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 

The 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

The Chicken Chronicles: Steve Guttenberg's physique

Dead Man on Campus: With that scene

Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag, with gay couples

The 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

The 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"

 The Little Vampire and his bodybuilder pal

The 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

The Secret of Boyne Castle: Kurt Russell's secret life

Shipwrecked: Jens builds a family

The Thirteenth Year

The 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.

The Collegians: Muscle and gay symbolism of the silent era

CrissCross: Laying it bare in Key West

The Cube (NBC TV Play)

Dead End

Dog Pound: Unpleasant, violent, homophobic

The 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

The Graduate

The Great Elephant Escape

The 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

The 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 

A Separate Peace

Stealing Sinatra

That Boy: My first gay film

Tom Brown's School Days

Toy Soldiers: Muscles on parade

A 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

An American Werewolf in London

The Babysitter

Beefcake Horror:

     Movies of the 1950s

      Movies of the 1960s

     Movies of the  1970s

The 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

The Lost Boys: Corey Haim's bubble bath

Nosferatu: The first gay vampire

The 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

The 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:
     Ten reasons why it's a gay classic

     The updated, gay-ified version

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

Mamma Mia: Here we go again

A Midsummer Night's Dream

My Fair Lady: A gay couple in Edwardian England

The 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

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
     Fox's Heterosexual Rocky Horror

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

      Why do gay men like Rocky Horror?

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Shock Treatment: Romance is not a children's game

The 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

A 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

The Wiz: Gay Manhattan in the 70s

Xanadu: A million lights are dancing

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Barbarella

A Clockwork Orange

Creature from the Black Lagoon

The Eagle

Flash Gordon

The Giver
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Knowing
The Last Wave
Logan's Run
The Magic Sword
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
She
The Silence
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars; Star Wars 2
Super 8
Superman
Terminator
Time Bandits
Twilight
Village of the Giants
X-Men: Apocalypse