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Gay Themed

This is a film from the early 90s and that context really does matter when you sit down to watch it. For its time, it was probably pretty talked about. It's a murder mystery erotic thriller that manages to be dramatic and completely ridiculous at the same time, and the absurdity of it genuinely made me laugh a few times before I had to remind myself that logic wasn't exactly a priority for filmmakers back then. The main character David is seriously messed up and genuinely mean, but you still end up feeling sorry for him because he's clearly a victim of sexual abuse who never dealt with any of it and just takes all that pain out on everyone around him in the worst ways imaginable. The film opens with a naked man being murdered in pretty brutal fashion. Then we meet David, a young guy who's just left boarding school following a teacher's death, which is almost certainly the killing we just watched. He shows up at his wealthy mother's gorgeous oceanfront house to s...

Honestly they should have just called this show J&J. The two leads are Jerome and Jinn and they even get called that nickname a few times in the show itself. Maybe there were title issues but J&J would have fit so much better. Head 2 Head just feels a bit off. Anyway, it starts out like your typical enemies to lovers story but give it some time and there's actually more going on beneath the surface. The show runs 12 episodes of about 45 minutes each and is a decent watch overall. Jerome and Jinn have lived opposite each other since they were kids and have been rivals for just as long. They mock each other, put each other down and are generally at odds about everything. Despite all that they're part of the same friend circle which also includes Van and Farm. After a car race Jerome gets injured and starts experiencing visions. He figures out pretty quickly that these visions are always connected to Jinn and the world around him, sometimes reassuring and sometimes deeply ...

This documentary is basically about one thing, the American religious right going hard against the LGBTQ community and the damage it causes to families who are stuck between their faith and the love they have for their own kids. The whole film takes this very gentle, patient approach and is really trying to get people with conservative religious beliefs to see that there's no reason to be fighting the LGBTQ community. It stays focused on parents, how they reacted when their kids came out, what the family had to go through, and how they eventually got to a place where they could be supportive. It opens by talking about the Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage and the backlash that followed in a lot of parts of the country, but that's actually not the main point of the film. The real focus is on four families. The first is an evangelical family in Washington state whose whole world gets rocked when one of their sons comes out as gay. The parents are very open about how they trie...

There was something almost magnetic about this film that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Some movies have this rare ability where every single frame feels worth looking at, the people, the places, the movements, all of it just draws you in. This film absolutely has that quality. It's a fictional retelling of real episodes from the life of dancer and choreographer Rianto, who practices a traditional dance form from his native island of Java called the Lengger dance, where men take on feminine appearance and movements. The story follows Juno and is told almost in chapters, each one marking a different stage of his life, as a child, as a teenager, and each chapter carries some kind of crisis tied to how his body and sexuality are read by the world around him. Without a mother figure in his life Juno has grown up comfortable with solitude and seclusion. As a child a dance master spots the grace and flexibility in his body and sees him as a natural dancer, but that same effeminat...

What a refreshing film this was honestly. It completely sidesteps the usual trans victimhood narrative and instead dives into something far more layered and interesting. It boldly lets its trans lead live in two worlds that are usually seen as incompatible for trans characters. She's out there indulging her sexual fantasies while also trying to build the kind of family structure that trans people have historically been shut out of. The film basically says that identity contains multitudes and refuses to be boxed in by what society expects. A girl can have it all and this film makes that case confidently. The central character is a famous trans theatre actress who is doing very well for herself. She's fierce, sexually very active and makes no apologies for it. One night she meets a gay Mexican lawyer who stayed back in Argentina, let's be honest, because of the hot men. The two are very attracted to each other and start a relationship. He meets her family and it becomes clea...

This one is hard to categorize and honestly that's both its biggest ambition and its biggest problem. It's this wildly eccentric psychosexual comedy that tries to carve out a whole new genre and I genuinely can't think of anything quite like it. But trying to be audacious and actually pulling it off are two very different things and for me personally it just didn't land. And just to set expectations, this isn't strictly a gay film. One of the two lead characters is gay and yes sexuality is very much part of the conversation, but that's about as far as the queer angle goes. Joey and Craig are roommates and their dynamic is warm but also a little uneven. He pays the rent and she doesn't, which means he gets away with things like asking Joey to stay in her room with the lights off when his Grindr date comes over because he's told the guy he lives alone. The film opens with Joey sitting with her therapist recounting this long winding story about how she met ...

This Thai mini series is bad and full of red flags where you question so many of the protagonists motives, yet somehow you wanna watch it and finish it. This mini series is just 10 episodes of 10 minutes each, but it should have multiple trigger warnings. I thought we were done with rape eat few years back in the BL worlds in the name of love, but I guess not! Pakin kidnaps a a luxury hotel heir Venus, holding him captive in the unforgiving wilderness. He blames him for making his younger brother fall in love with him and breaking his heart which led to his brother committing suicide. Venus pleads and begs saying that it was his twin brother Saturn who must have done this but Pakin would take none of it. He rapes Venus, makes him do household chores and other atrocities. Meanwhile, the hotel heiress grandmother is worried at where have the town grandsons disappeared and ask her trusted advisor to find them. Her evil niece meanwhile has been eyeing the whole property and is not happy th...

This one came out in 1988 and was apparently HBO's very first gay themed TV film. It was adapted from a play and that becomes obvious pretty quickly because almost the entire thing takes place inside an apartment with just two people talking through their grief and going back and forth about whether that grief even belongs to both of them equally. The story picks up after the death of a man named Colin. His ex-wife Marion, who was with him for over a decade, and his lover Arthur, who was by his side through the brutal final months of living with AIDS, are brought together in the loft they've both inherited half of as per Colin's will and now need to sell. What follows is the two of them sitting with old grievances and new ones, circling each other, confessing things, and slowly working through a shared loss that neither of them quite knows how to carry. Marion reveals that she herself has been infected with the virus. Arthur, understandably but also a little selfishly, want...

This Indian series is being sold as a story about a gay man falling for his straight best friend but honestly, at its heart, it's really about friendship and what friendship can look like when it gets complicated and messy and emotionally loaded. It's available on the YouTube channel of Last Leaf Pictures, seven episodes of about 30 minutes each. I had mixed feelings throughout and a big part of that comes down to how I felt about one of the lead characters, but more on that in a bit. Anshul and Kavith are the two men at the centre of everything. They first meet on a train heading to Delhi, both of them not really ready to go back to their hometowns. They get off midway, turn around and head back to Mumbai to give themselves one more shot at the life they want there. Anshul is an aspiring actor with a young son back in Delhi living with his grandmother. Kavith is gay, freshly out of yet another relationship, his 17th by his own count over the years. The two strike up this unusu...

I kept putting this one off for the longest time, honestly not sure why. Some part of me had convinced myself it probably wasn't going to connect with my LGBTQ world but wow, was I off. This film completely caught me off guard. It's this clever dark comedy that somehow manages to be genuinely funny and deeply serious at the exact same time, and it's packed with surprises from start to finish. The film brings together Roman and Dennis, two young strangers who cross paths at a support group for people who've lost a twin. That kind of grief is so specific and so strange that really only someone who's been through it could even begin to understand it. Roman is this quiet, physically imposing guy whose sudden bursts of rage are all the more unsettling because of how still he usually is. Dennis is skinny, openly gay, and has this sharp self deprecating humour that he uses like a shield. They're completely different people but tragedy pulls them together and that bond ...

If you watched Season 1 of Gaycation and loved it, Season 2 picks up right where it left off, that same blend of travel show and real documentary that made the first season feel so genuine. Elliot Page and Ian Daniel are back and this time they're taking us to Ukraine, India, France, and the Deep South in the US. There's also a special episode that deals with what the Trump administration's policies meant for LGBTQ+ people. The main season is four episodes of about 45 minutes each and then that special wraps things up. Ukraine is the first stop and they land in Kyiv just before the country's second ever Pride march. The tension is real, you can feel the weight of both Russian influence and the Orthodox Church hanging over everything. They sit with activists who are genuinely risking their safety just to walk through their own city, a march that needs riot police because counter protesters are right there ready to get violent. One of the most affecting moments is meetin...

There haven't been many films about aging gay men , so its always nice to see a film trying to address the subject is some capacity. This film is not as much about love but more about what could happen to certain gay men in the prime of their life when their families don't want them anymore and they are so lonely. Friendships and love/admiration can bring a spark in your life anytime of the day. Friendship between two old men becomes love in their own way. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into an old age home. He is single and apparently his younger sister used to take care of him, but now after his death, he is almost forced to be in this community and he is not happy about it and is almost grumpy. The staff there tries to cheer him up but it's like he has given up on life. Suddenly a man named Victor arrives in his room on wheelchair. He is brash, talks a lot, has no theory of personal space or boundaries and is a chatty Kathy. Philippe finds him...

So this one is basically a documentary about what it means to be transgender, what transition actually looks like, and how medicine is stepping in to help people get there. Instead of just following one person, they decided to show a bunch of different people all at different stages of their journey. Smart idea honestly. The whole thing is just about an hour long. We meet Charlotte first, she's a trans woman and she works in this very old school, very masculine railway maintenance job. Her part of the story is really about the social stuff, not surgery or anything medical, just the everyday reality of telling your coworkers, changing how you dress, asking people to use a different name and pronouns, and just living with that fear of how people are going to react. Then there's Jamie, a trans man who's just starting his medical transition. His story is a lot about testosterone treatment and what it feels like when your body slowly starts to catch up with how you've always...

Love in Protocol (Korean Mini-Series) - 2026 4 episodes of average 10 minutes each. The main character is a researcher running a clinical study on human behaviour. He asks deeply personal questions, getting his test subject to open up about himself. These two men have already met before. Years ago, they developed a close bond over their private tutoring sessions. Nothing romantic happened back then, but those unresolved feelings have resurfaced. A boring romance with barely any emotions at all and even storewide it has really nothing new to offer. Setting a romance inside a psychological experiment seemed intriguing, but it ends up being a big yawn. The kissing scene at the end was decent but the story doesn't give any opportunity for either of the actors to show their potential. Awakening the Steppe (Chinese Mini-Series) - 2026 A carefree vet and guesthouse owner, Amur, who lives in a grassland encounters an injured Singaporean traveler, Lei Ze Xin. Lei Ze Xin is here to fulfill h...