A Single Man - Just a beautiful film, mostly dealing with aging.
The Kids Are All Right - I mean, gay parents, way past the coming out and shame stage. Just a great film, uh, deals with family issues and sperm donors.
Kill Your Darlings - Straight up a movie telling a story (biopic dealing with the roots of the Beat Movement) that has gay characters and yeah, there's hiding of sexuality, but that's a minor part of the movie.
Mysterious Skin - the gay characters here have no shame. I mean, JGL plays a prostitute. It's more about dealing with, um,
issues.
Yves Saint Laurent - there's films about the careers of gay men, the focus is away from their sexuality but they don't hide it either.
Stranger By The Lake - I haven't gotten the chance to watch it yet, but I've heard great things. A murder mystery (?) about a hook up area frequented by gay men.
Milk - Yeah, there's a homophobic setting but the protagonist tackles that **** head on. Another biopic.
Howl - another Ginsberg movie, set after Kill Your Darlings, again primarily about the Beat Movement/ the reaction to Howl.
Savage Grace -
this one was made for TV, iirc, so take that into account. Although the trailer doesn't make it the most apparent, the film's three gay characters have a lot of screen time with one of the main cast being gay. I don't even know how to sum this one up in one word, so I'll just do "****ed up", but it's not about the coming out stage.
The Normal Heart - This one is an upcoming HBO film, but it's grown ass men fighting against AIDS and trying to raise awareness/get the government to care.
Suicide Room - this one has shame and coming out, but it's
such a minor part. This was just really memorable. Even if the main character was straight it would be a weird movie that stands out. It's even less 'for everyone' than Savage Grace.
I'm going to keep working on this list, but I'll hit submit now. There's really a lot of gay movies out there that are actually good.
