LOVE IS STRANGE

Love is Strange is a 2014 gay themed movie about an elderly same sex couple Ben and George. Ben is already retired whilst George is a music teacher in a catholic school. They live together in a Manhattan apartment.
After 39 years of being together they decide to get married publicly. They invite friends and family to witness their gay marriage and organize a party back at their apartment. News of their marriage get to George's school administration. The catholic archbishop in charge sees photos of their marriage on Facebook. George is summoned and told that he went against the Christian witness statement which he signed by taking a public position contrary to the catholic church. George is immediately dismissed.
George and Ben cannot afford to live in their apartment after the former's dismissal from work. Ben's pension is too small to cater for both.
They decide to sell the apartment and move to another place. They call their family and friends for a meeting at their apartment to explain their situation. They have to move in with some of them for the time being as they sell the apartment and find another place. At one time they are asked why they spent so much money on a honey moon given their financial situation. Ben gets taken in by his nephew Elliot who lives with his wife Kate and teenage son Joey. George goes to stay with Ted and Roberto who are a gay couple and both work as policemen.
George is having a hard time selling the apartment because of taxes and commissions they never anticipated. Finding an affordable apartment is no easier for them and they are forced to extend their stay at their respective hosts. Ted and Roberto frequently host parties at their house and George has to deal with the crowd and noise awake. Ben shares a bunk bed with Joey. Joey is uncomfortable with Ben because he is denying him privacy in his room. He has to ask his uncle Ben to move out so that he can study with his friend Vlad. One day Joey finds Vlad posing for a painting by Ben and he gets furious complaining that is so gay. The painting was Kate's idea to keep Ben busy so that he does not try to chat with her as she works. One day George is so frustrated when he finds a party at the house hosting him that he walks in the rain to Elliot's place. He emotionally hugs Ben crying because of the frustration. Joey is forced to sleep on the coach that day because George has taken the upper side of the bunk bed. Joey is not happy with that. George later writes a letter to the catholic school citing his dismissal as unfair.
Joey and his friend Vlad have been spending too much time together. Ben guesses they might be in love. Elliot suspects they are doing drugs and that Vlad is the bad influence. One day Vlad steals some French books in the library for both. They get in trouble and Elliot cancels Joey's upcoming school trip. Ben finds himself in the mess because he found the books and read them but did not know they were stolen to let them know on time. Attention is shifted to Ben when he falls down stairs while leaving the roof top with his paintings. His arm is injured and he has to put on a sling. The doctor tells him he fainted thus falling meaning it might be a heart problem.
Ted and Roberto have a party and George is sitting on the coach waiting for it to end. A young man comes over and sits on the coach. He begins to chat with George and discovers that coach is where he sleeps. He asks George if he is homeless. George explains his predicament and luckily the man is moving out of cheap apartment to go work in a museum in New Mexico. They make a deal and George begins the process of acquiring it. They go to an orchestra with Ben then later celebrate the apartment with some drinks.
Ben however passes away and George is left in the apartment. Joey brings over Ben's painting of Vlad which had survived his fall. George hangs it in the house.

NEWCASTLE

Newcastle is a 2008 coming of age movie. Jesse is a 17 year old with a passion for surfing. He however only makes it to third spot during a qualification match and it devastates him. His brother David was a champion surfer but never made it as far because of injury. Their younger brother Fergus is gay.
David likes to bully the rest. He also discourages Jesse that he might never be as good as he was.
Jesse with his friends Nathan, Andy and Scotty plan a beach camp and party. Jesse lies to his parents what the trip is about so that he may be allowed to go and also take along Fergus with him. They also bring along Deb and Leah.
When they get to their spot they begin partying immediately and swimming with no clothes. Scotty loves to make fun of Fergus and suggests that he might have an erection since he is somehow gay. Fergus removes his pants to show him that it is just big. While seating by the fire at night Jesse gets into an argument with the other boys especially Andy about how good they can surf. It almost degenerates into a fight and they part to various sides of their camp. Jesse and Deb go into the tent together and start having sex. Jesse wants to have sexual intercourse but Deb asks him to wear a condom. Jesse does not have it but she accepts when he promises to pull out before ejaculation. Nathan and Leah are also having sex in the same tent next to them.
Meanwhile Andy is out with Fergus and they seem to be flirting. Eventually the two perform a sex act together probably mutual masturbation.
Scotty is drunk and he decides to drive the car while pulling the tent which Jesse and Nathan together with their girls are in. After a brief pull as they scream the car gets stuck in the sand. Jesse comes out with no clothes from the tent infuriated by Scotty's action and is restrained from beating him up.
David meanwhile goes to visit a girlfriend who bore him a girl child but she refuses to let him in. He leaves together with his friends for the beach camp to meet Jesse and his friends.
Andy is teaching Fergus how to surf. Fergus is learning fast and they are impressed. David arrives and sibling rivalry between him and Jesse starts to flare up. He and his friends head to the beach with their surf boards to show their skills. Jesse also goes into the water to show his skills. David and Andy however get badly injured while surfing.
Andy awakes after first aid in the vehicle but David succumbs to his injuries. David's dad is devastated by his death and keeps going through his stuff especially the surfing trophies. Jesse is very disturbed by the death and at one point vandalizes David's room. Andy is hospitalized with a collar.
Jesse's stress gets him closer to Fergus who advises him that David used to discourage them from doing stuff out of jealousy that they would go further than he did. With Andy hospitalized Jesse gets a second chance to compete in the upcoming surfing competition. Jesse goes ahead to show his best in the competition. Fergus is still attracted to Andy who might not be gay as he is. He spends time with him in hospital from where they watch the surfing competition live on television.  

AND THEN CAME SUMMER

And Then Came Summer is a year 2000 gay themed movie. It follows the lives of two gay teenagers and their struggles within their families.
Brian takes his two sons David and Ricky to see aunt Lillian. Aunt Lilian lives by the beach and is very happy to see Brian who he considers her favorite nephew. David goes with his younger brother Ricky to the beach to play. Lilian informs Brian that he has called his childhood friend Tommy to come over and see him. Tommy meets Brian at the beach together with girlfriend Kathy and little brother Seth. Tommy asks Brian why he has not come with his wife Laura and he lies she is busy but it is later revealed they are separated. Tommy's wife Jennifer died in a car accident some time back. He is also jobless now after the company he was working for relocated overseas.
Seth goes off to meet the two brothers. He and David develop a close relationship. Seth tells David that he was sent away by his parents to live with Tommy because his friends were a bad influence. Seth later on takes David to a party where they get drunk. David is too drunk to go into the house and he proposes they instead go to the beach. Along the beach they chat and David reveals he would like to be a veterinary. Seth reveals he is interested in being an astronaut even though he finds it almost impossible to achieve. During the chat David kisses Seth but apologizes. Seth tells him that it is okay and they continue kissing on the beach. Later after the kissing incident they spend most of the time together on the boat fishing and horse riding.
During breakfast David tries to chat with his younger brother Ricky but he won't reply. He asks him if they met any girls and Ricky answers with the question "how would you know about girls?". Ricky then informs him that he saw him and Seth kissing and even threatens to tell their dad.
Seth comes next day to take David for a movie but finds him sobbing in the room. David informs him that Ricky saw them kissing the other night. He runs off telling Seth that he does not want to be a freak. Seth runs after him explaining his own hardships in being gay.
Tommy and his friend Kevin come to visit Brian. Kevin explains that he inherited his boat from the will of his gay uncle who considered him the favorite nephew. Seth frowns at Kevin's conversation which sounds as if he is homophobic.
One day they all gather to have a meal at the table. David is very quiet and Ricky confronts him by asking if he is thinking of anyone special meaning their relationship with Seth. They get into a words fight which their dad ends but trouble does not stop there. Kevin decides to tell a joke but Seth interrupts him rudely after noticing it has a gay character in it. They get into a fight with Tommy for that and Seth begins to reveal why he was sent over to Tommy's. He reveals that his parents took him to a special hospital to cure his homosexuality after they realized he was gay. The hospital performed many medications on him including electrocution therapy. He was later sent to stay with his brother Tommy to make him see the right way. Seth later runs off to the church where Tommy comes over and apologizes for not being on his side during his struggle with homosexuality. Brian finds David sobbing by the beach and asks him to give him time to get in touch with his homosexuality promising he can never abandon him.
Brian later sells his house and business in the city and moves into the beach area where they start a bed and breakfast with Tommy.    

HOUSE OF BOYS

House of Boys is a 2009 gay movie about Frank. Frank is a gay teenager living with his mother, father and younger sister in Prologue, Luxembourg. Frank is a flamboyant gay boy. He engages in sex even within the school in toilets. He gets bullied around by other boys for being gay. Frank's father has noticed his coming of age is leaning towards homosexuality. He questions Frank about the ear ring and orders him to remove some sex posters on his car.
Frank leaves home without telling his parents with his best friend Rita. They go to Amsterdam where Frank goes drinking and partying all days. One day Rita comes looking for Frank at a club and informs him that she is leaving for another town where she found a job. She leaves Frank's bags there and tells him to find another place to stay or use the car. Frank runs around in the rain with his bags looking for somewhere. He comes across a place with a board outside advertising that they want dancers. The place is called House Of Boys and Frank goes in. He is all wet from the rain when he meets Jake inside. Jake introduces him to the owner of the all boy strip club a drag queen called Madame. Madame is assisted by Emma to run the joint. Other boys in the house are Angelo who is saving for a sex change operation in Singapore, Dean who is a punk, Herman a troubled kid and Frank's roommate Jake.
Frank is attracted to Jake. Jake tells him that he is straight and even has a girlfriend. Jake run away from home during childhood and has a picture of his late mother in the room. Jake's girlfriend comes in through the window at night and Frank has to sleep in Angelo's room during such days. Jake's girlfriend wants him to leave the house but he insists he needs the money for now and is saving so that they can go away together. During one of the shows Frank is dismayed to discover his crush Jake is sleeping with one of the male clients. Frank confronts Jake about it and he insists it is for the money. The client is a wealthy designer from New York and pays big. Jake even tells Frank that it is the client who actually penetrates him. During one of his sleepovers at Angelo's room Frank does it with Dean in the shower. Later Frank is given a chance to dance and he does such a good show. Some of the boys are jealous that he may be the new hottest boy now.
Meanwhile Jake looses his savings only for the girlfriend to tell him later that she took it to procure an abortion after a 7 week pregnancy. The girlfriend dumps him and Frank takes advantage of that to comfort him. Jake and Frank now start developing a relationship. Jake helps Frank out when he faints during a concert and they start getting intimate and falling in love.
Jake is loosing his manly touch in the dances and is no longer as good. Madame notes this and asks him to introduce Frank to a wealthy client for a private session. Jake insists they give the session together with Frank and Madame accepts. Frank and Jake go to a private room to entertain the man. Frank however drops on the floor and gets cut by glass. He is rushed to hospital. At the hospital he is treated for the cuts but the doctor also orders a blood test. The attending doctor is shocked by the outcome of his blood test. The results show he has almost no T-cell count in the blood. He tells his senior that it might be the so called gay cancer discovered in USA. The senior doctor does more tests including a second blood test and finds out that Jake actually has AIDS. He traces the wealthy designer from New York who Jake slept with. They discover he died of AIDS related cryptococcal  meningitis and he is the one who infected Jake.
Madame is worried the AIDS story will spoil his club's reputation and so he asks Jake to leave. Emma offers him to stay at her house. Frank moves in together. Jake's health continues to deteriorate and Kaposi Sarcoma covers his whole body. Madame cannot bring himself any close to Jake and keeps running when he tries to visit. Jake eventually falls too ill and is hospitalized. In his dreams it is revealed that his mother died when he was a young boy. The father used to sexually abuse him in the pretext of removing the sin from Jake.
Jake eventually dies. Frank and Jake's girlfriend travel to Morocco where they scatter his ashes in the sea there.

BILLY ELLIOT

This is a year 2000 movie about a boy named Billy Elliot living in England. Billy lives with his father Jackie Elliot, brother Tony Elliot and their grandmother. Billy's mother died some while back and they only go once in a while to the cemetery to remember her. Billy's dad and brother are coal miners at the Durham coalfield. It is 1984 when Margaret Thatcher is the Prime Minister and the National Union of Mine Workers has called for a strike. Billy's brother Tony goes picketing everyday near the coal mines. Jackie was a boxer and so was his dad. He pays for Billy boxing lessons 50 pence a day at the Everington Boys Club. Billy is not interested in boxing and is also very bad at it. One day the ballet class comes to share the boxing room with them. Billy gets interested in the ballet class and eventually joins in the practice. From then on Billy begins hiding to attend the ballet lessons instead of boxing. Billy is the only boy in the ballet lessons. He leaves home with his boxing gloves on his neck but ballet outfit hidden in his pants. Billy becomes so good at ballet that Mr. Braithwaite the pianist says to him "you look like a right wanker to me, son". During one of the mine workers' picketing lines the boxing coach tells Jackie that his son has not attended boxing classes for months. Jackie is furious. He goes looking where Billy spends that time only to find him in a ballet class. He forces him out of the room. At home he gives Billy a lecture about how ballet is for girls and women and that he should do something manly. Billy does not agree and even tries to convince his dad that ballet is normal for boys even making reference to Wayne Sleep. Jackie is angry and he orders Billy not to attend ballet or boxing and just stay home and take care of his grandmother. Billy runs off very upset. He later visits Mrs. Wilkinson the ballet teacher at her home. He finds her daughter Debbie and husband Tom Wilkinson. He gets to learn from Debbie that her parents sleep in separate beds since his father cheated. Billy plays with Debbie and for a moment they almost kiss. On his way back home Billy makes plans with Mrs. Wilkinson to take private ballet lessons secretly. One day Billy visits his classmate Michael Caffrey at his home. Michael likes Billy and is also probably gay. Billy is shocked to find him in a dress belonging to his sister. Billy asks why he is cross dressing and wearing makeup. Michael answers that it is perfectly normal since his dad also does that when alone. Michael applies lipstick on Billy. Meanwhile the coal miners strike is still on and Tony is still causing havoc. He gets into a fight with his dad who tries to restrain him from going at night. Tony gets arrested later. It is Billy's ballet auditions when Tony is presented in court. Billy misses his auditions to attend the court session. Mrs. Wilkinson goes looking for him at their home. They arrive just as she is about to leave. Mrs. Wilkinson explains to Jackie and Tony that Billy has missed a very important ballet audition. Tony is shocked to hear Billy has been attending ballet. He gets into a fight with Mrs. Wilkinson. It comes Christmas and the family is broke from the strike. Jackie smashes the piano to Billy's dismay to use its wood as firewood. Billy meets Michael outside in the cold. Michael offers to warm Billy's hands. Billy asks Michael if he is a poof, a British slang meaning gay. Billy explains that he does not have to be a poof even though he does ballet. They both go into the boy club's boxing area and start dancing ballet with Michael wearing a tutu. The boxing coach has been out drinking and sees them. He calls Jackie to see. Jackie goes in and Billy continues to dance in front and  around him. He runs off to Mrs. Wilkinson's house where he asks her about the auditions and the costs. Jackie decides to go back to work despite the strike to raise money for Billy. Tony sees him while out picketing and runs after the bus. He finds Jackie in the minefield just off the bus and tells him not to do it as they hold each other emotionally crying. Jackie later borrows money from pawnbrokers to fund their trip to the auditions. Billy and his father Jackie make the journey to London. At the auditions Billy is stressed. He does not know that he has impressed the judges with his dancing. In the changing room a somehow effeminate boy who probably is gay and likes Billy tries to comfort him. Billy looses his cool the boy and he hits him calling him a bent bastard. The judges take note of this behavior during their final interview. Jackie and Billy leave for home to wait for the letter stating if he will be admitted to ballet school. The letter arrives later and it is good news. Billy says goodbye to his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson. As he is leaving for the bus Michael calls out and he goes to say bye with a final kiss. Tony and Jackie see him off at the bus to London. Years later when Billy looks older Jackie and Tony attend a show in which Billy is performing. Seated next to them is Michael Caffrey looking very feminine. He tells them he wouldn't have missed the show for the world.