People talked and joked more about the infamous “tent” scene, but this is the movie’s true heart: Jack and Ennis need each other in a way that transcends everything else, even as they’re also planting the seeds of their own tragedy by not openly embracing that need.īut there’s more to this romantic kiss than just the story in the film.
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If this scene doesn’t move you to tears of joy and hope, you obviously have no heart whatsoever, so get to a hospital pronto.įor all the endless ink and pixels spilled over the 2005 movie Brokeback Mountain, for me, the story all comes down to one heartrending moment: when, after four years apart trying to make it work leading heterosexual lives, Jack and Ennis finally see each other again, and they share a secret but insanely passionate kiss - a kiss which Ennis’ wife Alma accidentally witnesses. Movie Beautiful Thing when Jamie and Ste declare their love to each other and the world by dancing to Mama Cass’ “Dream a Littleĭream” in the courtyard of their “council flat.” Transplant? If you’re not completely choked up at the end of the 1996 UK You know how you can tell if you’re in immediate need of a heart Jamie and Ste Dancing at the End of Beautiful Thing And this Valentine’s Day, it’s worth remembering that for one man, Gately’s partner Andrew Cowles, it won’t be getting better at all. But the song and the video have taken on new poignancy since the premature death of Gately in 2009. It was touching when Boyzone decided to include some same-sex imagery involving their out lead singer Stephen Gately in their video for their 2008 single “Better” - the first major boyband to do so. Stephen Gately Sings to Another Man in Boyzone’s “Better” I first saw this movie with a group of my straight guy friends, but I was still blubbering like a mad fool, and Sam and Frodo’s love was the reason why. “I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things,” Frodo tells Sam when it seems that all hope is lost. Except when infected by the evil of The One Ring, Sam and Frodo work together.Īnd they die together too. In the three Lord of the Rings movies, Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins share a bond that goes beyond friendship: Sam and Frodo are soulmates, joined together like, well, a ring, where you’re not quite sure where one’s spirit ends and the other’s begins.Īnd while they may both be straight males (although we don’t really know about Frodo, do we?), their characters completely lack one characteristic that just might be relatively common in straight men: competition. That said? I think one of the most romantic same-sex pairings of the last ten years doesn’t involve gay characters at all. Here’s a confession: I generally hate “slash” and “hoyay.” I’ll take my gay characters gay, thank you very much, and I actually get vaguely annoyed when people are convinced they see gay subtext where it obviously wasn’t intended to be. Hey, they even spooned after! I was verklempt – weren’t you?
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In the meantime, let’s look at some of those romantic moments in gay entertainment, shall we?Ĭheesy, candle-lit love-making has been a mainstay of American daytime drama since the early 1950s, when the TV genre first appeared.īut all that changed in December of 2009 when One Life to Live’s Officer Fish and Kyle, or “Kish” as the duo became known, went somewhere daytime drama had never gone before: the two of them had cheesy soap opera sex, complete with fireworks exploding outside the window. Still, who knows? Maybe by the end of this article, my partner Michael (who is also the editor of this site) will come crashing through the door of my dreary downstairs office, pulling me away from computer like Richard Gere pulls Debra Winger away from that boring factory machine at the end of An Officer and a Gentlemen, kissing me passionately, then sweeping me up into his uniform-clad arms in order to carry me out into the bright sunlight - all to the strains of “Up Where We Belong” sung by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. No, we sit at our keyboards grinding out articles like this one, merely writing about some of the most romantic moments in the history of gay entertainment. Unfortunately, it’s the characters on TV and in movies we’re watching who get to enjoy these moments, not us. How do we celebrate Valentines Day here at ? With roses, chocolates, and long, lingering kisses alongside rainswept sidewalk cafes in Paris.