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[Mormel]

easy:

"Priscilla: Queen of the Desert"
My favorite film about accepting who you are, warts and all, and how "family" is who you choose to be a part of.

Saw it back in 2008 on recommendation of an online contact. It sold me on Guy Pearce, after first having seen 'Memento'. Been a fan since. I adore!

[Vibranium]

as a football fan

supported Michael Sam when he came out, that Missouri didn't out him the year before he came out, declaring for the draft, publicly stating he just wanted to be a football player

now with this reality show (thats what it is, calling it a docu series is just shining the turd IMO), if he doesn't make the team no other NFL team is going to bother with him or the distraction...not for a 7th rounder

[Kieran_Frost]

My "TOP 3" Favourite LGBT Films:
1. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
2. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
3. Milk (2008)

To be honest quite a few films could be included, from obvious choices like A Single Man (2009), Maurice (1987), the History Boys (2006), My Beautiful Launderette (1985), to less obvious like American Beauty (1999), the Silence of the Lambs (1991), [/SIZE] the Lion in Winter (1968), the Talented Mister Ripley (1999) even that small, but beautiful Gus vant Sant segment in Paris, je t'aime (2006). I'd also count Ben-Hur (1959)... don't tell me Massala isn't utterly in lust for Ben-Hur! Seriously, watch it, and think of them as a couple... adds soooooooooo much subtext and motivation.

Mysterious Skin
Transamerica
The Velvet Goldmine

Felicity Huffmann was amazing in that! Robbed of her Oscar!

"Priscilla: Queen of the Desert"
My favorite film about accepting who you are, warts and all, and how "family" is who you choose to be a part of.

Such a great film; Terence Stamp should have been nominated for it, he was incredible! And he delivers one of my favourite lines (and my favourite insult) in all of cinema!

"Longtime Companion"
Still makes me cry every damn time I see it, and one of the few films I own on VHS that I still watch in that format.
The final scene?. . . damn. . absolute joy and profound sadness at the same time.

I've never heard of this, will have to look it up.

and "Torch Song Trilogy"
Which I was a fan of from the off Broadway play, written and starring the incredibly talented Harvey Fierstein.

I saw the play recently in London; it was a solid play; but I found the character just too unsympathetic. Like Louis in Angels in America, it wasn't my type of gay.

although honestly, any Amodovar film could be a close runner up

HA! Agreed! I always compare him to Lorca for a reason.

So hard! Mostly, because I can't figure out if Fake is a "film" or not, and what counts as "themes." Is the gender stuff in His Girl Friday theme-y? The casting of a woman in a male role, the Hawksian woman, all that? Does Cary Grant just make movies queer by being all Cary Grant all the time? (Also: Do I like Lost Boys that much? Do I love Pink Flamingos more than Hedwig or De-Lovely, or just differently? Do I love Therese and Isabelle or just the memory of it?) Why must I choooooooose!

Oh, yeah. Nobody's making me. You just asked an open question.

Right now: Imagine Me and You, Adolescence Apocalypse, and Wild Zero.

HA! Didn't mean to make it so hard. Why does Cary Grant gay up all films?

But I do have a gay uncle, cousin, and aunt

All allies are welcome here.

Saw it back in 2008 on recommendation of an online contact. It sold me on Guy Pearce, after first having seen 'Memento'. Been a fan since. I adore!

Plus he's easy on the eyes... hee hee...

[bert]

you're making me feel old

but "Longtime Companion" absolutely should be considered "required viewing" for anyone who loves great films, but in particular for young gay men, to see what it was really like.

the trailer is pretty bad (it's typical 80's style trailer), but trust me, the film is amazing, and well worth any effort to track down for viewing -- tho it does look like someone has loaded the whole film to YouTube.

(and it did get nominated for a ton of prestigious awards, and had a fantastic cast).

here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=mGCeQC805vY

[Sprite]

QUESTION: what are you three favourite films with LGBT themes or characters as a significant part of the story?

1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Pariah
3. Transameria

Milk, But I'm a Cheerleader and Romeos are my runner-ups.

[Jay Kay]

QUESTION: what are you three favourite films with LGBT themes or characters as a significant part of the story?

I honestly don't think I've seen that many, and those that I have seen I didn't really like. Brokeback Mountain was a drawn out, annoying, hackeyed Romeo & Juliet clone. Milk was...okay, but I really can't stand Sean Penn, both as an actor and as a human being. The only movies I can think of that I really liked was Chasing Amy and The Birdcage.

[The Doctor]

Blue is the warmest color. Random find for me, but I don't know if other people know it well or not. It's on Netflx too.

[Sprite]

I have never seen Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Will I need to fix that?

Blue is the warmest color. Random find for me, but I don't know if other people know it well or not. It's on Netflx too.

Not a fan of it. Way too male gaze-y for my tastes. The comic was better.

[t hedge coke]

I have never seen Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Will I need to fix that?

Yes. Very much yes.

Not a massive favorite of mine, but a damned good movie, and well worth at least one watch (to start).

[wonderlad]

Hey all just thought I'd make my intro here. Previously known as yvahed.

Gay. South African. Indo-Muslim.

Love the intelligent dialogue that goes on here.

Like many of you my fave characters are female and if I had to choose an RPG character it probably be a woman but I am happy with my penis

Fave comic character is Wonder Woman (since my dad rented the 70s series on video for my 7th birthday) although my 1st comic role models were Casper and Richie Rich (and Wendy tee-hee). Other fave characters - DC (Donna Troy, Zatanna, Hawkgirl/woman) X-Claremazons (Storm, Jean-Phoenix, Dazzler, Polaris, Psylocke, Moonstar, M ) and Avengers (She-Hulk, Wasp, Wanda, Sersi, Spiderwoman and Tigra [Rrraaaooowrrr])

Comic characters I'd want as a boyfriend : Jamie Madrox, Nightwing

Fave LBGTI movies - very tough choice as I have seen so many:

Brokeback Mountain
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
The Bubble (Israeli - Palestinian love story)
Priest

also
Loose Cannons (Italy)
Torch Song Trilogy (though I don't think it has aged that well - I snuck out to see it in my final year high school)
The Birdcage
My Own Private Idaho
Maurice (one of the 1st gay novels I ever read when I was 16 - love Forster)
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar
Shortbus
Mysterious Skin

[t hedge coke]

I honestly don't think I've seen that many, and those that I have seen I didn't really like. Brokeback Mountain was a drawn out, annoying, hackeyed Romeo & Juliet clone. Milk was...okay, but I really can't stand Sean Penn, both as an actor and as a human being. The only movies I can think of that I really liked was Chasing Amy and The Birdcage.

I like everything about Chasing Amy except the main plot and, in particular, the overlong speech towards the end, closing with "I'm not you're ^(&^ing whore."

If anyone in the audience thought Affleck's character wasn't a deluded idiot by the time he says, "I like you, and not in a friendly way" to a woman alone with him, in a car, on an empty street, in the rain, in the middle of the night... that speech wasn't going to convince them. They're already lost causes.

(The "my publisher insists" bit about acting out as an angry black gay stereotype in comics also resembles nothing any actual gay or nonwhite comics talent could've got away with at all, either. Hell, black comics talent tend to get called "ungrateful" or "gangsta" just for opening their mouths about anything, especially back then.)

Banky Edwards was a funny dumb guy, though. Paranoid, idiotic, spiteful, jealous, and cute about most of it.

[Sprite]

I do applaud Chasing Amy for giving a realistic portrayal of bisexuality and the isolation that someone who's bi can often face from gay and lesbian circles. Everything else about the film I can do without, and I say this as someone who likes Kevin Smith to an extent.

[Dylan Davison]

QUESTION: what are you three favourite films with LGBT themes or characters as a significant part of the story?

1) Weekend
2) Private Romeo
3) Prayers for Bobby

[bert]

Shortbus

you know. . I"m a fan of John Cameron Mitchell (I'm a HUGE fan of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" having seen it on stage multiple times, own both film & stage soundtracks, and have the film on DVD -- in fact, planning a NY trip in the very near future to catch NPH in the title role). so even tho I didn't list "Hedwig" as one of my top 3, it's absolutely in my top 5.

but


even tho I own "Shortbus". . I've seen about 1/2 of it, only once.

*maybe* it gets better in the 2nd half? But I don't think I'll ever find out, as the gratuitous, graphic sex, manages to bury whatever point/plot he was trying to make. It really IS an "XXX" rated film. . the man made a porn and distributed it as a standard movie.

it's a shame too, as I like most of the cast, but simply wasn't enjoying watching it (and that says a lot -- if the sex is pulling me OUT of the story? then it's too gratuitous).

[t hedge coke]

Link to my review of Wild Zero, if anyone's in the mood for rock'n'roll zombie horror comedy transgender love story.

I really can't do the lgbt tragedies, these days, the ones where everybody dies, or everybody goes off alone to pretend to be straight or whatever. The sad stuff. Maybe it's just where my head's at these days. Maybe I'm avoiding something. I just can't groove on that wavelength now.