And second, maybe a lot of people just assumed – as we did – that the Ang Lee classic starring the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal would yet again take top honors, so they didn’t bother to actually vote for it.īut just maybe there was something else at work here: the current gay zeitgeist. First, it’s very likely that the ultimate winner (a great little indie film) has passionate fans who made a concerted effort to get out the vote. Several factors may have weighed into this outcome. We double-checked the numbers, it got beat out by three votes. Then we announced the top 10 on our Facebook page in alphabetical order and let you vote one last time to decide the top 10 order.Īnd surprise, Brokeback Mountain was not the number one movie. So, after voting closed we sorted through the nearly 35,000 nominations (representing over 600 individual film titles) to identify your top 100 favorite gay films. And we wanted to break out gay documentaries onto their own list (You’ll find the Top 25 Greatest Gay Documentaries results here.) We figured there were finally enough quality gay films to justify the expansion. We also wanted to expand our list to 100 from the top 50 we had done previously. We wanted to see how your list of favorites had changed. 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. A few weeks ago we asked readers to submit up to ten of their favorite films by write-in vote. Frankly, one that surprised the hell out of us here.īut before we get to that, an introduction. 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.
There’s a major upset in the rankings!īrace yourselves.
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There’s also non-US TV shows and movies, who don’t seem to have a problem with kids being exposed to gay characters.Our readers name their favorite gay films.
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Children’s literature has featured openly gay characters (“Heather Has Two Mommies”, etc.), plus there’s the upcoming Archie comic with the debut of an openly-gay character.
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One commenter suggests this might be one reason for the new Scooby-Doo series pushing Velma and Shaggy as a couple rather heavily (per the jokes/remarks about Velma over the years)… which I guess is possible (though still feels more like “a bad fanfic idea come-to-life” to me).įortunately, American children’s media outside of TV and movies seem a bit less uptight. Either writers pull a JK Rowling and reveal a character as being gay after the show’s long been axed, or they can only “infer” in a “nudge-nudge, wink-wink” manner that a character might, maybe, possibly, doesn’t like the opposite sex (though mostly showing them as flamboyant and/or effeminate…).Īs the comments section notes, American TV seems afraid of the backlash from the right over an openly gay character in a kids’ show (see: the “Postcards From Buster” flap a few years back), especially since ratings and merchandising (read: money) are at stake.
Brief but pretty thorough analysis/summary of the current state of things.