1/30/2024 0 Comments New gay movies out 2014![]() "The film that really just was groundbreaking, for me in terms of seeing same-sex intimacy onscreen, was "Making Love" released with great controversy in 1982, starring Michael Ontkean, Harry Hamlin and Kate Jackson. As for the girlfriend who introduced me to the film, we're no longer together, obviously, but we're still great friends, and I think another 'Velvet Goldmine' viewing is in order." Clay Chiles, Deputy Blog Editor Now, seven years later, I happily identify as a gay man. Though it would take me a couple more years to fully embrace my own long-suppressed queerness, that film certainly hastened the process. I'd glimpsed new possibilities for myself, more liberated ways of being in the world, and it was thrilling. For months I obsessed over that film, watching it again and again (mostly alone), fantasizing about both being and having Brian Slade, this ravishing (though deeply flawed) queer man dripping with sex and confidence and fearlessness. "Like the closeted, sexually frustrated gay youth portrayed in the film by Christian Bale, I was mesmerized - seduced - by Jonathan Rhys Meyers' Brian Slade, with his glittery, unapologetically gender-bending glamor his sex-positive, queer-liberationist politics his allure his intensity his power.
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