# And the most homoerotic movie ever made is... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571 "2008-08-19T17:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/222 "2008-11-27T18:14:00Z")
But you can have a hypermasculine movie that isn’t particularly homoerotic. Like, say, “Unforgiven” or “Reservior Dogs” or “Predator”. A movie becomes homoerotic when the relationships between these macho men become less than businesslike. And when they oil themselves and wear leather panties. And talk and talk about their relationship. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/223 "2008-11-27T18:22:40Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > But you can have a hypermasculine movie that isn’t particularly homoerotic. Like, say, “Unforgiven” or “Reservior Dogs” or “Predator”. > > A movie becomes homoerotic when the relationships between these macho men become less than businesslike. And when they oil themselves and wear leather panties. And talk and talk about their relationship. What should these guys have worn to appear more businesslike? Burkhas? That’s a good way to show off a buff muscular body. It’s not like these guys were laying around lovingly slathering oil over each other. I’ll have to re-watch, but I don’t remember anything like that. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/224 "2008-11-27T18:31:27Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I went to see 300 in a military town and there were a lot of Marines in the audience. Were they all gay? Go ahead and snicker, but Marines admire hyper masculinity, and they don’t have to be gay to do so, and I think it’s homophobic to make them feel ashamed of checking out those guys’ abs. You know how I know you’re gay? Because you were watching 300 with a bunch of Marines and checking out their hyper-masculine abs. If the actual Marine Corps is anything like it is portrayed in Jarhead, Heartbreak Ridge or Generation Kill, I would rank it in at least the top 5 gay organizations. I’m sure a lot of Marines would threaten to chew off my balls and fuck me in the ass for making such a statement. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/225 "2008-11-27T18:34:21Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > You know how I know you’re gay? Because you were watching 300 with a bunch of Marines and checking out their hyper-masculine abs. > > If the actual Marine Corps is anything like it is portrayed in Jarhead, Heartbreak Ridge or Generation Kill, I would rank it in at least the top 5 gay organizations. > > I’m sure a lot of Marines would threaten to chew off my balls and fuck me in the ass for making such a statement. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/226 "2008-11-27T18:40:13Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > …I’m sure a lot of Marines would threaten to chew off my balls and fuck me in the ass for making such a statement. Oh, yeah, that’ll show off the non-gayness. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/227 "2008-11-27T19:30:27Z")
Don’t forget Full Metal Jacket. “I bet you’re the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the god damned common courtesy to give him a reach around!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/228 "2008-11-27T21:17:04Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I’m sure a lot of Marines would threaten to chew off my balls and fuck me in the ass for making such a statement. I admit, I LOLed. ---
**Author:** ![Skylark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/229 "2008-11-28T06:33:00Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > I don’t know this for a fact, but I get the feeling that _Top Gun_ was gay by accident, while _Jarhead_ was deliberately made to be as close to gay porn as possible without actually being gay porn. _shrug_ They’re Marines. Marines do that type of stuff. Remember the high school football team? It’s kind of like that, just kicked up a notch or ten. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/230 "2008-11-29T01:43:24Z")
_The Rocky Horror Picture Show_? Has that one been mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/231 "2008-11-29T02:38:27Z")
For unintentional oblivious homoeroticism, the winner has to be **Megaforce**. Check out the [skin-tight jumpsuits](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/stardustcowgirl/megaforce6.jpg), [blow-dried hairdoes](http://www.jack-of-all-trades.org/pages/images/megaforce_flyingbike.jpg), and [pastel headbands](http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5MjE0MDg3OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjYyMDQ5._V1._SX218_SY400_.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/232 "2008-11-29T22:09:18Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > For unintentional oblivious homoeroticism, the winner has to be **Megaforce**. Check out the [skin-tight jumpsuits](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/stardustcowgirl/megaforce6.jpg), [blow-dried hairdoes](http://www.jack-of-all-trades.org/pages/images/megaforce_flyingbike.jpg), and [pastel headbands](http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5MjE0MDg3OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjYyMDQ5._V1._SX218_SY400_.jpg). Not to mention the great big RAINBOW COLORED smokescreen at the end of the movie. That’s about as subtle as a 16 pound sledgehammer. A gay sledgehammer. ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/233 "2008-11-29T22:31:53Z")
Ok, this thread has damaged my brain, I see teh gay everywhere now. This is something I found while reading about a totally unrelated subject: [![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bassoon_Prime.jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bassoon_Prime.jpg) I didn’t know the US nuclear program was so gay until now. I think the man at the top is about to mount the device. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/234 "2008-11-29T22:34:07Z")
> [@Henrichek](#): > > Ok, this thread has damaged my brain, I see teh gay everywhere now. This is something I found while reading about a totally unrelated subject: > > [File:Bassoon Prime.jpg - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bassoon_Prime.jpg) > > I didn’t know the US nuclear program was so gay until now. I think the man at the top is about to mount the device. That’s hot. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/235 "2008-11-30T00:25:22Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > **The Passion of the Christ** 🆒 I never got that. What’s homoerotic about a guy being flogged with barbed whips? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/236 "2008-11-30T01:35:08Z")
> [@Henrichek](#): > > Ok, this thread has damaged my brain, I see teh gay everywhere now. This is something I found while reading about a totally unrelated subject: > > [File:Bassoon Prime.jpg - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bassoon_Prime.jpg) > > I didn’t know the US nuclear program was so gay until now. I think the man at the top is about to mount the device. And I thought I had seen big dildos in the past… ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/237 "2008-11-30T02:14:07Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > And I thought I had seen big dildos in the past… This one gives very strong explosive orgasms. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/238 "2008-12-01T04:10:32Z")
> [@Henrichek](#): > > Ok, this thread has damaged my brain, I see teh gay everywhere now. This is something I found while reading about a totally unrelated subject: > > [File:Bassoon Prime.jpg - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bassoon_Prime.jpg) > > I didn’t know the US nuclear program was so gay until now. I think the man at the top is about to mount the device. “Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, they codenamed the damned thing ‘_Bassoon Prime_’ **and** made it look like a giant silver phallus; I believe you can only conclude that the operation had some **major** gay influence…” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/239 "2008-12-01T18:07:27Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > In the books, there was definite homosexuality. Does it count, if the movie just toned down what was blatant and open in the book? Well, no. That is, not in _Interview With the Vampire._ Lestat is already a vampire when Louis meets him, and Rice vampires are entirely sexless – exchanging blood is the nearest they can come to sex in any form. (I’ve been waiting for years for Rice to introduce the fairly obvious scenario of two vamps 69ing on each other’s femoral arteries, but maybe that would be too blatant even for her.) In _The Vampire Lestat,_ there is a strongly implied homosexual relationship between Lestat and another character, but that is before he is vampirized. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/240 "2008-12-01T18:13:43Z")
You’re kidding, right? In Rice books, no one can resist the sexual allure of a precocious, mature, hot 12-year-old, not even vampires. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571/241 "2008-12-01T18:15:46Z")
> [@Henrichek](#): > > This one gives very strong explosive orgasms. “The Earth moved for us all, honey.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-most-homoerotic-movie-ever-made-is/460571.md?page=13)