He adds, “‘this person sees me’ is a much more profound thing to say - to be discovered as a queer person is to risk destruction.”Īmong his favorite homoerotic examples: Twelfth Night and As You Like It. … If two queer characters kiss, especially if that kiss is an outing, the stakes are already higher.” That’s one of the reasons why queer romance scenes tend to be so good. “I think the key is, for it to be classic and work, it has to have something at stake. It’s not all bathhouses and Fire Island and tickets to the opera.”Īs a writer, Oliveira crafts love scenes all the time. They’re both shows written by queer people, but Pose shows the intersection of different kinds of lives and how complicated queer life is. I’d recommend a show like Pose instead of Will & Grace.
“For example, on Will & Grace, “everyone is gay, the whole world is gay. Price is always on the lookout for characters who acknowledge the world they’re in as they’re falling in love. “Whether that's questioning their sexuality for the first time, dealing with a queerphobic society, or exploring a type of romance that's never really been modeled for them before … For me, the best love scenes involve a great release of emotional tension the more, the better.”
Queer sex scenes often benefit from characters dealing with the unique circumstances of being queer, says Rantasmo. I'm also a huge fan of the no holds barred senior lesbian sex (again, real sex) in Barbara Hammer's documentary Nitrate Kisses. “Not only is it a bracing and intimate moment, but it was also a step forward for fat representation in queer cinema. “Two fat bears are having real sex,” he says.
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The Best LGBTQ+ Sex Scenes in TV and Moviesįor something a bit more steamy, White suggests taking a look at the Spanish film Cachorro. “I mean, seriously, fuck ‘uncomfortable’ straight sensibilities.” “I realize that it was a bold step in mainstream filmmaking, but I was not happy with the drily chaste depiction of Hanks and Banderas,” he says. “Two middle-aged women realize they're in love and begin passionately making out while Lulu's 1969 hit ‘Oh Me, Oh My’ plays on the soundtrack, and it's thrilling,” he says.īut White cautions against looking for romance in the film Philadelphia. “It makes me nostalgic for the kind of romantic teen I wasn't allowed to be,” he says, “and the finale of Love, Simon gave me the same kind of flutter I used to get from Sixteen Candles, only putting a dude into Molly Ringwald's shoes.”ĭuralde’s husband and podcast partner, Dave White, recommends the 90s indie film Late Bloomers. it felt like it harkened back to Gene Roddenberry's original purpose of making that universe.”Īlonso Duralde, half of the Linoleum Knife family of podcasts, recommends the "Make Your Own Kind of Music" segment of Beautiful Thing. “The reason I like Star Trek is the idea: How do we achieve a true utopia? What is a utopia where we’re all equal and treat each other as equals? That scene. “When Sulu is reunited with his husband and family, that was so beautiful,” she says.
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Isabella Price, host of the podcast and screening series Nocturnal Emissions, likes a brief moment from Star Trek: Beyond.