Gay LGBTQ TV Shows And Movies You Like & Recommend

[NotHardUp1]

I know it’s a bit confusing. I think things are too strict especially when we can’t even talk about things that are on television. I talked to my attorney about this and he agrees. In the process of loosening things up and it’s gonna take some time because we have to rewrite the rules and other various things like that.

Thank you.

No, I don't fault JUB for being legally cautious, but for being cryptic.

Just explain, at least in private. the explicit violation when material is removed. So many times, the member is left wondering "What The Fuck?"

And thank you again for giving us a Commons to meet in and talk to gays around the world, or at least around some of the English-speaking world. Oh, and Canada.

 

[Sebazz]

San Junipero - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Hanging Garden (1997) - IMDb

The Hanging Garden: Directed by Thom Fitzgerald. With Ian Parsons, Peter MacNeill, Troy Veinotte, Kerry Fox. William, a once obese and depressed adolescent, is able to move past his teenage years when he moves to the city and comes out as being gay. When he returns home though, he can't cope...

www.imdb.com

 

[Charon]

The Dahmer show was okay. Unsurprisingly, GLAAD and other activists demanded Netflix to remove the LGBTQ tag from the show...even though it focuses on gay characters (including its main character) and gay culture. Further evidence that gay shows and movies are forever doomed to be nothing but light-hearted, PG (which is p much G with a few benign cuss words thrown in) crap.

 

[NotHardUp1]

It's embarrassing that advocates seek to whitewash LGBTQ representation as if it were somehow inherently virtuous. It is not. It is an orientation.

That population includes rapists, thugs, thieves, snipers, embezzlers, poets, doctors, septic tank truck drivers, great teachers, child abusers, and on and on. Pretending that any story with negative elements in it is taboo merely because naysayers are going to latch onto it for propaganda purposes doesn't negate the reality it may portray.

I don't find Dahmer appealing only because it's too sensationalistic to dwell on a cannibal, and don't find much potential to learn about rare psychoses because they are so rare the correlated points may not be significant or verifiable.

Add to that the unlikelihood of having enough true story to get an accurate picture, and you wind up with audiences thinking they have seen the truth when all they saw was a story. That happened with Matthew Shephard. They rushed to make an anguished movie with big stars before they had enough of the real story, and he was whitewashed as an angel on earth. Was he a tragic victim of murder and torture? Absolutely. Was it all due to his being gay? That's not proven even now.

 

[Sebazz]

Dahmer is about a serial killer. He happened to be gay like he happened to be white. Is his ethnicity a tag? Are movies about Bundy tagged as cisgender-heterosexual? People looking for the lgbtq tag are looking for relatable stories. That show has nothing to do with the common experience of being gay.

 

[Charon]

People looking for the lgbtq tag are looking for relatable stories. That show has nothing to do with the common experience of being gay.

P sure there are some gay guys out there who have the same way of thinking Dahmer had (serial killing, depravity, and all), ergo, they'd find him and the show relatable. But of course activists who are desperately trying to sanitize gay movies/shows to make them as family-friendly and safe as possible (up to the point where the gay characters (whose actors were obviously chosen for their supposed good looks) come off as cardboard cutouts) couldn't care less, since said gays are examples of a "bad gay."

Me? I just prefer seedy, cynical, dark entertainment. Unfortunately, said entertainment is close to non-existent under the LGBTQ tag because, like I said, activists reject anything that doesn't makes audiences smile and say, "Awww, how sweet!" (Such entertainment makes me wanna puke tbh, lmao.)

 

[Sebazz]

They've spoken positively of movies about gay guys dealing with HIV and drug addiction. Those are relatively common experiences. What percentage of gay guys are serial killers?

 

[Thad1527]

I watched Freeheld on HBO today. It's the story of Laurel Hester, who was employed by the Ocean County, NJ police department. She got terminal cancer...and found she was not able to leave her pension to her same-sex domestic partner. It stars Julianne Moore and Elliot Page.

OK, it's lesbian. But she got support from all the GLBT community. Steve Carell plays one of her advocates.

It took place in 2006.

 

[NotHardUp1]

They've spoken positively of movies about gay guys dealing with HIV and drug addiction. Those are relatively common experiences. What percentage of gay guys are serial killers?

The assertion that ANY movie depicting a serial killers life is depicting representative story lines is an odd way of seeing it. Serial killers, by definition, are a statistical rarity, and by "serial killer," I mean a murderer who has been systematically, covertly, compulsively murdering as the outworking of some deep-seeded mental abnormality. Rage killing of random targets in public as some power-demonstration as one blazes out of existence isn't serial killing, but mass killing, a very different thing. Killing one's ex, boss, neighbor, children, etc. in a suicidal exit spree is a mass killing as well.

So, Dahmer clearly fits within the serial killer definition. Labelling it as an American tale is accurate. Labelling it as a Midwestern tale is accurate. Labelling it as a Whitebread America tale is accurate. Labelling it as an LGBTQ tale is accurate. To what degree it was typical of any of those labels isn't a central point. It happened where it happened and with whom it happened.

We cannot be all about claiming gays when they do something we want to be associated with and then shrieking hysterically when someone includes one we don't like. Likewise, we can't be constantly talking about how warping a dominant heterosexual culture is on a homosexual minority, and blaming it with suicides and maladaptations of gays, but then deny that the ostracism and shame cannot possibly form the crucible that could form a murderous freak who never found the way to come out and be gay instead of muderously closeted. And if we live in a culture so biased to be advocates that we cannot admit that its possible straight oppression cannot lead to mental illness because we don't want gays to EVER be seen as mentally ill, then we are doing damage control no differently than any political caucus.

 

[Ontariobear]

The male lead from Merli Sapere Aude, Carlos Cuevas, (previous page) is in a new Netflix series called Smiley and he's still got all his charm. Watched the first epi last night and will be continuing.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Just an update, I'm on season two of Legendary and it is G.I.V.I.N.G.

Nasty bitch NASTY

 

[NotHardUp1]

Speak of Dahmer and he appears. This popped up in comments in a 9gag thread today as I was scrolling:

 

[NotHardUp1]

I shared that meme with about 20 friends via phone text., followed by "too soon?"

The two strangest replies were from engineers, of course. One said that it didn't look like Dahmer, but he "got it." I told him I'd tell the casting director when we lunched next.

The other engineer responded something about using his semi-automatic shotgun. He's a high ranking executive in my company. What a bizarre reaction to a meme.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

P sure there are some gay guys out there who have the same way of thinking Dahmer had (serial killing, depravity, and all), ergo, they'd find him and the show relatable. But of course activists who are desperately trying to sanitize gay movies/shows to make them as family-friendly and safe as possible (up to the point where the gay characters (whose actors were obviously chosen for their supposed good looks) come off as cardboard cutouts) couldn't care less, since said gays are examples of a "bad gay."

Me? I just prefer seedy, cynical, dark entertainment. Unfortunately, said entertainment is close to non-existent under the LGBTQ tag because, like I said, activists reject anything that doesn't makes audiences smile and say, "Awww, how sweet!" (Such entertainment makes me wanna puke tbh, lmao.)

I feel like there's way more space between cookie-cutter pop tart safe wholesome media and dismembering people and eating them than you're allowing.

I do not disagree that there are some depraved individuals out there who totaly relate to dahmer, if not literally, at least in the sense of actively enjoying the suffering of others. These people are grievance or bad day away from posing a legitimate danger to society. They'll never get their kicks from mainstream media anyway, the content they seek is only available on the dark web.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Notice: I haven't watched this yet I'm just pointing you in the direciton. "Naz & Maalik" is a comedy about two closeted teens whose secret rendezvous are misinterpreted as terrorist activity. I dunno if it's any good but it's one of like three LGBT of color offerings on Hulu so it's on my queue.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Ok one more I'm starting now, Hurricane Bianca: "A teacher from NY moves to a small town in Texas and is quickly fired for being gay. He soon returns dressed as a mean lady to get revenge." Thumbs up or down coming later.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

HURRICANE BIANCA IS FUNNY AS FUCK! It's B camp and not gonna be earning any Oscar noms but this movie has been gag after gag after gag. If you're not one of those bourgeoise saditty heaux that only wtaches austere high-art and you're kinda immature like me you'll laugh.

My favorite line:
Friend 1: This old nasty freeloadin bitch is still on my nice couch
Friend 2: It's a futon!
Friend 1: It's a professional sectional

Be forewarned, it's one of those movies where the lead is out-acted by, uh, everyone else.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

^Rachel Dratch from SNL plays the villain and she did not phone it in honey. Margaret Cho pops up, Alan Cumming, I love how gay media is like a big family, if you're really into the culture I get the sense that a lot of the characters are LGBT figures. I'm an old kween so I only recognized Cho and Cumming. Rupaul's in it for like .3 seconds.

PS: there's a sequel so somebody somewhere thought it was good.