Favorite Gay Themed Film

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kenb

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The "How gay are you" thread got me to thinking about gay themed films and I was wondering what some of the favorites among members of AW are.

Big Eden is one of my favorites, has anybody else seen it...if so what did you think?
 
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Latter Days
Defying Gravity
Like It Is
Beautiful Thing
Trick

I enjoyed Big Eden, but its premise (an entire small town who seemed to have nothing else to do except matchmake a gay couple) was pretty ridiculous IMO.
 
Big Eden

is also a favorite of mine... others include:

Broken Hearts Club
All Over the Guy
Touch of Pink
Torch Song Trilogy
Get Real
Latter Days
Like It Is
Beautiful Thing
 
Some of my favourites; including gay characters

Parting Glances (Available on Netflix Instant).

Love! Valour! Compassion!

The Family Stone

Edge of Seventeen

Trembling Before G_d

Chutney Popcorn

I liked Big Eden, but, I agree that it is "magic realism."

Show Me Love

Waiting For The Moon

As I said, just some of my favourites.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
I loved Big Eden too...

I remember reading that they made the movie knowing it was unrealistic. I think it may have been on IMDB where I read it. Kind of a "In a perfect world" type scenario which they knew didn't exist. I think that's why I like it. But it could also be because I have thing for Native American Two-Spirits, hehe. But some of my other favorites are:

Shelter
Trick
Broken Hearts Club
Jeffrey ( Michael T. Weiss..mmmmmmph )
Love! Valor! Compassion!
Beautiful Thing
To Wong Foo! Thanks for everything, Julie Newmar.
 
My two biggies are,

Love!,Valour!Compassion.
I watch it every long weekend of the summer.

Of course,To Wong Fu.
Love the car,love Miss Vida's purple dress,Stockard Channing was great in that movie, as in all she does.
I can watch it 10 times compared to Prissilla,Queen of the Desert.
 
My Fab Five

In no particular order:

1. "Beautiful Thing"
2. "Torch Song Trilogy"
3. "Trick"
4. "The Boys In The Band"
5. "The Broken Hearts Club"

Honorable mention-mainstream version: "Brokeback Mountain"
 
Love Valour Compassion is one of my all-time favorite plays, but twice I've tried to watch the film and both times I fell asleep. I think Nathan Lane is what made the play so good, and absence of him is what made the film so bad (IMO of course).

My favorite review of it comes from Amazon.com:

"Boys In The Band" meets "On Golden Pond" LOL

Edge of Seventeen is another one that puts me right to sleep. Its storyline and script are utterly pedestrian.
 
It has to be Brokeback Mountain

Though this specifically drew fire because of a "gay theme" an open minded-non phobe person would see a love story that is quite touching.
 
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I mentioned "Big Eden" as a favorite because it is filled with characters that I can identify with...people like I grew up with. I suppose once a country boy, always a country boy.

Somebody mentioned that the premise of the film was a bit ridiculous; well the filmmaker did say that it was a fantasy of sorts, something that might happen if we lived in a perfect world. If you have ever lived in a very small town you know that adults of all ages tend to sit around at times and match make. In a perfect world, one with no homophobia this premise is not so unbelievable.

Another favorite would be "Brokeback Mountain", again because it is something I identified with.

Many of the other gay themed films out there I didn't enjoy, or enjoy as much as the other two films I mentioned because I simply couldn't identify with any of the characters.

“To Wong Foo” is another favorite…
 
For UK members..(Unsure if it was ever shown in the US).

Film... " My Beautiful Launderette "

I couldn't wait to see the film for 2 reasons

1: Gay themed
2: Of course the washers!

Mark
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I saw the movie Shelter on Here! ...very good movie.
Drum roll please...
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Mambo Italiano
Shelter
Kinky Boots
Mommy Dearest...yeah i know not gay themed but very campy just the same.
The Trip
Summer Storm in German
Regular Guys in German
All Over the Guy
Too Wong Foo....love me some Miss Vida and ChiChi..not so much on the Miss Noxema.
The Women...the Joan Crawford version of 1939. Amore Dahlink!
 
I do love most of the movies that you guys posted...Philadelphia though....I hate movies that go back and forth...drives me nuts.
One movie we saw at the IMAX was Beowulf...even though its animated....what a body and nakedness....if any saw it you know what I mean!
 

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