From: Minotaur@cup.portal.com (Frank - Swilling)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: The GLBO-Centered Film List
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:51:47 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

The soc.motss Gay-Centered Domestic Film List
3rd of 7 Lists
compiled by Frank Swilling

Abuse - 1983 (Gay - Drama: A young boy, abused at home, finds love with
     a gay filmmaker.)
As Is - 1986 (Gay - Drama: A man who has contracted AIDS from a lover
     who then abandoned him moves in with his caring ex-lover.)
The Boys in the Band - 1970 (Gay - Drama: The first Hollywood movie to
     feature male homosexuality, in which a straight man is the
     accidental guest at a birthday party with one of each of the
     major gay male subgroups except for leather.)
Buddies - 1985 (Gay - Drama: A gay activist who has AIDS starts out hating
     the yuppie volunteer who comes to take care of him out of a sense of
     duty, but their brief relationship is both poignant and intense.)
The Christine Jorgensen Story - 1970 (Transsexual - Biography: the
     world's most famous male-to-female sex change story.)
Consenting Adult - 1985 (Gay - Drama: Made-for-TV movie about a teenage
     boy who comes out to his parents.  Mom eventually comes around,
     but Dad would rather die, and does.)
Cruising - 1980 (Gay - Drama: Extremely negative film about gay murders
     and the undercover cop trying to solve them, but who turns into a
     killer faggot himself from exposure to the New York leather scene.)
Dog Day Afternoon - 1975 (Gay - Drama/Biography: Gay man robs bank to pay
     for his male lover's sex-change operation.)
Drum - 1976 (Gay - Drama: A white plantation owner and his gay pal rape
     black men.)
An Early Frost - 1985 (Gay - Drama: Made-for-TV movie about a family having
     to deal with their son's AIDS.)
Horror Vacuii - 1984 (Gay - Drama: A gay man tries to save his lover from
     a religious cult.)
Kiss of the Spider Woman - 1985 (Gay Transvestite - Drama: A gay prisoner
     falls in love with the revolutionary he's supposed to be spying on
     for the prison authorities.)
Longtime Companion - 1991 (Gay - Drama: In 1970's New York, a bunch of
     gay friends are having wonderful lives, until one by one, most of
     them start getting sick with AIDS.)
Making Love - 1982 (Bisexual/Gay - Drama: A handsome young doctor leaves
     leaves his beautiful young wife for a handsome young writer.)
Mala Noche - 1985 (Gay - Drama: A well-adjusted young gay grocery clerk
     falls in love for a 16-year-old Mexican illegal alien who doesn't
     return his feelings.)
Mountains of the Moon - 1990 (Gay - Biographical Drama: Epic about
     explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke.  The film makes
     quite clear that Speke is homosexual, and, in fact quite taken with
     Burton.  This storyline is not the main thrust of the film however.)
My Own Private Idaho - 1991 (Gay - Drama: A narcoleptic hustler looking
     for some love in his life and a bisexual hustler who'd do anything
     to outrage his father go on a search for their own identities.)
Nocturne - 1989 (Gay - Drama: Mark Harris's contemplative coming of age
     story about Martin, a shy pianist new to New York, who meets the
     handsome Gino.  Martin thinks he's found his match, but Gino only
     wants a casual sexual liaison.  As Martin slides into obsession he
     is forced to deal with a terrible secret from his past.)
Norman, Is That You? - 1976  (Gay - Comedy: A butch gay black youth is
     in love with a nelly white youth, and his parents are both about to
     have a heart attack over it.)
Parting Glances - 1986 (Gay - Drama: Lovers find their relationship is
     falling apart because one is getting ready to take a job in Africa;
     the other has to also cope with his ex-lover and dear friend, who
     has contracted the AIDS virus.)
Partners - 1982 (Gay - Comedy: Insulting, homophobic, and crude story of
     a straight cop posing as a gay man along with a real gay man in
     order to solve some murders in the gay community.)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Gay Transvestite - Horror/Comedy/Musical:
     An innocent young couple take refuge in the castle of Dr. Frank 'n'
     Furter, the sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania.)
The Sergeant - 1968 (Gay - Drama: A deeply repressed Sergeant Major falls
     in love with a company clerk, and is unable to deal with his homo-
     sexual desires.)
Sergeant Matlovich vs. U.S. Air Force - 1978 (Gay - Drama: Made-for-TV
     movie about Matlovich's fight to stay in the Air Force despite his
     revealed homosexuality.)
Some of My Best Friends Are... [The Bar] - 1971 (Gay - Drama: One night
     in the life of a pre-Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village.)
That Certain Summer - 1973 (Gay - Drama: Made-for-TV movie about a father
     trying to establish a relationship with his son after leaving the
     boy's mother for another man.)
Tidy Endings - 1988 (Gay - Drama: Made-for-TV movie about the aftermath
     of a man dying of AIDS: his male lover and his ex-wife have to come
     to legal and emotional terms.)
Thundercrack - 1976 (GLBO - Comedy: A bizarre black comedy wherein the
     visitors to an "old dark house" are terrorized by a bunch of
     perverts who sexually assault them.)
Torch Song Trilogy - 1988 (Gay/Gay Transvestite - Comedy/Drama: Harvey
     Fierstein wrote and stars as a professional drag queen looking for
     love and respect all through the '70's in New York.)
A Very Natural Thing - 1973 (Gay - Drama: This film tries to explore gay
     relationships first from the point of view of trying to maintain a
     monogamous relationship and when that fails, from the POV of having
     a lot of empty, meaningless sex.)
Victor, Victoria - 1982 (Gay - Comedy: Female to male cross-dressing is
     featured in this farce about a woman pretending to be a man pretending
     to be a woman in 1920's Paris, but there's male-to-female cross-
     dressing too.)