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Who else has been queer on screen?

posted 19 years ago by societyrain
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I don't really know where else to post this, so shall put it up here, so it jus doesn't seems right slottin' it anywhere else... I m interested to know which other mainstream male actor did gay characters other than Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Moutain... films like these are an extreme rarity in my country so therefore it isn't easy for me to get to see them... a friend of mine once told me that Spiderman's Tobey Maguire had done one before but she wasn't too sure also... anybody can shed any light on that? Thanks !

[–] cata_phonics 18 years ago

sorry i hate all the pc crap, but I really find that term offensive.

this is an awfully strange message board by the way!!

[–] zenoura 18 years ago

There was a movie with Vincent D'onofrio, but I cannot remember the name...
Clifton Collins Jr. in Traffic (Frankie Flowers)

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[–] jonny987 18 years ago

Vincent D'onofrio played a bisexual in The Velocity of Gary and kissed Thomas Jane.

[–] gillfaery 18 years ago

Does anyone remember This Life. Jason Hughes who played the part of Warren is actually straight.

[–] polychic 18 years ago

Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon
Robert Downy Jr in Home for the Holidays
Meryl Streep and Alison Janey in The Hours; Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore are Bi (i think)
The Rock in Be Cool
Michael McKean and John Michael Higgins in Best in Show
Joey Lauren Adams and Dwight Ewell in Chasing Amy
Kevin Kline in De-Lovely
Whoopi Goldberg in Boys on the Side
Jeremy Northam and Steve Zahn "play" gay, and William H Macy finds himself in Happy Texas

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[–] yeoman2k1 18 years ago

not sure if this really counts but in enduring love you see the infactuated Rhys Ifans kiss Daniel Craig. But its a bit of a creepy film to watch just for that one kiss....

[–] moonchild924 18 years ago

clive owen in Bent

[–] iamjessicaswastedlife 18 years ago

Totally *beep* up is a gay movie with james duval and the guy who was not ryan reynolds in two guy and a girl is gay in all over the guy.

also the oppisite of sex is a gay movie. and in happy endings jason ritter is gay.

touch of pink is another gay movie. and dorain blues is a really good one.

david searching has anthony rapp from rent in it playing a gay role.

[–] joshuasalter-1 18 years ago

Lets not forget Ian Somerhalder in "The Rules of Attraction" and Bobby Cannavale in "Shall we Dance". OK neither of them are ground breaking performances but still worth a mention! Oh and wasn't Dean Cain gay in some feel good movie???

[–] deathscythe_42 18 years ago

ok i didn't read this whole thread so i duno if it's been meantioned or not but Willem Dafoe play a homosexual in The Boondock Saints.

and i saw Interview With the Vampire meantioned. i don't think you can really call that homosexual. in Anne Rice's stories, the vampires can feel love for pretty much everybody, so you could call them bisexual, and in the books this tends to get shown a lot and in one of them in particular it gets fairly graphic, but it's not hinted enough in the movie Interview With the Vampire to really call them homosexual or bisexual. it seems more portrayed as a plutonic or family type of love in the movie.

[–] topkapi56 15 years ago

Dean Cain plays a gay character in The Broken Hearts Club as does John Mahoney (Frasier's dad), Zach Braff, Justin Theroux and Timothy Olyphant.

[–] piontkofsky-1 18 years ago

Will Smith in Six Degrees of Separation

[–] stonewalls_footman 18 years ago

Kevin Spacey in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Surprised that hadn't come up, especially with Jude Law already mentioned for it. Gil Bellows in The Weather Man. Who else? You might count Hayden Christensen in Life As A House, but that's more likely acknowledged as forced, or bi at most. Colin Farrell is bi in Alexander (I know he was already mentioned for a different movie) and so was Jared Leto. R. Lee Ermey along with Jack Black in Saving Silverman. I know there are more, I just can't remember them.

[–] dataangel-1 18 years ago

Jonny Lee Miller.

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[–] Emiabambinacara 18 years ago

Jude Law in Wilde. He played Lord Alfred Douglas, lover of Oscar Wilde.

Hugh Grant in Maurice.
Long before Brokeback Mountain, there was this movie about two men falling in love, but in Post Victorian England. I saw this film as a kid on The Movie Channel and it shocked me to say the least, but in a contemplative way. Maurice is definitely one you should check out.

[–] saladvegetables 18 years ago

THANKS SO MUCH EVERYONE!
i love you all.
also what about robert stadlober in Summerstorm
geoffrey rush in Candy
duncan bell in hornblower
james purefoy in bedrooms and hallways\
val kilmer in top gun
michael wincott and david bowie in Basquiat
rupert graves in maurice
foresst whittaker in the crying game and ready to wear (pret a porter)
kris marshall in dead babies
willem dafoe (again!) in autofocus
linus roache and robert carlyle in priest
alan cumming in urbania, eyes wide shut, plunkett and maclene...pretty much every movie
robert downey jr and jared leto in black and white
vince colossimo in walking on water
josh charles and alexis arquette in threesome
gael garcia bernal in bad education and (kind of) y tu mama tambien
ewan mcgregor gets a kiss from jacek korman in moulin rouge
technically jude law as erroyl flynn in the aviator
jeff goldblum in life aquatic
hugh grant in an awfully big adventure, maurice and our sons
daniel craig in love is the devil
jared leto in sol goode
maybe mick jagger in performance

theres more too...
ALSO, heads up for all the kids like me who want to see a pic of colin farrell kissing soccer star Maradonna. the pic is up on the internet somewhere. it was also published in a recent edition of cleo magazine.
keep it queer

[–] mousetolliver 18 years ago

Crikey saladvegetables you certainly know your stuff !

Jude Law in wilde has to be my fave

[–] christinej96 18 years ago

Val Kilmer in Top Gun?

That seems like quite the stretch...

[–] insufferable_know_it_all 18 years ago

Ewan is also gay in Velvet Goldmine if that hasnt been mentioned

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[–] saucyminxx 18 years ago

Linus Roache and Robert Carlyle were gay in Priest.

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[–] rayisfab 18 years ago

Has anyone mentioned:

Daniel Day Lewis in 'My Beautiful Launderette.'
Bruce Willis in 'Day Of The Jackle.'
Christian Bale in 'American Psycho' is bi (see toilet scene or read book)
Peter Finch in 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'
James Spader and Elias Koteas (plus the rest of the cast) in 'Crash' have same sex love.
Whoopi in 'The Colour Purple.'
Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in 'Women In Love'
Anthony Perkins in 'Psycho'

Other movies with gay sex, characters or homoerotic overtones:

Midnight Express
Midnight Cowboy
Diamonds Are Forever (nasty stereotypes unfortunately)
Apt Pupil (Elias Koteas offers 'comfort')
Ben Hur
Sparticus
Hitchcock rarely went without gay characters in his films - in fact, they were often the leads.

I think the points been made to redundancy in this thread. The list of homosexual connotations in film are endless because Hollywood has always had many actors, directors and producers who were and are gay.

Let's try to find films without some gay connection - it'll be a lot more challenging!

[–] HellKelpie 18 years ago

Alex Dimitriades (and others) in Head On: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138487/

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[–] sekjws 17 years ago

Don't forget Kevin McKidd & Tom Hollander in Bedrooms and Hallways, too!

[–] sekjws 17 years ago

How about Dan Futterman in Urbania?

[–] neil57 18 years ago

Here's an obscure one - Roy Scheider and William Devane in "Marathon Man". Early in the film, Scheider's character talks on the phone to an unseen character named Janey telling Janey how much he missed them. Later in the movie we find out that Devane's character's nickname is Janey, shortened from Janeway, his surname.

Also Robert Redford and Roddy McDowall in "Inside Daisy Clover".

[–] leekingswood 18 years ago

A couple that haven't yet been mentioned...

Harry Hamlin in 'Making Love' (1982)
John Ritter in 'Sling Blade' (1996)

[–] Paper-Street 18 years ago

Jeeeesus! You are SO not allowed to consider yourselves movie fans.

Frank Fitts! US Marine Corps!

C'mon. American Beauty is one of those films that we've all seen. And Chris Cooper happened to play a self-loathing deep-closet haw-maw-sexual.

But I'm glad everyone remembered Agent Smecker of Boondock Saints.

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[–] JAMIE-271 17 years ago

And dont forget Will Smith in Six Degrees of Separation (1993) quite an explicit sex seen too!