The urse of gay love rarely ns smooth on screen, but happy endgs are not as rare as they once were. Wh Merchant-Ivory’s Mrice currently back cemas, we celebrate gay films at their most romantic.
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10 GREAT GAY ROMANCE FILMS
While there are novels that still e LGBTQ+ characters as cliché sikicks to the more flhed-out, straight, cisgenr ma character, or sert a gay love story simply as a plot vice, there are many thors out there who are givg queer characters the love stori they serve. In honor of Pri Month, the 7 books wh betiful gay relatnships are fely worth checkg out. The urse of gay love rarely ns smooth on screen, but happy endgs are not as rare as they once were.
Wh Merchant-Ivory’s Mrice currently back cemas, we celebrate gay films at their most romantic. 31 July 2018By Alex DavidsonMrice (1987)Cema history featur hundreds of exquise gay love stori, although disappotgly few end happily. Until the 1980s, most gay men on screen end up miserable or ad by the time the end creds rolled, such was society’s view of the poor, margalised creatur.
In the UK, male homosexualy was illegal until the 1960s, so ’s unsurprisg that gay characters ntemporary dramas found hard to reach a happy endg. In 2018, male homosexualy is crimalised more than 70 untri worldwi – gay liv are rarely picted at all films om the natns, and when they are, ’s seldom a posive light.