Movies

 Looking for gay characters or gay subtexts in movies from my childhood and beyond.  For movies that premiered after 2020 (or with n*de photos of the male stars), see RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

Some lists:

The top 16 gay-positive science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal movies, plus two with egregious queerbaiting

The top 18 gay-positive comedy movies: Bill and Ted, Jay and Silent Bob, zombies, pixies, time travelers, and Adam Devine in love


A








Avengers End Game: "I couldn't save her" 38 times

Avengers: Ahhhh! The Horrible, Heteronormative, Offensive, Disgusting, No-Good End of the Marvel Cinematic Universe


B

Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest

Baby Driver: Gay Boy Meets Girl in 1950s/2010s Small Town Atlanta

Barbarella: heterosexual comedy or gay classic?

Beach Movies: The Beefcake

Beefcake Horror: the 1950s

Beefcake Horror: the 1960s

Beefcake Horror: the  1970s

Beerfest: Gay positive guys behaving badly

Bell, Book, and Candle

Ben Hur: A gay tale of Christ

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

The Gay Symbolism of Betty Boop

Big River: Come back to the raft again, Huck Honey

Big Wednesday

 Bigger: Joe Weider's bodybuilding empire

Bill and Ted Face the Music: Most excellent gay inclusivity

Bird Box: One gay character, who dies

Billy Elliot:The Musical.  Breaking out of the gender box

Blackpool: Gay musical comedy murder mystery

Blair Witch: A Gay Guy and Two Hysterical Girls Fight Whatever Evil Lurks in the Maryland Woods

Blazing Saddles

The Blossoming of Maximo Olivares


Blue Velvet: Slow, depressing, homophobic

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bomba the Jungle Boy tied up

Books of Blood: Not much Clive Barker, a lot of beefcake

Born to Fight/The Devil Diamond: Frankie Darro's boyfriend

The Boy Behind the Door: Classic Gay Subtext Couple Kidnapped

Boys in the Trees: My favorite movie of 2019

Brother Sun, Sister Moon: The transcendent flesh

Burn after Reading: or better yet, burn before seeing.

C

Caddyshack: Masculine women, feminine men

Call Me by your Name, or better yet, don't call me

Cannibal Attack: Johnny Weissmuller's last boyfriend

Can't Stop the Music

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: 10 shirtless Bricks

Chicago: Skip the musical, see it on stage

Chicken Chronicles: Steve Guttenberg's physique

Christmas Specials: 5 heterosexist and 5 gay-inclusive

Chuck and Buck: The most homophobic movie since Cruising

A Clockwork Orange: Violence, homophobia, and violation

Cloverfield: Come for the alien invasion, stay for Godzilla. With Vogel backside, Hud junk, and endless misdirection.

The Collegians: Muscle and gay symbolism of the silent era

Come Away: Wonderland Alice and Peter Pan are half in love with easeful death

Come to Daddy: Elijah Wood is Gay for 45 Minutes

 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

The Crazies: A gay free Iowa, as stereotyped

Crazy Rich Asians: The Crazy Ripped Hunks

Criminal Lovers: Heterosexist postmodern fairy tale

CrissCross: Laying it bare in Key West

Cruella: Everybody is Queer in the Iconic Character's Origin Story

Cube (NBC TV Play)

D


Damn Yankees

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

Die Hard: The gay connection

Dog Pound: Unpleasant, violent, homophobic

E-F


The Eagle: When gay subtexts aren't enough

Eaten by Lions: Two British boys bond

Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag, with gay couples

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Enlisted: Gomer Pyle meets MASH, with beefcake

Equus: Gay symbolism, madness, and Harry Potter's willie

The Eternals: the first gay character in a Marvel movie, plus conversations in ancient Babylonian

The Exorcist: 10 gay facts

The Explosive Generation: Billy Gray in love

F*ck It List: How many times can you say WTF? without turning it off

Fantastic Planet

Firesign Theatre: We're all bozos on this bus

Flash Gordon

Fright Night

From Here to Eternity: gay friendship

The Full Monty

G


Gangster's Boy: Jackie Cooper falls in love

Gay Movies I Hated

Gay Movies I Loved

Gay Nerds of the 1980s

Gay Teens of the 1960s

Geography Club: gay and straight high-schoolers

Georgy Girl: Lesbian mother in the swinging 60s

Get Duked: One of the best movies of 2020

Ghoul: The kid from "Modern Family" fights monsters

Godless: A Godforsaken Reduplication of Jigsaw-Puzzle Plotlines About Men in a Town Without Men

The Graduate

Grandmother's House: Gay kid saves the day

Grease 2: the gay connection

Grease Live: Still no gay people at Rydell High

The Great Elephant Escape


H-I


Halloween Tales of beefcake

Hansel and Gretel, Witch-Hunters

Harriet the Spy: Gay and Lesbian kids

Haunting on Fraternity Row

Head: More of the Monkees

Hell Night

Hereditary: A Gay Demon and his Boy Host

Uncle Tom Award #3: High School Musical

Hometown Holiday: A gay subtext where you'd least expect to find one

Horrible Bosses: Homophobia and gay subtexts

How to Eat Fried Worms: They tease you because they like you

I Wanna Hold Your Hand: a boy Beatles fan

If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium

Inner Sanctum: "You'd be perfect for my grandson"

The Innocents: In the south of France, everybody wants everybody

It Happened in Athens: The end of 1950s gay Hollywood

J


 The Gay James Bond

Jay and Silent Bob are Still Alive, Still Life Partners, and Gay-Positive

Jaws and gay romance

Jaws 2: The 3 1/2 gay couples

Jewel in the Crown: Gay British officer in love/hate with India

Johnny Dangerously

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Jules Verne: The Disney Version

 Just Friends: Dutch Rom-Com about RIch/Poor Boys and their Overbearing Mothers


K-L


Karate Kid

Killer Klowns from Outer Space: Gayer than you think

Kilroy Was Queer...um, I mean "Kilroy was here"

The King and I: Bare chests and shaved heads

Kings of Summer: Three boys alone

Knives Out: Stylish whodunit with a gay connection

Knowing: The most heterosexist movie of all time

The Last Picture Show: Small town melodrama with gay subtexts

The Last Wave

Legend: Tom Cruise grins, Tim Curry growls, and everyone is covered with pollen

Legends of the Superheroes: A long-forgotten beefcake fest

Little Vampire 3D: An inch away from an open gay romance

Little Vampire and his bodybuilder pal

Logan's Run

The Lone Ranger: For heterosexuals only 

Lord of the Flies

Lords of Flatbush: Fonzie before "Happy Days"

Lost Boys: Corey Haim's bubble bath

The Lost Medallion: Gay-Positive Actors in a Fundamentalist Movie

Luca: Two gay boys in love, but don't tell Disney/Pixar


M

Mad Max: Beyond Homophobia

The Magic Sword: one of the iconic shirtless scenes of my chldhood

The Magnificent Seven: The remake has a gay couple

Maleficent: A Disney fairy tale that's not heterosexist, for a change

Mamma Mia: Here we go again

 Man-Mountains of the 1980s

Mary Poppins Returns: Mary helps a gay dad

 Meatballs: Bill Murray mentors a gay kid at summer camp

Meetings with Remarkable Men and the meaning of life

Merry Happy Something: Watch it with the family bigot

Miss Peregrine's Home for Children: Straight kids only.

Motorama and the Girl of Your Dreams

Movie Serials: Ten forgotten musclemen

Movies I will never see, or saw and regretted it

Movies, Fall 1983: Tom Cruise's Gay Panic, Lou Ferrigno's Muscles, Christopher Atkins' Frontal, and Robby Benson's Everything

My Fake Boyfriend: Entitled guy in a gay mecca can't find a boyfriend in spite of his huge cock


N-O


The N*ked Ape: Johnny Crawford's first scene showing that.

New York Christmas Wedding: A gay Christmas surprise

Next Friday: Homophobes create an interracial gay romance

The Nice Guys: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, and heterosexism

Night of the Living Dead: 5 gay connections

Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Ninja Kids of the 1990s

North Dallas 40: The gay locker room

Nosferatu: The first gay vampire

Nothing Like Before: Homophobia condemns a gay teen

The Omen

Once Upon a Mattress: The girl named Fred

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Where were you in 1969?

Onward: Animated teen comedy with no bullying or mean girls?

Orange County: Arlo and Chad, gay couple


P-Q


Pajama Game: 1950s beefcake'

The Pale Blue Eye: A Murder Mystery with Edgar Allan Poe and a Cadre of West Point Cadet Hunks

Paranorman: The first gay character in a kids' movie

Pepe Le Pew, the bisexual Looney Tunes skunk

Peter Pan (the Jeremy Sumpter version)

Phantasm

Picnic: Hood takes his shirt off

Picnic: A hundred shirtless Hals

Pinocchio in Outer Space: Gay subtext cartoon classic

Pinocchio: A "real heterosexual boy"

Popeye: Finding a non-traditional family

Psycho: Ten gay facts


R


Raising Arizona: Nicholas Cage bulges, John Goodman is nearly gay, and there's screeching

A Remarkable Tale: Remarkable gay inclusivity

Rim of the World: Missed Opportunity for Gayness

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Rocky Horror Picture Show on Fox

Rocky Horror Picture Show Live

Rocky Horror: A gaggle of Rockies

Rocky Horror: Why do gay men like it

S


Salem's Lot

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom 

Savage Sam and the Disney Adventure Kid

The Secret of Boyne Castle: Kurt Russell, a dreary November night, and the smile that changed the world

Shazam (2019): Top ten hunks

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Martial Arts Hero with Heterosexual Subtext

Shipwrecked: Jens builds a family

Shock Treatment: Romance is not a children's game

Sidekicks: Gay kid meets his crush

 The Silence: What do Barry Van Dyke, boxing, and Jurassic Park have in common?

Snatch: Caper Movie With Two Unintentional Gay Subtexts

The Sound of Music: the gay connection

Southern Baptist Sissies: Gays vs. God, yet again

Spider-Man: Into the Multiverse.  How is this not a coming-out movie?

Spider-Man, the Musical: Bring on the Bulges

Spider-Man, the Performers: More Bulges

Spider-Man: The ten ultimate hunks

Spies in Disguise: Gay subtext buddy comedy with pigeons

Star Wars: the top ten hunks

Star Wars: Were Han Solo and Luke Skywalker boyfriends?

Stealing Sinatra

The Strange Ones: Pedo and his boyfriend may be the same person, or they may be dead

The Suicide Squad :  "I support the LGBT community. So come see my movie about how every guy wants a woman."

The Suicide Squad  2: Two Gay Hints, Two Hunks in their Underwear, and 3,234 Corpses


Super 8: Four boys, a girl, and a monster

Superman: You'll believe a man can fly

Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song: Ten gay surprises

The Summer of '42 and the obsession over proving that all boys are heterosexual

Swiss Army Man: Boy meets corpse

Swiss Family Robinsons

Sword and Sandal movies of the 1960s

Swordsmen and sorcerors of the 1980s

T-V

Tarzan Also-Rans

Modern Tarzans

Teen Beach Movie: Not your grandfather's homoeroticism

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Which was gay?

The Tender Bar: Gay tease hides a homophobic exterior

Terminator: A boy and his robot

Terminator: Dark Fate: Lesbian Triangle, 5 Missed Beefcake Opportunities, and Arnold


The Thirteenth Year

Tim Tyler's Luck: Gay boy and pirate in the jungle 

Time Bandits

Tom and Huck

Tom Brown's School Days

Touch of Pink: Whiny gay guy, freespirited bisexual, and cougar mom

Toy Soldiers: Muscles on parade

Triplets of Belleville: Jazz Age lesbians and the androgynous M

Up the Academy

The Vault: Is Freddie Highmore's character gay?

Vampires vs. the Bronx: Gentrification, vampires, and The Girl

Visit to a Chief's Son: Romance between an American and an African boy

Village of the Giants



W-Z


Walk, Don't Run: Cary Grant's last gay pickup

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane: The gay connection

White Christmas: the gay connection

White Water Summer/Stand by Me

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Willy Wonka and the Torture...um, I mean Chocolate Factory

The Wizard of Oz (movie)

The Wolverine: In a World of Evil, Backstabbing Men and Kind Supportive Women, Who Are You Gonna Date?

Wreck-It Ralph and the loss of gay history

Xanadu: A million lights are dancing

X-Men: Apocalypse

Yo, Adolescente: Do all gay stories have to end with coffins?

Yolngu Boy: Ancestral homoeroticism

Zachariah: Brokeback Mountain for the 1970s

Zack and Miri Make a P*rno

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