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The 50 Greatest Gay Male Movies voted on by After Elton fans.

1 Brokeback Mountain

2 Beautiful Thing

3 Shelter

4 Latter Days

5 Maurice

6 Trick

7 Get Real

8 Big Eden

9 The Broken Hearts Club

10 Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

11 Longtime Companion

12 Torch Song Trilogy

13 My Beautiful Laundrette

14 Parting Glances

15 Just a Question of Love

16 Mysterious Skin

17 Summer Storm

18 Rocky Horror Picture Show

19 The Birdcage

20 Sordid Lives

21 Hedwig and the Angry Inch

22 Short Bus

23 All Over The Guy

24 Another Gay Movie

25 The Boys in theBand

26 Philadelphia

27 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar.

28 Boy Culture

29 The Wedding Banquet

30 C.R.A.Z.Y.

31 My Own Private Idaho

32 Jeffrey

33 The Trip

34 Edge of Seventeen

35 Priest

36 In & Out

37 Eating Out

38 Velvet Goldmine

39 Angels in America

40 Love! Valour! Compassion!

41 The Sum of Us

42 Burnt Money

43 Transamerica

44 Victor Victoria

45 Bent

46 Yossi & Jagger

47 Bad Education

48 Gods and Monsters

49 Making Love

50 Rent

http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2008/9/50...vies?page=0%2C0

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This is a tangent because I don't think Red River is anybody's idea of a gay movie, but in fact there is to my mind no gayer scene in any movie than the one where Montgomery Clift and John Ireland, all done up in their rough, tough cowboy drag, compare guns.

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Ahhhh Im a musicla person I cant believe Rent rated so low. I also think To Wong Foo and Priscilla should be higher. Priscilla is one of the first gay movies I can remember seeing when I was younger. I might have seen others and dont remember them though. A good list some definate movies to check out.

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Overall, I think they have a pretty good list there.

A few of my favorites that didn't make the cut...

Home at the End of the World, A (2004) How could you not LOVE Colin Ferrell's character?

Another Country (1984) English Boys school. First Loves. What's NOT to love? The first time that I saw it... For days after I kept flashing back on scenes.

Europa Europa (1990) Not exactly a gay movie but it did have gay characters and a beautifully filmed full frontal scene with Marco Hofschneider!

Shortbus (2006) Being aNew Yorker at heart I loved it. At least John Cameron Mitchell's other film made the list.

Food of Love (2002) Kevin Bishop was beautiful as Paul Porterfield and it was pretty true to the great David Leavitt book.

Tales of the City (1993) This was actually a miniseries so I guess maybe it didn't qualify but still it did a wonderful job of evoking a lost era in one of America's gayest cities.

Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984) This is a good film about a great individual. I still recall how I was moved the first time I saw it.

That Certain Summer (1972) (TV) This one is little known but still surfaces from time to time on TV. Hal Holbrook with a young MARTIN Sheen as his younger lover. Whew!

Different for Girls (1996) Do transexual stories COUNT as gay stories? If so how couyld this not make the cut. Ruprt Graves and an opening shower scene that will make any gay man's heart bleed.

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On 9/20/2008 at 9:28 PM, TotallyOz said:

The 50 Greatest Gay Male Movies voted on by After Elton fans.

1 Brokeback Mountain

2 Beautiful Thing

3 Shelter

4 Latter Days

5 Maurice

6 Trick

7 Get Real

8 Big Eden

9 The Broken Hearts Club

10 Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

11 Longtime Companion

12 Torch Song Trilogy

13 My Beautiful Laundrette

14 Parting Glances

15 Just a Question of Love

16 Mysterious Skin

17 Summer Storm

18 Rocky Horror Picture Show

19 The Birdcage

20 Sordid Lives

21 Hedwig and the Angry Inch

22 Short Bus

23 All Over The Guy

24 Another Gay Movie

25 The Boys in theBand

26 Philadelphia

27 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar.

28 Boy Culture

29 The Wedding Banquet

30 C.R.A.Z.Y.

31 My Own Private Idaho

32 Jeffrey

33 The Trip

34 Edge of Seventeen

35 Priest

36 In & Out

37 Eating Out

38 Velvet Goldmine

39 Angels in America

40 Love! Valour! Compassion!

41 The Sum of Us

42 Burnt Money

43 Transamerica

44 Victor Victoria

45 Bent

46 Yossi & Jagger

47 Bad Education

48 Gods and Monsters

49 Making Love

50 Rent

http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2008/9/50...vies?page=0%2C0

Interesting how the top five in the list are 5 of my top gay films today, 12 years later.  

Here is a recent video about Shelter.   Amazing that was 13 years ago.  It used to be the #1 gay film for a lot of people.   After all these years Shelter hangs in there.

 

 

 

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