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7 Mainstream Hollywood Films That Spoke to me as a Young Male lover Man—and Still Do
Before the 1990s, movies with LGBT themes were rare. Oh, sure, LGBT characters had always been included in movies, but not as fully human beings. We held down all of the silly sissy and homicidal maniacs roles. (If you’ve never seen the highly entertaining documentary adaptation of Vito Russo’s manual The Celluloid Closet, inspect it out for more on that subject). Nonetheless, many iconic Hollywood films have spoken if not directly, then metaphorically, to LGBT audiences. Here are some thoughts, personal and general, about notable Hollywood films that don’t necessarily include us, but made us feel included.
1978’s Damien: Omen II continued the further adventures of the antichrist that began with the Oscar-winning The Omen. In this sequel, we find the adolescent Damien, who doesn’t yet grasp what he is, attending a military academy. His commander at the educational facility, a closet Satanist, directs him to read the Book of Revelation. When Damien reads that 666 is the “mark of the Beast,” he runs to the bathroom and parts his hair, revealing–what else?–the number 666 on his scalp. Damien flees hi
By Steve Erickson
Bros jokes about the hypocrisies of corporate diversity — often accurately, and with a cutting edge — while embodying some of the alike problems.
Bros, directed by Nicholas Stoller. Screening at Kendall Square Cinema, Coolidge Corner Theatre, and elsewhere around New England.
l to r: Luke Macfarlane and Billy Eichner in a scene from Bros.
Few movies are as painfully self-conscious about their cultural status as Bros. For a flash comedy, it arrived in theaters last weekend trailing an aura of self-importance. It’s the first full-fledged Hollywood rom-com starring and co-written by a male lover man, Billy Eichner, and all of its cast (including the actors who play heterosexuals) are LGBTQ. Eichner’s statements about Bros have been extremely self-congratulatory, but Bros is only a breakthrough in advocacy if you’re unfamiliar with the history of homosexual cinema. It’s a much slicker child of ‘90s indie films like Jeffrey, Trick and Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss.
The cynic in me thinks that just as same-sex marriage was legalized at a show when the institution mattered less to heterosexuals, Universal was willing to grab a chance on
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It’s grainy, faded, and, given the clip is now 125 years old, more than a little worse for wear. But this short footage is not so ancient that you can’t clearly make out two men, waltzing together, as a third man plays a violin in the background. It was an experimental short made by William Dickson, designed to test syncing up moving pictures to prerecorded sound, a system that he and Thomas Edison were developing known as the Kinetophone. It’s known as “The Dickson Experimental Sound Film,” and dates help to 1895, the matching year movies were born. While there’s nothing to outright suggest that these men were romantically committed or attracted to each other during the roughly 20-second length of their pas de deux, there is nothing that contradicts that notion either. It’s considered by many to be one of the first examples of male lover imagery in film, and a reminder that queer representation has been with the medium from the very beginning.
That clip appears in The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s documentary based on Vito Russo’s study of homosexuality in the movies, along with
It’s February 2021, and away from all the COVID-19 madness, it is also LGBT history month. To celebrate, I’ve picked out five films that I feel are some of the best mainstream same-sex attracted movies ever released.
Emily Light shared with us her picks for the optimal alternative LGBT films of the last decade, and I thought it was only right to grab out the five top mainstream LGBT movies ever made. In the interests of clarity, mainstream in this list is determined by box-office success, a wide theatrical release and by having well-known and recognised stars in a pivotal role within the movie.
Any of those three criteria can be met for a film to be featured in this list. So without further ado, shall we begin? Here are our picks for the five top mainstream gay-themed films ever made.
#5 I Love You Phillip Morris
If there was an award for funny LGBT movies, then I Love You Phillip Morris could accept home the crown. The clip received a relatively little theatrical release and only just managed to recoup its $13million budget, but I Love You Phillip Morris but two Hollywood names in leading roles in this gay comedy drama.
Jim Carrey may not include been at the pinnacle of his
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