What is your favorite gay themed movie?
By cyntrow
@cyntrow (8523)
United States
March 11, 2007 8:42pm CST
I have the LOGO network and I love it. I dig the series' but I mostly love the movies. My favorite gay movie of all times is "Torchsong Trilogy." But since getting LOGO, I've found "The Broken Hearts Club" "Latter Days" "Lifetime Companion" to name but a few. What is your favorite gay movie. Please don't say "Brokeback Mountain." OK say it if you feel it. Just tell me about your favorite film. THanks.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
12 Mar 07
Brokeback Mountain was good but my favorite gay themed film is Mambo Italiano. It is a great comedy about how a gay young man comes out to his parents.His Italian parents. Mama Mia! I also love the film Love! Valour! Compassion! This is a drama with some funny scenes. It is like the gay Big Chill.I also love The Broken Hearts Club and Latter Days.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
13 Mar 07
Oops. I forgot the movie Ski Trip. It is a urban romantic comedy. If you like the series Noah's Arc, you'll love this film.
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
14 Mar 07
"And another favorite was "The Children's Hour" which I watched recently"
was that good? I love Audrey Hepburn but that is one movie of hers that I've never seen...I should put it on my Netflix list and check it out..
@96vidalias (344)
• United States
7 Apr 07
No one has mentioned this film, maybe it is not being shown lately as it is a bit dated. 'Jeffry' is a comedy with a very serious theme. Steven Webber plays a man who is so afraid of AIDS that he decides to be celibate. Then he meets a man he really likes who is HIV positive.
Patrick Stewart is in it and another well known actor, whose name I can't come up with. I am getting really bad about that. There are some funny fantasy sequences and some touching moments.
Also nobody named Gods And Monsters. I don't know if that counts as a gay movie after being changed from the source book, The Father of Frankenstein. That happens with some novels with main characters who have their orientation changed to make the movie more mainstream.
@cyntrow (8523)
• United States
7 Apr 07
"Jeffrey!!" OMG you are so right. Steven Weber from "Wings" played the lead role. That is a great movie. Oh, I hurt deeply that I forgot that one. Excellent movie.
Gods and Monsters is one that I know, from title, but I don't think I have ever watched. I know it has been played on LOGO, but I have never seen it.
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@96vidalias (344)
• United States
8 Apr 07
Gods and Monsters is a great film about James Whale, who directed the Frankenstein movies. It has portrayals of some actors and moviemaking of the 1930's in flashbacks, as well as a story leading up to the end of his life. There is a wonderful cast with a variety of characters.
@fpd1955 (2074)
• United States
14 Mar 07
"Saving Face" is a romantic-comedy that I recommend. It is about an Asian mother and daughter, the daughter is a lesbian. Their live parallel as they both have secrets from their friends and family. It was very good and upbeat.
There is always "Better Than Chocolate" a lesbian love story. Wendy Crewson plays one of the girls straight, naive mother and she is hysterical in the movie.
I watch 'Torchsong Trilogy" whenever it comes on tv. It never fails to make me cry.
@Cougarlover152 (108)
• United States
18 Mar 07
Cyntrow, guess what? My brother was in the Broadway production of "Torch Song Triligy". He played the boy-toy boyfriend in the second act. I love Harvy Fierstein (sp?)! I also like "The Birdcage," "Cabaret," and though the movie itself wasn't gay themed, I LOVED Rupert Everet in "My Best Friend's Wedding!" I really didn't care for "Brokeback Mountain," actually.
Oh! Also, though it's a transgender movie and not a gay movie, I really did enjoy the one with Robert DiNero and the guy who one the Oscar for "Capote" - I think it's called "Fabulous," but I'm not sure. Do you know the one? Where DiNero is a cop who has a stroke trying to stop murderers in his building and he has to go the drag queen for voice rehabilitation? Excellent movie!
@cyntrow (8523)
• United States
6 Apr 07
Was your brother the Matthew Broderick Charcator. My brother interviewed Firestein for his college newspaper. I interviewed Armistead maupin as well. Rupert Everet is hot. I would have him in a second if he was straight and I was single. I just think its sad that such a phenomonal actor is type cast as "the Gay Guy."
@cyntrow (8523)
• United States
6 Apr 07
Oh, I like that movie. I watched most of it but I haven't been able to see the whole thing. I absolutely adore gay coming of age films. Another that I adore is "Get Real." Although it left me feeling kind of sad at the end.
I had to look up the movie you mentioned because the title threw me. I thought it was that Kate Winslet film where they conspired to kill their parents, but I knew that that couldn't have been the "feelgood" film that you were talking about. LOL. "Heavenly Creatures" it was. Beautiful, heavenly...threw me for a second.
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@cyntrow (8523)
• United States
6 Apr 07
I did like get real. I think a lot of it had to do with the whole plot line. And remembering things my brother went through went he was a teen trying to find himself; falling in love with this guy and telling no one; getting felt up by some other guy, but telling no one. It just struck me. I was the only person in my brother's world when he was in school that knew anything about his life. *shrugs* Get real just felt real to me.
@sweetrala (1436)
• Philippines
13 Mar 07
Two of my fave movies are The Broken Hearts Club and To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.Such cool,funny and inspirational films.
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
14 Mar 07
omg Too Wong Foo is SO FUNNY!! and who would have thought that Wesley Snipes would play his character so damn well!!LOL
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
16 Mar 07
I had to think on this one because to be honest I don't think of them as gay themed, just as good movies. Some of my favorites would be "The Wedding Wars", "Too Wong Foo" and "The Birdcage". If you haven't seen "The Wedding Wars" it was a made for Lifetime movie with John Stamos. It deals with gay rights and gay marriages. It was a great movie. It's one I'd love to have on DVD but so far it's not out yet. It was very good.
@cyntrow (8523)
• United States
18 Mar 07
Now see, I'll watch anything John Stamos is in. I still remember him as Blackie on "general Hospital" and of course Uncle Jesse on "full House." What kind of role did he play in "The Wedding Wars?" I love to see straight guys play gay roles convincingly.
@fpd1955 (2074)
• United States
18 Mar 07
I saw that one. John Stamos plays a Wedding Planner, who is Gay.. His brother is getting married to the Governor's daughter. John is doing the wedding, until the Governor comes out publicly against Gay marriage. John initiates a "Gays on Strike" movement.
@cyntrow (8523)
• United States
18 Mar 07
Oh yeah, I think Brokeback had that effect on a lot of people who know no gays. I think it broke down a lot of the stereotypes. I can honestly say that most of the gay men that I know are men that you could never tell to be gay just by looking at them or talking to them.
@pangeacat (619)
• United States
25 Apr 08
"Bedrooms and Hallways" has to head up the list for me. It is absolutely hilarious, with that lovely dry English humor that I love so much.
Next would probably be "The Birdcage". Hank Azaria is absolutely wonderful in that film, as is the entire cast really. It's just so much fun.
"Better then Chocolate" was, generally speaking, a lot more serious then the above two, but I personally that it was fantastic!
And, "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar". Well, personally, I loved that movie!
And, HEY! I liked "Brokeback Mountain" too! I thought it was a very heart warming film! :P
