Classic Movies

Genres/Themes

60 Movies I will never see, or saw and regretted it

Beach Movies: The Beefcake

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bomba the Jungle Boy Bondage

Christmas Specials: 5 heterosexist and 5 gay-inclusive

David DeCoteau's talking dogs and homoerotic hunks

Gay Movies I Hated

Gay Movies I Loved

Gay Nerds of the 1980s

Jules Verne: The Disney Version

Making a Man of Mimi: Gay Jungle Boys

 Man-Mountains of the 1980s

Movie Serials: Ten forgotten musclemen

Ninja Kids of the 1990s

Peter Pan

Pinocchio: A "real heterosexual boy"

Shaken, not stirred: the gay James Bond

Swiss Family Robinsons

Sword and Sandal

Swordsmen and sorcerors of the 1980s

Tarzan Also-Rans

Adventure/Western/Crime

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

Cannibal Attack: Johnny Weissmuller's last boyfriend

Die Hard: The gay connection

Gangster's Boy: Jackie Cooper falls in love

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

 Jaws and gay romance

Johnny Depp's Lone Ranger: For heterosexuals only 

Karate Kid

Lords of Flatbush: Fonzie before "Happy Days"

Sidekicks: Gay kid meets his crush

Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song: Ten gay surprises

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

Tom and Huck

White Water Summer/Stand by Me

Zachariah: "Brokeback Mountain" for the 1970s

Comedy

Animal House

Auntie Mame: A gay escapade

Beerfest: Gay-positive guys behaving badly

Bell, Book, and Candle

Blazing Saddles

Caddyshack: Masculine women, feminine men

Chicken Chronicles: Steve Guttenberg's physique

Dead Man on Campus: With that scene

Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag, with gay couples

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

Horrible Bosses: Homophobia and gay subtexts

I Wanna Hold Your Hand: a boy Beatles fan

If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium

Johnny Dangerously

 Meatballs: Bill Murray mentors a gay kid at summer camp

Next Friday: Homophobes create an interracial gay romance

Orange County: Arlo and Chad, gay couple

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Which was gay?

Up the Academy

Children/Animation

African Journey: Jason Blicker takes off his shirt, gets a boyfriend

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Sokka loves Zuko

Betty Boop: The gay symbolism of the 1930s flapper

 Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul: Fill your beefcake quota

Fantastic Planet

Harriet the Spy: Gay and Lesbian kids

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

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

 Little Vampire and his bodybuilder pal

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

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

Paranorman: The first gay character in a kids' movie

Pepe Le Pew, the bisexual Looney Tunes skunk

Pinocchio in Outer Space: Gay subtext cartoon classic

Savage Sam and the Disney Adventure Kid

Secret of Boyne Castle: Kurt Russell's secret life

Shipwrecked: Jens builds a family

Thirteenth Year

Triplets of Belleville: Jazz Age lesbians and the androgynous M

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

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

Drama

All About Eve: the gayest movie ever?

Ben Hur: A gay tale of Christ

Big Wednesday

Blackpool: Gay musical comedy murder mystery

Blossoming of Maximo Olivares

Blue Velvet: Slow, depressing, homophobic

Brother Sun, Sister Moon: The transcendent flesh

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

Collegians: Muscle and gay symbolism of the silent era

CrissCross: Laying it bare in Key West

Cube (NBC TV Play)

Dead End

Dog Pound: Unpleasant, violent, homophobic

Explosive Generation: Billy Gray in love

From Here to Eternity: gay friendship

Geography Club: gay and straight high-schoolers

Georgy Girl: Lesbian mother in the swinging 60s

Graduate

Great Elephant Escape

Innocents: In the south of France, everybody wants everybody

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

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

Kings of Summer: Three boys alone

Last Picture Show: Small town melodrama with gay subtexts

Lord of the Flies

Motorama and the Girl of Your Dreams

Nothing Like Before: Homophobia condemns a gay teen

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom 

Separate Peace

Stealing Sinatra

That Boy: My first gay film

Tom Brown's School Days

Toy Soldiers: Muscles on parade

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

Welcome Home, Bobby: Homophobic mess

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Yolngu Boy: Ancestral homoeroticism

Horror

American Werewolf in London

Babysitter

Beefcake Horror:

     Beefcake Horror Movies of the 1950s

      Beefcake Horror Movies of the 1960s

     Beefcake Horror Movies of the  1970s

Crazies: A gay free Iowa, as stereotyped

Criminal Lovers: Heterosexist postmodern fairy tale

Fright Night

Ghoul: The kid from "Modern Family" fights monsters

Grandmother's House: Gay kid saves the day

Hansel and Gretel, Witch-Hunters

Hell Night

Halloween Tales of beefcake

Lost Boys: Corey Haim's bubble bath

Nosferatu: The first gay vampire

Omen

Phantasm

Psycho: Ten gay facts

Salem's Lot

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane: The gay connection

Musical/Theater

Aladdin

Fred, gay liberation, and All That Jazz

Annie Get Your Gun: Beefcake and a gay couple

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

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

Billy Elliot:The Musical

Can't Stop the Music

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: 10 shirtless Bricks

Chicago: Skip the musical, see it on stage

Damn Yankees

Death of Peter Pan: Michael and Rupert fall in love

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

Firesign Theatre: We're all bozos on this bus

First Nudie Musical: 70s stars get naked

Full Monty

Grease 2: the gay connection

Grease Live: Still no gay people at Rydell High

Guys and Dolls: but mostly guys

Searching for beefcake in Hamlet

Head: More of the Monkees

Uncle Tom Award #3: High School Musical

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

The King and I: Bare chests and shaved heads

Kiss Me, Kate:
    Kiss Me, Kate: Ten reasons why it's a gay classic

     Kiss Me, Kate: The updated, gay-ified version

Li'l Abner, the musical: gay anxiety during the Cold War

Mamma Mia: Here we go again

Midsummer Night's Dream

My Fair Lady: A gay couple in Edwardian England

Pajama Game: 1950s beefcake

On the Town

Once Upon a Mattress: The girl named Fred

Picnic: Hood takes his shirt off

 

 Pippin: A gay piece of the sky

Popeye: Finding a non-traditional family

Rocky Horror Picture Show
    Rocky: Fox's Heterosexual Rocky Horror

    Rocky:  Rocky Horror Picture Show Live: New Brads, Janets, and Rockys

     Rocky: Why do gay men like Rocky Horror?

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Shock Treatment: Romance is not a children's game

Sound of Music: the gay connection

South Pacific: A high school musical

Southern Baptist Sissies: Gays vs. God, yet again

Spider-Man, the Musical: Bring on the Bulges

Streetcar Named Desire: 14 shirtless Stanleys

Tarzan: The Stage Musical: Major loincloth-clad hunkage

Teen Beach Movie: Not your grandfather's homoeroticism

Viva Las Vegas: Elvis and Casare Danova find each other

Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike

White Christmas: the gay connection

Wiz: Gay Manhattan in the 70s

Xanadu: A million lights are dancing

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Barbarella

Clockwork Orange

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Eagle, The

Flash Gordon

Giver, The

Knowing: The most heterosexist movie of all time

Last Wave

Logan's Run

The Magic Sword

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Silence, The

Star Wars: Were Han Solo and Luke Skywalker boyfriends?

Star Wars: the top ten hunks

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

Superman: You'll believe a man can fly

Terminator: A boy and his robot

Time Bandits

Village of the Giants

X-Men: Apocalypse