What I’m looking for is simple enough. Confining yourself to stories lacking any overt homosexual relationships, what are the gayest movies you can think of? (For purposes of this thread, “gay” includes “lesbian.”)
300 is the first one that came to mind. I didn’t name it in the OP for four reasons:
The only overtly sexual acts in the movie (Leonidas making love to his wife and that wife later being raped (or blackmailed into submission–Mrs. R. & I have argued about this point) are heterosexual. Seems to me that the gayest movie ever would have the main character abstaining from hetero sex.
It’s too damn obvious.
Now that I think about it, there were only those two reasons.
Bits & pieces. Don’t the two leads actually become lovers? Perhaps I should have written “the most COVERTLY homoerotic movie ever” to make my meaning clear.
“Messenger: All that God-King Xerxes requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water. A token of Sparta’s submission to the will of Xerxes.
King Leonidas: Submission? Well that’s a bit of a problem. See, rumor has it the Athenians have already turned you down, and if those philosophers and, uh, boy-lovers have found that kind of nerve, then…”
There was more, but a quick google doesn’t turn it up.
Isn’t She Great. The story of Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann, starring Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, and David Hyde Pierce, and written by Paul Rudnick (who also wrote In & Out). You can’t get gayer (or campier) than that.
It was the inimitable Dan Savage. He put an abbreviated version at the end of his syndicated column, Savage Love, that week. The Onion’s AV Club and many alt weekly papers run the column. A commenter at Slate mentioned it.