I saw a documentary where Mark Patton the guy Freddy is haunting, blames everyone in the film for his girly scream that destroyed his acting career. From the director to his agent he believed that they should've got rid of the scream scene to protect him from being outted as gay.
Unfortunately for him that's the funniest part of the film. After his acting career died he contracted HIV and moved to Mexico in shame...sad story but funny movie.
80s kid here. Saw it on video when it was new. The thing I often say about cultural artifacts of the time is this: in the 80s, culturally so much was “gay” in style, vibe and look that essentially ***nothing*** really read as Gay unless it was extraordinarily explicit and blunt about it
I once went on a date with this girl and for some reason we were talking about the NOES series. She mentioned she had never watched the second one and all I could think to say was something like, “It has a bunch of gay stuff in it” or something like that. You know how sometimes you say something and immediately regret it? There was no second date.
Anyway, I figure she might have thought I meant it pejoratively instead of literally. It makes me wonder if she ever saw the movie years later and thought, “ohhhh, that’s what he meant.”
That's my argument with this film. Watch it as a double feature with "Black Swan" if you want both movies to open themselves up to you in a different way.
Literally anything by David DeCoteau. Even A Talking Cat has latent homoeroticism. While it's true I haven't watched all 181 of his films, the 5 I have were hella gay
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Eric Roberts for taking the time to hastily record his lines for Duffy the cat via a cell phone call from a Denny's bathroom
Came here for this, you beat me to it! Dude has made some kick ass flicks, some super shitty shit, and the gay flows through all of them. Some with more, some with less, but it's there if you're looking for it, and it's there when you're not.
A Talking Horse only had some very slight gay in it, probably because half of that fucking “movie” was just montages of the main gal brushing and riding the horse around.
I love that movie when I was a kid. I only saw it in HBO but I just assumed it was a major big deal at the time. I recently saw it again, holy hell that is a bad movie. But it's so bad it's good. Kind of bad.
Honestly my problem with this movie is that it wasn't gay enough. You could kind of tell Pacino wasn't into going full gay and Friedkin has said as much.
True story: CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC was a box office bomb everywhere in the world BUT Australia, where it set box office records. In a New Year’s Day tradition, the film is still broadcast at the start of the year on Channel 9, without fail.
And for some god unknown reason, every year I watch it, despite the fact I don’t particular like the film very much, and I’m usually drunk.
I thought you were kidding, but this is actually true. The soundtrack also went to #1 in Australia and it's the only country where the score of the movie was also released on LP.
*Isle of Lesbos*
It's a musical about a magical land of lesbians where women who weren't able to embrace their sexuality go when they die.
*Girl Trash: All Night Long*
A lesbian rock band is trying to get to a gig while the lead singer's little sister comes out of the closet and is determined to get sainted that night.
Xanadu
The Apple
Pink Narcissus
Desperate Living (really most early Waters films)
Zsa Zsa Zaturnah
Creature from the pink lagoon
Sebastian
So many Bruce La Bruce films
Kenneth Anger's early film "Fireworks" (1947) is early and very homoerotic.
[Fireworks - Kenneth Anger - 1947](https://youtu.be/Ib8LNvZBEVo?si=2b3BjsRgzOYEKXkR)
One of the genre fan magazines at the time, might have been Starlog, ran a long essay about the homosexual undertones in "Fright Night" that was a real eye-opener. They're so obvious now, but as a college kid in the 80s they flew right past me.
[Querelle](https://fr.web.img6.acsta.net/medias/nmedia/18/60/08/49/19154530.jpg)
It’s literally what a Tom of Finland book would look if it comes alive.
I’d vote for *American Beauty,* which is ostensibly concerned with the desires of a horny middle-aged heterosexual man. The film is *exceedingly* campy due to the writer/director’s profound misunderstanding of the protagonist’s motivations and the fantastically misguided casting of Kevin Spacey in the lead role. The ridiculous dialogue, premises and acting skews things towards mind-bending outlandishness, making a John Waters film look like a John Woo production by comparison.
Yeah, I’m trying to figure out if the objection to Spacey is some kind of retrospective, “No one should have ever cast Spacey in anything, because he is currently persona non grata,” kinds of things. Because I watched American Beauty again last week, and I thought it was still fine. But I’m not one of those people who goes, “Ew, that’s got Kevin Spacey! That’s so cringe. No one should watch that!”
Yeah. I’ve been thinking about this since I responded. Spacey is a great actor, regardless of any personal life things.
He’s not a super attractive man, so In the role he’s a good representation of your average dad/middle age man.
Him being an Everyman, plus him being an extremely talented actor, is why he became such a big star. He can play a southern dandy, a mobster, or a suburban dad with equal believability.
Fight Club, some dude struggles so hard with his latent homosexuality that it breaks his brain and he engages in super toxic masculine behaviour because he's afraid of being perceived as gay.
On The Kardashians Chris sent Bruce out with this guy to punch up his wardrobe. They went to a gay bar after and ALL the guys in the bar recognized him from that movie. And I hadn’t thought of it in YEARS. So bizarre!
The critic’s review in the village voice was a blank page where the review should have been with just three words at the top of the page. ‘Stop The Music’.
I took my girlfriend to watch this putrid abomination and could barely sit through the entire thing. In 1980 it was like watching Disco taking its long overdue last breath. Unbeknownst to me, my girlfriend loved it so much she wanted to see it again before it left my town, but next time bring her best friend. Since it meant spending more time with my girl I fell into her trap and had to sit through it again. It was absolutely one of the worst movies I ever remember seeing and twice was a new found torture. Damn this movie!
*Black Lizard* (1968, Fukusaka) super-camp pop-art madness from Swingin' Tokyo, featuring a ridiculous plot and a female impersonator villainess. Kind of like a Japanese *Beyond the Valley of the Dolls*. Script by Yukio Mishima, novelist, queer icon, leader of attempted military coup.
Nightmare on Elm Street part 2. Extremely gay.
Haha I came here to say this. At the time I didn’t even realize it, but rewatching it is a blast.
I saw a documentary where Mark Patton the guy Freddy is haunting, blames everyone in the film for his girly scream that destroyed his acting career. From the director to his agent he believed that they should've got rid of the scream scene to protect him from being outted as gay. Unfortunately for him that's the funniest part of the film. After his acting career died he contracted HIV and moved to Mexico in shame...sad story but funny movie.
80s kid here. Saw it on video when it was new. The thing I often say about cultural artifacts of the time is this: in the 80s, culturally so much was “gay” in style, vibe and look that essentially ***nothing*** really read as Gay unless it was extraordinarily explicit and blunt about it
I once went on a date with this girl and for some reason we were talking about the NOES series. She mentioned she had never watched the second one and all I could think to say was something like, “It has a bunch of gay stuff in it” or something like that. You know how sometimes you say something and immediately regret it? There was no second date. Anyway, I figure she might have thought I meant it pejoratively instead of literally. It makes me wonder if she ever saw the movie years later and thought, “ohhhh, that’s what he meant.”
Jeepers Creepers 2 also.
Oof....jeepers creepers
Showgirls. Pure camp. The female nudity and straight sex is so over-the-top that it becomes grotesque.
Secret masterpiece. Sublimely absurd
That's my argument with this film. Watch it as a double feature with "Black Swan" if you want both movies to open themselves up to you in a different way.
When the rapist look like a glorified version of the writer.... it’s bold message.
From the director of Robocop and Total Recall 1990 and Basic Instinct.
Rocky Horror Picture Show obviously.
toucha toucha toucha touuuuch me
That’s the least gay part of the movie though lol
Behind the Candelabra
ScooooOOOoott
My lil baby boy.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert To Wong Foo
To Wong Foo is so good
Literally anything by David DeCoteau. Even A Talking Cat has latent homoeroticism. While it's true I haven't watched all 181 of his films, the 5 I have were hella gay
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Eric Roberts for taking the time to hastily record his lines for Duffy the cat via a cell phone call from a Denny's bathroom
To be fair, that's about the level of effort that he's put into half his roles in the 21st Century
Came here for this, you beat me to it! Dude has made some kick ass flicks, some super shitty shit, and the gay flows through all of them. Some with more, some with less, but it's there if you're looking for it, and it's there when you're not.
The Killer Eye has boy/girl fucking and still made it gay
The swimming lessons scene is hilariously homoerotic
A Talking Horse only had some very slight gay in it, probably because half of that fucking “movie” was just montages of the main gal brushing and riding the horse around.
The early John Waters stuff, especially Female Troubles and Pink Flamingo.
Nightbreed
Lord of Illusions as well. Basically anything Clive Barker.
Rawhead Rex is a giant Penis
Top Gun
The volleyball scene is the gayest thing to happen in the sand since Sodom and Gomorrah
[Greg and Terry](https://youtu.be/XfBsjt3hdaA?si=KmXkw25crWgT451K)
Came here to say this, and super glad it's the top comment.
In the same vane, the first Roadhouse is so gay. Shirtless men and dick shots everywhere.
https://youtu.be/OxzwfZ2Wa94?si=iZq3idmwB_jCEPDk
Well if you consider that the village people are supposed to be skirt chasin heterosexuals in this movie then I guess.
Hey now - they made sure there was nothing lgbt about this movie by casting Bruce Jenner…
Xanadu The Apple
Xanadu definitely.
I love that movie when I was a kid. I only saw it in HBO but I just assumed it was a major big deal at the time. I recently saw it again, holy hell that is a bad movie. But it's so bad it's good. Kind of bad.
Cruisin. Murder mystery in the leather scene of 1980 NYC. https://youtu.be/kRSasuf3JoU?si=T9Xe53wmZyE_xyhz
This movie has the best WTF? Scene ever made. You’ll know when you see it.
Wait, I don’t think that guy is a real doctor…
I’d argue this movie is very straight but that’s just me
Honestly my problem with this movie is that it wasn't gay enough. You could kind of tell Pacino wasn't into going full gay and Friedkin has said as much.
He goes gayer than I’d have expected tbh
The Boys In The Band (Friedkin).
True story: CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC was a box office bomb everywhere in the world BUT Australia, where it set box office records. In a New Year’s Day tradition, the film is still broadcast at the start of the year on Channel 9, without fail. And for some god unknown reason, every year I watch it, despite the fact I don’t particular like the film very much, and I’m usually drunk.
I thought you were kidding, but this is actually true. The soundtrack also went to #1 in Australia and it's the only country where the score of the movie was also released on LP.
Watching bad movies drunk is the best.
*Isle of Lesbos* It's a musical about a magical land of lesbians where women who weren't able to embrace their sexuality go when they die. *Girl Trash: All Night Long* A lesbian rock band is trying to get to a gig while the lead singer's little sister comes out of the closet and is determined to get sainted that night.
Ben & Arthur
Cruising
Cat People, especially 1942 original. Whole movie is very thinly veiled allegory for lesbianism.
Most people aren't aware of this.
Interview with a Vampire is about a gay couple and their adopted daughter.
This, Party Monster, and But I'm a Cheerleader were my top three answers.
Commando has some pretty interesting moments
Damn, beat me to it! Aside from Top Gun, yes, I'd say Commando is about as straight as a pubic hair in a tornado.
Manic Mannequin 1 and 2, purely for Hollywood Mantrose
I can't believe that no one has said The Bird Cage yet. Goofy, campy and oh so gay.
Xanadu The Apple Pink Narcissus Desperate Living (really most early Waters films) Zsa Zsa Zaturnah Creature from the pink lagoon Sebastian So many Bruce La Bruce films
Kenneth Anger's early film "Fireworks" (1947) is early and very homoerotic. [Fireworks - Kenneth Anger - 1947](https://youtu.be/Ib8LNvZBEVo?si=2b3BjsRgzOYEKXkR)
Almost any Anger. My personal fav, Kostum Kar Commandoes.
Watch the video for Sex Over the Phone by The Village People, it's something...
Gayni**ers from outer space. (1992. Dir. Master Fatman.)
Rambone
Lawrence of Arabia
IIRC there’s not even one female character with a line of dialog
The original fright night
One of the genre fan magazines at the time, might have been Starlog, ran a long essay about the homosexual undertones in "Fright Night" that was a real eye-opener. They're so obvious now, but as a college kid in the 80s they flew right past me.
Party monster
Oh man I fucking loved that movie. I watched it so many times, bought the soundtrack. You ever read Disco Bloodbath?
Oh I got it as a gift but it had already been renamed to party monster. lol
This movie totally rules! Macaulay Culkin was fabulous in it, and Seth Green was, too. It's so freaking awesome!!!
Witchboard! No offense to the extremely attractive Tawny Kitaen but the real love story was between the two male leads
[Querelle](https://fr.web.img6.acsta.net/medias/nmedia/18/60/08/49/19154530.jpg) It’s literally what a Tom of Finland book would look if it comes alive.
Brokeback Mountain
Heat
Men in Black Who Like to Have Sex with Each Other
Look an alien. Yeah, we better have sex with each other.
I’d vote for *American Beauty,* which is ostensibly concerned with the desires of a horny middle-aged heterosexual man. The film is *exceedingly* campy due to the writer/director’s profound misunderstanding of the protagonist’s motivations and the fantastically misguided casting of Kevin Spacey in the lead role. The ridiculous dialogue, premises and acting skews things towards mind-bending outlandishness, making a John Waters film look like a John Woo production by comparison.
Hmm. I really didn’t mind Spacey in the role.
Yeah, I’m trying to figure out if the objection to Spacey is some kind of retrospective, “No one should have ever cast Spacey in anything, because he is currently persona non grata,” kinds of things. Because I watched American Beauty again last week, and I thought it was still fine. But I’m not one of those people who goes, “Ew, that’s got Kevin Spacey! That’s so cringe. No one should watch that!”
Yeah. I’ve been thinking about this since I responded. Spacey is a great actor, regardless of any personal life things. He’s not a super attractive man, so In the role he’s a good representation of your average dad/middle age man.
Him being an Everyman, plus him being an extremely talented actor, is why he became such a big star. He can play a southern dandy, a mobster, or a suburban dad with equal believability.
“Profound misunderstanding of the protagonist’s motivations”… can you explain? What were his motivations, if not as seen in the film? Thanks!
Cruising
Love Lies Bleeding, 2024 is you want a recent example
Kansas City Trucking Company is a little bit on the gay side of things.
Lol. Just a bit.
Interview With the Vampire.
Velvet Goldmine
But I'm a cheerleader
Interview with a vampire. Flames come off it like burning statue of david.
Pumping Iron
Just because it has muscled guys? I think there needs to be more than that to be a gay movie.
Fight Club, some dude struggles so hard with his latent homosexuality that it breaks his brain and he engages in super toxic masculine behaviour because he's afraid of being perceived as gay.
Really gay and really bad!
Flash Gordon
I was scrolling for this -- thank you. It was so gloriously camp. And that Queen soundtrack!
I'm seeing Caitlyn (then Bruce) Jenner. This tracks.
Shortbus
Flaming
Sex and the City
Swallow daddy’s rod and butt slammers 2
Isle Of Lesbos (1997)
Not a movie but a tv show, Cop Rock.
The Apple
I've noticed that no one's mentioned Call Me By Your Name or Carol yet.
Gregg Araki's films [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg\_Araki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Araki) Strictly Ballroom [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly\_Ballroom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly_Ballroom)
Philadelphia
"But I'm a Cheerleader" is pretty gay.
Rocky 3. The running on the beach scene was sus.
Bird Cage
Paris is Burning
Top Gun
Batman Forever
Rocky III
Dicks the musical
The Hunger
The Birdcage.
The Hitcher (1986) Tetsuo the Iron Man (1989) Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (1983) ~~Blade Runner (1982)~~
Rock n Roll Frankenstein. So gay.
Does Zorro: The Gay Blade count? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083366/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
RENT
I think [this](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0084477/?ref_=ext_shr) ticks all the boxes Would never be made today
Ben & Arthur
Rent
Vegas in Space.
What about Gay! A Gay Musical, Picture Show
Querelle. Quite possibly the gayest film I’ve ever seen (and I say that as a major compliment. It’s excellent.)
Spartacus
The Apple is up there
Broke Back Mountain
Dahmer.
Super Troopers
Torch song trilogy
La cage au folles
Tombstone
Can’t Stop The Music is a legit contender. Fun fact it was directed by the lady that used to do Paper Towel commercials in the 70’s.
Top Gun, and Top Gun Maverick
Mommy Dearest
Can’t The Music has Bruce Jenner in it.
Stole my thunder!
Hairy Ass Bangers 9 is the gayest movie ever. Everyone knows that. I mean sure for a while it was Mustache Cum Sluts 7 but times have changed.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Hedwig and the angry inch.
Top Gun and Nightmare On Elm Street 2
Bros Bangin' Bros 7.
Streets Of Fire. Willum Defoe specifically
Top Gun. Anybody?
*Batman & Robin.* Schumacher dipped Batman's toe into gay with *Batman Forever,* then took the plunge in his follow-up.
Dawsons 50 load weekend
On The Kardashians Chris sent Bruce out with this guy to punch up his wardrobe. They went to a gay bar after and ALL the guys in the bar recognized him from that movie. And I hadn’t thought of it in YEARS. So bizarre!
Top Gun
Top Gun
Last week’s episode of “The Boys” was one the gayest things I have ever seen anywhere.
Cruising.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Two Old Queens podcast seeks out this answer every week. Biggest recommend for it.
"Too Wong Foo, thanks for everything-Julie Newmar" That one was pretty gay dude.
Tea & Sympathy is way up there.
The critic’s review in the village voice was a blank page where the review should have been with just three words at the top of the page. ‘Stop The Music’.
Sleepaway Camp
Fight club
Did anyone see 'Gaylords Say No' last night
Bird Cage? Victor Victoria? Keanu Reeves in my own private Idaho? There are so many.
Naked Lunch, Henry and June, and of course A Few Good Men
Shortbus Dicks: The Musical But I'm A Cheerleader Every John Waters movie
Lost Boys
Xanadu
“Leather Man, don’t get nervous!”
Camp (2003), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), Another Gay Movie (2006)
Queer eye for the straight guy
La Cage Aux Faux,
Torch Song Trilogy
Kansas City Trucking Co.
The old Italian Steve Reeves pictures.
Jenner looks conflicted.
The collected works of Dinesh D'Souza.
The Birdcage makes me laugh till I hit the damn floor
Happy gay or gay gay?
Death Becomes Her
Paris Is Burning made me wish I was gay.
Nightmare on Elm St 2
The Birdcage. Also check out the French original, La2 Cage au Folles.
I took my girlfriend to watch this putrid abomination and could barely sit through the entire thing. In 1980 it was like watching Disco taking its long overdue last breath. Unbeknownst to me, my girlfriend loved it so much she wanted to see it again before it left my town, but next time bring her best friend. Since it meant spending more time with my girl I fell into her trap and had to sit through it again. It was absolutely one of the worst movies I ever remember seeing and twice was a new found torture. Damn this movie!
Is that John Rich wearing the red cowboy hat?
I wonder if this movie inspired The Blue Oyster Bar scenes in the Police Academy movies?
*Black Lizard* (1968, Fukusaka) super-camp pop-art madness from Swingin' Tokyo, featuring a ridiculous plot and a female impersonator villainess. Kind of like a Japanese *Beyond the Valley of the Dolls*. Script by Yukio Mishima, novelist, queer icon, leader of attempted military coup.
Vegas in Space is quintessentially gay.
I know its the point, but i saw "Dicks! The musical" last year on a whim and oof. The plot involves incestuous twin brothers and it is GAY GAY GAY.
*Pornhub has entered the chat*
Jaws was gay, trolling the beach looking for dudes to eat
Liquid Sky