Best gay scenes
From groundbreaking cinema to binge-worthy TV, the best LGBTQIA+ love scenes have done more than just serve drama and romance—they’ve made history. These moments have pushed past stereotypes and censorship to show love in all its forms: tender, messy, passionate, complicated, and real. Our countdown includes "Edge of Seventeen," "Pariah," "Boy Erased," and more!
What's YOUR more. These coming out scenes are full of pride. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most iconic and. These are the moments that had us on the edge of our seats. SPOILERS AHEAD!!! 1. Fez Beating Up Nate. Talk about a season opener! It was the punch heard around the world. If you didn’t love Fez. We are highlighting the best R-Rated gay movies of all time.
From heart-wrenching dramas to passionate love stories, these films have made significant impacts both within the LGBTQ+ community and in mainstream cinema. Culled from a longlist of hundreds, movies considered for the list prominently feature gay, lesbian, trans, or queer characters; concern itself centrally with LGBTQ+ themes; present its LGBTQ+.
By Jason Adams Film December 31, My original intent had been to write up a list of the hottest general scenes in the movies of So why not take us on all the way? But yes yes blazes et cetera.
Messy power bottom dynamics everywhere! So cut me some slack if I just briefly allude to some thorny things without going full-hog into explications. Ruby Rich writing a new and extensive Queer Cinema Studies textbook here. And also please beware of big spoilers for most of these movies! Titles of the films will link to our reviews. All that said, without further ado…. And then, to drum it all home, a smash-cut to Lou getting smacked into a headboard as Jackie goes down on her something fierce.
This was finally the year when Stewart aggressively embraced her queer icon status, posing in a jockstrap on the cover of Rolling Stone no less—see? Queer —James Bond bringing snowballing mainstream! But who could watch the commingling of selves we witness between these two and not understand how it would haunt a life forever after?
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The Brutalist is actually a surprisingly queer movie! Femme — Babygirl might have grabbed all of the late headlines but nowhere did power dynamics get more tossed about than they did by directors Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping in Femme , which turned the cliched tale of a gay Nathan Stewart-Jarrett falling for their closested gay-basher George Mackay into an opera of monumentally fucked up lust.
This would be the one where the drag queen Jules Stewart-Jarett gets the hyper-masculine Preston Mackay to willingly cede his power in their relationship. Down on his knees. The men fight, naturally, as men do. But nobody gets bashed in the head with a snow-globe Unfaithful hive holla here—no instead both actors who it must be noted have both played gay with great success previously end up on the floor.
And they start leaning in closer and closer, until their foreheads are touching. Which brings me to…. Challengers —Yes, the three-way kiss is the easy answer here. Iconic shit, for sure. Or rather the lack thereof. Not a surprise given the supposed proclivities of writer Bram Stoker and director F. But no other filmmaker has tapped into that angle as successfully as Robert Eggers does in his deliciously perverted adaptation.
But photographer turned first-time filmmaker Luke Gilford proves exceptional at bringing several tensions to a head in the scene where queer rodeo newbie Dylan Charlie Plummer finally gets to lay down with his crush Sky Eve Lindley … AND her jealous boyfriend Pepe Rene Rosado. Hot wins! But my dedication to perversity won out instead imagine that. Which brings me to… Challengers —Yes, the three-way kiss is the easy answer here.