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These were few and far between. Dear millennials, the generation born during the '80s, these are the gay-themed movies — some wonderful, some wonderfully terrible — worth your time. Who'd have. Spoiler alert: Sebastian used Catherine to lure attractive young men for him to have sex with, and a group of them killed Sebastian in an especially barbaric gay-bashing.

By all accounts a happy family man, the senator apparently had a gay ol' time in Hawaii that's now come back to bite him in the butt. A mystery and thriller at heart, Victim follows a successful, married lawyer avenging the death of his young male lover.

Even though a movie about a gay man is up for multiple Academy Awards on Sunday, depictions of LGBT life remain rare in mainstream film. A few filmmakers were brave enough to feature gay characters that weren't cautionary tales. A blackmailer is targeting London's gays, demanding money in exchange for keeping gay their same-sex affairs; many financially strapped victims commit suicide rather than face prison or humiliation.

Wakefield Poole's breakthrough gay porn masterpiece no doubt made it into the mainstream (and across lines of sexuality) because it 'high art' ring made it amenable to straight sexual tourists seeking out the other side, but wishing the work to be clothed in a veil of 'legitimacy'--but of course, its wall-to-wall classical music and its self-consciously 'artiness' are its strength.

By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Dear millennials, the generation born during the '80s, these are the gay-themed movies — some wonderful, some wonderfully terrible — worth your time.

Here are some wcco susan elizabeth littlefield gay the pre-AIDS era movies you probably haven't heard of, but are more than worthy of your Netflix queue -- even if just to see how far we've come.

This classy psychological horror movie was one of the first films to feature a lesbian story line, though it was subtle and implied. Taylor plays Catherine, a young woman recently institutionalized after her cousin Sebastian died while the pair traveled abroad in Spain.

Bijou - Remastered Limited Edition () by Wakefield Poole Publication date Topics adult film, porn, gay, homosexual, gay porn, gay bijou film, bill harrison, drama, fantasy Language English Item Size M A construction worker witnesses a car accident and pockets the female victim’s purse, in which he discovers her invitation.

Bonus: Betty White has a cameo as a Kansas senator. Though a box office flop, the movie opened to critical acclaim, and received five Academy Award nominations and three Golden Globe nodsincluding one for MacLaine for Best Actress. Amid the political wrangling is a blackmail plot involving a Utah senator played by Don Murray.

Bijou is a American gay pornographic film directed and edited by Wakefield Poole and starring Bill Harrison as a construction worker who witnesses a car accident and discovers an invitation to a club called Bijou in the purse of the victim.

Hepburn is Violet, Sebastian's wealthy mother and Catherine's aunt, who is determined to hide the truth behind her beloved son's demise -- even if that means giving Catherine a lobotomy courtesy of Dr. John Cukrowicz Clift. "I saw what I did as experimental filmmaking, not pornography.

Spoiler alert: One of the women is indeed gay and in love with her coworker, and things don't end well for her. As you can guess, it doesn't end well. This British film, cowritten by a woman Janet Green with John McCormickwas a repudiation of that nation's harsh antigay laws.

Wakefield Poole never bijou most of the erotic gay films he made to be pornographic, though it's a label he knows is inescapable. At the time, the release of a film depended on whether it met the standards of the Production Code this was before the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and the film was approved to depict Sebastian as gay only "since the film illustrates the horrors of such a lifestyle, it can be considered moral in theme even though it deals with sexual perversion.

Gay if you think it's dismal now, imagine growing up in the middle of the 20th century, when queer characters were either invisible or typically depicted as suicidal or psychotic. Chaos ensues after a disgruntled student accuses the pair of being lesbian lovers.

The insidiousness of government-sponsored homophobia is at the forefront of the movie, which is revolutionary for its depiction of a bisexual protagonist not to be messed with; he's the furthest thing from a victim. But as the doctor probes deeper into her psyche, he discovers things aren't what they seem.

A must-see.