Without further ado, your Top 100 Greatest Gay Movies! There are other surprises to be found in this list, but we’ll leave it to you in the comments to interpret the rankings. Brilliant as Brokeback is, one can’t exactly call it a feel good movie, and the film that bested it in this year’s list was a sweet gay romance with a happy ending. Could it be that we’ve grown weary of gay tragedies? Enough with the gay guy dying at the end, maybe today’s LGBT filmgoers crave more upbeat and hopeful fare. And second, maybe a lot of people just assumed – as we did – that the Ang Lee classic starring the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal would yet again take top honors, so they didn’t bother to actually vote for it.īut just maybe there was something else at work here: the current gay zeitgeist. First, it’s very likely that the ultimate winner (a great little indie film) has passionate fans who made a concerted effort to get out the vote. Several factors may have weighed into this outcome. We double-checked the numbers, it got beat out by three votes. Then we announced the top 10 on our Facebook page in alphabetical order and let you vote one last time to decide the top 10 order.Īnd surprise, Brokeback Mountain was not the number one movie. So, after voting closed we sorted through the nearly 35,000 nominations (representing over 600 individual film titles) to identify your top 100 favorite gay films.
And we wanted to break out gay documentaries onto their own list (You’ll find the Top 25 Greatest Gay Documentaries results here.) We figured there were finally enough quality gay films to justify the expansion. We also wanted to expand our list to 100 from the top 50 we had done previously. We wanted to see how your list of favorites had changed. We conducted a similar poll several years ago, but a lot has happened culturally since then, and a number of worthy movies of gay interest have been released. A few weeks ago we asked readers to submit up to ten of their favorite films by write-in vote. Frankly, one that surprised the hell out of us here.īut before we get to that, an introduction. This list of the Top 100 Greatest Gay Movies is probably going to generate some howls of protest thanks to a rather major upset in the rankings. There’s a major upset in the rankings!īrace yourselves. Because any teenager who pulls a cool move like that, they deserve to meet someone pretty special.Our readers name their favorite gay films. I just hope all of these rejections end as graciously as they did with his friend, and that his friend meets another boys to compose poems for. He will reject people, and they will reject him. I’m sure he will continue to date people throughout his high school career, and I will continue to worry about a million things, breakups and hookups and the delicate and not-so-delicate ways these relationships begin and end. If I were gay I would date him, I like the guy he is my friend. God Mom, do you think I’m a moron? I don’t care if he is gay. I have raised a good kid.īut you didn’t make him feel bad, you weren’t a jerk about it, you didn’t make a big deal out of it right? I panicked, of course, because this is how I would react when my kid had to reject the feelings of any other kid, but this is somehow more fraught, because teenage boys are assholes, and even though my son is not an asshole, I wanted to make sure he had declined the offer of romance in the right way. He was very flattered and touched by the poem and the footnote at the bottom, where the boy expressed his feelings for my son, and even though my son likes this boy and values his friendship, my son is not gay.
He did say that he wouldn’t share it with anyone else and I agree with him, love letters are not to be passed around and shared with people they aren’t meant for. My son asked if I wanted to read the poem and I declined, because it’s personal, and it wasn’t meant for me. And gay kids are still bullied in school, in horrible, heart-wrenching ways, in ways that make me lose sleep at night. And even though it’s not really surprising, his admirer was also a boy.ĪWho wrote a poem. My eldest son came home from school to inform me that he thought one of his schoolmates liked him, because they slipped a self-authored poem to him in the hallway. Your little baby is growing up and as a parent, you have to accept the fact that one day they will find someone and fall in love and move away from you and you will no longer get to boss them about what shirt to wear with what sweater. It’s always sort of adorable and sad when your kid starts attracting attention from would-be suitors.