The Crying Game (1992): What Desire Actually Is
There is a reveal in The Crying Game that, in 1992, the entire cultural apparatus of film promotion worked to protect. Critics agreed not to mention...
All of Us Strangers (2023): The Grief You Didn't Know You Were Still Carrying
Andrew Haigh made Weekend in 2011 and All of Us Strangers in 2023, and between those two films something changed — in Haigh, or in what cinema can...
The Films Every Gay Man Should See: A BoysDo Guide to Queer Cinema
There is a cinema of the body. Not pornography — something more considered than that, and more honest. A cinema that understands desire as a subject w...
Queer (2024): Desire as the Only Religion
William Burroughs wrote Queer in the early 1950s, directly after the accidental shooting death of his wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico City — an event th...
Paris Is Burning (1990): The Document and the Argument About It
In the late 1980s, in Harlem and the South Bronx, Black and Latino gay and trans people built a culture of extraordinary invention and beauty in the m...
The Studios That Built Gay Porn: A Cultural History
Gay pornography has a history. Not a shameful one, not a footnote to real culture, but a genuine history — of studios founded by gay men who saw a mar...
The Best Gay Dating Apps in 2025 — And Why the Best Relationships Start With Shared Taste
Raging Stallion Studios: The Masculine Ideal
Where Falcon gave gay pornography the all-American athletic ideal, Raging Stallion gave it something rawer, darker, and more aggressively masculine. F...
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985): Desire in Thatcher's England
My Beautiful Laundrette was made for television. Channel 4 commissioned it, Hanif Kureishi wrote it in six weeks, Stephen Frears shot it in six week...
Milk (2008): The Man Who Said His Name
Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978, becoming the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. H...
Behind the Candelabra (2013): Love in Rhinestones
Every major Hollywood studio passed on Behind the Candelabra. Steven Soderbergh had a script by Richard LaGravenese, two of the most acclaimed actor...
Weekend (2011): Friday Night to Sunday Morning
Weekend takes place over forty-eight hours in Nottingham. Two men meet at a bar on Friday night, go home together, and spend the weekend in the spec...