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Gay Themed

This movie was just plain weird. I really went in wanting to like it, but the whole pretentious, overly poetic vibe, combined with this choppy editing that keeps hopping back and forth in these tiny five to ten second bursts, just made it feel dragged out for no real reason, way too self indulgent if you ask me. Honestly this could've been trimmed down to a fifteen minute short and lost nothing. And I still don't get what the deal was with women dancing along the beach while some overwrought, flowery narration plays over the top. The plot creeps along at a snail's pace, slowly building toward some confrontation that you can see coming from a mile away and that just gets duller the closer it gets. By the time it actually happened I'd totally checked out as a viewer, even with two genuinely good looking guys leading the film. The setup itself is pretty basic. Lorena and Diego are trying to settle into a new life in a small town by the coast, both nervously starting fresh ...

This premiered on HBO Max, and it's honestly one of the more unique queer stories out there, built around those specific moments in life where you're forced to grow up fast, where discipline, softness, and real sacrifice suddenly become non negotiable. It's a genuinely moving look at gay parenthood that happens completely by accident, following a hard partying twenty something gay model who suddenly has a baby become the center of his entire world after he's forced to raise his niece. There are eight episodes total, and I'd really tell you to slow down with this one and actually sit with it instead of rushing through. The show kicks off with a gay orgy, introducing us to Filip, a model who's deep into drugs, partying, sex, and basically refuses to take anything in life seriously, work included. With his good looks and sharp jawline, he figures he can get away with anything, until his sister lays down an ultimatum that he needs to move out, since he's basical...

Watching this 1995 film feels like stepping into a whole different era. Back then, testing positive for HIV wasn't an automatic death sentence anymore, though people were still dying from AIDS related complications regularly. So building a romantic comedy around AIDS as the backdrop was a genuinely bold move for its time, and for me it mostly works, though I'll admit if I'd caught this closer to its original release, I probably would've been more receptive to how it handles the subject. Either way, the film puts the conversation out in the open and does its part to chip away at the stigma and mystery surrounding it. The movie centers on Jeffrey, who's grown completely disillusioned with finding a decent partner in early nineties New York City, a place still holding onto its reputation as a gay mecca from decades past but badly bruised by the AIDS crisis of the previous ten years. He decides to swear off sex entirely once the fear of AIDS sucks all the enjoyment out ...

Like the recycled tropes across pretty much every vertical BL show weren't already enough, now the writers aren't even bothering to try anything new. The second I started this, it felt weirdly familiar, so I actually went back through my old reviews to check, and sure enough, this is basically a carbon copy of Hard Shift, just with the jobs swapped around and a bit more thirst trap content sprinkled in. Seriously, put in a little effort here. Set in a Christian university, Brady is the campus heartthrob, a well known playboy and captain of the hockey team, who takes a hit to the crotch during a game and gets injured. Medical intern Marven rushes over to help, and right away Brady feels this weird pull toward him. During the exam, which actually makes Brady finish, Marven tells him he might have erectile dysfunction and needs to spend a few days under Marven's care to sort it out. Brady's always considered himself straight, but Marven's upfront about being gay, and B...

You could basically sum this one up as a queer neo-noir erotic thriller centered on a closeted cop who openly admits he's a sex addict and slowly spirals out of control over the course of the story. There was a whole era where these sleazy, sweaty, unapologetically trashy films thrived on dangerous attraction, moral gray areas, and characters just making awful choices under a haze of neon lighting. Not this one though, at least not for me. This film misses the mark on a lot of fronts and honestly never grabbed my interest. The biggest reason is that the plot gets so tangled up and confusing that huge chunks of it just don't add up. Aiden's a cop in Sydney fighting hard not to masturbate, since he's dealing with some form of sex addiction and has convinced himself that abstaining makes him both physically stronger and a sharper cop. He takes this so far that at one point in the middle of the film he actually buys himself a chastity cage. He's part of a unit working t...

This series follows university students dealing with ambition, desire, jealousy, and messy relationships inside a performing arts program. It's made by GMMTV, and watching it felt like they pulled together every lead actor they've ever worked with, big roles and small. So many familiar faces pop up. There are three main couples plus a bunch of side characters who matter a lot to the story. It runs 12 episodes, each about 55-60 minutes. The story starts with students prepping for a stage version of Romeo and Romeo. Jack is directing and holds open auditions for the roles. His ex Dean used to get the lead automatically in Jack's shows, but this time Jack says roles go only to whoever auditions best. Dean still wants Jack back and tries to seduce him, but Jack turns him down. Another student, Raffy, likes Jack and figures getting cast will help him get close to him, but Jack has no interest in Raffy at all. Jack's stepbrother Rome likes Raffy, but Raffy keeps brushing him ...

When I read the summary about anonymous figures wandering the streets looking for hookups until one of them slips past the locked gate of a city park to wander its trails, I got curious and figured this might turn into some kind of erotic mystery. Turns out that one line basically sums up the entire runtime. This whole movie is just one single night of gay cruising inside an amusement park, broken up entirely by glances exchanged and bodies coming together. One guy locks eyes with another somewhere on a path, and pretty soon they're tangled up together among the trees and fences. The film bounces between something like fifteen or twenty different men, almost nobody speaks a word, and basically the entire runtime is just these guys cruising and hooking up around the park. Given the subject matter, yeah, this gets explicit, exactly what you'd expect. I kept asking myself, and honestly I'm still asking, whether this is meant to be actual porn or some kind of legitimate art fil...

Watching this movie honestly felt like sitting through a Spanish soap opera, the way it's shot, directed, acted, and presented, all of it had that vibe. The pacing feels really off throughout. Just like a typical soap, it drags out the buildup way longer than it needs to before rushing through the payoff. And then the final act just speeds through everything with a few half baked speeches and a bunch of smiling faces, landing on a really underwhelming ending. To be fair, the film does dig into some genuinely important themes worth talking about. It's a decent reminder of how damaging prejudice can be and how much family really matters. David and Bruno are a gay couple who've been together four years and are trying to have a baby. David's twin sister Virginia offers up her egg so they can use a surrogate along with Bruno's sperm. Her husband Miguel is furious about the whole decision, and it creates real tension within the family. A month goes by with no pregnancy an...

Season 2 of Mujhe Rang De picks the story right back up between Shikhar and Agastya after season one ended with the two of them finally admitting they love each other. Having gotten through all 7 episodes, each running around 30-35 minutes, I really appreciate that this genuinely feels like a real continuation of what came before, not just a cash grab sequel. We actually get real insight into why Shikhar's so cold and closed off, learning about his past and watching how the two of them grow together as a couple. Every character from season one is back too, best friend Meera, both their mothers, plus a major new addition in Tarun, who takes the whole story somewhere new. Shikhar and Agastya have been living together a full year at this point, and life's settled into a pretty steady routine. Meera's even got a new boyfriend now. Shikhar seems content in the relationship, but Agastya's constant insecurity starts getting under his skin, and he can't figure out how to re...

Gotta admit, the whole premise of this show is so out there that I'd bet you've never come across anything quite like it before. Taking on a concept like this is a massive gamble for any writer's room. Thankfully the people behind it chose to keep the tone light, which means as an audience you can just let go of how ridiculous the setup is and lean into the humor and cheerful chaos that follows instead. The whole thing radiates warmth, positivity, and a ton of heart. Sure, there are plenty of things you could pick apart, but they're easy enough to overlook. It runs 10 episodes, each landing 40-45 minutes. Pobmek and Solar are a gay couple, and both of them work as elementary school teachers. Through a bunch of flashbacks we learn that Solar always dreamed of teaching, while Pommel was originally headed toward accounting, but he loved Solar so much he switched paths just to become a teacher too. Pommel can't get his classroom under control at all, meanwhile Solar...

I've got a whole new respect for actual vertical series after sitting through a couple of AI generated ones lately. This one especially caught me off guard, no underworld or gang subplot in sight, the girlfriend isn't some evil scheming villain out for revenge, love actually gets prioritized, and there's not that constant cycle of dumb misunderstandings either. On top of all that, we get two new lead actors, and one of them's rocking a pretty hot beard. Story wise though, it's clear at this point everyone's pulling inspiration from the Heated Rivalry formula and putting their own twist on it, and here that twist lands in the world of rugby. Colby Stryker is the golden boy captain of the Los Angeles Stallions, heading into the season determined to hold onto his title, his reputation, and the picture perfect life he's built for himself. His biggest problem shows up in the form of Ridge Maddox, an intense player out of Kansas whose sheer talent and fearless ene...

Honestly I couldn't quite decide if this counts as a film or a documentary. Since it's shown up at a few doc festivals, I'm just going with documentary for now. The setup is that after his older boyfriend loses interest in him, a filmmaker packs up and moves to Chicago, then starts using dating apps to recruit new guys into this loose, undefined project exploring attraction, compatibility, and attachment, something his own mother apparently can't stand. Sitting through all seventy something minutes of it, my honest take is this thing feels completely aimless, and even the people who made it seem to admit that themselves. It does raise some genuinely hard questions, but they come across more like natural byproducts of trying to figure out intimacy in a situation where nobody ever sets clear boundaries. Bethel splits from his older boyfriend and settles into life in Chicago. He knows he wants to start some kind of film project but has zero clue what it's actually abou...

I've got pretty conflicted feelings on this one. It kicks off strong with all the mind games and manipulation, but somewhere along the way it turns into such a confusing, repetitive slog that I started checking out mentally. On top of that, the whole BL angle ends up feeling like an afterthought compared to the bigger story the show's actually chasing. Instead of playing out as a standard romance, it goes for something much darker, building relationships around trauma, power dynamics, and serious emotional imbalance. I can see this concept working if someone really committed to making it a proper drama, but for me personally, my patience ran out. Each episode also clocks in around seventy minutes, which is a lot to ask of anyone, and the whole series runs ten episodes total. Our two main guys are Vier and Kelvin. Vier's the confident heir to the VPG group, polished, calculating, and used to coming out on top. Kelvin's on the flip side, the ignored son from a rival famil...

It's always nice when Asian production companies swing for something different and actually pull off a story that feels new. The opening episodes of this fantasy romance are genuinely delightful, with a concept that feels fresh and catches you off guard in a good way. But the deeper you get into it, the more the storytelling starts falling apart into confusion and misunderstanding piled on misunderstanding. And personally, the ending was a total letdown for me. The cinematography out on the island is gorgeous, and both couples give you that heart fluttering feeling, but it really needed more care put into how it all wrapped up, especially given how tangled the plot got by that point. The show runs 12 episodes, each around 35-40 minutes. He Xiang Yong ends up back on a small island near Taipei after losing his job. Things with his father are already tense, and he can't shake the feeling that everyone on the island is silently judging him. Together with his best friend Li Wan Zhe...

Season 4 just dropped for Single Out, and it's the last one, 8 episodes running about 20 minutes a pop, closing out the story for Adam and everyone around him. I'll admit I was pretty much ready to walk away after season three, but it seems like the people behind this wanted one more round to tie everything off properly. This time around the whole thing centers on Adam trying to figure out his next move after Single Out magazine shuts down, and how that ripple effect plays out for him and the people in his orbit becomes the season's real throughline. Every familiar face from the first three seasons shows back up, and honestly it's still a little disorienting because so many of these guys blend together visually. Adam and Gabe are engaged now, but between their job situations and money being tight, an actual wedding plus finding a place to live both feel out of reach. That's where their friends and family step in. Gabe pulls off a surprise wedding, small and intimate...

Muxes are recognized as a third gender among the Zapotec people down in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, and they're non-binary in how they live their identity. Mexican culture leans pretty machista overall, so muxes end up filling caregiver roles a lot, and they earn real respect both for that work and for who they are. This film feels less like a movie and more like a piece of visual art that pulls you straight into what it actually feels like to live as a muxe. I honestly can't think of another film that functions this much like a painting come to life. It's packed with life, with love, with real heartbreak too, and the whole thing comes across as this incredible burst of culture and creativity. You might not walk away loving it purely as a story, but there's no arguing with how gorgeous and vivid it looks. The film follows a community of muxes pushing back against the idea that gender only exists in two boxes, and we spend time with three of them, Delirio, Amaranta, and Mar...

This one left me kind of torn by the end. The AIDS crisis has been covered on screen so many times already, dramatic weight and all, that a movie really needs to bring something fresh to the table to stand out. I get that this is an older production, but honestly it doesn't add much that feels new. The writing swings into pretty heavy melodrama once act two kicks in, and the shift is so jarring compared to act one that it almost feels like a different movie took over halfway through. The story kicks off in 1984 with Frank, a teenage kid who's openly gay, confident, and constantly chasing sex. His dad tells him to peel the gay stickers off his car, and that's all it takes for Frank to pack up and head to Amsterdam with a couple of friends. Those friends ditch him almost immediately, leaving him broke and homeless, until he stumbles onto a place called House of Boys, a club where the performers actually live on site. His looks and swagger get him a spot there, he starts perfo...

Things kicked off on a strong note, and those initial episodes had me hooked enough to hope for something genuinely thrilling, but the whole thing slowly fell apart as it went on. There was so much potential in the narrative, yet the creative team failed to deliver. It certainly didn't help that the cast felt flat, robotic, and frankly pretty toxic. I found almost zero spark between the main leads, making a lot of their scenes together feel clunky, rigid, and genuinely awkward to sit through. Spanning 10 episodes that run about 40-45 minutes each, it asks for a pretty major chunk of your time. The story centers on a cold, cocky tennis phenom whose entire livelihood is on the line due to a severe injury, and his bad attitude is matched only by his constant state of misery. On the flip side, you have a kind yet overwhelmed physical therapist who is drowning in massive debt because his brother got gravely sick, which leaves him constantly hounded by loan sharks. Out of pure desperatio...

Nobody in this movie actually gets a proper name. Apparently, the creators wanted to make sexuality seem normal and strip away all the labels, though I have no clue what they were trying to accomplish with that idea. It plays out as this quiet, low-budget suspense piece with hardly any talking. To me, the whole thing felt like a messy mix of a grim suspense flick and a queer romance blossoming under weird circumstances, which really fell flat in my book. They just didn't set up the foundations properly, opting instead to pad the runtime with long, drawn out moments that should have been used to flesh out the plot. The plot kicks off with a nameless guy leaving his house to set up camp out in the desert, seemingly haunted by thoughts of his former partner. After getting ambushed during the night by some unseen force, a guy and a woman rescue him and take care of his injuries. The problem is, their farm feels like it exists totally outside the normal flow of time. It becomes obvious ...

This is a pretty straightforward BL about an openly gay guy and what's likely a bi or closeted guy who are best friends. Brazil's given us a handful of these low budget BL projects before, and honestly most of them come with a lot of problems. This one though felt different to me, easygoing, light, not dragged out at all, and it stayed focused on simple stuff, which honestly worked in its favor. Having a genuinely attractive lead definitely doesn't hurt either. It's a short one too, just 4 episodes at 20 minutes each. Kawe and Henrique have been close friends forever. Henrique's openly gay and finds real comfort in his straight friend Kawe, who's always there for him no matter what. When Henrique breaks up with Jorge and seems down about it, Kawe keeps trying to lift his spirits but nothing's really working. So he comes up with an idea, signing up on Grindr hoping to find someone decent to set Henrique up with. He ends up finding Mike and introduces the two ...

This film goes after the ugly side of TV journalism today, the kind that chases the perfect shot no matter the cost, even shoving cameras and mics straight into people's grief. What we get is a movie showing just how brutal that manipulation and deceit can be. It's basically a film within a film, blending delusion, illusion, and theatrics into visuals that are as unsettling as they are gripping. It's shot in this doc drama style, playing out like an actual documentary while also showing us how that documentary gets made behind the scenes, which gives the whole thing a really meta feel. We open with the news that a gay man named Jay has been stabbed to death in his own apartment, and we see how his mom and the rest of his family react, along with how the aftermath unfolds. We're also told the killer's been caught, but has he really? About fifteen minutes in, the film rewinds back to the morning of the murder itself. Now we're following a cameraman and a director ...

This is a tough one to sum up quickly. It's a soft, gentle story about just being human, about how weird little quirks in people actually end up pulling them closer together. It's a thoughtful drama loaded with positivity, packed with a bunch of quirky characters who somehow all click despite being so different. Their personalities come through in genuinely funny moments, but the quieter, more personal scenes hit you right in the heart too. It's not fully a gay love story, but at its core this show does spend real time on what gay people and couples deal with in Japanese society, especially as they get older. And the title fits perfectly, a chosen family is where you finally get accepted, seen, and loved, and that's exactly where these characters end up finding home. You'll get it once you watch it. It runs 10 episodes at 50 minutes each, and honestly every episode deserves your full attention. There's a huge cast here so I won't be able to cover everyone pe...