Watch: Cinematographer James Laxton breaks down the swimming lesson from Moonlight.Meanwhile comedy Midas Judd Apatow is currently producing a gay rom-com starring Billy on the Street’s Billy Eichner, which will hit theaters in Summer 2022. And it wasn’t the last: A lesbian romance lies at the center of critically acclaimed high school flick, Booksmart, as well as last year’s Christmas rom-com, The Happiest Season.
EXPLICIT MAINSTREAM GAY MOVIES TV
In 2020, Pedro Almadóvar’s Pain and Glory would make a dent on the awards circuit, as would Celine Sciamma’s romance Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, one of the best-reviewed movies of recent years. Meanwhile, Love, Simon made history in 2018 as the first mainstream, wide-release teenage rom-com to focus on a gay character (a spin-off TV series, Love, Victor, enters its second season on Hulu this year). At the 2019 Oscars, Olivia Colman was named Best Actress for playing the lesbian queen Anne in The Favourite, beating out Can You Ever Forgive Me?‘s Melissa McCarthy, who played lesbian writer Lee Israel.
EXPLICIT MAINSTREAM GAY MOVIES MOVIE
In 2016, Carol earned six Oscar nominations, and just a year later, for the first time in history, Moonlight became the first LGBTQ+-themed movie to win Best Picture. Male bonding is an important theme in this list, so what better way to meet a future best friend than to have an extended fight with him? The partnership formed between Michael Dudikoff (as Joe Armstrong) and Steve James (playing Curtis Jackson) would not only last them through several American Ninja movies, but also into the likes of Avenging Force.ĭuring their first encounter, Jackson confronts Armstrong, calling him out as being a wannabe hero.It’s been a big few years for LGBTQ films. “Don’t push it,” Armstrong warns, then politely proceeds to kick his ass (he is an American Ninja, after all), but not without taking the time to throw a bucket of water over Jackson. One assumes this was to bring him round to consciousness, only Jackson wasn’t out cold. Livid, Jackson rises to his feet exclaiming, “We don’t stop till one of us goes down!”, which is a little forward, if you ask me. What really sticks in the mind, though, is what happens after the fight: To put an end to all the innuendo-ridden fight talk, Dudikoff then chokes him with his large hose. This kiss in From Here To Eternity has been voted as one of the all-time greats time and again, yet, for some unknown reason, people often seem to overlook a similarly surf-bound and romantic scene, perhaps because Rocky is an underestimated franchise.Įither way, there is one thing that really, really needs to be addressed: who decided to put grown men in crop tops? (Poor Carl Weathers, above, as Apollo Creed)Īt what point in the eighties did men, who were proud of their bodies, think to themselves, “Well, the short shorts are okay.
I am athletic, after all, and I have good legs.
Hell, even the moustache looks manly, as only a man could grow such finely groomed facial hair. Why on earth aren’t these bad boys on show? Hmm… if only I could find some kind of t-shirt which would draw attention to my perfect stomach… Aha! There’s my girlfriend’s top, that’ll do. No one will ever question how it looks, because they’ll know I could snap them in two like a twig. Away I go!”Īnd look what other fashion item is recurring.