Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time.
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16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
* gay films 1970s *
Even though a movie about a gay man is up for multiple Amy Awards on Sunday, pictns of LGBT life rema rare mastream film.
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10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
Celebrate the bt gay movi wh our list of the 50 most sential LGBTQ+ films ever ma * gay films 1970s *
A blackmailer is targetg London's gays, mandg money exchange for keepg secret their same-sex affairs; many fancially strapped victims m suici rather than face prison or huiatn.
The sidns of ernment-sponsored homophobia is at the foreont of the movie, which is revolutnary for s pictn of a bisexual protagonist not to be msed wh; he's the furtht thg om a victim. By all acunts a happy fay man, the senator apparently had a gay ol' time Hawaii that's now e back to be him the butt. Claire Bloom plays Theodora, a gay psychic who tak a very distct likg to Eleanor.
Midnight Cowboy (1969)This prsg drama om gay director John Schlger stars Jon Voight and Dt Hoffman as htlers who enter to a "plited" bs relatnship while workg the streets of New York.