The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual gay characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-linear network). Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | |
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1960 | Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Robert Morley | The film is a biography of poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. | United Kingdom | [16] |
1960 | Spartacus | Crassus | Laurence Olivier | In a deleted scene, Crassus attempts to seduce his slave Antoninus. | United States | [17] |
1961 | A Taste of Honey | Geoffrey Ingham | Murray Melvin | Ingham is Jo's friend. | United Kingdom | [18] |
1961 | Victim | Melville Farr | Dirk Bogarde | Melville is a barrister threatened with blackmail. The film is credited for being important in the decriminalization of homosexuality in Britain. It is also the first British film to use the word "homosexual" in the narrative. | United Kingdom | [19] [20] |
1962 | Advise & Consent | Senator Brigham "Brig" Anderson | Don Murray | Anderson is a Senator in Utah. | United States | |
1962 | The L-Shaped Room | Johnny | Brock Peters | Johnny is a resident in a run down boarding house in Notting Hill, London. | United Kingdom | |
1962 | The Trial | Josef K. | Anthony Perkins | A closeted homosexual. | France, Italy, West Germany | [21] |
1963 | Scorpio Rising | Scorpio | Bruce Byron | The film follows a group of bikers preparing for a night out. | United States | |
1964 | The Leather Boys | Pete | Dudley Sutton | Pete is Reggie's fellow biker friend. | United Kingdom | [22] |
1965 | Bus Riley's Back in Town | Spencer | Crahan Denton | Spencer is the boss of a customer of Bus's. | United States | |
1965 | Darling | Robert Gold | Dirk Bogarde | Gold is a literary interviewer/director for television arts programmes | United Kingdom | |
1965 | Inside Daisy Clover | Wade Lewis | Robert Redford | An extremely intoxicated Melora Swan reveals to Daisy that she had an affair with closet homosexual Wade. | United States | [23] |
1965 | King Rat | Steven | Michael Lees | Stevens is a hospital staff. | United States | |
1965 | The Loved One | Mr. Starker | Liberace | Mr. Joyboy is Whispering Glade's chief embalmer. | United States | |
Mr. Joyboy | Rod Steiger |
1965 | The Pawnbroker | Rodriguez | Brock Peters | Rodriguez is a racketeer who uses Nazerman's pawnshop as a front. | United States | |
1967 | Bedazzled | Envy | Barry Humphries | Envy and Vanity are Stanley's staff of seven deadly sins, who are helping him with minor acts of vandalism and spite to be readmitted to Heaven. | United Kingdom | |
Vanity | Alba |
1967 | The Fearless Vampire Killers | Herbert von Krolock | Iain Quarrier | Krolock is a local vampire lord in Transylvania. | United States | |
1967 | The Incident | Kenneth Otis | Robert Fields | Otis is a homosexual who earlier made an unsuccessful attempt at befriending McCann. | United States | |
1967 | Portrait of Jason | Himself | Jason Holliday | Documentary about American hustler and nightclub performer Jason Holliday. | United States | |
1967 | Reflections in a Golden Eye | Major Weldon Pendertis | Marlon Brando | Penderton is a closeted homosexual army Major and husband to Leonora. | United States | |
1967 | Tony Rome | Rood | Lloyd Bochner | Rood is a drug dealer. | United States | |
1968 | The Anniversary | Henry Taggart | James Cossins | Henry is a transvestite. | United Kingdom | |
1968 | Boom! | The Witch of Capri | Noël Coward | The Witch of Capri is Mrs. Goforth's wickedly gossipy friend. | United Kingdom | |
1968 | The Boston Strangler | Terence Huntley | Hurd Hatfield | | United States | |
1968 | Deadfall | Richard | Eric Portman | Fé and Clarke begin a romantic affair, which Fé's husband Richard, who has a young male lover, does not discourage. | United Kingdom | [24] |
1968 | The Detective | Teddy Leikman | James Inman | MacIver had met the victim of a previous murder after going to a gay club to "get [homosexuality] out of my system." | United States | |
Colin MacIver | William Windom |
1968 | Flesh | The Artist | Maurice Braddell | The Artist wishes to draw Joe, a hustler working on the streets of New York City. | United States | [25] |
David | Louis Waldon |
Joe's Customer | John Christian |
1968 | if.... | Wallace | Richard Warwick | Wallace is Mick Trav's fellow non-conformist friend in the lower sixth form, their penultimate year at a traditional British public school for boys in the late 1960s. | United Kingdom | |
Bobby Philips | Rupert Webster |
1968 | Inadmissible Evidence | Maples | John Normington | Maples is a distraught client of Barrister, Bill Maitland. | United Kingdom | [26] |
1968 | Joanna | Lord Peter Sanderson | Donald Sutherland | Sanderson has a terminal illness and sponsors an exhibit of Hendrik's paintings. | United Kingdom | |
1968 | The Lion in Winter | Philip II of France | Timothy Dalton | Philip reveals he had been caballing with Richard separately, and that he and Richard may once have been lovers. | United States, United Kingdom | |
Richard the Lionheart | Anthony Hopkins |
1968 | The Mercenary | Ricciolo (Curly) | Jack Palance | Curly is Kowalski's flamboyant American rival. | Italy, Spain, United States | [27] [28] |
1968 | No Way to Treat a Lady | Christopher Gill | Rod Steiger | Gill is a serial killer fixated on his late mother, a noted stage actress. | United States | |
1968 | P.J. | Shelton Quell | Severn Darden | Quell is the family butler. | United States | |
1968 | The Queen | Himself | Flawless Sabrina | Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies for the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest. | United States | |
1968 | The Sergeant | Albert Callan | Rod Steiger | Callan is a dedicated and decorated war veteran, posted in France at a fuel supply depot in 1952. | United States | [29] [30] |
1968 | Star! | Noël Coward | Daniel Massey | Biopic about Gertrude Lawrence who, besides collaborating with him in theater productions, also had a close friendship with Coward off stage. | United States | [31] [32] [33] |
1969 | Angel, Angel, Down We Go | Willy Steele | Charles Aidman | Willy is a wealthy airplane manufacturer and the closeted father of Tara. | United States | [34] |
1969 | The Damned | Konstantin von Essenbeck | Reinhard Kolldehoff | Part of a wealthy industrialist family, Konstantin is an SA officer who is part of homosexual orgy in Wiesee. | Italy, West Germany | [35] [36] [37] |
1969 | Fellini Satyricon | Ascyltus | Hiram Keller | Encolpius and his friend Ascyltus to win the heart of a young boy named Gitón within a surreal and dreamlike Roman landscape. | Italy, France | [38] |
1969 | The Gay Deceivers | Malcolm | Michael Greer | Malcolm is Danny and Elliot's landlord, who has a husband. | United States | |
Colonel Dixon | Jack Starrett |
1969 | Justine | Toto | Cliff Gorman | | United States | |
1969 | Listen, Let's Make Love | Baron von Tummler | Amerigo Tot | | Italy, France | [39] |
1969 | Midnight Cowboy | Young Student | Bob Balaban | The young student offers Joe money in exchange for giving Joe fellatio in a Times Square movie house and afterward confesses he has no money to pay him. | United States | |
1969 | Riot | Mary Sheldon | Clifford David | | United States | |
1969 | Staircase | Harry C. Leeds | Richard Burton | An ageing couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London. | United Kingdom | |
Charles Dyer | Rex Harrison |
1969 | Two Gentlemen Sharing | Marcus | Ram John Holder | Marcus makes a pass at Roddy. | United States, United Kingdom | [40] |
1969 | Women in Love | Loerke | Vladek Sheybal | The plot follows the relationships between two sisters and two men in a mining town in post-World War I England. | United Kingdom | |
1969 | Z | Vago | Marcel Bozzuffi | Vago is based on Emmanouel Emmannouilidis, the man who struck Lambrakis | Algeria, France | |
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Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | |
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1970 | Bloody Mama | Kevin Dirkman | Bruce Dern | Kevin is Fred's older cellmate who eventually became his lover. | United States | [41] |
1970 | The Boys in the Band | Michael | Kenneth Nelson | This was the first Hollywood film in which all of the principal characters are homosexual. | United States | |
Harold | Leonard Frey |
Emory | Cliff Gorman |
Hank | Laurence Luckinbill |
Donald | Frederick Combs |
1970 | The Conformist | Marcello Clerici | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Clerici is a mid-level Fascist functionary (Trintignant) who is ordered to assassinate his former professor, an antifascist dissident in Paris. | Italy, France, West Germany | [42] |
1970 | Entertaining Mr Sloane | Ed | Harry Andrews | Ed is Kath's closeted brother. | United Kingdom | |
1970 | The Kremlin Letter | The Warlock | George Sanders | "The Warlock" is a culturally sophisticated homosexual member of the group. | United States | |
1970 | Little Big Man | Little Horse | Robert Little Star | Little Horse is a native American that holds a sacred position in the tribe. | United States | [43] |
1970 | Loot | Dennis | Hywel Bennett | Hal is the seaside hotel owner's son, and he robbed a bank with his boyfriend, Dennis. | United Kingdom | |
Hal | Roy Holder |
1970 | Myra Breckinridge | Irving "Blaggot" Amadeus | Calvin Lockhart | Blaggot is an effete man. | United States | [44] [45] |
1970 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | Robert Stephens | Offering an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, and draws a distinction between the "real" Holmes and the character portrayed by Watson in his stories for The Strand magazine. | United States, United Kingdom | |
1970 | Something for Everyone | Konrad Ludwig | Michael York | Konrad and Helmuth are star-crossed lovers. | United States | |
Helmuth von Ornstein | Anthony Higgins |
1970 | Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon | Warren | Robert Moore | Warren is the paraplegic friend of Junie Moon whom she meets in an institution. | United States | |
Guiles | Leonard Frey |
1971 | The Anderson Tapes | Haskins | Martin Balsam | Haskins is a crooked antique dealer. | United States | |
1971 | The Cat o' Nine Tails | Dr. Braun | Horst Frank | Dr. Braun is a scientist and one of the innocent leads in a murder case. | Italy, France, West Germany | [46] |
1971 | Death in Venice | Gustav von Aschenbach | Dirk Bogarde | Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for rest, due to serious health concerns. | France, Italy | |
1971 | Diamonds Are Forever | Mr. Wint | Bruce Glover | Wint and Kidd are hit men who work for Ernst Stavro Blofeld. | United Kingdom | |
Mr. Kidd | Putter Smith |
1971 | Fortune and Men's Eyes | Queenie | Michael Greer | Mona is an 18- or 19-year-old who is sentenced for making a homosexual pass at a group of boys Queenie is a flamboyant homosexual serving time for robbing an old woman | United States | |
Mona | Danny Freedman |
1971 | It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives | Daniel | Bernd Feuerhelm | Daniel from the province comes to Berlin and meets Clemens. Both experience great love, move in together and try to copy the bourgeois marriage. | West Germany | |
Clemens | Berryt Bohlen |
1971 | The Last Picture Show | Coach Popper | Bill Thurman | Coach Popper is closeted and married to Ruth. | United States | [47] [48] |
1971 | The Music Lovers | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Richard Chamberlain | Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. | United Kingdom | |
1971 | Pink Narcissus | Pan | Bobby Kendall | Pan is a young and attractive male escort. | United States | [49] |
Bar Owner | Charles Ludlam |
1971 | Shaft | Rollie | Rex Robbins | Rollie is the bartender at a bar that Shaft frequents. | United States | [50] |
1971 | Some of My Best Friends Are... | Scott | Gil Gerard | On Christmas Eve of 1971, in Greenwich Village, a group of gay men and lesbians meet at the Blue Jay Bar to talk about their lives and relationships. | United States | |
Jim | Gary Sandy |
1971 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Daniel Hirsh | Peter Finch | Hirsh is a Jewish doctor. | United Kingdom | |
1971 | Vanishing Point | Male hitchhiker No. 1 | Anthony James | The two men hitchhike while standing next to a broken-down car with a "Just Married" sign on the back. Kowalski picks them up and they attempt to rob him before he throws them out of the car. | United States, United Kingdom | [51] |
Male hitchhiker No. 2 | Arthur Malet |
1971 | Villain | Vic Dakin | Richard Burton | Dakin is a ruthless and sadistic London gangster. | United Kingdom | |
1971 | Whity | Frank Nicholson | Ulli Lommel | Frank is a member of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. | West Germany | [52] |
1972 | Blacula | Bobby McCoy | Ted Harris | Bobby and Billy are lovers and interior decorators. They purchase the coffin containing Blacula and ship it to Los Angeles, becoming his first victims. | United States | |
Billy Schaffer | Rick Metzler |
1972 | Georgia, Georgia | Herbert Thompson | Roger Furman | Herbert is Georgia's manager. | United States | |
1972 | Pete 'n' Tillie | Jimmy Twitchell | René Auberjonois | Jimmy is Tillie's close friend. | United States | |
1972 | Play It as It Lays | B.Z. Mendenhall | Anthony Perkins | B.Z. is a suicidal movie producer and best friend of Maria. | United States | |
1972 | X Y & Zee | Gordon | John Standing | Gordon is a close friend of Zee's. | United Kingdom | [53] |
1973 | A Bigger Splash | David Hockney | Himself | Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic about Hockney. | United Kingdom | |
Peter Schlesinger | Himself |
1973 | Day for Night | Alexandre | Jean-Pierre Aumont | Alexandre is an actor whose lover is killed in a car accident. | France | |
1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Bernard | Anton Rodgers | Bernard is picked up by the Jackel at a Turkish bathhouse and murdered. | United Kingdom | |
1973 | The Last of Sheila | Tom Parkman | Richard Benjamin | Screenwriter Parkman is a guest on a one-week Mediterranean pleasure cruise aboard the yacht of movie producer Clinton Greene. | United States | |
1973 | Ludwig | Ludwig II of Bavaria | Helmut Berger | Ludwig has doubts if he can be a good husband to Sophie who loves him, and he postpones and eventually cancels the marriage. Instead, he starts having relationships with his servants, although being a devout Catholic makes him feel guilt about his homosexuality. | Italy, France, West Germany | [54] [55] |
1973 | Papillon | André Maturette | Robert Deman | Charrière is a safecracker nicknamed "Papillon" because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest. He was wrongly convicted of murdering a pimp in 1933 and he is sentenced to life imprisonment in French Guiana. | United States | |
1973 | Scarecrow | Riley | Richard Lynch | Riley is an inmate who sexually assaults Lion in prison. | United States | |
1973 | Sleeper | Jeb Hrmthmg | Spencer Milligan | Jeb is a futuristic man that has a gay robot. | United States | |
1973 | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Bobby Walden | Ron Rickards | Bobby comes out to his parents at 15 and later moves to Amsterdam. | United States | |
1973 | The Tenderness of Wolves | Fritz Haarmann | Kurt Raab | Based on the crimes of German serial killer and cannibal Fritz Haarmann. | West Germany | |
1973 | Theatre of Blood | Meredith Merridew | Robert Morley | Meredith is the theatre critic who wears a pink suit and has two poodles. | United Kingdom | |
1974 | 125 Rooms of Comfort | Billie Joyce | Tim Henry | Billie is left with ownership of his father's hotel after he dies. | Canada | [56] |
1974 | Butley | Ben Butley | Alan Bates | Butley, a literature professor and longtime T. S. Eliot scholar with a recently developed interest in Beatrix Potter, is a suicidal alcoholic, who loses his wife and his male lover on the same day. | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | |
1974 | The Conversation | Martin Stett | Harrison Ford | Martin is the Director's loyal assistant. | United States | [57] |
1974 | The Night Porter | Bert | Amedeo Amodio | Bert is a German dancer. | Italy | [58] |
1974 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Subway passenger | Gary Bolling | Based on the 1973 novel of the same name | United States | |
1974 | The Tamarind Seed | Fergus Stephenson | Dan O'Herlihy | Stephenson is a conduit of state secrets. | United States | |
1974 | A Very Natural Thing | David | Robert Joel | David is a public school teacher and former monastic monk. He meets Mark at a disco. After their relationship ends he meets Jason, a photographer who came out after divorcing his wife. Containing documentary footage of the Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York City (known today as NYC Pride March). | United States | [59] [60] |
Mark | Curt Gareth |
Jason | Bo White |
Alan | Jay Pierce |
1975 | Barry Lyndon | British Soldier | Anthony Dawes | While on the run, Barry stumbles upon two soldiers in a pond, naked and holding hands, professing their love for each other. He takes the uniform of one of the men in an attempt to steal his identity. | United States, United Kingdom | |
1975 | Deep Red | Carlo Manganiello | Gabriele Lavia | Carlo is Marucs' best friend. | Italy | [61] |
1975 | The Eiger Sanction | Miles Mellough | Jack Cassidy | Miles is an assassin. | United States | |
1975 | Fox and His Friends | Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Fox is a working-class man who wins the lottery. | West Germany | |
1975 | Funny Lady | Bobby Moore | Roddy McDowall | Bobby is Fanny's assistant and friend. | United States | |
1975 | In Celebration | Colin Shaw | James Bolam | Shaws' son Colin, who was a Communist party member for a year, is now a prosperous but unfulfilled industrial relations manager for a car manufacturer, dealing with negotiations with the unions. | United Kingdom, United States | [62] |
1975 | Mahogany | Sean McAvoy | Anthony Perkins | Sean is a fashion designer who works with Tracy. | United States | |
1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Dale Harding | William Redfield | Dale is a patient at the mental institution. | United States | |
1975 | Saturday Night at the Baths | Scotti | Don Scotti | Scotti manages a bathhouse and falls in love in love with Bisexual piano player, Michael. | United States | |
1975 | The Sunday Woman | Massimo Campi | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Massimo is Anna's best friend. | Italy, France | [63] |
1976 | L'Alpagueur | Gilbert ("L'Epervier") | Bruno Cremer | Gilbert is a killer and crook who has feelings for a young man he hires to rob a jewelry store. | France | [64] |
1976 | The Best Way to Walk | Marc | Patrick Dewaere | In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country in 1960, Marc and Philippe are two of the counsellors. | France | |
Philippe | Patrick Bouchitey |
1976 | Car Wash | Lindy | Antonio Fargas | Lindy is the flamboyant, yet unashamed employee of the car wash. | United States | |
1976 | Coup de Grâce | Erich von Lhomond | Matthias Habich | Lhomond is the leader of a group of soldiers in Russian Civil War that followed the Bolshevik Revolution | West Germany, France | [65] |
1976 | Drum | Bernard DeMarigny | John Colicos | Bernard is a villainous plantation owner in 19th century New Orleans. | United States | |
1976 | Face to Face | Dr. Tomas Jacobi | Erland Josephson | Dr. Jacobi is a close friend of Dr. Jenny. | Sweden | |
1976 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Oliver V. Farnsworth | Buck Henry | Oliver is a lawyer and Newton's business partner. | United Kingdom | |
1976 | Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Bernstein | Antonio Fargas | Bernstein has a Norwegian lover and becomes close friends with Larry and Sarah after they move to Greenwich Village. | United States | |
1976 | Norman... Is That You? | Garson Hobart | Dennis Dugan | Norman is Ben's only child. Garson is Norman's lover. | United States | |
Norman Chambers | Michael Warren |
1976 | Ode to Billy Joe | Billy Joe McAllister | Robby Benson | Billy Joe is a high school student in Mississippi who jumps off of a bridge due to the shame he feels for his sexuality. | United States | |
1976 | The Ritz | Chris | F. Murray Abraham | Chris befriends Jack, a heterosexual businessman who goes into hiding from his murderous mobster brother-in-law at a gay bathhouse in Manhattan. Chris shows him the ropes. Claude is the "chubby chaser" who regularly patronizes the bathhouse. | United States | |
Claude Perkins | Paul B. Price |
1976 | Sebastiane | Sebastian | Leonardo Treviglio | The events of the life of Saint Sebastian, including his iconic martyrdom by arrows. | United Kingdom | |
1976 | Swashbuckler | Lord Durant | Peter Boyle | Durant is the tyrannical and cruel governor of Jamaica. | United States | [66] |
1977 | The Choirboys | Blaney | Michael MacKenzie Wills | Blaney is a closeted high school student who is murdered. | United States | |
1977 | Hidden Pleasures | Eduardo | Simón Andreu | Eduardo is a middle-aged, closeted banker from a wealthy family, who falls in love with a much younger heterosexual man. | Spain | |
1977 | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Gary | Tom Berenger | Gary is a repressed homosexual who flies into a rage and murders Theresa when she suggests that he might be gay. Inspired by the 1973 murder of New York City schoolteacher Roseann Quinn. | United States | |
1977 | Outrageous! | Robin Turner | Craig Russell | Robin is a hairstylist who creates a drag act to earn extra money after his schizophrenic friend, Liza, becomes pregnant and needs to move in with him. | Canada | |
1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | J. Edgar Hoover | Broderick Crawford | Fictionalized chronicle of forty years in the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, from his earliest days in the FBI in the 1920s until his death in 1972. | United States | |
1977 | Rituals | Martin | Robin Gammell | Martin is one of five doctors who are targeted by a killer while they are on group camping trip for the weekend. | Canada | [67] |
1977 | A Special Day | Gabriele | Marcello Mastroianni | Set in Rome in 1938, the narrative follows Antonietta and her neighbor, Gabriele, who stay home the day Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini; the same day that Gabriele comes out to her. | Italy, Canada | [68] [69] |
1977 | To an Unknown God | José | Héctor Alterio | José is an aging man coming to terms with his homosexuality and mortality. | Spain | |
1978 | The Betsy | Loren Hardeman Jr. | Paul Ryan Rudd | Loren is the closeted son of a tycoon. | United States | |
1978 | The Big Sleep | Arthur Geiger | John Justin | Geiger is a homosexual pornographer. | United States, United Kingdom | [70] |
1978 | Bloodbrothers | Paulie | Bruce French | Paulie is a jewelry salesman who has a strained relationship with his father. | United States | |
1978 | California Suite | Sidney Cochran | Michael Caine | Sidney is a closeted antique dealer and husband of movie star, Diane Barrie. | United States | [71] |
1978 | A Different Story | Albert Walreavens | Perry King | A man and a lesbian who become temporary housemates end up falling in love with each other. Film critic Janet Maslin's original review elaborates: "The movie's use of [Albert and Stella's] homosexuality is indeed exploitative, insensitive, and offensive in a variety of ways. Even worse, it is unconvincing ... Albert's homosexuality is nothing but a gimmick, something for the screenplay to coax him out of." | United States | |
1978 | El diputado | Roberto Orbea | José Sacristán | Roberto gets elected as Deputy and falls in love with Juanito. | Spain | [72] |
Juanito | José Luis Alonso |
1978 | Midnight Express | Erich | Norbert Weisser | Erich is a Swedish drug smuggler. | United States | |
1978 | Nighthawks | Jim | Ken Robertson | Jim is a geography teacher who goes to gay pubs at night. His students ultimately challenge him with questions as to whether he is "bent" (i.e. homosexual). He responds that he is and answers their questions about his homosexuality calmly. | United Kingdom | |
1979 | 10 | Hugh | Robert Webber | Hugh is George's best friend. | United States | |
1979 | Ernesto | Ernesto | Martin Halm | In Trieste, Austria-Hungary (Italy after the end of World War I) in 1911, Ernesto (Martin Halm) is a 17-year-old boy who lives with his widowed mother in the home of his violin-loving Jewish uncle and works in an office at a routine job. He espouses socialist views largely to cause his uncle distress. | Italy, Spain, West Germany | |
The Man / The stableman | Michele Placido |
1979 | Hot Potato | Claudio | Massimo Ranieri | Claudio is a frail young mana involved in a fascist gang beating. | Italy | [73] |
1979 | Saint Jack | Senator | George Lazenby | The subplot involves a closeted and married conservative senator who flies to Singapore to pick up male prostitutes. | United States | |
1979 | Savage Weekend | Nicky | Christopher Allport | Nicky is one of the members of a friend group who go away for the weekend and are stalked by a masked killer. | United States | [74] |
1979 | To Forget Venice | Nicky | Erland Josephson | Nicky has resided in Milan for three years with his partner Picchio. | Italy | |
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Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | |
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1980 | American Gigolo | Leon James | Bill Duke | James is Julian's pimp. | United States | |
1980 | Cruising | Ted Bailey | Don Scardino | Ted is the next-door neighbor of undercover cop Steve. The two become friends while Steve works to track down a serial killer targeting gay men. Gregory is Ted's boyfriend. | United States | [75] |
Gregory | James Remar |
1980 | Fame | Montgomery MacNeil | Paul McCrane | Montgomery is a student in the Drama department who comes out to his peers during their second year. | United States | |
1980 | Happy Birthday, Gemini | Francis Geminiani | Alan Rosenberg | On the eve of his 21st birthday, Francis realizes that he is in love with his girlfriend's brother, Randy. | United States | |
1980 | The Last Married Couple in America | Donald | Stewart Moss | Donald and Reggie are the neighbors of Jeff and Marie. While most couples that Jeff and Marie know have crumbling relationships, Donald and Reggie are well adjusted and happy. | United States | |
Reggie | Colby Chester |
1980 | Life and Death | John | [actor name N/A] | A medical student. | Norway | [76] [77] |
1980 | The Long Good Friday | Colin | Paul Freeman | Colin is the underworld lieutenant whose murder triggers a bloodbath. | United Kingdom | |
1980 | Nijinsky | Sergei Diaghilev | Alan Bates | Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality.Diaghilev is an impresario. | United States | |
Vaslav Nijinsky | George de la Peña |
1980 | Serial | Luckman | Christopher Lee | Luckman is an executive headhunter by day and the head of a motorcycle gang by night. | United States | |
1980 | Squeeze | Paul | Paul Eady | Paul is a timid young man who develops a relationship with bisexual businessman, Grant. | New Zealand | [78] |
1980 | Stir Crazy | Rory Schultebrand | Georg Stanford Brown | A drag-wearing convict who killed his stepfather. (For his drag performance, Brown was nominated for the 1980 Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award as "Worst Supporting Actress".) | United States | [79] [80] |
1980 | Taxi zum Klo | Frank | Frank Ripploh | Frank ponders whether to continue a life on anonymous sex or settle down with his eventual boyfriend, Bernd. | West Germany | |
Bernd | Bernd Broaderup |
1981 | Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker | Phil Brody | Caskey Swaim | Landers is Billy and Eddie's basketball coach. | United States | [81] [82] |
Coach Tom Landers | Steve Eastin |
1981 | The Fan | Douglas Breen | Michael Biehn | Douglas is the obsessed fan of film star Sally Ross. | United States | |
1981 | Knightriders | Pippin | Warner Shook | Troupe member Pippin comes to terms with his homosexuality and finds love with Punch. | United States | |
1981 | Mad Max 2 | The Golden Youth | Jimmy Brown | The Golden Youth is a punk on a motorcycle in post-nuclear society. | Australia | |
1981 | Only When I Laugh | Jimmy Perry | James Coco | Jimmy a struggling actor and the best friend of Georgia. | United States | |
1981 | The Woman Next Door | Roland Duguet | Roger Van Hool | | France | |
1981 | Zorro, the Gay Blade | Bunny Wigglesworth | George Hamilton | Wigglesworth is Zorro's twin brother. | United States | |
1982 | Angel | Angelos | Michalis Maniatis | Michalis is a young man in Athens, Angelos, who keeps his sexual identity a secret from his family. He falls hard for a rough sailor, Mihalis, and moves in with him. | Greece | [83] |
1982 | The Clinic | Dr. Eric Linden | Chris Haywood | Linden is a doctor at Melbourne VD (venereal disease) clinic. | Australia | |
1982 | Deathtrap | Sidney Bruhl | Michael Caine | Sidney and Clifford are lovers trying to do away with Sidney's wife. | United States | |
Clifford Anderson | Christopher Reeve |
1982 | Drifting | Robi | Jonathan Sagall | Robi is a young man trying to find love and break into the movie business. | Israel | [84] |
1982 | Evil Under the Sun | Rex Brewster | Roddy McDowall | Rex is a gossip columnist in the process of writing a biography of Arlene Stuart Marshall. | United Kingdom | |
1982 | Forty Deuce | Ricky | Kevin Bacon | Ricky is a street hustler in Times Square. | United States | |
1982 | Labyrinth of Passion | Riza Niro | Imanol Arias | Niro is the son of the Emperor of Tiran (a fictional Middle Eastern country). | Spain | [85] |
Sadec | Antonio Banderas |
1982 | Luc or His Share of Things | Luc | Pierre Normandin | After coming out as gay, Luc grapples with depression and suicidal thoughts but is saved by the acceptance and support of his friends, François and Louis. | Canada | [86] |
1982 | Making Love | Zack Elliot | Michael Ontkean | Considered a Hollywood landmark film, for its portrayal of the relationship between Zack and Bart as equally valid to a heterosexual one. | United States | |
Bart McGuire | Harry Hamlin |
1982 | Night Shift | Prisoner | Charles Fleischer | | United States | |
1982 | Partners | Kerwin | John Hurt | Officer Kerwin is a Records Clerk. | United States | |
1982 | Privates on Parade | Capt. Terri Dennis | Denis Quilley | Dennis is the military drag queen in the movie. | United Kingdom | |
1982 | Victor/Victoria | Carroll "Toddy" Todd | Robert Preston | Toddy is an aging performer at Club Chez Lui in Paris. | United Kingdom, United States | |
'Squash' Bernstein | Alex Karras |
1982 | The Year of Living Dangerously | Wally O'Sullivan | Noel Ferrier | Wally is an Australian journalist. | United States, Australia | |
1983 | The Dresser | Norman | Tom Courtenay | During World War II, Norman works as a dresser who falls in love with an actor he serves. | United Kingdom | |
1983 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Capt. Yonoi | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Capt. Yonoi is the commander of the POW camp in Lebak Sembada in Japanese-occupied Java in 1942. | United Kingdom | |
1983 | Self Defense | Daniel | Terry-David Després | While the police are on strike, a fascist group goes to a gay bar and begins murdering the patrons. Daniel is the sole bar patron that escapes and he takes refuge in a local apartment. | Canada | |
1983 | Sleepaway Camp | John Baker | Dan Tursi | Baker and his boyfriend, Lenny, take John's children Angela and Peter on a boating trip. | United States | [87] |
Lenny | James Paradise |
1983 | Staying Alive | Butler | Charles Ward | Butler is replaced as the lead dancer in a Broadway show by Tony. | United States | |
1983 | Streamers | Richie | Mitchell Lichtenstein | In 1965, four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to Vietnam deal with racial tension and their own intolerance when Richie reveals his sexuality. | United States | |
1983 | To Be or Not to Be | Sasha | James Haake | Sasha is Anna's dresser. | United States | |
1983 | Without a Trace | Philippe | Keith McDermott | Philippe is Susan's housecleaner. | United States | |
1984 | Another Country | Guy Bennett | Rupert Everett | Explorating Bennett's homosexuality and exposure to Marxism, while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public school system. | United Kingdom | |
James Harcourt | Cary Elwes |
1984 | Beverly Hills Cop | Serge | Bronson Pinchot | Serge is an art dealer. | United States | [88] |
1984 | Garbo Talks | Bernie Whitlock | Harvey Fierstein | Bernie is a kindhearted man on Fire Island who helps Gilbert find reclusive Hollywood legend Greta Garbo for his mother as her dying wish. | United States | |
1984 | Horror Vacui | Frankie | Folkert Milster | Hannes attempts to save his lover, Frankie, by stopping him from joining a religious cult. | West Germany | |
Hannes | Tom Vogt |
1984 | The Hotel New Hampshire | Frank | Paul McCrane | Frank is one of the Berry's kid. | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | |
1984 | Irreconcilable Differences | Howard Kay | Richard Minchenberg | Howard becomes Lucy's secretary after she achieves great success as a writer. | United States | |
1984 | La Muerte de Mikel | Mikel | Imanol Arias | Mikel falls in love with a drag queen and is murdered by his mother. | Spain | |
Fama | Fernando Telletxea |
1984 | Mass Appeal | Deacon Mark Dolson | Željko Ivanek | Seminarian Mark Dolson, who questions Farley's position on the ordination of women. | United States | |
1984 | Meatballs Part II | Lieutenant Felix Foxglove | John Larroquette | Felix is the closeted assistant of Colonel Hershy. | United States | |
1984 | Mike's Murder | Philip Green | Paul Winfield | Philip is the sympathetic and straightforward record producer who was in a relationship with Mike prior to his murder. | United States | |
1984 | Monaco Forever | Karate Man | Jean-Claude Van Damme | Marking the first (although brief) appearance of Jean-Claude Van Damme | United States | [89] |
1984 | Protocol | Jerry | Grainger Hines | Jerry and Ben are in a committed relationship and are the roommates of Sunny. | United States | |
Ben | Joel Brooks |
1984 | Revenge of the Nerds | Lamar Lutrell | Larry B. Scott | Lamar is an openly fraternity member. | United States | [90] |
1985 | Adiós, Roberto | Marcelo | Víctor Laplace | Marcelo is the roommate of Roberto. | Argentina | [91] |
1985 | After Hours | Mark | Robert Plunket | Mark is a novelist who picks up Paul. | United States | |
1985 | The Boys Next Door | Chris | Paul C. Dancer | Chris is the ill-fated gay bar patron who unknowingly invites two killers to his apartment on the evening of their murder spree. | United States | |
1985 | Buddies | Robert Willow | Geoff Edholm | David is the volunteer "buddy" from the Gay Center who is assigned to help care for Robert, who is dying of AIDS. The film explores how David copes with Robert's illness and death. It is the first narrative film about the AIDS crisis, preceding television film, An Early Frost (also released in 1985). | United States | |
Steve | David Rose |
1985 | A Chorus Line | Paul San Marco | Cameron English | San Marco and Walter are part of the dancers auditioning for a part in a new Broadway musical. | United States | [92] |
Greg Gardner | Justin Ross |
1985 | Colonel Redl | Colonel Alfred Redl | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Redl is head of the Austrian Imperial Secret Service who gets exposed as a spy. | West Germany | |
1985 | Dona Herlinda and Her Son | Ramón | Arturo Meza | Rodolfo, a young bachelor doctor, has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramón. | Mexico | |
1985 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina | William Hurt | Luis is a prisoner who survives through recreating old movie fantasies. (Hurt won an Academy Award for his performance.) | United States | |
1985 | | Yukio Mishima | Ken Ogata | Depicting the life and work of the eponymous writer and activist. | United States | |
1985 | My Beautiful Laundrette | Omar Ali | Gordon Warnecke | Focusing on Omar, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion and eventual romance with his childhood friend Johnny. | United Kingdom | |
Johnny | Daniel Day-Lewis |
1985 | | Coach Schneider | Marshall Bell | Jesse is caught by Schneider ordering a drink in a gay bar and is made to run laps at school as punishment. | United States | |
1985 | Once Bitten | Sebastian | Cleavon Little | Sebastian is the flamboyant, stereotypically servant to the Countess. The film contains a running gag of Sebastian continuously "coming out" of the Countess' closet. | United States | |
1985 | Spies Like Us | Russian Rocket Crew Member No. 1 | Bjarne Thomsen | | United States | |
Russian Rocket Crew Member No. 2 | Sergei Rousakov |
1985 | St. Elmo's Fire | Ron Dellasandro | Matthew Laurance | Dellasandro is Jules' neighbor. | United States | |
1985 | Westler | Felix | Sigurd Rachman | Felix and Thomas are lovers who are divided by the Berlin Wall. | West Germany | |
Thomas | Rainer Strecker |
1986 | Absolute Beginners | Henley of Mayfair | James Fox | Suzette plans to marry the middle-aged, homosexual Henley for her career. | United Kingdom | [93] |
1986 | Caravaggio | Caravaggio | Nigel Terry | Fictionalised retelling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. | United Kingdom | |
Jerusaleme | Spencer Leigh |
1986 | The Decline of the American Empire | Claude | Yves Jacques | Claude speaks about pursuing men reckless of fear of STDs, while secretly being fearful of having one to his friends. | Canada | [94] |
1986 | Mala Noche | Walt Curtis | Tim Streeter | Walt falls in love with Mexican migrant, Johnny. | United States | |
1986 | The Morning After | Frankie | James Haake | Frankie is the drag queen friend of Alex, who lets her borrow clothing while she is on the run from the police for suspicion of murder. | United States | |
1986 | Parting Glances | Michael | Richard Ganoung | One of the first motion pictures to deal frankly and realistically with the subject of AIDS and the impact of the relatively new disease on the gay community in the Ronald Reagan era and at the height of the pandemic. | United States | |
Nick | Steve Buscemi |
Robert | John Bolger |
1986 | Tough Guys | Bar Patron | Matthew Faison | | United States | |
1987 | Beyond Therapy | Bob | Christopher Guest | Bob is Bruce's jealous live-in lover who decides to assert himself and do everything possible to maintain his status quo. | United States | [95] |
1987 | Friends Forever | Patrick | Thomas Sigsgaard | Partrick is the best friend of the main protagonist, Kristian, and develops a relationship with Mads, the captain of the soccer team. | Denmark | [96] |
Mads | Morten Stig Christensen |
1987 | The Heart Exposed | Jean-Marc | Gilles Renaud | Jean-Marc and Mathieu fall in love despite a ten-year age difference and the complication that Mathieu is the father of a five-year-old son. | Canada | [97] |
Mathieu | Michel Poirier |
1987 | Law of Desire | Pablo Quintero | Eusebio Poncela | Focusing on a complex love triangle between three men. Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director, and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire. | Spain | [98] |
Antonio Benítez | Antonio Banderas |
Juan | Miguel Molina |
1987 | Maurice | Clive Durham | Hugh Grant | Hall struggles to fit into society, and ultimately united with his life partner. | United Kingdom | |
Maurice Hall | James Wilby |
Alec Scudder | Rupert Graves |
1987 | No Way Out | Scott Pritchard | Will Patton | Pritchard is the general counsel to Brice. | United States | [99] |
1987 | Prick Up Your Ears | Joe Orton | Gary Oldman | Playwright Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are lovers. | United Kingdom | |
Kenneth Halliwell | Alfred Molina |
1987 | Radio Days | Fred | Robert Joy | Fred's coming out is treated with compassion and understanding by his girlfriend, Bea, when he bursts into tears after hearing "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You", a song which reminds him of his departed lover. | United States | |
1987 | Stage Fright | Brett | Giovanni Lombardo Radice | Brett is one of the actors in a theater troupe being targeted by a killer wearing an owl mask. | Italy | [100] |
1987 | Tough Guys Don't Dance | Lonnie Pangborn | R. Patrick Sullivan | Pangborn is Pond's effete husband | United States | [101] |
1987 | Withnail and I | Monty | Richard Griffiths | Monty is Withnail's Uncle. | United Kingdom | [102] |
1988 | The Fruit Machine | Eddie | Emile Charles | Eddie and Michael are best friends who are on the run from a killer after they witness him murdering a drag queen at a gay club called "The Fruit Machine." | United Kingdom | [103] |
Michael | Tony Forsyth |
1988 | Madame Sousatzka | Mr. Cordle | Geoffrey Bayldon | Mr. Cordle is an osteopath who obsessively creates color-coded maps of the human body | United Kingdom, Canada | [104] |
1988 | Once More | Louis | Jean-Louis Rolland | Following Louis' life through the span of 10 years. | France | [105] |
1988 | Salome's Last Dance | Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas | Douglas Hodge | Douglas is Oscar Wilde's lover. | United Kingdom, United States | [106] |
1988 | Torch Song Trilogy | Arnold Beckoff | Harvey Fierstein | Arnold Beckoff is a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. | United States | [107] |
Alan Simon | Matthew Broderick |
David | Eddie Castrodad |
1988 | We Think the World of You | Frank Meadows | Alan Bates | Frank is a middle-aged man who helps support the younger and bisexual Johnny and his family. | United Kingdom | [108] |
1989 | Apartment Zero | Adrian LeDuc | Colin Firth | LeDuc is the British owner of a revival house in Buenos Aires. | United Kingdom, Argentina | [109] |
1989 | Coming Out | Philipp Klarmann | Matthias Freihof | Klarmann is a high school teacher who is "coming out" and accepting himself as gay. | East Germany | [110] |
Matthias | Dirk Kummer |
1989 | Fun Down There | Buddy Fields | Michael Waite | Fields is a young man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City. | United States | [111] |
Joseph | Nickolas B. Nagourney |
1989 | Getting It Right | Harry | Richard Huw | Harry is the best friend of the protagonist, Gavin. Winthrop is Harry's boyfriend. | United Kingdom, United States | [112] |
Winthrop | Kevin Drinkwater |
1989 | Last Exit to Brooklyn | Harry Black | Stephen Lang | Black is a union strike overseer trying to hide his homosexuality in a bitter marriage. | West Germany, United States | [113] |
1989 | Longtime Companion | David | Bruce Davison | Bruce, a wealthy man, becomes the caregiver of his lover, Sean, a soap opera writer, after he is infected with the HIV virus. The film depicts the increasing effect of HIV/AIDS on a group of gay men during eight-years, between 1981 and 1989.Willy and Fuzzy begin a relationship and move in together. | United States | [114] [115] |
Fuzzy | Stephen Caffrey |
Sean | Mark Lamos |
Willy | Campbell Scott |
1989 | Looking for Langston | James | Akim Mogaji | James and Beauty fall in love in 1920s Harlem. | United Kingdom | [116] |
Beauty | Matthew Baidoo | |
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | |
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1990 | Europa Europa | Robert Kellerman | André Wilms | Robert and Solek (a Jewish) hold each other's secret in solidarity while fighting in the German Army during World War II. | Germany, France, Poland | [117] |
1990 | Miller's Crossing | Bernie Bernbaum | John Turturro | Bernbaum is Verna's bookie brother, who is skimming off the match fixing scheme of Leo's rival | United States | [118] |
Eddie Dane | J.E. Freeman |
Mink Larouie | Steve Buscemi |
1990 | Q & A | Josè Malpica | International Chrysis | Malpica is Montalvo's lover | United States | [119] |
Roger Montalvo | Paul Calderón |
1991 | The Adjuster | Larry | Stephen Ouimette | Larry is The Butterfly Collector. | Canada | [120] |
1991 | Edward II | Edward II | Steven Waddington | Based on the play of the same name by Christopher Marlowe, the film revolves around Edward II of England's infatuation with Piers Gaveston, which proves to be the downfall of both of them | United Kingdom | [121] |
Piers Gaveston | Andrew Tiernan |
1991 | The Fisher King | Homeless Cabaret Singer | Michael Jeter | | United States | [122] |
1991 | Frankie and Johnny | Tim | Nathan Lane | Tim is Frankie's friend and neighbor and is in a relationship with Bobby. | United States | [123] |
1991 | The Hours and Times | Brian Epstein | David Angus | Epstein was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles. | United States | [124] |
1991 | JFK | Willie O'Keefe | Kevin Bacon | Willie is a male prostitute serving five years in prison for soliciting. He was romantically involved with Clay. | United States | [125] [126] |
Clay Shaw | Tommy Lee Jones |
1991 | | Himself | Salim "Slam" Gauwloos | The documentary film chronicles the life of entertainer Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour. | United States | [127] |
Himself | Gabriel Trupin |
1991 | My Own Private Idaho | Mikey Waters | River Phoenix | Waters is a street hustler. He embarks on a journey of personal discovery with his friend Scott Favor that takes them from Portland, Oregon, to Mike's hometown in Idaho, and then to Rome in search of Mike's mother. | United States | [128] |
1991 | Naked Lunch | Yves Cloquet | Julian Sands | Cloquet is an attractive young Swiss gentleman. | Canada, United Kingdom, Japan | [129] |
1991 | The Prince of Tides | Eddie Detreville | George Carlin | Detreville is Savannah's neighbor. | United States | |
1991 | Queens Logic | Eliot | John Malkovich | Eliot is a later friend who roomed with a group of working-class, now-thirtysomething childhood neighborhood friends in a two bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens as adults and is lonely but dislikes "camp" men. | United States | [130] |
1991 | Young Soul Rebels | Caz | Mo Sesay | Caz is a soulboy and is in a relationship with punk Billibud. | United Kingdom | [131] |
1992 | Being at Home with Claude | Yves | Roy Dupuis | Yves is a man who has just murdered his lover Claude, and is attempting to explain his reasons to the police investigator | Canada | [132] |
Claude | Jean-François Pichette |
1992 | Inside Monkey Zetterland | Brent Zetterland | Tate Donovan | Brent is Monkey's brother, who is a hairdresser. | United States | [133] |
1992 | The Living End | Jon | Craig Gilmore | Luke is a restless and reckless drifter and Jon is a relatively timid and pessimistic film critic. Both are HIV positive. | United States | [134] [135] |
Luke | Mike Dytri |
1992 | The Long Day Closes | Bud | Leigh McCormack | Concerning a shy twelve-year-old boy, Bud, and his loving mother and siblings in Liverpool in the mid-1950s | United Kingdom | [136] |
1992 | Passed Away | Boyd Pinter | Tim Curry | Pinter is Terry's former husband. | United States | [137] |
1992 | Peter's Friends | Peter | Stephen Fry | Peter has inherited the family estate, and invites his friends up for the 1992-1993 New Year's weekend. | United Kingdom | [138] |
1992 | Single White Female | Graham Knox | Peter Friedman | Knox is Allie's neighbor and an aspiring actor. | United States | |
1992 | Swoon | Richard Loeb | Daniel Schlachet | Recount of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other films based on the case. | United States | [139] |
Nathan Leopold Jr. | Craig Chester |
1992 | When the Party's Over | Banks | Kris Kamm | Banks is an actor who is best friends with Amanda. | United States | [140] |
1993 | Blue | Himself | Derek Jarman | This was Jarman's final experimental film and documents his last years while living with AIDS. It was released four months before his death. | United Kingdom | [141] |
1993 | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | The Countess | John Hurt | The Countress is a femine hygiene products mogul. | United States | [142] |
1993 | Farewell My Concubine | Cheng Dieyi | Leslie Cheung | Retelling the troubled relationship between Peking opera actors Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou, and Xiaolou's wife Juxian. | British Hong Kong | [143] |
1993 | Grief | Mark | Craig Chester | Mark is a writer who contemplates suicide on the one year anniversary of his lover's death. | United States | [144] |
1993 | Love and Human Remains | David McMillan | Thomas Gibson | McMillan and his heterosexual, female roommate try to find love and sexual gratification in Edmonton, as a serial killer is loose in the city. | Canada | [145] |
1993 | M. Butterfly | René Gallimard | Jeremy Irons | Loosely based on true events which involved French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu. | United States | [146] |
Song Liling | John Lone |
1993 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Frank | Harvey Fierstein | "Uncle Frank" is Daniel's brother. He and his partner "Aunt Jack" are makeup artists. | United States | [147] [148] |
Jack | Scott Capurro |
1993 | Naked in New York | Chris | Ralph Macchio | Chris is Jake's best friend who kisses him during a party. | United States | [149] |
1993 | Philadelphia | Andrew Beckett | Tom Hanks | Beckett was fired from his employment as a senior associate attorney at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia after they found out he had AIDS. Alvarez is Beckett's partner. Philadelphia is the first major Hollywood film to deal with the subject of AIDS. | United States | [150] [151] [152] |
Miguel Alvarez | Antonio Banderas |
1993 | Six Degrees of Separation | Paul | Will Smith | Paul is a skillful con-artist, who mysteriously appears at Kittredges' door one night, injured and bleeding | United States | [153] [154] |
1993 | This Boy's Life | Arthur Gayle | Jonah Blechman | Gayle is a misfit classmate of Toby at school whom he befriends. | United States | [155] |
1993 | Tombstone | Billy | Jason Priestley | Billy is an outlaw in the Old West nicknamed "Sister Boy." | United States | [156] |
1993 | The Wedding Banquet | Wai-Tung Gao | Winston Chao | Gao marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. | Taiwan, United States | [157] |
1994 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra | Hugo Weaving | Bernadette is shocked to learn that Anthony/Mitzi was not only once married to a woman but also has a son. | Australia | [158] |
1994 | Der bewegte Mann | Norbert Brommer | Joachim Król | Walter is a crossdresser using the name "Waltraud". | Germany | [159] |
Horst/Metzger | Armin Rohde |
Walter/Waltraud | Rufus Beck |
1994 | Double Happiness | Andrew Chau | Johnny Mah | While on the date, Chau reveals his sexuality to a relieved Jade as he describes hiding his identity and managing to only be set up once a year. | Canada | [160] |
1994 | Drunken Master III | Gay bus passenger | Simon Yam | | Hong Kong | [161] |
1994 | Ed Wood | John "Bunny" Breckinridge | Bill Murray | Bunny is Ed's drag queen friend. | United States | [162] |
1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Gareth | Simon Callow | Gareth and Matthew are romantic partners. | United Kingdom | [163] |
Matthew | John Hannah |
1994 | A Man of No Importance | Alfred Byrne | Albert Finney | Byrne is a closeted homosexual bus conductor in 1963 Dublin. His sister tries to find him a suitable woman, but his real passion is putting on amateur theatre productions of Oscar Wilde plays, particularly Salome. The film deals with his struggle, temptation, and friendships, and how they are affected by his homosexuality. | United Kingdom, Ireland | [164] |
1994 | Oh! My Three Guys | Ching Yu-hoi | Lau Ching-wan | Good friends Kau, Hoi and Fa are homosexual men. Hoi works in an advertising firm while Kau and Fa have not found a suitable job yet. Hoi's new female colleague Mei became interested in him. | British Hong Kong | [165] |
Fa | Dayo Wong |
Kau Ku-neung | Eric Kot |
1994 | Prêt-à-Porter | Cy Bianco | Forest Whitaker | Bianco and Romney are fashion designers. | United States | [166] |
Cort Romney | Richard E. Grant |
1994 | Priest | Father Greg Pilkington | Linus Roache | Concerning a Roman Catholic priest (Pilkington) as he struggles with two difficulties that precipitate a crisis of faith. He meets Graham at a local gay hangout and the two embark on a physical relationship. | United Kingdom | [167] |
Graham | Robert Carlyle |
1994 | Pulp Fiction | Zed | Peter Greene | Zed rapes Marsellus Wallace. | United States | [168] [169] |
1994 | Reality Bites | Sammy Gray | Steve Zahn | Gray is Vickie's friend who remains celibate, not due to a fear of AIDS, but because forming a relationship would force him to come out to his conservative parents. | United States | [170] |
1994 | | Jeff Mitchell | Russell Crowe | Widower Harry Mitchell lives with his son Jeff, with both men struggling in their searches for true love. | Australia | [171] |
1994 | Threesome | Eddy | Josh Charles | Alex falls in love and tries unsuccessfully to seduce; Eddy falls in love with Stuart; Stuart is in love with Alex. | United States | [172] |
1994 | Trevor | Trevor | Brett Barsky | Following what happens to 13-year-old Trevor, a Diana Ross fan, when his crush on a schoolmate named Pinky Faraday gets discovered. | United States | [173] |
1994 | Uncovered | César | John Wood | César is Julia's guardian. | United Kingdom | [174] |
1994 | Wagons East | Julian Rogers | John C. McGinley | In the 1860s Wild West, Rogers is a bookseller. | United States | [175] |
1994 | Wild Reeds | François Forestier | Gaël Morel | Forestier is a shy young man from the lower middle class in southwest France in 1962, is working towards his high school diploma. | France | [176] |
1995 | An Awfully Big Adventure | Meredith Potter | Hugh Grant | Meredith is a manager, actor and director of a troupe. | United Kingdom | [177] |
1995 | The Basketball Diaries | Swifty | Bruno Kirby | Swifty is Jim's coach. | United States | [178] |
1995 | Billy Madison | Max Anderson | Josh Mostel | The principal of the elementary school, and a former masked wrestler known as the "Revolting Blob". | United States | [179] |
1995 | Braveheart | Prince Edward | Peter Hanly | Edward II was the fourth son of Edward I. | United States | |
1995 | Carrington | Lytton Strachey | Jonathan Pryce | Lytton is the sadomasochistic lover of Roger. Lytton was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. His homosexuality was well known. | France, United Kingdom | [180] [181] |
1995 | Clueless | Christian Stovitz | Justin Walker | Stovitz is a fashion-conscious new student Christian Stovitz attracts Cher's attention and becomes her target for a boyfriend. | United States | [182] |
1995 | Home for the Holidays | Tommy Larson | Robert Downey Jr. | Tommy married his boyfriend Jack in a beach wedding. | United States | [183] |
Jack | Sam Slovick |
1995 | Jefferson in Paris | Richard Cosway | Simon Callow | Richard is the husband of Maria Cosway, a beautiful Anglo-Italian painter and musician. | France, United States | [184] |
1995 | Jeffrey | Darius | Bryan Batt | Based on the play of the same name by Paul Rudnick, | United States | [185] |
Steve Howard | Michael T. Weiss |
Jeffrey | Steven Weber |
Sterling | Patrick Stewart |
1995 | Nixon | J. Edgar Hoover | Bob Hoskins | Hoover was first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). | United States | [186] |
1995 | Party Girl | Derrick | Anthony DeSando | Derrick is a gal bestie of Nary. | United States | [187] |
1995 | Stonewall | La Miranda | Guillermo Díaz | Fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots, a seminal event in the modern American gay rights movement. | United Kingdom, United States | [188] |
Matty Dean | Frederick Weller |
Vinnie | Bruce MacVittie |
Bostonia | Duane Boutte |
Ethan | Brendan Corbalis |
1995 | To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | Vida Boheme | Patrick Swayze | Vida and Noxeema are drag queens. | United States | [189] [190] |
Noxeema Jackson | Wesley Snipes |
1995 | Total Eclipse | Arthur Rimbaud | Leonardo DiCaprio | Presenting a historical account of the passionate and violent relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, at a time of soaring creativity for both men. | United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, United States | [191] |
1995 | Waiting to Exhale | David Matthews | Giancarlo Esposito | Matthews is Gloria's ex-husband and father of Tarik. | United States | [192] |
1996 | Beautiful Thing | Ste Pearce | Scott Neal | Set in Thamesmead, a working class area of South East London dominated by post-war council estates, teenager Jamie is in love with his classmate, Ste | United Kingdom | [193] [194] |
Jamie Gangel | Glen Berry |
1996 | The Birdcage | Agador | Hank Azaria | A same-sex couple whose son is set to marry the daughter of a conservative senator. | United States | [195] |
Albert Goldman | Nathan Lane |
Armand Goldman | Robin Williams |
1996 | Dream for an Insomniac | Rob | Michael Landes | Rob is apprehensive about coming out to his father. | United States | [196] |
1996 | Flirting with Disaster | Paul Harmon | Richard Jenkins | Tony and Paul are ATF agents who are in a relationship with each other. | United States | [197] |
Tony Kent | Josh Brolin |
1996 | Get on the Bus | Kyle | Isaiah Washington | Kyle is an ex-Marine who is the midst of breaking up with his lover Randall. | United States | [198] |
Randall | Harry Lennix |
1996 | Hollow Reed | Martyn Wyatt | Martin Donovan | Martyn, a family doctor, married Hannah to hide his homosexuality, and they divorced after he finally came out. Tom is Martyn's lover. | Germany, United Kingdom, Spain | [199] [200] |
Tom Dixon | Ian Hart |
1996 | I Shot Andy Warhol | Andy Warhol | Jared Harris | The life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with the artist Andy Warhol. | United Kingdom, United States | [201] |
1996 | Indian Summer | Tonio | Jason Flemyng | Tonio is a rising young star of a London ballet company. Ramon is the former star-turned-choreographer of the company, who is dying of AIDs. Jack is an older Therapist who falls in love with Tonio. | United Kingdom | [202] |
Jack | Antony Sher |
Ramon | Anthony Higgins |
1996 | It's My Party | Nick Stark | Eric Roberts | Stark, an architect who hosted a two-day party after being diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, will fall into a state of mental lapse lasting for months until his death. He decides to host a party for his family and friends, at the end of which he will commit suicide by taking Seconal. | United States | [203] |
1996 | Johns | Donner | Lukas Haas | Donner is a fellow hustler who's new to the streets and has fallen for John. | United States | [204] |
1996 | Mrs. Winterbourne | Paco | Miguel Sandoval | Paco is the loyal chauffeur of the Winterbournes. | United States | [205] |
1996 | Mulholland Falls | Jimmy Fields | Andrew McCarthy | Allison's friend, Jimmy Fields, admits that he and Allison made numerous such films, including one with Hoover in it. | United States | [206] |
1996 | Sling Blade | Vaughn Cunningham | John Ritter | Cunningham is Linda's friend and boss. | United States | [207] [208] |
1996 | Stealing Beauty | Alex Parrish | Jeremy Irons | Parrish is a dying English writer and a guest at the Tuscan villa of the Graysons. | United Kingdom | [209] |
1996 | When the Cat's Away | Michel | Olivier Py | Michel is a friend of Chloé who she shares an apartment with. | France | [210] [211] |
1996 | Who's the Woman, Who's the Man? | Auntie | Eric Tsang | Auntie is Sam's manager. | Hong Kong | [212] |
1997 | All Over Me | Luke | Pat Briggs | Jesse is Claude's co-worker at the pizzeria.Luke is a musician who has just moved into Claude's apartment building. | United States | [213] [214] |
Jesse | Wilson Cruz |
1997 | As Good as It Gets | Simon Bishop | Greg Kinnear | Simon is an artist living in Manhattan. We learn that his parents kicked him out for being homosexual and was abused by his father because of it. Homophobic neighbor Melvin Udall uses derogatory terms when referring to Simon, but after Simon is brutally attacked he becomes the caretaker of Simon's dog, Verdell. | United States | [215] |
1997 | Bent | Max | Clive Owen | Max is a promiscuous man living in 1930s Berlin. He is at odds with his wealthy family because of his homosexuality. | United Kingdom, Japan | [216] |
Ruby | Brian Webber II |
1997 | Best Men | Sergeant Buzz Thomas | Dean Cain | Thomas is a former soldier and a groomsman. | United States | [217] |
1997 | Black Rose II | Dan | Blackie Ko | Dan is Chi-Mo's co-worker and a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual. | Hong Kong | [218] |
1997 | Boogie Nights | Scotty J. | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Scotty is a boom operator who is in love with Dirk. | United States | [219] |
1997 | Chasing Amy | Hooper | Dwight Ewell | Hooper is a black cartoonist, an African-American writer and activist who masks his flamboyantly personality with a militant image to promote his comic White-Hating Coon. | United States | [220] |
1997 | The Fifth Element | Baby Ray | Ian Beckett | Baby Ray is a background character accompanied by a male significant. | United States | [221] |
1997 | The Full Monty | Lomper | Steve Huison | Lomper is a security guard at the steel mill where Dave and Gaz once worked. | United Kingdom | [222] |
Guy | Hugo Speer |
1997 | The Hanging Garden | William | Chris Leavins | Hinging on a fateful incident from William's teenage years, when his grandmother caught him attempting to have sex with his friend Fletcher, involuntarily outing him to his dysfunctional family. | United Kingdom, Canada | [223] |
Fletcher | Joel Keller |
1997 | Happy Together | Ho Po-Wing | Leslie Cheung | Ho Po-Wing and Lai Yiu-Fai are a couple from Hong Kong with a tumultuous relationship marked by frequent separations and reconciliations. They visit Argentina together but break up after they become lost while traveling to visit the Iguazu Falls. | British Hong Kong | [224] |
Lai Yiu-Fai | Tony Leung Chiu-wai |
1997 | In & Out | Howard Brackett | Kevin Kline | Inspired by Tom Hanks's tearful speech when he accepted his 1994 Oscar (for his role in Philadelphia), in which he mentioned his high-school drama coach Rawley Farnsworth, and his former classmate John Gilkerson, "two of the finest gay Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with." | United States | [225] |
Peter Malloy | Tom Selleck |
1997 | The Jackal | Douglas | Stephen Spinella | Douglas is a man who the Jackal encountered earlier in a bar and pretends to date with. | United States | [226] |
1997 | Kiss Me, Guido | Warren | Anthony Barrile | Warren is an actor who's recently broken up with his director boyfriend. | United States | [227] |
1997 | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Gregory Mitchell | Stephen Bogardus | Revolving around eight gay men who gather for three summer weekends at a lakeside house in Dutchess County, New York, where they relax, reflect, and plan for survival in an era plagued by AIDS. | United States | [228] |
James Jeckyll | John Glover |
Perry Sellars | Stephen Spinella |
Buzz Hauser | Jason Alexander |
Ramon Fornos | Randy Becker |
Arthur Pape | John Benjamin Hickey |
Bobby Brahms | Justin Kirk |
1997 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Jim Williams | Kevin Spacey | Williams is an antiques dealer. | United States | [229] [230] |
1997 | My Best Friend's Wedding | George Downes | Rupert Everett | George is Julianne's friend and confidante. He agrees to pose as her fiancé so that she can make Michael, the college friend she thought would marry her, jealous. | United States | [231] [232] |
1997 | Nowhere | Cowboy | Guillermo Diaz | Cowboy and Bart are bandmates as well as boyfriends. | United States | [233] |
Bart | Jeremy Jordan |
1997 | Spice World | Himself | Elton John | | United Kingdom | [234] |
1997 | Swept from the Sea | Dr. James Kennedy | Ian McKellen | Local doctor Dr. Kennedy's compassion towards Yanko marks the beginning of a devoted friendship. | United Kingdom, United States | [235] |
1997 | 'Til There Was You | Gregory | Ken Olin | Gregory is a college professor and an architect. | United States | [236] |
1997 | Waiting for Guffman | Corky St. Clair | Christopher Guest | In the fictional small town of Blaine, Missouri, a few residents prepare to put on a community theater production led by eccentric director Corky St. Clair. | United States | [237] [238] |
1997 | Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Stephen Fry | Oscar loves his wife and children, but is sexually attracted to men. He becomes obsessed with Alfred. Alfred is Wilde's lover. Their relationship becomes a scandal resulting in Oscar's downfall. | United Kingdom | [239] [240] |
Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas | Jude Law |
John Gray | Ioan Gruffudd |
1998 | Alice and Martin | Benjamin | Mathieu Amalric | Martin's half-brother Benjamin is a struggling actor sharing living arrangements with his best friend Alice, a violinist in a local quintet that specializes in tango music. | France, Spain | [241] |
1998 | B. Monkey | Paul Neville | Rupert Everett | Paul and Bruno are a couple and Beatrice's partners in crime. | United States, United Kingdom | [242] |
Bruno | Jonathan Rhys Meyers |
1998 | Bedrooms and Hallways | Darren | Tom Hollander | Darren is a roommate of Leo's. | United Kingdom | [243] |
1998 | Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss | Billy Collier | Sean Hayes | Billy is a photographer who falls in love with sexually ambiguous waiter/model Gabriel. He hires Gabriel Perry is Billy's mentor, patron, and admirer. Fernando is Billy's on-again, off-again lover. He has an open relationship, but frequently pursues Billy. | United States | [244] |
Perry | Richard Ganoung |
Fernando | Armando Valdes-Kennedy |
1998 | Dark Harbor | Young Man | Norman Reedus | David and the young man are lovers. | United States | [245] |
1998 | Edge of Seventeen | Eric Hunter | Chris Stafford | In 1984 Sandusky, Ohio, Hunter is a Eurythmics-obsessed, musically driven teenager coming to terms with his sexual identity. | United States | [246] |
1998 | 54 | Steve Rubell | Mike Myers | Steve Rubell is co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54. | United States | [247] |
1998 | Bishonen | Jet | Stephen Fung | Jet is a handsome hustler whose sex appeal seems to know no bounds. | Hong Kong | [248] |
1998 | Get Real | Steven Carter | Ben Silverstone | Centering the coming of age of a teen while growing up in rural Britain during the Cool Britannia era of the late 1990s. | United Kingdom | [249] |
John Dixon | Brad Gorton |
1998 | Gods and Monsters | George Cukor | Martin Ferrero | Recounting the partly fictionalized last days of the life of film director James Whale. | United Kingdom, United States | [250] [251] [252] |
David Lewis | David Dukes |
James Whale | Ian McKellen |
1998 | Head On | Ari | Alex Dimitriades | Retelling the story of Ari, a dissolute 19-year-old Greek-Australian drug addict living in St Kilda, Victoria. | Australia | [253] [254] |
1998 | Hold You Tight | A-che | Lawrence Ko | The story of a man living in Hong Kong who is initially drawn to a young woman, but soon finds he is more attracted to her boyfriend. | Hong Kong | [255] |
Tong | Eric Tsang |
1998 | Illuminata | Umberto Bevalaqua | Christopher Walken | A flamboyant theater critic. | United States | [256] |
1998 | The Impostors | Mr. Sparks | Billy Connolly | Sparks is an aging professional tennis player. | United States | [257] |
1998 | The Object of My Affection | George Hanson | Paul Rudd | George is a first grade teacher. | United States | [258] |
1998 | The Opposite of Sex | Bill Truitt | Martin Donovan | Bill is Dedee's much older half-brother and a teacher in a conservative, suburban community in Saint Joseph County, Indiana. | United States | [259] |
Matt Mateo | Ivan Sergei |
1998 | The Velocity of Gary | Valentino | Vincent D'Onofrio | Valentino is a former porn star.Gary (not his real name, which is never revealed) is a hustler walking through the streets of New York City, looking for business. | United States | [260] |
Gary | Thomas Jane |
1999 | Advice from a Caterpillar | Spaz | Andy Dick | Spaz is Missy's best friend. | United States | [261] |
1999 | American Beauty | Jim Berkley | Sam Robards | Frank is closeted. | United States | [262] [263] |
Jim Olmeyer | Scott Bakula |
Frank Fitts | Chris Cooper |
1999 | Big Daddy | Phil D'Amato | Allen Covert | D'Amato and Grayton are lawyer friends of Sonny's who are also in a relationship. | United States | [264] |
Tommy Grayton | Peter Dante |
1999 | The Big Tease | Crawford Mackenzie | Craig Ferguson | Mackenzie is a Scottish hairdresser who, while being filmed as part of a fly-on-the-wall BBC documentary, is invited to the World Hairdresser International Federation annual contest. | United States | [265] |
1999 | Black and White | Terry Donager | Robert Downey Jr. | Terry is the closeted husband of a documentary filmmaker. | United States | [266] |
1999 | Blast from the Past | Troy | Dave Foley | Troy is Eve's housemate and best friend. | United States | [267] |
1999 | The Boondock Saints | Paul Smecker | Willem Dafoe | Smecker is an FBI agent who is assigned to the murders linked to the MacManus twin brothers. | United States | [268] |
1999 | But I'm a Cheerleader | Dolph | Dante Basco | Dolph, Clayton, Andre, and Joel are campers. Rock is the son of Mary Brown, the founder of True Directions. Supposedly straight, he is actually closeted. Mike is supposedly an ex-gay who helps with the process of "curing" campers of their homosexuality; however, he is clearly shown to be still attracted to men. Lloyd and Larry are a couple described as "ex, ex-gays". Before the events of the film, they were once campers at True Directions before they defected. They help the campers sneak out and go party at a gay bar, and also give advice about dealing with one's own sexuality. They let ex-camper Dolph live with them when he is expelled from True Directions for having sex at the camp. | United States | [269] [270] [271] |
Clayton Dunn | Kip Pardue |
Andre | Douglas Spain |
Joel Goldberg | Joel Michaely |
Rock Brown | Eddie Cibrian |
Mike | RuPaul |
Lloyd Morgan-Gordon | Wesley Mann |
Larry Morgan-Gordon | Richard Moll |
1999 | Cruel Intentions | Blaine Tuttle | Joshua Jackson | Tuttle is a friend of Sebastian who is struggling towards his relationship with a Football stud at his private school, Greg. | United States | [272] |
1999 | East Is East | Nazir "Nigel" Khan | Ian Aspinall | Nigel is one the Khans' children. | United Kingdom | [273] |
1999 | Go | Adam | Scott Wolf | Adam and Zack are soap opera actors who are in a relationship. | United States | [274] |
Zack | Jay Mohr |
1999 | Happy, Texas | Sheriff Chappy Dent | William H. Macy | Dent is the sheriff of Happy, Texas. | United States | [275] |
1999 | It's the Rage | Chris | David Schwimmer | Chris and Tim are a couple. | United States | [276] |
Tim | Andre Braugher |
1999 | Magnolia | "Quiz Kid" Donnie Smith | William H. Macy | Former What Do Kids Know? champion Donnie Smith, whose parents took all his prize money, has been fired from his job due to performance issues and is in love with a male bartender with braces. | United States | [277] |
1999 | Man of the Century | Tim | Anthony Rapp | Tim is a photographer. | United States | [278] |
1999 | Second Skin | Diego | Javier Bardem | Diego is the handsome surgeon who Alberto has an affair with. | Spain | [279] |
1999 | Summer of Sam | Bobby Del Fiore | Brian Tarantina | | United States | [280] |
1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Peter Smith-Kingsley | Jack Davenport | Peter is Ripley's lover later in the story. | United States | [281] |
1999 | Three to Tango | Peter Steinberg | Oliver Platt | Steinberg has landed a career-making opportunity to design a multimillion-dollar cultural center for wealthy businessman Charles Newman along with Novak. | Australia, United States | [282] |
1999 | Trick | Gabriel | Christian Campbell | Gabriel, an office temp by day and aspiring Broadway composer by night, makes eye contact with Mark, a go-go dancer at a gay bar. The two meet again in the subway the same night, and go back to Gabriel's place to have sex. | United States | [283] |
Mark Miranda | John Paul Pitoc |
1999 | The Underground Comedy Movie | Gay Man | Ant | | United States | [284] |
Gay Virgin | Michael Clarke Duncan |
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Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | |
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2000 | American Psycho | Luis Carruthers | Matt Ross | Carruthers is a colleague of Bateman and closeted homosexual | United States | [285] |
2000 | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas | Javier Bardem | Reinaldo is imprisoned in Cuba for his homosexuality and later moves to New York City, where he contracts HIV/AIDS. He begins friendships with two other men, Pepe and Tomas. José is a literature writer. Virgilio is an influential writer. Pepe is in a relationship with Reinaldo before leaving him to pursue a woman. | United States | [286] [287] [288] |
José Lezama Lima | Manuel González |
Tomas Diego | Santiago Magill |
Virgilio Piñera | Héctor Babenco |
2000 | Best in Show | Scott Donlan | John Michael Higgins | Donlan and Vanderhoof are a campy couple who take great pride in their Shih Tzu Miss Agnes | United States | [289] [290] |
Stefan Vanderhoof | Michael McKean |
2000 | Billy Elliot | Michael Caffrey cross-dresser | Stuart Wells (young Michael) Merryn Owen (adult Michael) | Michael is a young boy and the best friend of Billy Elliot. At some point, Michael is seen using a dress and makeup. He shows interest in Billy, who does not reciprocate but is supportive of his friend. | United Kingdom | [291] |
2000 | Borstal Boy | Charlie Milwall | Danny Dyer | Charlie is a young Irish sailor in 1941. | United Kingdom, Ireland | [292] |
2000 | Bounce | Seth | Johnny Galecki | Seth is Buddy's secretary | United States | [293] |
2000 | Bring It On | Les | Huntley Ritter | Les is a member of the Toros cheerleading team. | United States | [294] |
2000 | The Broken Hearts Club | Benji | Zach Braff | The film follows the lives of a group of friends in West Hollywood. | United States | [295] [296] |
Cole | Dean Cain |
Dennis | Timothy Olyphant |
Howie | Matt McGrath |
Kevin | Andrew Keegan |
Marshall | Justin Theroux |
Patrick | Ben Weber |
Taylor | Billy Porter |
2000 | Chuck & Buck | Buck O'Brien | Mike White | Buck O'Brien is a 27-year-old amateur playwright with the maturity level of an adolescent. | United States | [297] |
2000 | Lavender | Chow Chow | Eason Chan | Chow Chow is Athena's nosy next door neighbor. | Hong Kong | [298] |
2000 | The Next Best Thing | Robert Whittaker | Rupert Everett | Robert is Abbie's best friend, who she decides to have a child with. | United States | [299] |
2000 | Sexy Beast | Teddy Bass | Ian McShane | Bass is a London crime boss. | United Kingdom, Spain | [300] |
2000 | Traffic | Francisco "Frankie Flowers" Flores | Clifton Collins Jr. | Flores is a sicario who works for the Obregón brothers. | United States | [301] |
2000 | 28 Days | Dutch Gerhardt | Alan Tudyk | Gerhardt is a patient in rehab and a dancer. | United States | [302] |
2000 | Urbania | Charlie | Dan Futterman | After an unsuccessful bout of masturbation to the sound of his upstairs neighbors having sex, he prowls the streets looking for a man he saw several months earlier. The implication is that he's had a one night stand with the man, cheating on his boyfriend Chris. | United States | [303] |
Chris | Matt Keeslar |
Brett | Alan Cumming |
2000 | Wonder Boys | James Leer | Tobey Maguire | Leer is one of Grady's students. | United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan | [304] |
2001 | Blow | Derek Foreal | Paul Reubens | Foreal is a marijuana dealer. | United States | [305] |
2001 | The Deep End | Beau Hall | Jonathan Tucker | Beau is a high school senior dating a 30-year-old club owner. | United States | [306] |
2001 | Der Schuh des Manitu | Winnetouch | Michael Herbig | Winnetouch is the effeminate twin brother of Abahachi and owner of the all-pink Powder Rouge Ranch. | Germany | [307] [308] [309] |
2001 | Gypsy 83 | Clive Webb | Kett Turton | Clive is a young goth who joins his friend Gypsy on a road trip to see a Stevie Nicks tribute in New York City. | United States | [310] |
2001 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Luther Robinson | Maurice Dean Wint | Robinson is an American soldier in East Germany. | United States | [311] |
2001 | Josie and the Pussycats | Wyatt Frame | Alan Cumming | Wyatt is a record producer. | United States | [312] |
2001 | Kissing Jessica Stein | Martin | Michael Mastro | Martin and Sebastian are Helen's friends. | United States | [313] [314] |
Sebastian | Carson Elrod |
2001 | Lan Yu | Lan Yu | Liu Ye | The story of an affair between a young man and a middle-aged man. Set in mainland China. | China, Hong Kong | [315] |
Chen Handong | Hu Jun |
2001 | Legally Blonde | Enrique Salvatore | Greg Serano | Salvatore is the pool boy and a lynchpin in Elle's defense case with fitness guru Brooke Windham. | United States | [316] |
2001 | L.I.E. | Howie Blitzer | Paul Dano | Howie is discovering his sexual orientation. Gary is a hustler who becomes a friend of Howie. Big John is Gary's client and a pedophile. | United States | [317] [318] |
Gary Terrio | Billy Kay |
Big John Harrigan | Brian Cox |
2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Creighton Tolliver | Jon Polito | Tolliver is a businessman looking for investors to invest $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning in 1949 Santa Rosa, California. | United Kingdom, United States | [319] |
2001 | The Mexican | Leroy | James Gandolfini | Leroy is a hitman. | United States | [320] |
2001 | Saving Silverman | J.D McNugent | Jack Black | Judith helps J.D. realize his sexuality. | United States | [321] |
2001 | Shake It All About | Jørgen | Troels Lyby | Jacob asks Jørgen to marry him, and he happily accepts. However, Jacob falls in love with another woman. | Denmark | [322] |
2001 | Wet Hot American Summer | McKinley | Michael Ian Black | McKinley and Ben are camp counselors and lovers. | United States | [323] [324] |
Ben | Bradley Cooper |
2002 | Bend It Like Beckham | Tony | Ameet Chana | Tony is Jess's best friend. | United Kingdom, United States, Germany, India | [325] |
2002 | Boat Trip | Lloyd Faversham | Roger Moore | Brian and Michael are boyfriends. | United States | [326] [327] |
Brian | Artie Lange |
Michael | Will Ferrell |
2002 | Dahmer | Jeffrey Dahmer | Jeremy Renner | The story of the real-life serial killer of the same name. | United States | [328] |
2002 | Far from Heaven | Frank Whitaker | Dennis Quaid | Frank is an executive at Magnatech, a television advertising company and Cathy's husband. She walks in on him passionately kissing a man and he confesses to having had "problems" as a young man. | United States | [329] [330] |
2002 | Friday After Next | Damon Pearly | Terry Crews | Damon is a newly released ex-convict who developed homosexual tendencies in prison. | United States | [331] |
2002 | The Hours | Richard Brown | Ed Harris | Richard is a moody poet and author living with AIDS. | United Kingdom, United States | [332] [333] |
2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | Bobby Ray | Ethan Embry | Bobby Ray is outed by his best friend. | United States | [334] |
2002 | Unconditional Love | Dirk | Rupert Everett | Dirk is closeted singer Victor Fox 's former lover. | United States | [335] |
Victor Fox | Jonathan Pryce |
2003 | American Wedding | Bear | Eric Allan Kramer | Bear is a balding shaggy lineman sort of guy who Kevin and Finch meet in the gay bar. | United States | [336] |
2003 | Arisan! | Nino | Surya Saputra | The first Indonesian film to feature a same-sex kiss. | Indonesia | [337] |
Sakti | Tora Sudiro |
2003 | Bright Young Things | Miles Maitland | Michael Sheen | Maitland is forced to flee the country to avoid prosecution for homosexuality. | United Kingdom | [338] |
2003 | Latter Days | Christian Markelli | Wes Ramsey | Christian makes a bet with his friends that he can seduce a neighbor (Aaron) who is a Mormon missionary. | United States | [339] |
Aaron Davis | Steve Sandvoss |
2003 | Mambo Italiano | Angelo Barberini | Luke Kirby | Angelo is the son of Italian immigrants. Nino is boyfriend, who is not out to his parents. | Canada | [340] |
Nino Paventi | Peter Miller |
2003 | Party Monster | Michael Alig | Macaulay Culkin | Based on Disco Bloodbath, the memoir of James St. James which details his friendship with Alig, an infamous New York City party promoter, that later fell apart as Alig's drug addiction worsened, and ended after he murdered Andre "Angel" Melendez and went to prison. | United States | [341] |
James St. James | Seth Green |
2004 | The 24th Day | Dan | James Marsden | Tom has been diagnosed with HIV and believes he infected his late wife with the AIDS virus. He had only one sexual encounter with a man, Dan, and thinks that it was he who transmitted the disease to him. Tom kidnaps Dan with the intent to kill him. | United States | [342] [343] |
2004 | Alexander | Hephaistion | Jared Leto | Alexander has relationships with childhood friends Hephaistion and Bagoas. | Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States | [344] |
Bagoas | Francisco Bosch |
2004 | Bad Education | Enrique Goded | Fele Martínez | Focusing on two reunited childhood friends and lovers caught up in a stylized murder mystery. | Spain | [345] |
Father Manolo | Daniel Giménez Cacho |
Ignacio Rodriguez | Francisco Boira |
2004 | Brother to Brother | Perry | Anthony Mackie | Black art student Perry is thrown out by his parents for his homosexuality and is further disturbed by a potential romantic entanglement with a white boy in his class. | United States | [346] |
2004 | Enter the Phoenix | Georgie Hung Chi Kit | Daniel Wu | Georgie lives as a cook with his boyfriend Frankie, is uninterested to continue his father's work. | Hong Kong | [347] |
2004 | Formula 17 | Chou T'ien Tsai | Tony Yang | Chou is looking for romance as he takes a trip to the capital, Taipei, to visit an online boyfriend in person for the first time. Disappointed to find that his online friend only wants sex and has no interest in forming a romantic bond, he starts to look elsewhere, finding his internet relationship. T'ien's roommate and friends help him look for the man of his dreams. The film was banned in Singapore because it "portrays homosexuality as normal, and a natural progression of society". | Taiwan | [348] |
Bai Tieh Nan/Richard Bai | Duncan Lai |
Yu | King Chin |
Jun | Jason Chang |
C.C. | Dada Ji |
Alan | James Yun |
Ray | Jeff Locker |
Kevin | Ladder Yu |
2004 | Hellbent | Joey | Hank Harris | Joey is one of Eddie's friends. | United States | [349] |
2004 | A Home at the End of the World | Jonathan Glover | Harris Allan / Dallas Roberts | Bobby finds a new home with his childhood friend Jonathan. The two boys come of age together and discover their sexuality. | United States | [350] |
Bobby Morrow | Colin Farrell |
2004 | Leave Me Alone | Yiu Chun Man | Ekin Cheng | Yiu is a fashion designer who has a boyfriend. | Hong Kong | [351] |
Man's boyfriend | Jan Lamb |
2004 | Mean Girls | Damian | Daniel Franzese | Leigh is Janis and Cady' friend. | United States | [352] |
2004 | Mysterious Skin | Neil McCormick | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Neil is the son of an irresponsible single mother who is already discovering his own homosexuality. He is sexually abused by the Little League baseball coach. | Netherlands, United States | [353] |
2004 | Rice Rhapsody | Daniel | Alvin Chiang | Daniel and Harry are the sons of Jen Fan, owner of a successful restaurant in Singapore's Chinatown. | Hong Kong, Singapore | [354] |
Harry | Craig Toh |
2004 | Saved! | Dean | Chad Faust | Dean is sent away by his parents to be "degayified". Mitch is Dean's boyfriend. | United States | [355] [356] |
Mitch | Kett Turton |
2004 | Somersault | Richard | Erik Thomson | Richard is a neighbour who is in town for a few days clearing out his relative's house before it goes to auction. | Australia | [357] |
2004 | Stage Beauty | George Villiers | Ben Chaplin | Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, is the lover of Kynaston. | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [358] |
2004 | The Stepford Wives | Roger Bannister | Roger Bart | Roger and his long-time partner Jerry are residents of Stepford. | United States | [359] |
Jerry Harmon | David Marshall Grant |
2004 | Summer Storm | Tobi | Robert Stadlober | Tobi fells in love with his heterosexual childhood friend Achim. | Germany | [360] |
2004 | Touch of Pink | Alim | Jimi Mistry | Alim and Giles are in an open relationship, but Alim is not out to his Muslim mother and family. When Alim's mother announces that she is going to be visiting him, he and Giles must pretend that they are only roommates, which begins to strain their relationship. | Canada, United Kingdom | [361] [362] |
Giles | Kris Holden-Ried |
2004 | Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 | Jürgen T. Kork | Christian Tramitz | Parody of Star Trek with Jürgen T. Kork (i.e. James T. Kirk) and Mr. Spuck (i.e. Spock) depicted as effeminate. | Germany | [363] [364] |
Mr. Spuck | Michael Herbig |
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Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | |
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2005 | Be Cool | Elliot Wilhelm | Dwayne Johnson | Elliot is Raji's Samoan bodyguard. | United States | [365] |
2005 | The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros | Maximo "Maxi" Oliveros | Nathan Lopez | Oliveros is a teenage effeminate boy who becomes infatuated with a police officer who rescued him from harassment. | Philippines | [366] |
2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Randall Malone | David Harbour | Randall has an affair with Jack. | United States | [367] [368] [369] |
2005 | Capote | Truman Capote | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Following the events during the writing of Capote's book In Cold Blood. | United States, Canada | [370] |
Jack Dunphy | Bruce Greenwood |
2005 | C.R.A.Z.Y. | Zachary Beaulieu | Marc-André Grondin | Zac is a young man dealing with homophobia whike growing up with his four brothers and his father in Quebec during the 1960s and 1970s. | Canada | [371] |
2005 | Cursed | Bo | Milo Ventimiglia | Bo is a wrestler repressing his sexuality. | United States | [372] [373] |
2005 | The Dying Gaul | Robert Sandrich | Peter Sarsgaard | In 1995 Hollywood, novice screenwriter Sandrich has written an autobiographical script inspired by his lover's death by AIDS-related cerebral tuberculosis. | United States | [374] |
2005 | The Family Stone | Thad Stone | Tyrone Giordano | Thad is deaf and is the youngest son in the Stone family. He and his partner, Patrick, have an adopted son. | United States | [375] |
Patrick Thomas | Brian J. White |
2005 | Happy Endings | Charley Peppitone | Steve Coogan | Charlie runs a restaurant. Gil is his partner. | United States | [376] |
Gil Palmer | David Sutcliffe |
2005 | Kinky Boots | Simon / Lola | Chiwetel Ejiofor | A man who is a drag queen performer, with Simon as his alter ego. | United Kingdom | [377] |
2005 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Perry Van Shrike/"Gay Perry" | Val Kilmer | Perry is a detective. | United States | [378] |
2005 | Loggerheads | George | Michael Kelly | George is a friendly motel owner who offers Mark, a young man obsessed with loggerhead sea turtles, to stay. | United States | [379] |
Mark | Kip Pardue |
2005 | Monster-in-Law | Remy | Adam Scott | Remy is Charlie's neighbor and best friend. | United States | [380] |
2005 | My Fair Son | Ray | Junrui Wang | Ray falls in love with one of his father's colleagues. | China | [381] |
Unnamed student | Guifeng Wang |
2005 | Rent | Thomas B. "Tom" Collins | Jesse L. Martin | Tom" Collins is an anarchist and philosophy professor with AIDS.Schunard is a drag queen and street musician who is also suffering from AIDS. | United States | [382] [383] |
Angel Dumott Schunard | Wilson Jermaine Heredia |
2005 | Tides of War | Frank Habley | Adrian Paul | Cmdr. Habley and Lt. Cmdr. Palatonio (Frank's executive officer) are partners serving on the same submarine. Tom is killed in a battle and Frank must continue to serve on the same vessel. Released in theaters as Phantom Below with the gay theme excluded. The original gay version was broadcast by the Here network. | United States | [384] [385] [386] |
Tom Palatonio | Mike Doyle |
2005 | V for Vendetta | Gordon Deitrich | Stephen Fry | Deitrich is Evey's former boss and a talk show host. | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [387] |
2005 | Wedding Crashers | Todd Cleary | Keir O'Donnell | Todd is the hunchbacked brother of Claire who aggressively comes on to Jeremy. A GQ review described the character as an inexcusably unfunny riff on the old "predatory gay man" trope. | United States | [388] |
2006 | Another Gay Movie | Griff | Mitch Morris | Following four friends, Andy, Jarod, Nico and Griff, who vow upon graduating high school that they will all lose their "anal virginity" before their friend's Labor Day party. | United States | [389] |
Nico Hunter | Jonah Blechman |
Jarod | Jonathan Chase |
Andy Wilson | Michael Carbonaro |
2006 | The Architect | Shawn | Paul James | Martin is a college dropout who explores his sexuality with a young man named Shawn. | United States | [390] |
Martin Waters | Sebastian Stan |
2006 | Boy Culture | Alex "X" | Derek Magyar | Identical to the novel's plot, the film follows a man who goes by only the letter "X" to maintain his anonymity and relationships between his two roommates—one of whom he's in love with | United States | [391] |
Andrew | Darryl Stephens |
Joey | Jonathon Trent |
Gregory Talbot | Patrick Bauchau |
2006 | The Bubble | Ashraf | Yousef 'Joe' Sweid | Retelling the story of two men who fall in love, one Israeli and one Palestinian. | Israel | [392] |
Noam | Ohad Knoller |
Yali | Alon Friedman |
2006 | Confetti | Archie | Vincent Franklin | Archie and Gregory are wedding planners and partners in both business and love. | United Kingdom | [393] |
Gregory | Jason Watkins |
2006 | Crank | Kaylo | Efren Ramirez | Kaylo is Chev Chelios' informant. | United States | [394] [395] |
2006 | The Devil Wears Prada | Nigel Kipling | Stanley Tucci | Nigel is Runway Magazine's art director. | United States | [396] |
2006 | Eternal Summer | Jonathan | Bryant Chang | Jonathan, a studious schoolboy, is asked by his teacher to look after another boy, Shane, who is rebellious and dislikes learning. Ten years on, they have developed a good friendship despite their divergent lives: Jonathan on course to go to university and Shane to become a basketball player. Jonathan is also attracted to Shane, but the attraction is not reciprocated. However, the young men's fates change when a girl, Carrie, has a secret affair with Shane (who is determined to keep it secret in order to protect Jonathan's feelings) and also does her best to persuade Shane to abandon basketball and instead work hard to try to enter university. | Taiwan | [397] |
2006 | The History Boys | Douglas Hector | Richard Griffiths | Based on the play of the same name. | United Kingdom | [398] |
Tom Irwin | Stephen Campbell Moore |
David Posner | Samuel Barnett |
2006 | Infamous | Truman Capote | Toby Jones | The time of author Capote's life during which he researched and wrote In Cold Blood. | United States | [399] |
2006 | Let's Go to Prison | Barry | Chi McBride | Barry and Biederman eventually develop a romantic relationship in the movie's process. | United States | [400] |
Nelson Biederman IV | Will Arnett |
2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Frank Ginsberg | Steve Carell | Frank, an unemployed scholar of Proust, is temporarily living with his sister's family after having attempted suicide. | United States | [401] |
2006 | The Night Listener | Gabriel Noone | Robin Williams | Gabriel is a popular New York City radio show host, is dealing with a separation from his partner, Jess. | United States | [402] |
Jess | Bobby Cannavale |
2006 | No Regret | Lee Su-min | Lee Yeong-hoon | Jae-min is a former driving client of Su-min who falls in love with him. | South Korea | [403] |
Song Jae-min | Kim Nam-gil |
2006 | Poseidon | Richard Nelson | Richard Dreyfuss | Nelson is an architect and one of the survivors. | United States | [404] |
2006 | Running with Scissors | Neil Bookman | Joseph Fiennes | Augusten and Neil begin an erratic sexual relationship. | United States | [405] |
Augusten Burroughs | Joseph Cross |
2006 | Scenes of a Sexual Nature | Billy | Ewan McGregor | Billy and Brian are life-partners. | United Kingdom | [406] |
Brian | Douglas Hodge |
2006 | Shortbus | James | Paul Dawson | James and Jamie are a couple. James wants to introduce other men into their relationship for sex. | Canada | [407] [408] |
Jamie | PJ DeBoy |
2006 | | Jean Girard | Sacha Baron Cohen | Jean is a French Formula One driver and Bobby's archrival. | United States | [409] |
2006 | United 93 | Mark Bingham | Cheyenne Jackson | During the September 11 attacks in 2001, Mark was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93. He was among the passengers who, along with Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, formed the plan to retake the plane from the hijackers, and led the effort that resulted in the crash of the plane into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, thwarting the hijackers' plan to crash the plane into a building in Washington, D.C., most likely either the U.S. Capitol Building or the White House. | United States | [410] |
2007 | Breakfast with Scot | Eric McNally | Tom Cavanagh | McNally is a retired hockey player turned television sportscaster who lives with his partner Sam, a sports lawyer. | Canada | [411] |
Sam | Ben Shenkman |
Scot | Noah Bernett |
2007 | I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry | Fred Duncan | Ving Rhames | Duncan is a firefight who despite his intimidating appearance, is uncomfortable of disclosing his sexuality. | United States | [412] |
2007 | Love Songs | Erwann | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Ismaël, Julie, and Alice are in a ménage-à-trois. After a tragedy strikes and breaks them apart, the characters learn to deal with loss and mourning. Ismaël unexpectedly finds love again with a young man named Erwann. | France | [413] |
2007 | Shelter | Shaun | Brad Rowe | Shaun is Gabe's older brother who develops a close relationship with Zack, his brother's best friend, and struggles with his sexuality. | United States | [414] |
2007 | Stardust | Captain Shakespeare | Robert De Niro | Captain Shakespeare is a sky pirate. | United States, United Kingdom | [415] |
2007 | The Walker | Carter Page III | Woody Harrelson | A middle-aged male escort living in Washington, D. C. | United States, United Kingdom | [416] |
2008 | Brideshead Revisited | Anthony Blanche | Joseph Beattie | Flyte is the younger son of Lord and Lady Marchmain who forms a deep friendship with Ryder.Blanche is a friend of Flyter and Ryder's and an overt homosexual. | United Kingdom | [417] |
Lord Sebastian Flyte | Ben Whishaw |
Charles Ryder | Matthew Goode |
2008 | Death Race | Joseph "Machine Gun Joe" Mason | Tyrese Gibson | Machine Gun Joe is a sociopathic racer who looks to use Death Race as a means to escape from prison. | United States | [418] |
2008 | Doubt | Donald Miller | Joseph Foster | Miller is the first black student in a Catholic school in The Bronx who fears his homophobic father would kill him if he knew. | United States | [419] |
2008 | Dream Boy | Nathan Davies | Stephan Bender | Following two teenagers falling in love in the rural South in the late 1970s. | United States | [420] |
Roy | Maximillian Roeg |
2008 | Hamlet 2 | Rand Posin | Skylar Astin | A drama student in love with his drama teacher. | United States | [421] |
2008 | Little Ashes | Salvador Dalí | Robert Pattinson | An unconsummated sexual attraction between Dali and Lorca (whose homosexuality was known). | United Kingdom, Spain | [422] [423] [424] |
Federico García Lorca | Javier Beltrán |
2008 | Mamma Mia! | Harry Bright | Colin Firth | Harry tells Donna: "You were the first woman I ever loved, and also the last." | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [425] [426] |
2008 | Milk | Harvey Milk | Sean Penn | Milk is the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Smith and Lira are Milk's lovers. | United States | [427] [428] [429] [430] |
Cleve Jones | Emile Hirsch |
Jack Lira | Diego Luna |
Scott Smith | James Franco |
2008 | Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist | Beefy Guy (Lethario) | Jonathan B. Wright | Dev and Thom are Nick's bandmates. Beefy Guy is their new friend. | United States | [431] |
Dev | Rafi Gavron |
Thom | Aaron Yoo |
2008 | RocknRolla | Handsome Bob | Tom Hardy | Bob is a gangster. | United States, United Kingdom, France | [432] [433] |
2008 | Sex Drive | Rex Lafferty | James Marsden | At Thanksgiving dinner, Rex tells his family about his sexuality. | United States | [434] |
2008 | Tropic Thunder | Alpa Chino | Brandon T. Jackson | Cino is a closeted rapper who is attempting to cross over into acting, portraying a soldier named Motown, while promoting his "Bust-A-Nut" candy bar and "Booty Sweat" energy drink. | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | [435] |
2008 | Zack and Miri Make a Porno | Brandon St. Randy | | Randy is Bobby's porn star boyfriend. | United States | [436] |
2009 | 44 Inch Chest | Meredith | Ian McShane | Meredith is a suave gambler. | United Kingdom | [437] |
2009 | Brüno | Brüno Gehard | Sacha Baron Cohen | Gehard is a flamboyantly fashion reporter from Austria. | United States, United Kingdom | [438] |
2009 | | Mr. Tiny | Michael Cerveris | Mr. Tiny is a meddling trickster of immense magical power, responsible numerous creations. | United States | [439] |
2009 | Horsemen | Corey Kurth | Patrick Fugit | Kurith is Taylor's brother. | United States | [440] |
2009 | I Killed My Mother | Hubert Minel | Xavier Dolan | Following the complicated relationship between a young man and his mother. | Canada | [441] |
2009 | I Love You, Man | Robbie Klaven | Andy Samberg | Robbie is Peter's brother. | United States | [442] |
2009 | I Love You Phillip Morris | Phillip Morris | Ewan McGregor | While incarcerated, Steve falls in love with his fellow inmate, Morris. | France, United States | [443] |
Steven Russell | Jim Carrey |
2009 | Permanent Residence | Ivan | Sean Li | Ivan seeks a long-term relationship with a straight friend. Befriending another young man, Windson, at a public sports club, the two build up a friendly rapport. However, Windson becomes aware of his inclination, and while happy to remain his friend, is initially very reluctant to become emotionally involved with him. This is the first feature film directed by award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker known as 'Scud'. | Hong Kong | [444] |
2009 | Shank | Cal | Wayne Virgo | Cal is a 19-year-old closeted homosexual member and hooks up with Scott online before assaulting and abandoning him out in the countryside.Acting on his own attraction to Cal, Olivier seduces him and in doing so, exposes Cal to new emotions and a tenderness that he has never experienced before. | United Kingdom | [445] |
Olivier | Marc Laurent |
Scott | Garry Summers |
Jonno | Tom Bott |
2009 | A Single Man | George Falconer | Colin Firth | In 1962, George dreams that he encounters the body of his longtime partner, Jim, at the scene of the car accident that took his life. | United States | [446] |
Jim | Matthew Goode |
2009 | Soundless Wind Chime | Ricky | Lu Yulai | An interracial love story, told through a linear narrative and a series of complex, interlocking flashbacks. Ricky, who has arrived in Hong Kong from mainland China, works as a delivery boy. He is robbed by a Swiss thief, Pascal, who admits his crime and returns the stolen item. The two eventually embark on a love affair, but through several flashbacks, it eventually becomes clear that Pascal has subsequently been killed in a road accident near their flat, which Ricky had witnessed. Some years later, Ricky visits Pascal's former home in Switzerland to find it abandoned. During his time there, he meets Pascal's doppelgänger in a man called Ueli, who nevertheless has a very different personality. They, too, fall in love and the contentment that Ricky finds enables him to reflect on the relationship he had with Pascal. | Hong Kong, Switzerland, China | [447] |
Pascal | Bernhard Bulling |
Ueli | Bernhard Bulling |
2009 | Taking Woodstock | Elliot Teichberg/Tiber | Demetri Martin | Tiber volunteered his family's motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers which would take place on a nearby farm. | United States | [448] |
2009 | Undertow | Santiago | Manolo Cardona | Miguel is married to Mariela, who is pregnant with their first son, but he also has a secret affair with a male painter called Santiago. | Peru, Colombia, France, Germany | [449] |
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2010 | Amphetamine | Daniel | Thomas Price | Daniel is a wealthy Chinese-Australian investment banker working in Hong Kong meets and befriends Kafka, a young swimming instructor from a poor local family, who has strong religious beliefs. Kafka was sexually assaulted as a teenager by a male gang after successfully defending a young woman from being raped, and as a result, he has become impotent and a habitual user of recreational drugs. Although initially uncomfortable with Daniel's obvious sexual attraction to him, he soon sees Daniel as offering him new hope in life, and he falls deeply in love with him. But Kafka's life begins to fall apart again when his mother dies suddenly, and he attempts to end his life. | Hong Kong | [450] |
2010 | Beginners | Hal | Christopher Plummer | Shortly after his wife's death, Hal comes out to his son and begins exploring life as an openly gay man. | United States | [451] |
2010 | Burlesque | Sean | Stanley Tucci | A wisecracking man who works in a strip club. | United States | [452] |
2010 | Death at a Funeral | Frank Lovett | Peter Dinklage | A dwarf in love with the late father of the protagonist. | United States, United Kingdom | [453] |
2010 | Dirty Girl | Clarke Walters | Jeremy Dozier | Walters is a chubby, shy 15-year-old classmate of Edmondston. | United States | [454] |
2010 | Easy A | Brandon | Dan Byrd | Olive's friend Brandon is bullied by other students for being gay. | United States | [455] |
2010 | Every Day | Jonah Freed | Ezra Miller | As a father, Ned is worried about his son coming out. | United States | [456] |
2010 | For Colored Girls | Carl Bradmore | Omari Hardwick | Carl is a rich closeted conducting a doomed marriage with Jo. | United States | [457] |
2010 | Howl | Allen Ginsberg | James Franco | Ginsberg is a central figure of the Beat Generation. Fellow poet Orlovsky is Ginsberg's life partner for over forty years. | United States | [458] |
Peter Orlovsky | Aaron Tveit |
2010 | The Last Exorcism | Logan | Logan Craig Reid | Logan explains to the crew about his sexuality and only had a brief conversation with Nell during a party at Manley's house six months prio | United States | [459] |
2010 | Little White Lies | Vincent | Benoît Magimel | Osteopath Vincent confesses his attraction to restaurateur Max. | France | [460] |
2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Scott aka "Other Scott" | Ben Lewis | Ben is Wallace's best friend. Wallace is Scott's roommate, who has a boyfriend named Scott. He also hooked up with Stacey's boyfriend Jimmy. | United Kingdom, United States, Japan | [461] [462] < | --Source needs to be about the film -- not the graphic novel.--> |
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Stephen Stills | Mark Webber |
Wallace Wells | Kieran Culkin |
2010 | Valentine's Day | Sean Jackson | Eric Dane | Sean comes out on national television, and Holden, Sean's lover, goes back to him | United States | [463] |
Holden Wilson | Bradley Cooper |
2011 | Bernie | Bernie Tiede | Jack Black | Bernie is a closeted, yet flamboyant mortician who befriends a mean elderly widow. | United States | [464] |
2011 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Graham Dashwood | Tom Wilkinson | Dashwood is a High Court judge who lived in Jaipur as a child, abruptly retires to return there. | United Kingdom | [465] |
2011 | The Broken Tower | Hart Crane | James Franco | Biopic about the American poet. | United States | [466] [467] [468] |
Emile Opffer | Michael Shannon |
2011 | The Guard | Garda Aidan McBride | Rory Keenan | McBride is Sergeant Boyle's new subordinate. | Ireland, United Kingdom | [469] |
2011 | J. Edgar | J. Edgar Hoover | Leonardo DiCaprio | Focusing on Hoover's life from the 1919 Palmer Raids onward. | United States | [470] |
2011 | Just Go With It | Ian Maxtone-Jones | Dave Matthews | Katherine's frenemy from college, Devlin, confesses that she is divorcing Ian because of his homosexuality. | United States | [471] |
2011 | The Ledge | Chris | Christopher Gorham | Chris is Gavin's roommate. | United States | [472] |
2011 | Love Actually... Sucks! | Bridesman | Ryo van Kooten | Inspired by real-life events, the film tells a series of interconnected stories, several with LGBT relationships. The opening wedding banquet reveals a sex affair between the bridegroom and a bridesman. Other stories include a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who becomes involved with his senior student, and a role-playing lesbian couple. | Hong Kong | [473] [474] |
Model | Tang Wei |
Painter | John Tai |
2011 | North Sea Texas | Pim | Jelle Florizoone | Pim and his mother, Yvette, live in the Belgian countryside with their Miniature Pinscher. | Belgium | [475] |
2011 | Romeos | Lukas | Rick Okon | Trans man Lukas falls in love with cis man Fabio | Germany | [476] |
Fabio | Maximilian Befort |
2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Peter Guillam | Benedict Cumberbatch | Peter is a spy. | United Kingdom | [477] |
2011 | The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin | Private Benjamin Santos VIII | Vice Ganda | Santos joins the military to save his grandfather. | Philippines | [478] |
2011 | Weekend | Russell | Tom Cullen | Russell and Glen are two men who meet and begin a sexual relationship the weekend before one of them plans to leave the country. | United Kingdom | [479] |
Glen | Chris New |
2012 | Celeste and Jesse Forever | Scott | Elijah Wood | Celeste runs her own media company with a business partner, Scott. | United States | [480] |
2012 | Cloud Atlas | Rufus Sixsmith | James D'Arcy | Rufus is Robert's lover. | Germany, United States | [481] |
2012 | For a Good Time, Call... | Jesse | Justin Long | Jesse is Lauren's friend. | United States | [482] |
2012 | Four | Joe | Wendell Pierce | Joe, a married middle-aged black man, goes out on a date with a young man with his daughter and her date. | United States | [483] |
2012 | Ginger & Rosa | Mark | Timothy Spall | Both Marks are port of a group of older activists in Anti-nuclear movement. | United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada | [484] |
Mark II | Oliver Platt |
2012 | Hit and Run | Terry Rathbinn | Jess Rowland | Terry is Gil's brother and a police officer. | United States | [485] |
2012 | On the Road | Tall thin salesman | Steve Buscemi | Sal and Dean travel back to New York with a tall, thin salesman from whom Dean tries to get money in exchange for sex. | France, United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, United States, Canada | [486] [487] |
2012 | The Paperboy | Ward Jansen | Matthew McConaughey | Ward is not resented by his brother Jack for being a homosexual, but for keeping it a secret from him. | United States | [488] |
2012 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Brad | Johnny Simmons | Patrick and Brad, the high school quarterback at Charlie's school, are in a relationship. | United States | [489] |
Patrick | Ezra Miller |
2012 | Rock of Ages | Lonny Barnett | Russell Brand | Dupree is the owner of the Bourbon Room and Barnett is his right-hand man. | United States | [490] [491] |
Dennis Dupree | Alec Baldwin |
2012 | Sassy Pants | Chip Hardy | Haley Joel Osment | Chip is Dale's boyfriend. | United States | [492] [493] |
Dale Pinto | Diedrich Bader |
2012 | Speechless | Luke | Pierre-Matthieu Vital | A mute Frenchman (Luke) is found naked by the banks of a river in Wuhan in mainland China. He is rescued and sent to a local hospital where he is treated by a nurse who cares for him and later discovers the secrets of his past. | Hong Kong, China | [494] |
2012 | Struck by Lightning | Nicholas Forbes | Carter Jenkins | As Carson is finishing up the school paper at night, he catches wealthy student Nicholas Forbes and the drama club president Scott Thomas kissing. | United States | [495] |
Scott Thomas | Graham Rogers |
2012 | Ted | Guy | Patrick Warburton | Guy is John's co-worker and Patrick is his boyfriend. | United States | [496] |
Jared | Ryan Reynolds |
2013 | After the Dark | Jack | Freddie Stroma | In the third trial, Petra saves Jack, who is gay outside of the simulation, in order to preserve diversity. | Indonesia, United States | [497] |
2013 | The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin | Private Benjamin Santos VIII | Vice Ganda | On a mission in Paris, Praybeyt Benjamin and his platoon defeat a horde of zombies in a parody of Plants vs. Zombies, leading to his promotion to Colonel | Philippines | [498] |
2013 | Baggage Claim | Sam | Adam Brody | Aam is one of Montana's friends. | United States | [499] |
2013 | The Bling Ring | Marc Hall | Israel Broussard | Hall is a quiet student arriving as a new student at Indian Hills High School in Agoura Hills, California. | United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan | [500] |
2013 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Valentin | Sandor Funtek | Valentin is Adèle's close friend. | France, Belgium, Spain | [501] |
2013 | Free Fall | Kay Engel | Max Riemelt | Whilst on a training course, Borgmann meets fellow police officer Engel, and a romance develops between the two men. | Germany | [502] |
2013 | G.B.F. | Tanner Daniels | Michael J. Willett | Daniels is a comic book geek who is the first "out of the closet gay" at his school.Van Camp is Tanner's best friend who is very feminine and sassy. | United States | [503] |
Brent Van Camp | Paul Iacono |
2013 | Geography Club | Russell Middlebrook | Cameron Deane Stewart | Following a group of high school students who feel like outsiders, some because of their sexual orientations. Middlebrook then finds himself helping his friend Min to form an after-school club for the students, so that they can hang out together for support. | United States | [504] [505] |
2013 | Grown Ups 2 | Kyle | Oliver Hudson | Kyle is a yoga teacher at Squats Fitness. | United States | [506] |
Nick | Nick Swardson |
2013 | Kick-Ass 2 | Insect-Man | Robert Emms | Insect-Man is an insect-themed superhero and a member of the Justice Forever team. He was bullied, inspiring him to become a superhero to stand up for the defenseless. He does not wear a mask because hiding his identity would feel like going back into the closet. | United Kingdom, United States | [507] |
2013 | Kill Your Darlings | Lucien Carr | Dane DeHaan | Carr is an unruly character who holds strong anti-establishment beliefs who runs into Allen Ginsberg in 1944 Columbia University. | United Kingdom | [508] |
2013 | | Alec Lightwood | Kevin Zegers | Magnus is a warlock. | Canada, Germany, United States, United Kingdom | [509] |
2013 | Philomena | Michael | Sean Mahon | Hess is a lawyer and senior official in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. | France, United Kingdom, United States | [510] |
2013 | Pit Stop | Ernesto | Marcus DeAnda | Retelling the story of two men in a small town in Texas. | United States | [511] |
Gabe | Bill Heck |
2013 | | Hai Mai | Derek Tsang | The youthful Mai is teased often by his teammates of the SDU. | Hong Kong | [512] |
2013 | Starred Up | Neville Love | Ben Mendelsohn | Neville falls in love with his male inmate. | United Kingdom | [513] |
2013 | Tom at the Farm | Tom Podowski | Xavier Dolan | Tom travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother, Francis. | Canada | [514] |
2013 | Voyage | Ryo | Ryo van Kooten | Filmed across Asia and Europe, the story follows the journey of Ryo, a young Hong Kong psychiatrist, who is accompanied by his male lover as he visits former patients in neighbouring countries of South East Asia. Several of his clients are themselves in LGBT relationships. (The film features frequent full-frontal male nudity.) | Hong Kong | [515] |
Jip | Jason Poon |
2014 | Blackbird | Randy Rousseau | Julian Walker | In a small baptist community in the south of Mississippi, Rousseau is a 17-year-old high school senior and talented singer juggles with his sexuality and religion while also dealing with the disappearance of his younger sister as it tore his family apart. | United States | [516] |
2014 | Boulevard | Nolan Mack | Robin Williams | Mack has worked at the same bank for almost 26 years in a life of monotony. He and his wife, Joy, have embraced their marriage as a convenient and comfortable distraction from facing reality | United States | [517] |
2014 | The Circle | Ernst Ostertag | Matthias Hungerbühler | Docudrama about Ernst Ostertag and Röbi Rapp, the first gay men to register a domestic partnership in Switzerland. | Switzerland | [518] |
Röbi Rapp | Sven Schelker |
2014 | Coming In | Robert | Ken Duken | Robert is the boyfriend of protagonist Tom Herzner. | Germany | [519] |
2014 | Dear White People | Lionel Higgins | Tyler James Williams | Higgins, a black student, gets a chance to find his place at Winchester by being recruited by the school's most prestigious student newspaper to write a piece on Sam and the black experience at Winchester. | United States | [520] [521] |
2014 | Futuro Beach | Donato | Wagner Moura | Donato leaves for Berlin in search of his German lover, Konrad, whom he had met ten years earlier at Praia do Futuro and saved from drowning. | Brazil, Germany | [522] |
Konrad | Clemens Schick |
2014 | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | Benedict Cumberbatch (adult) Alex Lawther (young) | Biopic about Turing, who deciphered the code of the Enigma machine, a device used by Nazi Germany during World War II. After the end of the war, he is convicted of indecency because of his homosexuality, undergoes chemical castration, and later commits suicide. The young Turing was close to his classmate Christopher Morcom, and they passed written encoded notes to each other. Their friendship ends when Christopher dies from bovine tuberculosis. Turing names the Enigma-breaking machine "Christopher" after him. | United States | [523] |
Christopher Morcom | Jack Bannon |
2014 | Lilting | Kai | Andrew Leung | Retelling the story of a mother's attempt at understanding who her son was after his untimely death. Her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of his lover. | United Kingdom | [524] |
Richard | Ben Whishaw |
2014 | Love Is Strange | George Garea | Alfred Molina | Ben and George, a couple from Manhattan, get married after 39 years together. | United States, France | [525] |
Ben Hull | John Lithgow |
2014 | Obvious Child | Joey | Gabe Liedman | Joey is Donna and Nellie's friend, who is also a comedian. | United States | [526] |
2014 | Pride | Mark Ashton | Ben Schnetzer | Based on a true story, a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign. | United Kingdom | [527] [528] [529] |
Mike Jackson | Joe Gilgun |
Jonathan Blake | Dominic West |
Gethin Roberts | Andrew Scott |
Jeff Cole | Freddie Fox |
Reggie | Chris Overton |
Ray | Joshua Hill |
Joe "Bromley" Cooper | George Mackay |
Cliff Barry | Bill Nighy |
Tim | Russel Tovey |
2014 | The Skeleton Twins | Milo Dean | Bill Hader | Milo reconnects with his high school English teacher Rich, with whom he had a sexual relationship when he was 15. | United States | [530] |
2014 | Space Station 76 | Captain Glenn Terry | Patrick Wilson | Captain Terry, whose struggle with his homosexuality caused his breakup with Daniel, and then his alcoholism. | United States | [531] |
Daniel | Matthew Morrison |
2014 | The Way He Looks | Leonardo | Ghilherme Lobo | Leonardo is a blind high school student who falls in love with the new kid, Gabriel. Gabriel falls in love with Leo. He was once aroused when he saw Leo naked in the showers. | Brazil | [532] |
Gabriel | Fabio Audi |
2014 | White Bird in a Blizzard | Mickey | | Mickey is one of Kat's best pals from high school. | France, United States | [533] |
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Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | |
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2015 | 4th Man Out | Adam | Evan Todd | Adam struggles to come out as gay to his three best friends. | United States | [534] |
2015 | American Ultra | Petey Douglas | Tony Hale | Douglas is Lasseter's former assistant. | United States | [535] |
2015 | Burnt | Tony Balerdi | Daniel Brühl | Tony is a restaurant owner who's in love with Adam. | United States | [536] |
2015 | The Danish Girl | Henrik Sandahl | Ben Whishaw | Gerbada introduces Einar, who dressed as Lili somewhat dowdy companion as Einar's cousin, at a party. This strategy is so successful that Lili stirs the amorous interest of a man named Henrik. | United Kingdom, United States | [537] |
2015 | Entourage | Lloyd Lee | Rex Lee | Lloyd marries Greg Louganis. His former boss, Ari, gives him away at the wedding. | United States | [538] |
2015 | Get Hard | Chris | T. J. Jagodowski | Darnell befriends a man named Chris, even after Chris aggressively flirts with him. | United States | [539] |
2015 | The Heroes of Evil | Aritz | Jorge Clemente | Outcast teenagers Esteban, Sarita and Aritz share a common context of humiliation by their classmates meet, develop a strong friendship and plot to exert revenge. | Spain | [540] |
2015 | Holding the Man | John Caleo | Craig Stott | Retelling of Conigrave's 15-year love affair with John Caleo, which started when they met in the mid-1970s at Xavier College, an all-boys Jesuit Catholic school in Melbourne, and follows their relationship through the 1990s when they both developed AIDS. | Australia | [541] |
Timothy Conigrave | Ryan Corr |
2015 | Holy Mess | Oscar | Anton Lundqvist | Centering around Simon and Oscar, a couple that is expecting a child along with their close friend Cissi (Rakel Wärmländer). | Sweden | [542] |
Simon | Anastasios Soulis |
2015 | James White | Nick | Scott Mescudi | Nick is White's friend who works at a resort in Mexico. | United States | [543] |
2015 | Legend | Ronnie Kray | Tom Hardy | Dealing with the Kray twins' career and the relationship that bound them together, and follows their gruesome career to life imprisonment in 1969. | United Kingdom, United States | [544] |
Teddy Smith | Taron Egerton |
2015 | Stonewall | Danny Winters | Jeremy Irvine | Shortly before fleeing the conservative countryside in the late 1960s and moving to New York City, Winters, a boy from Indiana, is discovered by friends while making love with his boyfriend. | United States | [545] |
2015 | Those People | Charlie | Jonathan Gordon | Charlie has always been in love with his best friend Sebastian. Both of them are too afraid to admit their love for each other. But after some life changing events happen in their lives, they try to figure out what their relationship really is. | United States | [546] |
Sebastian | Jason Ralph |
2015 | Utopians | Antonio Ming | Jackie Chow | Ming is the professor of Hins Gao, and later begins a romantic relationship with him. | Hong Kong | [547] |
2015 | Wild Horses | Ben Briggs | James Franco | Ben is kicked out of the house by his father for his homosexuality. | United States | [548] |
2016 | | Himself | Graham Norton | | United Kingdom, United States | [549] |
2016 | As You Are | Jack | Owen Campbell | Jack is clearly in love with Mark. They later reunite in private, where Mark implies his feelings for Jack, and they kiss passionately. | United States | [550] |
Mark | Charlie Heaton |
2016 | Being 17 | Damien Delille | Kacey Mottet Klein | The movie follows the romantic and sexual awakening of Damien and Thomas as their initial animosity, expressed in violence, morphs into love. | France | [551] |
Thomas Chardoul | Corentin Fila |
2016 | Cell | Thomas "Tom" McCourt | Samuel L. Jackson | McCourt is a train conductor. | United States | [552] [553] |
2016 | Center of My World | Phil | Louis Hofmann | When school begins, the mysterious Nicholas enters the class. Phil feels drawn to him and they soon engage in a passionate love affair, even though it turns Phil's feelings upside down because he does not know what Nicholas thinks of him. | Germany | [554] |
Nicholas | Jannik Schümann |
2016 | Curmudgeons | Jackie | Danny DeVito | Surrounding the relationship between two senior citizens, Jackie and Pajovic. | United States | [555] |
Ralph Pajovic | David Margulies |
2016 | Dirty Grandpa | Bradley | Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman | Bradley is a friend of Jason's old photography classmate Shadia. | United States | [556] |
2016 | Handsome Devil | Conor Masters | Nicholas Galitzine | Masters is Ned's new roommate.A new English teacher, Mr Sherry, arrives at the school, who, though stern, is encouraging towards Ned and Conor. | Ireland | [557] |
Dan Sherry | Andrew Scott |
2016 | Heartstone | Kristján | Blær Hinriksson | Focusing on two young friends – Thor and Kristján – on the verge of puberty. | Iceland | [558] |
2016 | | Dr. Brackish Okun | Brent Spiner | Dr. Okun is a Scientist. Dr. Isaacs is his co-worker and lover. | United States | [559] |
Dr. Isaacs | John Storey |
2016 | It's Only the End of the World | Louis | Gaspard Ulliel | Louis is a playwright dealing with a terminal illness. | Canada, France | [560] |
2016 | King Cobra | Brent Corrigan | Garrett Clayton | Focusing on the life and early career of former pornographic film actor Sean Paul Lockhart. | United States | [561] |
Harlow Cuadra | Keegan Allen |
Joe Kerekes | James Franco |
Bryan Kocis | Christian Slater |
Mikey | Spencer Lofranco |
2016 | Miss Stevens | Sam | Anthony Quintal | Sam is an affable student of Stevens'. | United States | [562] |
2016 | The Mobfathers | Wulf | Gregory Wong | Wulf is a flamboyantly ex-cop. | Hong Kong | [563] |
2016 | Moonlight | Chiron Harris ("Little" / "Black") | Trevante Rhodes | Chiron is a young Black man who grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood in Miami. | United States | [564] |
Ashton Sanders |
Alex Hibbert |
2016 | | Pete Regazolli | Dave Franco | Regazolli is one of Sanders' former frat brothers. | United States | [565] |
2016 | Nocturnal Animals | Carlos Holt | Michael Sheen | Holt is Alessia's husband. | United States | [566] |
2016 | Other People | David Mulcahey | Jesse Plemons | David has a strained relationship with his father, who still refuses to accept David's sexuality ten years after he came out. He has broken up with his boyfriend Paul. | United States | [567] |
Paul | Zach Woods |
2016 | Rage | Yūma Fujita | Satoshi Tsumabuki | Naoto hides out at a gay bathhouse in Tokyo to avoid people. One night, he is approached by Yuma, an open homosexual. Naoto resists Yuma at first, but Yuma holds Naoto down and they have rough sex. Then, Yuma takes Naoto out for dinner and learns that he does not have a place to stay. Yuma offers to let him stay with him until Naoto finds a permanent place and they both become housemates. They slowly fall in love and Yuma even introduces Naoto to his sick mother and his other friends. | Japan | [568] |
Onishi Naoto | Go Ayano |
2016 | Raw | Adrien | Rabah Naït Oufella | On her first night, Justine meets her roommate Adrien, and they are forced to partake in a week-long hazing ritual, welcoming the new students. | France, Belgium | [569] |
2016 | Spa Night | David | Joe Seo | David, an 18-year-old living in Koreatown, Los Angeles becomes an employee at a spa to help his financially struggling parents. He soon discovers illicit gay sex between the customers, which forces him to consider his own sexuality. | United States | [570] [571] |
2016 | Tallulah | Andreas | Zachary Quinto | Unknown to Tallulah, Margo is struggling with her own marital problems after her ex-husband Stephen has left her for a man, Andreas, and is pressing Margo to finalize their divorce. | United States | [572] |
Stephen Mooney | John Benjamin Hickey |
2016 | Two Is a Family | Bernie | Antoine Bertrand | Bernie is a Frenchman who works in the film industry and offers Samuel a stunt job. | France | [573] |
2017 | | Carl Lope | Demián Bichir | Sergeant Lope is the head of the security unit aboard the Covenant and Sergeant Hallett's husband. | United Kingdom, United States | [574] |
Hallett | Nathaniel Dean |
2017 | Battle of the Sexes | Ted Tinling | Alan Cumming | Biopic based on champion tennis player Billie Jean King and the 1973 match between her and Bobby Riggs. | United Kingdom, United States | [575] [576] [577] |
2017 | Beach Rats | Frankie | Harris Dickinson | Frankie is a repressed Brooklyn teen who has sex with older men. | United States | [578] |
2017 | Beauty and the Beast | LeFou | Josh Gad | LeFou is Gaston's sidekick. | United States | [579] [580] [581] |
2017 | God's Own Country | Gheorghe Ionescu | Alec Secareanu | Following a young sheep farmer in Yorkshire whose life is transformed by a Romanian migrant worker. | United Kingdom | [582] |
Johnny Saxby | Josh O'Connor |
2017 | Lady Bird | Danny O'Neill | Lucas Hedges | After the opening night of the school production of Merrily We Roll Along, Lady Bird sees Danny kissing a boy in a bathroom stall so she breaks up with him. | United States | [583] |
2017 | My Friend Dahmer | Jeffrey Dahmer | Ross Lynch | Based on the serial killer's early life.Dahmer has shown to be obsessed with a male jogger. | United States | [584] |
2017 | Permission | Hale | David Joseph Craig | Hale is Anna's brother and Reece's boyfriend.Reece, Hale's boyfriend and Will's co-worker. | United States | [585] |
Reece | Morgan Spector |
2017 | Rift | Einar | Sigurdur Thor Oskarsson | Gunnar and Einar get to grips with their fractured relationship amid some spooky situations in a remote cabin in Iceland. | Iceland | [586] |
Gunnar | Bjorn Stefansson |
2017 | The Shape of Water | Giles | Richard Jenkins | Elisa's next door neighbor is closeted and fearful, but bravely helps her and the Amphibian Man. | United States | [587] |
2017 | Speech & Debate | Howie | Austin P. McKenzie | Howie is new to the school, lonely, and tries to form a GSA (gay student alliance) club, but is blocked by the predominantly male conservative school board. | United States | [588] |
2017 | Thirty Years of Adonis | Yang Ke | Adonis He Fei | Focusing on a young man named Yang Ke, who is a Beijing Opera actor. He decides to pursue acting, and soon becomes a commercial sex worker for men and women. | Hong Kong, Taiwan, China | [589] |
2017 | Tom of Finland | Touko Laaksonen | Pekka Strang | Laaksonen is an artist who known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art. | Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, United States | [590] [591] |
2018 | Alex Strangelove | Alex Truelove | Daniel Doheny | At a party, Alex meets Elliot, an openly gay teenager. Alex's continued interactions with Elliot, who has an obvious crush on Alex, lead him to question his sexuality. | United States | [592] |
Elliott | Antonio Marziale |
2018 | Bird Box | Greg | BD Wong | Greg is a man with a gratuitous allusion to his husband. | United States | [593] |
2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Jim Hutton | Aaron McCusker | Retelling the story of the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of British rock band Queen, from the formation of the band in 1970 up to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium. | United Kingdom, United States | [594] [595] |
Paul Prenter | Allen Leech |
John Reid | Aidan Gillen |
2018 | Boy Erased | Jared Eamons | Lucas Hedges | Jared's childhood in a fundamentalist family in Arkansas that enrolled him in conversion therapy. (Based on Garrard Conley's memoir of the same name.) | United States | [596] |
2018 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Jack Hock | Richard E. Grant | Hock is a foppish drifter who helps Israel forging and selling rare literary letters to bolster her failing writing career. | United States | [597] |
2018 | Come Sunday | Reggie | Lakeith Stanfield | Reggie is Pearson's accompanist. | United States | [598] |
2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Oliver T'sien | Nico Santos | T’sien is Nick's second cousin. | United States, Singapore | [599] |
2018 | The Death & Life of John F. Donovan | John F. Donovan | Kit Harington | Donovan is a closeted actor. | Canada | [600] |
2018 | Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot | Donnie | Jonah Hill | Donnie is John Callahan's Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) sponsor. | United States | [601] |
Martingale | Ronnie Adrian |
2018 | Giant Little Ones | Ray Winter | Kyle MacLachlan | Ray leaves his wife for another man, causing his son Franky to refuse to talk to him despite his pleas. | Canada | [602] |
2018 | Green Book | Don Shirley | Mahershala Ali | Shirley had a homosexual encounter with a white man at a pool. | United States | [603] |
2018 | The Happy Prince | Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas | Colin Morgan | Centering on how Wilde lives out his remaining days in isolation and looks back at his life with great irony and wit. | Germany, Belgium, Italy, United Kingdom | [604] |
Robbie Ross | Edwin Thomas |
Reggie Turner | Colin Firth |
Oscar Wilde | Rupert Everett |
2018 | Ideal Home | Erasmus Brumble | Steve Coogan | Erasmus, a famous chef, and Paul, the producer of his cooking show, are a couple. They live in a large showplace house in New Mexico. | United States | [605] |
Paul Morgan | Paul Rudd |
2018 | Love, Simon | Simon Spier | Nick Robinson | Based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. | United States | [606] [607] [608] |
Bram Greenfeld | Keiynan Lonsdale |
2018 | Mary Queen of Scots | Lord Darnley | Jack Lowden | Mary marries Darnley, only to discover him in bed with her private secretary, David Rizzio. | United Kingdom, United States | [609] |
David Rizzio | Ismael Cruz Córdova |
2018 | Rainbow's Sunset | Ramoncito Estrella | Eddie Garcia | Ramon who is married to a woman and has children comes out as an elderly man. He has a secret relationship with his long-time friend Fredo who is dying of cancer. | Philippines | [610] |
Alfredo Veneracion | Tony Mabesa |
2018 | School's out | Pierre Hoffman | Laurent Lafitte | Pierre is a substitute teacher who becomes obsessed with his students' strange behavior. He is in love with his male best friend who just had a child. He also has a crush on one of his male colleagues who appears to be straight. | France | [611] |
2018 | Set It Up | Duncan | Pete Davidson | Duncan is Charlie's roommate. | United States | [612] |
2018 | To All the Boys I've Loved Before | Lucas Krapf | Trezzo Mahoro | Lucas is one the crushes that Lara Jean Covey wrote a letter to and then locked away. Kitty, Lara's younger sister, found the letter and sent it to him without Lara's knowledge. After reading it, he told Lara he was gay. | United States | [613] |
2018 | Truth or Dare | Brad Chang | Hayden Szeto | Brad is closeted. | United States | [614] |
2018 | You Are the Apple of My Eye | Kazuki Sugimura | Ryosuke Yusa | Sugimura is in a romantic relationship with his Indian business partner. | Japan | [615] |
2019 | Booksmart | George | Noah Galvin | George and Alan are theater obsessed classmates of Amy and her best friend Molly. | United States | [616] [617] |
Alan | Austin Crute |
2019 | Frankie | Michel | Pascal Greggory | Michel, Frankie's first husband, learned about his homosexuality. | United States, France, Portugal | [618] |
2019 | The Gentlemen | Fletcher | Hugh Grant | Fletcher is a fast-talking, cockney-accented hustler. | United Kingdom, United States | [619] |
2019 | The Good Liar | Steven | Russell Tovey | Steven does research on Hans, who raped Lili, confirming his identity in a DNA test using a lock of Hans' hair. It is revealed at the end of the film that Michael is Lili's grandson and Steven's boyfriend. | United Kingdom, United States | [620] [621] [622] |
Michael | Tunji Kasim |
2019 | Isn't It Romantic | Donny | Brandon Scott Jones | Donny is Natalie's normally gruff neighbor, who has always come across as a misogynist, becomes a flamboyant homosexual friend offering advice. | United States | [623] |
2019 | Jojo Rabbit | Captain Klenzendorf | Sam Rockwell | Set in 1945 in Nazi Germany, Klenzendorf and Freddy are in a secret relationship. | United States, New Zealand, Czech Republic | [624] [625] |
Freddy Finkel | Alfie Allen |
2019 | Judy | Dan | Andy Nyman | Stan opens up to Judy Garland about the difficulties he and Dan have had maintaining their relationship in the face of legal persecution. | United States | [626] |
Stan | Daniel Cerqueira |
2019 | Monsoon | Kit | Henry Golding | Durin his journey, Kit falls for Lewis, an American whose father had fought in the war. | United States | [627] [628] [629] |
Lewis | Parker Sawyers |
2019 | Nevrland | Jacob | Simon Frühwirth | 17-year old Jacob and 26-year old Kristjan begin an intimate relationship after meeting in a video chat. | Austria | [630] |
Kristjan | Paul Forman |
2019 | The Obituary of Tunde Johnson | Tunde Johnson | Steven Silver | Johnson is a Nigerian-American teenager who is in a secret relationship with his school's white lacrosse champion Soren. | United States | [631] |
2019 | Pain and Glory | Salvador Mallo | Antonio Banderas | Retelling the story of Salvador's childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his poor parents to a small village in Valencia. (The story was inspired by director Pedro Almodóvar's personal experience.) | Spain | [632] [633] |
2019 | Rialto | Colm | Tom Vaughan-Lawlor | Colm is a closeted homosexual married to a woman. Jay is a hustler. They enter into an intimate relationship. | Ireland, United Kingdom | [634] [635] |
Jay | Tom Glynn-Carney |
2019 | Rocketman | Elton John | Taron Egerton | Biopic about the singer-musician's journey dealing with drug addiction and accepting his homosexuality. | United Kingdom, United States | [636] |
John Reid | Richard Madden |
2019 | Straight Up | Ryder | James Scully | Ryder is Todd's longtime friend. | United States | [637] |
Todd | James Sweeney |
2019 | Suk Suk | Hoi | Ben Yuen | Despite having families of their own, Hoi and Pak fell in love in their twilight years. | Hong Kong | [638] |
Pak | Tai Bo |
2019 | What Men Want | Brandon Wallace | Josh Brener | Wallace is Ali's assistant. | United States | [639] |
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