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Reloved (Thai Series)

I really need a way to take a break from all these BL shows, especially the Thai ones. I'm not saying they're all bad, but I badly need some kind of filter. Paper thin plots stretched over long episodes, clunky writing, and so much content out there that a list of what not to watch would be a blessing. This one's about two ex boyfriends who reunite years after breaking up. The writing's all over the place, and the characters have zero common sense. I'm also getting seriously tired of the non communicating trope, it's really starting to get on my nerves. The one good thing is the kids and the second gay couple, but beyond that nothing's memorable. It's 10 episodes, each about an hour. Than and Akin were lovers back in college. Than's younger than Akin, and even though they were together, Akin always had this feeling Than might be seeing other people, which was never true. We learn all this through flashbacks. In the present, Than heads a sports gym in...

Retro Gay Short Stories

A collection of gay short stories before year 2000.

Un arrangement (France) [An Arrangement]
A man and his son come to terms with their sexuality in their own different manners: while the father painfully hides his secret from his family during night tricks, the son progressively discovers a more open sexuality. Very very interesting film.

Dizzy (Canada)
Written on a flight to Australia and intended as a speech for Hull’s brother’s wedding, Dizzy is a story of one man’s attempt to come to terms with his fragile balance in the modern world. Strictly time pass.

Pracht (Germany)
Two guys sitting across each other on the train fantasize about having sex. Interesting piece and something that can probably tun u on

Une nuit ordinaire (France) [An Ordinary Night]
A young French man bicycles across town after an evening out to spend the night with his boyfriend. The twist in the tale is that the bf is probably dying of AIDS.

America the Beautiful (USA)
Short video transforms verses about religion and battle into a verse about the right to love.

Allegoria (France)
A self inducing crappy piece of experimental cinema where the film-maker just plays with colors with its weirdly make-up'ed characters. Totally bizarre and weird.

Masculins singuliers (France)
A taxi driver tries to take advantage of his passenger ( a drag queen) but is in surprise when the tables turn and drag queen is heavy on the driver. Another bad film.

Boys beware (USA)
What might have been a harmless, even helpful warning to kids about pedophiles becomes ridiculous and ugly by its pretense of revealing what all *homosexuals* are like. It is insulting to gays that this film is still screened in some parts of the country even today.

An average rating of four because the films were more bad than good. (4/10)

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