The Gay Thread

[sorcerer999]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

Well I won't continue to argue about a movie that clearly means a lot to people on here, I just wish you all knew that there were better American Hollywood, independent and foreign films with a variety of presentations of gay life way before Brokeback Mountain. And way way way better.

For more on my response to the Brokeback Mountain hype I refer you to my essay "Breaking Bread with the Movie Club" in my first book The Community of Desire (link below).

If you have Netflix streaming, here are some great-to-good gay films available:

1. The Witnesses (Andre Techine)
2. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
3. Yossi (Eytan Fox)
4. Camp (Todd Graff)
5. Kaboom (Gregg Araki)
6. The Bubble (Eytan Fox)
7. Boy Culture (Q. Allan Brocka)
8. The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki)
9. The Last of England (Derek Jarman)
10. Another Gay Movie (Todd Stephens)
11. Gayby (Jonathan Lisecki)

I really LOOOOVE "Kaboom" and "The Doom Generation"! In fact, I love everything that Gregg Araki has made! One of my favorite directors. I love someone who can tap into such dark subject matter as "Mysterious Skin" and then completely take things in the opposite direction with "Smiley Face".

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by sorcerer999

I really LOOOOVE "Kaboom" and "The Doom Generation"! In fact, I love everything that Gregg Araki has made! One of my favorite directors. I love someone who can tap into such dark subject matter as "Mysterious Skin" and then completely take things in the opposite direction with "Smiley Face".

Check out my essay on a Gregg Araki retrospective in my new book Watch the Throne (link below)

[He's So Unusual]

Sorry to hijack your thread, but I watched Beautiful Thing a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Get Real is also a pretty good film.

[Dex]

Uuuugh.

I was stupid enough to read some of the comments section of a "coming out" youtube video.

I am genuinely so sad right now. How do gay youtubers handle all this crap?

[He's So Unusual]

Originally Posted by Dex

Uuuugh.

I was stupid enough to read some of the comments section of a "coming out" youtube video.

I am genuinely so sad right now. How do gay youtubers handle all this crap?

The comments section on YouTube brings out the worst in a lot of people. Saying that, the people who upload their videos to YouTube about private and delicate matters can't expect everyone to be positive, the internet sadly doesn't work like that. If the comments left on a persons video bothers them that much they can easily disable them using their account settings. I know I'll probably get criticised for writing this, but one thing that annoys me about a lot of people in my generation is their urgency to talk about themselves and their lives openly on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogger, etc. I know that people uploading videos about being gay and coming out might help other people in the same situation, and this is obviously a good thing, but a lot of it just comes across as incredibly self-involved. There's a time and a place for things, YouTube isn't always it. I know if I was coming out I wouldn't want to sit in front of a camera and tell thousands or even millions of people about it, especially as the video could be seen by people I'd rather not see it. Each to their own.