent rom- (wrten by star Joel Kim Booster) that loosely adapts Jane Aten for gay mec.

Love, Simon (2018)You may never fd a film more quietly revolutnary than Love, Simon, the first-ever Hollywood stud-released picture centered on a gay teen. Stranger by the Lake has so much on s bra that would be entirely rctive to jt label a "gay movie.

In today's warlike cultural landspe, Pee-wee and his Playhoe would be too subversively gay, too likely to "doctrate the children.

SHJIRO ATAE OUT AS GAY AS JAPAN FAC PRSURE TO PASS PRO-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN

Pee-wee Herman was like Liberace, a flamboyant character so toothlsly gay — that is, so eply queer-d but "harmls" — that he passed as fay entertament.

Whether Pee-wee himself was gay or straight was bi the pot sce the vibrant, rtoonish world he habed was anythg but straight. In the distant past of 1993, gay marriage wasn’t legal any state the untry. Sodomy laws all over Ameri attempted to outlaw gay sex by crimalizg any oral or anal erotic ntact.

'RED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE' DIRECTOR SAYS HE'S 'SURPRISED' HIS GAY ROM-COM GOT AN R RATG (EXCLIVE)

And Dan Savage, a sex-advice lumnist then only known to rears of a few pennt alt-newspapers around the untry, was pable of makg breakout news wh a sndalo revelatn: Mattel’s latt Ken doll, part of the Earrg Magic le of Barbie toys, was openly moled on gay fashn.

“For about a year every gay boy at a rave was wearg at least one, ” Savage wrote.

“What the ltle girls were seeg, and tellg Mattel was ol, wasn’t what their relatns were wearg — unls they had hip queer relativ — but the homoerotic fashns and imagery they were seeg on MTV, what they saw Madonna’s dancers wearg her ncerts and films and, as happens, what ACT UP/Queer Natn fags and dyk were wearg to mos and rav, ” Savage wrote. Tyler Chilrs' new mic vio for #InYourLove tells a betiful story of gay Appalachian love. Onle, many pared Chilrs' vio to the one om reason Chilrs wanted to do this mic vio, he told Ann Powers of NPR, "was my growg up, who's like my big brother, is gay.

‘HEARTSTOPPER’ SEASON 2 REVIEW: A PROFOUNDLY GEO, AGONIZG CHAPTER OF NETFLIX’S VAL GAY ROM-COM

"In a news release for Chilrs' album and the vio, Hoe said, "As a gay teenager who loved untry mic, I uld have never imaged seeg myself a vio. Japane pop star Shjiro Atae announced that he is gay on Wednday – a bold move for such a public figure Japan, a the untry still do not regnize same-sex unns. I am a gay man.

His post ntued, “It has taken me a long time to be able to say I am gay. "I do qutn whether or not if had been a man and a woman, if we'd still gotten an R ratg, " director Matthew López tells PEOPLEAmazon Prime Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galze "Red, Whe & Royal Blue" (2023)Red, Whe & Royal Blue director Matthew López adms he qutned why his new gay rom- sred an R adaptatn of Casey McQuiston's 2019 btseller, the film plac actors Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galze a juicy romantic scenar: the U. The movie, which was -wrten by Eichner and director Nicholas Stoller, also stars Guy Branam, Guillermo Diaz, Ts Madison, Raven, and Bowen 's the first gay romantic edy film to be released theaters by a major stud and the first wh an all-LGBTQ+ prcipal st, 's not the first gay rom- ever.

In fact, there have been several over the years, wh que a few g out the past few years you liked Bros, here are some other gay rom-s you n check out!

10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

RELATED | Meet the All-LGBTQ+ Cast of Bros, Billy Eichner's New Gay Rom-Com. Bros isn't the only big gay rom- released this recently.

Joel Kim Booster's Fire Island was a terrific example of a gay rom- released on Hulu that h all the right spots. This movie was a morn retellg of Pri and Prejudice, also starrg Bowen Yang, Conrad Rimora, Matt Rogers, and Tomas Matos, set at the gay statn of Fire Island P was one of our favore movi of the year. This now-classic teen rom- kicked the doors open for gay teen romanc.

Starrg Nick Robson and directed by Greg Berlanti, this movie follows a closeted teen who's aaid he'll be outed when the emails he's wrten to a fellow gay stunt are disvered. Natasha Lyonne plays a high school cheerlear who is sent to gay nversn mp bee her parents thk she's gay. In addn, there’s an cisive documentary about a famoly closeted gay Hollywood star on Max while Prime Vio buts a charmg rom- about the First Son and the Prce of England havg a secret romance.