My Favourite Gay movies

More love story than coming out story set in 1970's Belgium. It revolves around the life of the young, reserved Pim, his life dealing with his absent mother, and his friendship and desires for his best friend Gino mainly over a period of 2 or 3 years. As time passes and Gino becomes more distant due to other distractions, Pim is pushed to one side until one day, the return of the mysterious Zoltan, coupled with a family tragedy, encourages Pim to forget his past and follow his true feelings. Beautifully shot debut movie from director Bavo Defurne coupled with a dreamy soundtrack from Little Auk and beautifully and comfortably acted by the young leads, this is certainly not to be missed.

This story of Summer love centre's around Tobi, the leader and star of his rowing club and his relationship with his life long best friend Achim, which Tobi feels is now under threat from the blossoming love between Achim and girlfriend Sandra, a rowers on the clubs female team. While away at a rowing summer camp the crew meets the Queerstrokes, a rival team of gay rowers who are camping nearby. What follows is a voyage of discovery as Tobi tries to make sense of his feelings towards Achim and also find his own way as his life pushes towards adulthood.

This little gem of a German film is helped along by some funny and also touching moments, a great soundtrack, beautiful scenery and some excellent performances from a young ensemble cast. Enjoyable but not too heavy. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon or late night viewing.

A little gem of a film.

15 year old, Sieger is one of the stars of his local athletics club. At home though things are far from perfect as Sieger's family struggles to get by following the death of his mother, in a car accident, and the tension between Sieger's dad and his wayward brother Eddy.

On top of this, Sieger is struggling to deal with his own feelings and his general awkwardness around girls. These feelings are brought to a head when Sieger meets Mark and over the course of training for an upcoming athletics competition, they fall in love.

Sieger however is not ready to deal with the consequences of publicly admitting his feelings for Mark, who is some ways seems to have everything Sieger would like to have, in a happy home life with a loving, supportive family who are fully accepting of his sexuality.

A number of events leave Sieger with a decision to make. Of course I am not at liberty to say what he chooses to do.

Something that this film has is real depth. The characters have stories, backgrounds, reasons for doing what they do. All these things allow the film to connect with the audience as many viewers will find comparisons to things that have perhaps happened in their own lives.

To his parents, Laurent is in love with Carole and the two of them live together in their student apartment in Paris. However in reality, this is all a front to disguise the fact that Laurent is in fact gay and his life has been turned upside down following the death of his gay cousin Mark, who was abandoned by the family after he came out to them.

Fearing the same rejection, Laurent feels trapped and unsure how to deal with his search to find love, and subsequently risk losing his parents if they find out.

Sent on a work placement by his college, Laurent meets Cedric and an attraction develops. Cedric however is not prepared to hide their love away and Laurent is now forced into dealing with his personal demons or risk losing the person he loves.

Excellent performances, excellent story. This movie has aged well and still reflects many issues faced by young gay people today.

Teenager Mik feels somewhat isolated, having recently lost his brother to an accidental drug overdose. This in turn led to Mik being unable to communicate with his parents due to their inability to deal with the loss.

Now Mik also fears losing his best friend Dan, who has recently started dating, and is somewhat under the spell of, the seductive Phaedra.

Invited to a party a Phaedra's house, Dan takes Mik along for moral support. Things however do not go as any of them hoped, as Mik, who is protective of his best friend is anything but welcoming towards Dan's new love interest. The reason for this protectiveness is never fully clarified. Mik's actions suggest that there may be more to his feelings for Dan than just a close friendship, however its really up to the viewer to decide.

Excellent performances in what is an excellent, thought provoking story.

An unusual location for a love story, this short film focuses on Malcolm, an inmate in an Australian young offenders institute. To their fellow inmates, Malcolm and his cellmate Tye don't get along and Malcolm must almost turn a blind eye to the bullying and abuse that Tye is forced to endure from some of the other inmates, but once alone in their cell, we discover that there is much more to their relationship. The harsh realities of prison life are offset beautifully against the warm, tender moments shared behind locked doors and as Malcolm is presented with a chance to start earning his freedom, he must decide whether to chase his dream, or make a sacrifice to protect the one he loves.

Don't let the obvious low budget and sometimes ropey acting put you off what is an excellent "coming out" movie, which deals with two key issues that every gay person must at some point in their life have to deal with "When is the right time?" and "Acceptance".

For Griff who, enjoys the comfort and safety of being a popular member of his college fraternity, these issues are forced upon him when his secret boyfriend Pete is the victim of a gay bashing incident in a known gay area of town. The problem for Griff is that he has information that could be important to the police investigating the crime. He must now face up to the issue of whether to admit his feelings for Pete or to hide among the safety of the macho, but somewhat homophobic fraternity while Pete's attackers potentially go free.

This film works so well because it tackles a subject that was, at the time, somewhat Taboo and being a gay kid in a college fraternity was far from the norm. Despite this, this is still an exceptional film that stands up well against more modern offerings.