MAURICE

Maurice is a 1987 British gay film about Maurice Hall who is attending Cambridge. He strikes homosexual relationships with Lord Risley and Clive Durham who are fellow students. Their relationships are subjected to secrecy and breaking up because of 20th Century British view of homosexuality even legally. They are scared when Lord Risley is six months hard labor for soliciting sex from an army officer. Clive thus breaks up with Maurice and marries a girl because of his mother's insistence. Maurice is heartbroken and seeks professional help severally to cure his homosexuality. During his visits to Clive's estate Maurice falls in love with Scudder the under-gamekeeper. Scudder is due to emigrate with his family to Argentina but he does not want to leave Maurice. Scudder leaves his family and plans to emigrate to stay with Maurice.

MAKING LOVE

Making Love is a 1982 gay movie about Zack Elliot who is a doctor and married to Claire a television executive. They have been happily married for 8 years but Zack has a secret. Zack has homosexual attractions towards other men and has been frequenting gay bars and picking up gay men though not for sex. He meets Bart, a gay novelist during a medical examination. Bart is fairly open with his sexuality but Zack still labels himself as curious. Zack has homosexual sex for the first time and his feelings towards Bart increase. His wife's trip on business gives Zack space to explore his homosexuality. Zack tells Claire about him gay feelings and she is very upset. They later agree on a divorce and part ways to live their lives as they wish.

WEDDING WARS

Wedding Wars is a 2006 gay comedy movie about gay marriage. It also includes politics and family issues. Shel is a party planner who is gay. He plans to organize his brother's wedding to Maggie the governor's daughter. Shel's brother Ben is the governor's campaign manager. Shel discovers that Ben is behind the governor's speech against gay marriage and decides to go on strike leaving the wedding plans in disarray. The strike spreads nationwide and the wedding is left in the hands of an inexperienced planner who makes a mess.

TORCH SONG TRILOGY

Torch Song Trilogy is a 1988 gay movie about Arnold a New York drag queen. He meets Ed a school teacher who is bisexual and they fall in love. Ed has however not accepted his homosexuality and leaves Arnold for a girlfriend named Laurel. During Christmas Arnold meets a male model called Alan and they fall in love. They apply to foster a gay teenager named David and it succeeds. They move to a bigger apartment but Alan is killed in a homophobic attack on that first day. Months later Arnold's mother visits and disapproves of his homosexuality and planned adoption of a gay boy. Arnold's mother later loosens up and Ed comes back into his life more stable and accepting that he is a homosexual.