In "honor" of
The Kids Are All Right,
Salon notes nine pivotal gay sex scenes that paved the road for respected, beautiful actress Annette Bening and Julianne Moore to fool around at will. The list consists of:
- The Beautiful Launderette
- Personal Best
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Brokeback Mountain
- Bound
- Cruising
- Mulholland Drive
- Threesome
- Wild Things
Okay, sure how about film like
Making Love,
Maurice,
Wilde, and
Longtime Companion that actually made giant (and brave) strides towards making same sex couplings more accessible to the movie going public. Half the list here just seems like straight man fantasy (
Wild Things,
Mulholland Drive), and a bit of straight man homophobia (
Cruising is a 1978 William Friedkin film that in nutshell explains that all gay men are mentally disturbed.) I'll totally grant
A Beautiful Launderette,
Brokeback Mountain, and even
Personal Best a slot however, since each film in it's seperate ways provided an artful and perseptive look at human relationships-- they were powerful stories not merely because they were gay, but truthful.
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