lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films (merged)

That's part of what I like about it; it's better than yet another self-absorbed film about lesbian/gay relationships just being great, because it's actually involving. The characters are well-fleshed out (I'm not just talking about the one who isn't Kate Winslet, lol), and if you don't like that, there's some cool special effects.

Personally I prefer movies like that to "gay movies". It's better when you can have a gay character with a personality in a movie with a plot.

 

Hmm, I was just reminded of the movie, "Ma vie en Rose," or, in English - My Life In Pink. It's not about blatantly gay characters, rather a cross-dressing little boy, so it does confront similar issues. It's quite good, anyway.

 

'Ma Vie En Rose' is cute and sweet, and it's innocent. Innocence is almost non-existent among gay films - it's incredibly refreshing to watch a film that isn't part of today's oversexualised culture. I dunno, most of the time if a film is specifically 'gay-themed' it gives me a headache with it's inanity.

 

You get twee idealistic relationship movies or the kind that Deal With Issues, or on the flipside you get stuff like Queer As Folk (not a movie, but you know.) that view everything through a veneer of superficiality that's almost as sickening. I'm sure "straight" movies don't have this problem. Or maybe they do.

I'll bring up "The Doom Generation", described as a homosexual road movie, at this point. There's not a great deal of gayness in it, and it's pretty crap, but meh.

 

The only "gay" movie I've ever really seen is But I'm a Cheerleader. There was this really good flick on sundance about this asian guy and this white guy in SF, and the asian guy needed a wife so he could stay in the states, or something like that. So his parents are there visiting and he's pretending to be strait while his b/f has to deal with it. It was kinda like a drama, pretty good.

 

Oh, anyone see Billy Elliot?
Its about the young British lad who takes up ballet as his passion?
His friend is gay, and as it turns out, he later becomes gay...

I found the whole plot boring, though...

 

How about Sunday Bloody Sunday with Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson?
Anyone see the TV series Tales of The City writen by Amstead Muapin?

 

Oh I forgot , made for TV by Channel 4 but released for cinema, My Beautiful Launderette.Also The Killing Of Sister George. :&

 

Ooh ooh ooh! "Kiss Me Guido"! It's pretty awesome, even though it's essentially just another "ethnic mismatch" thing.

Plot: a gay guy and a Bronx guy end up living together, with hilarious results. Really, it's funnier than you'd think.

 

Camp...was slightly disappionting i thought...but it was pretty good...very culty which i love...and the music (and talent) is awsome...definitely see it.

 

boon stock saints and the birdcage

 

Once Is Not Enough.

 

butterfly kiss has lesbians in it, but it's a sad and fucked up movie. one of my favourites.

 

AND AND AND Tipping the Velvet... which was actually pretty shit but it had a wonderful lot of women in suits in it... *drool* I know there are other girls here who appreciate that. It's worth seeing, just for that bit.

 

The two henchmen in the James Bond Movie , Diamonds Are Forever.
Also the Lion , the tin man and the scarecrow in The Wizzard Of Oz.

 

awesome.

 

Ahhh, I just re-watched Rocky Horror for the first time in years. Damn. I love that film.

My mates are animation students, and sent me disks filled with Japanese Anime. It's been awesome watching 'Revolutionary Girl Utena' - for some reason watching two cartoon girls seemingly falling in love melts my big farmboy heart.

*ahem* Yup.

 

bound - oh, hot. mmmmm...jennifer tilley...
high art - a movie about a skinny lesbian junkie (ally sheedy, the cute spaz from the breakfast club) who seduces a straight girl.

y'know, there really should have been some gay sex in pirates of the carribean. what a disappointment.

 

Boys never cry or something like that. it is THE movie!!! great great great!!!

 

Oliver Stone's "Alkexander" is a fab movie. The bisexual angle is handled with neither nuance nor apology. OS even worked in the fact that Roxanne was jealous of Hephaestion, a fact reproted by few historians of the time.