Seriously Gay Movies

[lightsaver]

If you feel a movie has a valid place in this thread, then please, start a discussion about whatever movies you think fit here. However, I started this thread specifically for GLBT films because I think it's a sorely neglected genre due to a societal stigma attached to such films, and because this is the GLBT forum, an appropriate place for such a thread. If you know some hetero films that have GLBT sub-themes or GLBT characters, great. List them. If you know films that have GLBT subtext or suggestions, again, list them. But straight het films? No thanks.

I could list what I consider to be films marketed as het but I found them not to be. Again, I ask for your criteria. I am aware why you posted it in this forum and I agree it is a genre often subdued by mainstream media. Additionally, I also think how a film is marketed may or may not appeal to its intended audience.

 

[Guest]

Has anyone seen "Imagine you and Me" with Lena Hedey and Piper Perabo. Lena steals Piper away from her husband. Actually, they fall in love...and lust. Pretty cool movie.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

I could list what I consider to be films marketed as het but I found them not to be. Again, I ask for your criteria. I am aware why you posted it in this forum and I agree it is a genre often subdued by mainstream media. Additionally, I also think how a film is marketed may or may not appeal to its intended audience.

I think it's cool if we post outright "gay" themed movies, i.e. Better Than Chocolate, Lost & Delirious, etc., or movies with a "gay" subplot, or even movies that just happen to have one or two gay characters, subtext, or some allusion to homosexuality, tg lifestyle, bi, etc.

It would be nice if we could have movie discussions about some of these films. Certainly there are emotions that run deeper, plots that can be analyzed, debates to be had over situations in these movies........

.....so even if we're watching and posting about "Smokin' Aces," it's fine as long as the main idea we're discussing is the relationship dynamic between Alicia Keys and Taraji P. Henson, for example.

ETA: To be honest, I re-read your post and I would love to know what movies you think were marketed as het but actually had a place in the GLBT community. Share, share!!

 

[glamorilla]

I could list what I consider to be films marketed as het but I found them not to be. Again, I ask for your criteria. I am aware why you posted it in this forum and I agree it is a genre often subdued by mainstream media. Additionally, I also think how a film is marketed may or may not appeal to its intended audience.

i'd like to see what your examples are because i still don't quite get what you're going for.

do you mean to say that just because a movie does not include gay characters/themes/subtext that it's okay for gay people to still like them because if so i always considered that to be the standard.

it's getting straight people to view gay material (and by material I mean legit literature/cinema/art and not hot porn) with that same objectivity thats the trick.

*and by virtue of your definition any movie featuring a sexy lead character is going to have a gbltg following despite a lack of gbltg themes simply based on the fact that we of the same sex find those sexy lead characters just as attractive as anybody else (i.e. the straight people).