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Brace yourselves. This list of the Top 100 Greatest Gay Movies is probably going to generate some howls of protest thanks to a rather major upset in the rankings. Frankly, one that surprised the hell out of us here at AfterElton.

But before we get to that, an introduction. A few weeks ago we asked AfterElton readers to submit up to ten of their favorite films by write-in vote. We conducted a similar poll several years ago, but a lot has happened culturally since then, and a number of worthy movies of gay interest have been released. We wanted to see how your list of favorites had changed.

We also wanted to expand our list to 100 from the top 50 we had done previously. We figured there were finally enough quality gay films to justify the expansion. And we wanted to break out gay documentaries onto their own list (You'll find the...

Mercedes Quintero, Lucas Ferraro, Manuel Vignau in Marco Berger‘s Plan B (top); Tim Bergmann, Sascha Kekez in Dennis Todorovic‘s Sasha (upper middle); Andy Blubaugh‘s The Adults in the Room (lower middle); Johnny Ferro, Stephen Tyrone Williams in Kareem Mortimer‘s Children of God (bottom) Outfest 2010: Children Of God, Bloomington, Light Gradient, Plan B Synopses Marco Berger‘s Plan B, Susan Koch‘s The Other City, Dennis Todorovic‘s Sasha, Andy Blubaugh‘s The Adults in the Room, and Kareem Mortimer‘s Children of God are some of the highlights at Outfest 2010, the 28th edition of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, on Saturday, July 10. In the Argentinean romantic-triangle-of-sorts Plan B, a young man (Manuel Vignau) dumped by his girlfriend (Mercedes Quintero) not only befriends the young woman’s new boyfriend (Lucas Ferraro), but also attempts to seduce him. Note: This may sound like a comedy,...

Manuel Vignau, Lucas Ferraro in Marco Berger‘s Plan B (top); Fernanda Cardoso‘s Bloomington (bottom) Synopses from the Outfest website for Saturday, July 10. Plan B Best-laid plans are put to the test in this topsy-turvy romantic comedy from Argentina. After being dumped by Anna, Bruno secretly befriends Anna’s new boyfriend Pablo in an attempt to stay close to her. When Bruno discovers that Pablo once dated a man, he decides to use his own sex appeal to seduce Pablo away from Anna, but balancing Anna’s booty calls with his fast-moving friendship with Pablo leads to an unexpected personal dilemma. Sasha Growing up is hard to do. For Sasha, an awkward Montenegrin-German teen, the everyday pangs of adolescence – nosy immigrant family, tedious piano practice, unsatisfied "girlfriend" – don’t stop there. He must also contend with his budding homosexuality and unbridled attraction to his piano teacher. What starts as...

A woman, Laura, dumps a guy, Bruno, in favor of another guy, Pablo, but Bruno desperately wants Laura back. When she casually mentions that Pablo had experimented with another guy, Bruno sets out to seduce him away from Laura.

With its very flexible notion of heterosexuality, this isn’t a plot you’re likely to see any time soon on Hannah Montana (or even Greek).

It’s the story of a new Argentinean movie, Plan B, set among aimless twentysomethings in contemporary Argentina (the movie, now playing film festivals, is in subtitles).

And like the recent American indie hit Humpday, it’s more or less a complicated exploration of gay sex and love between presumably heterosexual men. The characters' casual acceptance of homosexuality, and the film's idea that love is love, is perhaps the most interesting thing about it.

That said, this definitely isn’t a movie for everyone, and...