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Tonight I have been gravely disappointed by the two gay-themed movies I rented with my roommate. I'd seen Forgive and Forget before, but ( spoilers )

Regular Guys (Echte Kerle) started out funny and enjoyable, but ( spoilers )

Why is it so damn difficult to find gay movies that (a) end happily, (b) don't end in Surprise Heterosexuality, (c) are well-written and well-acted?

Anybody have recs for gay (male) non-documentary movies that meet those criteria? I have a horrible feeling I've already seen all the ones that exist. Films I have seen include: The Adventures of Felix, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (the gay characters are tangential, as I recall, with the focus on the straight trans woman), Beautiful Thing, Big Eden, Edge of Seventeen, Get Real (not actually very happy anyway), Jeffrey, Like It Is, Maurice, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Sum of Us, and Wild Reeds (also not very happy). [ETA: also The Wedding Banquet.]

Your help is appreciated.

I've finished The Naive and Sentimental Lover and will write up a real post about it when I'm less tired.¹ The book turns out to be vastly more self-aware about its homoeroticism than I had expected, and it also features a good deal of ironic humor. I offer the extract below the cut for your delectation.

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I've finished reading Lieutenant Hornblower, widely considered the slashiest of the Hornblower novels. This isn't surprising, since it's told from the POV of Hornblower's deeply enamored friend William Bush, he of the hand-caressing and stealth!snuggling.

( mild spoilers, although not for major plot points )

I've started reading the Horatio Hornblower novels. They're short and sort of popcorny, so I'm already on the third one. This is my impression of the books so far:

Captain Hornblower: I must speak to no one, lest any human contact besmirch my PERFECT STRONG SILENT MASCULINITY. So I'll just stalk around scowling and privately doubting my perfect strong silent masculinity. And hating myself. OMG I'M SO LONELY.

Lt. Bush: *casts longing looks*

A Crisis: *approaches*

Hornblower: Jargonize the topsails! Obfuscate the futtock-shrouds!

Bush: Have I mentioned how much I admire you? I mean, in the last five minutes or so? Because I really, really admire you.

Hornblower: Ha hm. *goes away blushing and thinks about how much he admires the brave and manly Bush LOOK I DIDN'T NAME THE CHARACTER OKAY*

Another Crisis: *approaches*

Bush: Oh, look, another crisis! Perhaps there'll be a situation of terribly grave danger. Or I might be wounded. In either cases, I would then be permitted to hold your hand in a manly way.

Narrator: Bush loves Hornblower like a son. I said LIKE A SON. Yes. Really. Stop sniggering and listen to me!

Needless to say, I'm enjoying them quite a lot.

The awesomely gay video to Pete Townshend's awesomely gay 1980 song "Rough Boys" is up on YouTube! I looked for it a couple of years ago and was disappointed not to find it.

I think I've only seen the video once before today, back when I was quite young. I'm happy to see that my memory didn't deceive me; it really is just that awesomely gay.

Here, have a look:

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Entries tagged with awesome gayness

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John Le Carré's novels: still incredibly gay

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