In celebratn of June beg Gay Pri month and wh the historil Supreme Court lg that same-sex marriage bans are unnstutnal, I wanted to celebrate the often overlooked subgenre of homoerotic horror films. Homosexual unrton have been prent horror films for s but wh horror beg more and more progrsive, we will hopefully start ...
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DARK AMIA (WH GAY UNRTON)
A list of 53 films piled on Letterboxd, cludg Mona Lisa Se (2003), The Imatn Game (2014), The Happy Prce (2018), Jennifer's Body (2009) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). About this list: some of the are jt straight up gay also my fn of dark amia is very loose ratgs above 5/10 mean homoerotic relatnships are non or heavily implied * films with gay undertones *
This ultra-manls lends self well to stealthy gay them, characters, or even whole narrativ that drive and strengthen the story. Some crics have looked at nnibalism as a metaphor for homosexualy bee Raveno is about two men who have urg that are nmned by society.
15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
* films with gay undertones *
In addn to stg a bunch of mcular men and makg them wear very ltle, there are many other homoerotic allns, such as lots of thstg and plungg.
In the movie Sleep wh Me, Quent Taranto (who plays himself) argu that Top Gun is a metaphor for a man’s stggle wh homosexualy. When asked if the film was about a gay man’s stggle, the screenwrer said that he thought stgglg wh your own sexualy would be a terrifyg experience, so he worked to the script as subtext.
Bety and the Beast's Le Fou might be the first character that Disney has openly regnized as beg gay, but that don't mean LGBT people haven't been there all along. * films with gay undertones *
However, the ma homoerotic storyle nng through the film is the relatnship between Profsor X (Jam McAvoy) and Mago (Michael Fassbenr).