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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. 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.
15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
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 ... * films with gay undertones *
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.
However, the ma homoerotic storyle nng through the film is the relatnship between Profsor X (Jam McAvoy) and Mago (Michael Fassbenr). When asked if mutants reprent gays, -creator Stan Lee wouldn’t answer directly, jt sayg that the X-Men were agast bigotry of any kd.
When a Facebook er posted a ment about how X-Men movi weren’t about homosexualy, one of the ntributg screenwrers, Zack Stentz, rpond that all the movi have gay them.
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 *
Some crics have drawn parallels between this and the 1969 Stonewall Rts, monstratns rpondg to a police raid on a well-known gay club.
Bis those parallels, there are some broad hts at the gay subtext, like the scene when Tyler (Brad Pt) is the bath and the narrator (Edward Norton) is bandagg himself up. Sir Ian McKellen, who played the olr Mago X-Men: Days of Future Past, said, “As a gay man, some people thk that ought to be cured and ma normal aga, and I fd as offensive as someone sayg that they have a cure for the lor of their sk. While most horror films are moraly tal about teenage sexual promiscuy, this film go one step further, punishg the character Jse (Mark Patton), for his sexual turmoil over beg gay.