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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...
BoysDo vs Scruff: The Tribes App vs. a Place to Look Without Being Asked Anything
My Own Private Idaho (1991): Shakespeare on the Road
River Phoenix died two years after My Own Private Idaho was released. He was twenty-three. The film has been lit differently ever since — biographic...
BoysDo vs Tinder for Relationships: A Straight App with a Gay Mode Is Still a Straight App
Beautiful Thing (1996): A South London Summer
Beautiful Thing is the kindest film on this list. That is not a small thing. Queer cinema has often felt compelled to earn its right to exist throug...
BoysDo vs PornHub: Why Artistic Gay Erotic Photography Beats Volume
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Man Who Made the Art World Look
There is a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe of a man named Thomas in a three-piece suit. The suit is impeccably cut. Thomas is seated, composed, his...
BoysDo vs FetLife: The Kink Network and the Art-Erotic Feed
Helmut Newton: Desire as Architecture
Helmut Newton did not photograph the male body often. He is known, overwhelmingly, for his images of women — powerful, dangerous, frequently naked, al...
Wolfgang Tillmans: Intimacy as Practice
Wolfgang Tillmans does not make his images look like art. This is the most deliberate thing about them. A Tillmans photograph might be a man's torso...