REPOSTED FOR YOUR SELF-QUARANTINING NEEDS: The mp classics that fed generatns of gay men seem to have been all but fotten lately. After the jump, I've listed the 50 most ptivatg, spirg, and important movi that you absolutely NEED to see before you die. It's Homo 101 on the WOW Report. (You don't need to
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- THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
- 'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
- 'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
- IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE
- SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
- CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE
- THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
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From "too gay to functn" to "she don't even go here, " Damian tght 's okay to have a self-pretg sense of humor. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below11 Will Tman and Jack MacFarland - 'Will and Grace''Will and Grace'//NBC UniversalThe long-nng s has brought gay characters to the foreont for over 20 years.
'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
Boys Life: Three Stori of Love, Lt, and Liberatn: Directed by Robert Lee Kg, Raoul O'Connell, Brian Sloan. Wh Jam Andrews, Mary Beth Aylworth, Mike Barbour, Steve Bilich. Each of the three short films this llectn prents a young gay man at the thrhold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Jt is a 17-year old Bethda lad, hired as the eveng life guard at a fns center. In the urse of the summer, he realiz and embrac that he's gay. In "A Friend of Dorothy," Wston arriv om upstate for his hman year at NYU. He has to figure out, wh some help om Anne, a hometown iend, how to build a social life as a young gay man the cy. In "The Dis Years," Tom looks back on 1978, the year high school that he me out of the closet after one joyful and several paful enunters." data-id="ma * gay guy in the movie life *
The gay characters wh the seri edilly highlight iendships, datg, and var archetyp that prise of the gay experience. The magil Fantastic Beasts sp-off is, however, slowly explorg Dumbledore's (Ju Law) te inty–illtratg a masterful and strong gay leadg character. Adam don't f to any stereotype prevly displayed LGBTQ+ cema, and the film also tackl the unique relatnship between a gay guy and his supportive, straight-guy pals.
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.
'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
The movie Begners stars Ewan McGregor as a young man who learns that his 75-year-old father, played by Christopher Plummer, is gay. The movie is based on filmmaker Mike Mills' own life. Mills explas what happened when his own dad me out. * gay guy in the movie life *
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.
Starrg Sean Penn and Ee Hirsch, the 2008 movie tells the story of Harvey Milk, who beme inic the LGBTQ+ muny for beg the first openly gay person to be elected to California ernment. 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.
IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE
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Members of the LGBTQ+ muny formed the group Lbians and Gays Support Mers after realizg police harassment agast the muny dropped off durg the strike.
SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
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Milk was based on the real life of Harvey Milk, Ameri's first openly gay person to be elected as a public official. Milk served as a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and while the tle might not seem like a lot, the fact that a gay person was elected by the public to any posn 1978 was a huge tone for the LGBTQ+ muny. It's a heartbreakg but very real look at what life was like for gay men an era when a adly vis was ravagg the muny while society refed to step up and help, and stead, isolated and ostracized the gay muny.
In fact, the lear of Love Actn durg the time Conley was there - John Smid - eventually stepped down om the posn, admtg he was still gay and that nversn therapy don't work. In 1980, Al Paco starred a highly-ntroversial movie lled Cisg, about a serial killer who targeted gay men NYC's leather scene.
CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE
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Instead, highlights the actors' disforts wh the material, their fears of beg perceived as gay, the relatnship and ntrast between art and pornography, and homoeroticism and stigmatizatn.
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"The Inspectn" is a new feature about a young man who turns his life around the Mare Corps after beg kicked out of the hoe as a teen for beg gay and livg homels for several years. The trailer for Bratton's film brgs a lot of the Mare Corps' re valu, so looks like we n expect a movie that portrays lead character Ellis French's ary experience a posive light spe of the herent problems a gay Mare would have faced that era. The handheld phantasmagoria of The Last of EnglandG Van Sant, director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Huntg, To Die For, MilkDerek Jarman’s The Last of England is an amazg barrage of memori, obssns, taclysmic visns, where Derek plays a gay memoirist wrg his thoughts down.
THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME
An amazg soundtrack by the geni Simon ’n’roll blar, as England falls, a fairy danc, betiful soldiers drk vodka and have gay sex. Halfway through the film, on a hot summer night, the two teenage boys sneak off to a gay pub for the first time their liv. Omar and Johnny’s hedonistic, forbidn soapy sex the lnrette was a slap the face to Conservativ g the Aids epimic to further monise gay people.
Here was another woman – like me – gleefully takg ntrol of her own passn VictimTerence Davi, director of Distant Voic, Still Liv, The Long Day Clos, The Hoe of Mirth, A Quiet PassnIn Victim, Dirk Bogar plays a closet homosexual barrister who risks both his reer and marriage to break a blackmailg gang when his young iend kills himself rather than implite is a small scene towards the end of the film when Bogar lls for his clerk to jo him. But, for the generatn of young gay men watchg the early 90s, somethg more explosive than a kiss – or even full-on sex – had already happened.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Unls, that is, you’re a 13-year-old boy, secretly attracted to other boys, and you’re watchg at home 1984 wh your parents, not expectg to be nonted by a man a donkey jacket, armed wh a guar and a sneer, sgg about how glad he is to be gay. Listen to the ceptively soothg way he livers the openg l: “Brish police are the bt the world / I don’t believe one of the stori I’ve heard / ’Bout them raidg gay bars for no reason at all / Lg the ctomers up by the wall …” Then he halts the song. Eventually, one ntracts productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Well worth watchg unls you're homophobicI saw this nice ltle movie Luxembourg one week or so after 's premier here.
Basilly 's a story of two teenage boys who leave home for different reasons and meet up wh a Gay show club Amsterdam.
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
Multihyphenate filmmaker Elegance Bratton said his latt project, “The Inspectn, ” about a gay homels Black man who jos the Mar, hs pecially close to home after he was kicked out as a teenager for beg gay and spent a livg on the streets.
The film, which is loosely based on Bratton’s life, foc on the challeng the ma character, Ellis French, experienc as a young gay Black man durg the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” era. The policy, which was effect between 1994 and 2011, banned gay and lbian service members om servg openly the armed forc. ’” He add, “I n see her havg a very plited sense of pri over all of this, even if didn’t move her to change her stance around homosexualy.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
"A24Bratton said he tapped Unn for the role of his homophobic mother bee of Unn’s “artistry, activism, and she’s also a superstar that everyone the world knows. Cast & crewUser reviews19941h 31mEach of the three short films this llectn prents a young gay man at the thrhold of adulthood.