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

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As Donald O'Connor told us, "All the world wants to laugh."  There's plenty of gloom and sadness in real life; why would I want to watch it for two hours on a movie screen?  The trick is to find a comedy movie with beefcake, minimal hetero-romance, and gay characters who are not offensive stereotypes.  Heck, I'll even take gay subtexts. 

These are my 18 favorite movies with gay characters or subtexts, at least those that I've reviewed here or on the G-rated site. 

Only from 2016-2026.  If I went earlier, the list would include: After Hours, Auntie Mame, On the Town,  Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Some Like It Hot, To Wong Foo, Victor/Victoria...

Get Duked (2016): An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy about four city boys lost in the woods, being chased by a paranormal entity or a crazed tourist.  Two of them fall in love.

 Why Him?  (2016). Conservative dad meets his daughter's eccentric fiance.  Meanwhile Adam Devine and Griffin Gluck have a gay subtext romance that's off the charts.

Game Over, Man (2018). Gay gangsters, the Workaholics guys, and five minutes of Adam Devine's divine d*ck.  What's not to like?

 

Crazy Rich Asians (2018). A soap opera involving crazy rich Asians, with beefcake, a gay stereotype, and some gay subtexts.

The Dead Don't Die (2019): Zombie Apocalypse in a small town, played mostly for laughs, with some gay subtexs.  And when you search for it online, you get Josh O'Connor's junk.

 

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019).  Jay (right) and Silent Bob, the heterosexual life partners from the View Askew Universe have settled down and...become gay positive.  This is a precursor to the guys chaperoning Ozzie on his first date on That Nineties Show

Bill and Ted Face the Music (2020).  The most excellent Bill and Ted return, in a canonical four-way romance, with a nonbinary child and no homophobia.

Spies in Disguise (2020).  Animated feature with Will Smith and Tom Holland as gay-subtext buddy spies.  Also there are penguins.

Pixie (2021)   Gangster's daughter is forced to flee across the Irish countryside with a gay subtext couple, Ben Hardy and Daryl McCormack.  They give us the rarest of queer codes, staying together at fade-out rather than going their separate ways or getting girlfriends.   Pixie flies off to art school, and the guys ask "Where shall we go now?"

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"The Borough": A spider-monster, Stepford smiles, and elderly hunks in a desert retirement community. With Begley bottom and silver fox c*ck

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Who can resist an old guy?  A silver fox, 50 or 60 or 70, with the tight toned body that comes from spending every day at the gym, decades of experience in putting things in all the right places, and a huge disposable income  ("I'm going to China next week.  Want me to bring you anything?" ) . So I'm looking forward to The Boroughs, a new Netflix series about paranormal shenanigans in a creepy retirement community.  There will probably be an elderly gay couple hanging around, and there will certainly be a lot of elderly beefcake.  

Scene 1: A creepy cul-de-sac of ranch-style houses, surrounded by desert, with a mountain in the background.  We zoom into one, where an elderly lady (Dee Wallace of The Stepford Wives) is eating a tv  dinner and watching Jeopardy.  She facetimes her husband Edward  (Ed Begley Jr.) at the Manor.  He wants to come home, but she won't permit it.  He says "The owls are in the walls."  

Ed Begley Jr. played the physics professor mentor on Young Sheldon, starring gay actor Iain Armitage. 

She falls asleep watching The Golden Girls.  Suddenly the tv turns itself off, and scary tentacles creep down the walls. A monster attacks!  And I thought Edward at the Manor was facing paranormal.

Scene 2: A lady and her husband Neill (Rafael Casal) drive

through the badlands.  In the back seat, we see her elderly dad, teenage daughter, and early teen son Cody.

Left: Eldon Jones (Cody) at Albuquerque Pride. Notice the rainbow flag and beads.  As you read the rest of the review, return to this photo as often as you need to.  While writing, I returned to it a lot.

 They arrive at a guard house in the middle of the desert, with nothing around, and tell the guard that grandpa, Sam Cooper, is moving in today.

"Welcome to the Boroughs,, where you'll have the time of your life."

Grandpa (flatly): "Ironic slogan for a place people come to die."

They cross the town square, full of grinning oldsters, and on to the isolated cul-de-sac.  Movers are already putting his furniture in, plus whatever was left behind by the last resident -- the lady who was eaten.  Her husband is still in an assisted care facility.

Their AI assistant, Seraphim, asks "What can I do to make your day more enjoyable?"  Grandpa isn't having it; he pulls the darn device out of the wall.  Back Story: His wife wanted to move to the Boroughs, but she recently died, and he doesn't want to be in a square coffin by himself. 

Daughter suggests that if he really hates it there, he could come live with them.  No, their place is too small.  Besides, he sunk all of his money into this retirement community, and signed a contract.  He's stuck.

Grandpa is played by Alfred Molina, the murdered boyfriend of playrwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987).  

Scene 3: As Grandpa unpacks, he sees a commercial featuring the CEO of the community.  Maybe if he asks nicely -- or angrily -- the guy in charge could release him from his contract and return some of his money.

Next door neighbor Jack drops by with a "welcome wagon" six-pack of beer. He starts spewing about his golf game, sleep apnea, "touch of the gout," and difficulty  maintaining his goal of entertaining ladies every night. Girls, girls, girls!  Heterosexual identity established at Minute 13.  Finally he invites Grandpa to a neighborhood barbecue.  "No thanks, I hate barbecues.  And people.  And...well, just about everything."

Left: Jack is played by Bill Pullman, known for his underwear scene (and torture) in The Serpent and the Rainbow

Scene 4: Grandpa awakens in bed with his wife (Jane Kaczmarek).  I thought she was dead?  They hug, kiss, close-up hold hands (so you can see their wedding rings), and discuss their plans for the day (gender polarized shopping/working on the car).   It goes on and on, and becomes more and more soppy-maudlin.  Is this a dream, or is an evil succubus trying to control him?

Jane Kaczmarek played the Mom on "Malcolm in the Middle" and the 2026 sequel "Life's Still Unfair," which has gay and nonbinary characters.

It was a dream: Grandpa awakens to revving - the Girl Next Door (Geena Davis) trying to get her car started. 

The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media sponsors research on female and LGBTQ representation.

  

There's also an old guy doing tai chi, which disgusts Grandpa.  You basically hate everyone, don't you?  Oh, wait, you already told us that.

Scene 5: Tai Chi Guy (Clarke Peters) goes into the house, where his wife (Alfre Woodard)  has intel on the new guy.    So, is she in charge of the nefarious plot?  No, she's just a retired reporter, passing the time with social media stalking.   I'd better get some nefarious plot soon, or I'm leaving.  

Grandpa goes to the company headquarters, a huge building with a giant atrium.  Apparently this community is much more extensive than the isolated cul-de-sac we've seen so far.  The receptionist tells him that the CEO is out today.  

Suddenly he flashes back, or has a new memory, of yelling at his wife for picking up the wrong kind of onions.  She calms him down, they dance, things get sickening, with lots of smooching and fast-forwarding -- and suddenly he's back at headquarters.  He wonders if he's going crazy.

Scene 6: Two security guards, Hank and Paz (Eric Edelstein, Carlos Miranda), are sent to the Community Center, where the Girl Next Door is teaching an art class.  She complains that a bag of rose quartz has been stolen, but they don't want to report it.  Head Guard Hank warns that if she insists, they'll claim that she's losing her memory, and should be sent to the dreaded Manor.  

Scene 7: That night, Grandpa falls asleep on the couch watching an old movie.  In the morning, he's awakened by the revving of the Girl Next Door's car.  He fixes it for her, but won't say "You're welcome" in exchange for her "Thank you."  So she yells at him.

Back in the house, he finds Edward, from Scene 1 (the one whose wife was eaten).  He yells that the owl is in the wall, blames Grandpa for taking away his wife, and attacks.  After subduing him, Grandpa wants to call the police, but the security guards explain that this is unconsolidated territory, with just a sheriff, so for most things they depend on security.  And the CEO wants to talk to him.

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Carson Gay: Lavender-coded actor/model looks pretty, works leather, posts guy-hugging photos. Then it's time for the senior prom...

 

I was drawn to this guy on the teen idols website mostly because his name is Carson Gay.  Really.  It's the last name of his dad and mom.   Imagine the homophobic harassment he has faced since kindergarten, and the guts it took to not change it for the stage!  It will be very difficult to research whether he is gay in real life, but I'm up to the challenge.

Ulp -- there are several Carson Gays with Instagram, Twitter/X, and TikTok accounts, but he's not among them.  I'll have to make do with his acting resume and Facebook page:

2003

Carson is born in May 2003, of Moroccan-Hawaiian heritage, and adopted by the Gay family, a police officer and a professional mahjong instructor.

2012

The family moves temporarily to Marbella, Spain.  Carson goes to a fashion show, and decides that he would like to become a model. 

2013

The family moved back to Savannah.  Carson takes acting classes at First City Films, models for LL Bean, and appears in local commercials.

Left: Carson and his Dad in the pool.

His film debut comes in Valentine's Day, aka February: a four-minute video about three friends searching for Valentine's Day dates.  Carson has an uncredited role as a student. 

2014

To promote his modeling career, Carson's parents take him on a designer shopping trip to Alexander McQueen, the luxury fashion house in London.  Your parents are loaded, buddy.  Policing and mahjong instruction must pay well.

He stars in Towel Man, a Savannah 48 Hour Film: a boy recovering from an injury (Carson) meets a real-life superhero (Joseph Lavender).

Gay...McQueen...Lavender.  The kid is really pushing up the queer-coded names.

2015

Carson continues modeling.  He walks at the Charleston Kids' Fashion Show.

He stars in the short Sea Odyssey, about a dying boy, appears in an episode of local tv series Catawampus, and has an uncredited role as a gym student in Killing Winston Jones:  A junior high teacher (John Heder) wants the new gym named after his father, who is unfortunately still alive.  

In the summer, Carson announces that he has a higher rating on Teen Idols 4 You than Daniel Radcliffe.  Must be from his modeling.

2016

Carson has a busy year:

An episode of the sketch comedy show Pypo (Put Your Pretty On).

So the guy likes to look pretty?

A walk-on role in Vanished, a Christian movie about the Rapture

The short Zaw, about kids summoning a monster during a truth-or-dare game

The short Tybee (not released until 2018), about a boy (Noah Lomax) searching for the ghost of his father.  Carson plays his buddy.  The two become friends off-camera.

Mom announces that Carson won the starring role of "Jimmy Stevenson" in Ortega River Rats, a Goonies knock-off, but that part went to Cooper Chapman. 

2017

Carson goes to Disney World and the Florida Yacht Club with this long-haired dude.  A boyfriend, maybe?

He announces that he won the role of Xavier in Passageway to Hell, but that role went to John Charles Dickson. 

Apparently his acting career is not going well; he will have only one more role listed on the IMDB.  But not to worry, he has other talents, like football.  He plays in the Diamond Youth All American Bowl Game in Virginia Beach, and attends  a football summer camp.  

2018

More modeling.  Carson posts this photo wearing Doug Ordway leather pants.  He writes: "Working the leather."  Aren't you a little young for leather bars?

For his 15th birthday, Carson has lunch (with pie) and his first massage, and hangs out with a dude.  So, did you request a male or female masseur?

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Lincoln Younes: The "Caught" big guy plays troubled teens, a boxer, a surfer, and a sleuth, but are any of them gay? Or gay-positive?

  

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Everybody's seen that scene from Caught, the Australian comedy where four guys are captured by the baddies and tied up en evocative poses. 

It's obviously homophobic, meant to humiliate them by emulating gay stuff ("I'd rather die than touch his junk!")  

 I wanted to see if the owner of the enormous d*ck, Lincoln Younes, has redeemed himself by starring in anything gay positive.

The Lebanese-Australian actor was born in Sydney in 1992, and grew up in Bendigo, Victoria, about two hours from Melbourne.  He was originally planning to become a professional soccer player, but after playing Peter Pan in the Global Rock Eisteddfod Challenge in Japan in 2006, he realized that he preferred acting, and enrolled in a weekend course, "A Young Actors Studio."  

While still in secondary school, he appeared in City Homicide, Locker, The Wedding Party, and 22 episodes of the soap Tangle as troubled teen Romeo Kovac (a role which got him an ASTRA Award)

Lincoln started college at the University of Melbourne, but dropped out after six months to join the soap Home and Away as Casey:  a member of the River Boys gang, along with his brothers Brax and Heath (Steve Peacock, Dan Ewing).  The epitome of teen angst" stayed for 578 episodes (2011-14) and five girlfriends.

Dan Ewing's bottom is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

Home and Away has had very few queer characters during its 38 year run, and they are always very short lived, yanked due to  protests from homophobic Australians.  Funny, I always thought that Australia was more gay-friendly than the U.S.

Lincoln's next significant project was Grand Hotel (2020), a tv series set in a Miami Beach resort.He plays Danny Garibaldi, a "handsome and charming" young man who takes a job at the hotel to find out what happened to his missing sister. And gets a girlfriend.  And apparently takes up boxing.

Left: Lincoln with Shalim Ortiz, who plays the hotel manager.  He's gay, but I don't think he dates Danny.  

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