# Please recommend me gay romantic movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801 "2010-10-29T18:35:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/41 "2010-10-29T21:26:29Z")
It’s not a romantic movie, and in fact it’s drag rather than gay, but I’ll mention it anyway: [GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339071/) It’s a no-budget comedy and is the perfect follow-up to any serious gay movie because, at least to me, it’s hilarious. It will cleanse the palate of a more mainstream movie’s depressing ending if needed. [The trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDtqlM7idM4&feature=related)doesn’t do it justice but I’ll link anyway as it should give you an idea, and the trailer doesn’t have anywhere near the funniest lines or moments. (“Have I had _an_ abortion? Coco I’ve had more kids pulled out of me than a burning orphanage.”) A cute (not great, but has moments) romantic comedy by the same writer is [STRAIGHT JACKET](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367097/). The main character is Guy Stone, a 1950s closeted movie star who falls in love with a blacklisted screenwriter just before he marries a studio picked beard. Very light considering the subject matter- played for laughs more than reality- but still cute. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/42 "2010-10-29T21:41:13Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It’s not a romantic movie, and in fact it’s drag rather than gay, but I’ll mention it anyway: > > [GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339071/) > > It’s a no-budget comedy and is the perfect follow-up to any serious gay movie because, at least to me, it’s hilarious. It will cleanse the palate of a more mainstream movie’s depressing ending if needed. > > [The trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDtqlM7idM4&feature=related)doesn’t do it justice but I’ll link anyway as it should give you an idea, and the trailer doesn’t have anywhere near the funniest lines or moments. (“Have I had _an_ abortion? Coco I’ve had more kids pulled out of me than a burning orphanage.”) I considered GWBG when I mentioned _Trick_, because Miss Coco Peru reminded me, but I demurred because it really does take a certain sensibility to enjoy. It’s definitely not an “out of the box” movie…it’s hilarious, but it’s HIGH (it’s over-the-top of over-the-top) camp and extremely tasteless. I mean, I loved it, but I don’t know **mika** well enough to know if she’d like it. Try it, though, if you enjoy camp. And if you do, there is a whole OTHER bunch of movies we can recommend you. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/43 "2010-10-29T21:52:01Z")
> [@sachertorte](#): > > I saw “Eating Out” recently and thought it was fun. It’s a good move, but be warned the quality goes downhill in each of the sequels (on the plus side the nudity get’s even more gratuitous ;)). Oh, and for anybody who liked **Girls Will Be Girls** there was a series of internet shorts that followed where the movie left off. [The Jizz Party](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0p6yKQpzgU), [Delivering Coco I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE6QFxiLO_A&feature=mfu_in_order&playnext=1&videos=GGQ5tLtRedA), [Delivering Coco II](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPUDjpIjR7M&feature=related), [Girl Stalk I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Wmz9cr6Yk&feature=related), and [Girl Stalk II](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnAhVHMSZCY&feature=related). There’s also [Christmas Evie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntanWE43FS0&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/44 "2010-10-29T22:57:31Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Adam and Steve God, that was awful. Fucking Amal was a lovely film. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/45 "2010-10-29T23:20:11Z")
How about [Bound](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_%28film%29)? A slightly more serious suggestion (with hot Asian action) would be [My Beautiful Laundrette](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Beautiful_Laundrette). ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/46 "2010-10-29T23:39:52Z")
If lesbian is ok, you might want to try _Imagine Me and You_. Woman meets cute with another on her wedding day and their friendship turns into a mutual infatuation. It’s got Piper Perabo (hot!), Lena Headey (hotter!), Matthew Goode (charming!) and Anthony Head (Giles!). ---
**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:** [October 30, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/47 "2010-10-30T00:36:53Z")
I’ve not seen it yet (on my film queue) but[Grand École](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_%C3%89cole_(film)) sounds promising. ---
**Author:** ![NJ\_Kef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/258eb7/32.png) [@NJ\_Kef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJ_Kef)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/48 "2010-10-30T01:31:53Z")
\*[Noah’s Arc](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Arc_(TV_series)) [Trick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_(film))\* ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/49 "2010-10-30T01:57:09Z")
One film i really like is a relatively unknown Australian film with a very well-known actor in the lead role. The movie is [The Sum of Us](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111309/), and stars Russell Crowe as a young gay man living with his widowed father in Sydney. It’s about the relationship between father and son, as well as about the relationships they each pursue for themselves. It was very well received in Australia, but never got a whole lot of attention elsewhere. Jack Thompson (from _Breaker Morant_ and many other Australian films) is great as the father. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/50 "2010-10-30T02:28:14Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Lesbian might be OK, but “teen” is most definitely not. Ick. 🙂 Only sort of teen but a really good movie: _But I’m a Cheerleader_. Natasha Lyonne is Megan, a high school cheerleader who everyone thinks is gay. She keeps denying it. Her family is unconvinced and eventually send her to a camp that “deprograms” gay teens. When she gets there she meets Graham (played by Clea DuVall) who is an openly gay teenager also sent to be deprogramed. Megan hands out with Graham, they become friends, and then Megan realizes she’s fallen in love with Graham and is, in fact, gay like everyone always told her she was. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/51 "2010-10-30T03:23:32Z")
I have to mention this film that probably no one else here has ever seen or heard of, but I think is just really cute and fun, [Broadway Damage](http://www.amazon.com/Broadway-Damage-Mara-Hobel/dp/B00002SWE3/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1288408629&sr=8-1). (One of the stars is a friend of mine which is the only reason I know of it.) It’s a light romantic comedy about two gay best friends looking for love in 1990s Greenwich Village. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/52 "2010-10-30T04:19:18Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > And it has (gay!) Tim Daly and (gay!) Patrick Stewart! Bryan Batt, not Tim Daly. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/53 "2010-10-30T04:33:36Z")
> [@Crawlspace](#): > > Do you mean The Broken Hearts Club with John Mahoney, cause I’d second that. > > I’ll also second Sampiro’s recommendation of **Latter Days** for pretty much the same reasons. Yes, that’s it. I did say I was guessing at the titles. Thanks for the correction. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/54 "2010-10-30T09:42:05Z")
I’d say “A home at the end of the world” is really good, but it has AIDS in it. Not in an oppressive way, and it’s definitely funny, but it ends on a serious downer. Colin Farrell gay kissing, yum. ---
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/55 "2010-10-30T10:01:38Z")
Top Gun ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/56 "2010-10-30T11:36:33Z")
[Hedwig and the Angry Inch](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248845/) is kinda transexual and gay; the lead undergoes a sex change, but it’s not the usual ‘I was always a woman inside’ situation. It is also a bloody hilarious movie. [Better than Chocolate](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168987/) has cute lesbian romantic leads but, as if often the case, it’s the secondary characters who really make the film worth watching, and some of them are gay men. Very fun romcom. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/57 "2010-10-30T14:26:51Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Bryan Batt, not Tim Daly. I wasn’t trying to name Stewart’s lover, though. I was just reciting the more famous names. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/58 "2010-10-30T18:09:55Z")
[Wilby Wonderful](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilby_Wonderful) is an ensemble film, not a romance, and there’s definitely some sad parts. On the plus side, the two gay men characters who form a relationship are attractive (especially since one is Callum Keith Rennie, mmm), the ending is wonderful, and it’s full of great Canadian actors. So… it might not be what you’re looking for, but I’d recommend watching it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/59 "2010-10-30T18:24:13Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I wasn’t trying to name Stewart’s lover, though. I was just reciting the more famous names. I didn’t think Tim Daly was in it. Who did he play? ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801/60 "2010-10-30T18:44:28Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > I’d say “A home at the end of the world” is really good, but it has AIDS in it. Not in an oppressive way, and it’s definitely funny, but it ends on a serious downer. Colin Farrell gay kissing, yum. Yes! I forgot about this movie. It is really quite good. I was also able to get a hold of [Shelter](http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Shelter/70095312?strackid=1e6750021465acc6_0_srl&strkid=388896558_0_0&trkid=222336#height712) last night and have to second the suggestion. What could have been a cliche coming out/coming of age story works really well because the acting and directing are perfectly understated. And since there seems to be a shift towards mentioning lesbian romantic movies, I’d be remiss to not mention [Kissing Jessica Stein](http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Kissing-Jessica-Stein/60022703?strackid=4185f11c541f5d3b_0_srl&strkid=1998092056_0_0&trkid=222336#height1963). It’s a very cute and heartwarming story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-me-gay-romantic-movies/558801.md?page=4)