Holy freakin’ crap! Even the name of this picture would raise eyebrows in the deeply closeted fifties. But this scene, ummmm, suuuure, it’s a kiddie picture.
There’s an oiled up bare-chested executioner in a black hood running an elevator in another scene, just to add a little bondage flair.
When I was a teenager, that sort of claim made indignant girls, myself included, annoyed. It was just a nice scene with lots of bare chested men, why does that have to be homo-erotic instead of meant to appeal to female viewers? Now that I’m older and wiser, I know that a lot of women find homo-eroticism hot too (slash, anyone?) so it’s a fine movie choice for straight gals and gay guys both
The skinny-dipping scene from “Road to El Dorado”
The characters sharing a horse in “Road to El Dorado”
Actually, about half the scenes from “Road to El Dorado”
This is merely one of several ultragay scenes in Jarhead, which in my opinion is as close to gay porn as one can get without actually crossing the line.
Herod (Gene Hackman) telling Cort (Russell Crowe) how much he’s always had an itch, a desire, a burning need to fight him in The Quick and the Dead had a homoerotic subtext to me.
Louis (Brad Pitt) and Armand (Antonio Banderas) having a near kiss in Interview With the Vampire also had connotations.
Weren’t those characters gay and one of them was a prostitute? It’s covered as backstory in the book.
I think this gets a pass too because one of the major themes of the movie is how they basically have cabin fever from continual drilling against non-existant enemies and are kept at such a fever pitch with so much charged energy that they are ready to snap at a moment’s notice.
All that being said, I nominate the embrace between Rocky and Apollo in Rocky III.