In Leaving Metropolis (2002), a well to do gay artist (Troy Ruptash) has hit a dry spell. To get a jump start, he becomes a part time waiter to get himself out of the house and find inspiration. He helps the married couple who own the diner to increase their business, and then finds himself painting and falling for the curious husband (Vince Corazza).
In The History Boys (2006), Harry Potter’s Uncle Vernon (Richard Griffiths) is an aging school teacher who indulges in the occasional fondle as a younger history teacher (Stephen Campbell Moore), who is also gay, helps prepare the students (one of whom is gay, one of whom seems tempted) for their exams to get into Oxford and Cambridge.
Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998) stars Sean Hayes (of Will & Grace fame) as a gay photographer who falls for his maybe straight model (Brad Rowe) and spends most of the movie in “is he or isn’t he?” musings. Who knew Sean had such a nice bod?
Alessandro Gassman is a married Italian man who inherits a turkish bath (in Turkey) from his aunt in 1997’s Steam (aka Hamam). He’s ready to sell the place until he meets the son of the family who ran it for his aunt. And who would ever expect their wife to pay a surprise visit to Turkey?
Flight of the Phoenix: Airplane. Broken. Desert. Dennis Quaid shirtless.
Beefcake (1998) gives a dramatized account of Bob Mizer (Daniel McIvor) and his Athletic Model Guild (AMG). Joshua Peace portrays a young model in the AMG stables. The movie is interspersed with snippets of AMG films and pictures and with interviews with some of the AMG models and other photographers of the period. Joe Dellesandro, Jim Lassiter, and Jack LaLanne are some of the interviews with accounts of the 1950’s “body building” mags. The movie gives a look at the modeling and then at the legal challenges of Mizer and the “industry”.
Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, & Guy Pearce are three drag queens who travel across Australia in a bus (named Priscilla) to give a show in Alice Springs in 1994’s The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Adventures and bitchy remarks abound.
Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein) and Wei-Tung (Winston Chao) are a gay couple living in New York in Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (Hsi yen) (1993). Wei-Tung’s parents in Taiwan are pressuring him to get married. When the guys conspire to get Wei-Tung married to please them, the parents complicate things by coming to visit.
