You Are Not Alone is a 1978 Danish coming of age gay movie. It revolves around the love between two boys Bo and Kim. Bo is 15 years old while Kim is 12. Kim's father is the headmaster at the boarding continuation school which Bo attends. Kim lives with his father and mother Anna in the school compound.
Bo is gay and already had a crush on a boy back at home before joining the continuation school.
The school is all boarding. All the boys are in their adolescence years and the school is having a hard time dealing with some of their coming of age behaviors. For example one day the headmaster is taking some officials from the municipality on a tour of the school when they all bump into a room full of newspaper and magazine cuttings of women not dressed. He orders the boys to take them down.
The municipality grants the school money to build a gymnasium but some teachers think there might be better use for the money. One proposes building a dormitory to house girls. The headmaster is against a mixed boarding school looking at other examples in Denmark. He thinks a gymnasium is good for the boys' development.
Kim prefers to play and hang out with the bigger boys in the continuation school. His parents do not like it because they think most of them are naughty. Kim however insists kids from his school are boring to hang with. Kim spends most of his time with Bo. Bo likes to tease Kim with sexual questions or acts to see if he can figure out. It turns out Kim is too young to figure out most of his advances.
One day Bo bumps on two boys in the bathroom cuddling. He asks them to later switch off the lights and goes to sleep. One of the boys later asks him if what they were doing is stupid and Bo answers it was totally okay. Bo explains that it does not matter whether one is with a boy or girl so long as they love each other. He also reveals that he was with a boy who he loved.
One day the boarding supervisor comes upon sexual material plastered all over the bathroom. He tells the headmaster who wakes all the boys up at night. Ole takes responsibility and the headmaster decides to expel him despite resistance from some teachers. Students do a walk out from their classes to protest that decision and it is later rescinded.
Kim goes to a party in the woods with the bigger boys. They have wine and are in the company of some girls. Kim gets to drink too much wine which gets him drunk. He goes back home with the group but inside the house he falls from the stairs waking his father who discovers he is drunk.
Bo has been teaching Kim many things to do with sex including masturbating. Kim in turn has taught some of his friends including Tony. Tony's mom Mrs. Jensen is not amused when he comes one day at home to find his son masturbating with the floor and telling her sex is good. She makes a complain to the headmaster.
During end of year graduation ceremony the boys present a film in front of their parents and teachers. Non of the teachers nor the parents know what it is about. All they know is that it is based on the commandment "Love Thy Neighbor". The short film begins with Kim and Bo staring romantically then Kim running into Bo's arms. The two cuddle and kiss romantically like two gay lovers.
WHOLE NEW THING
Whole New Thing is a 2005 coming of age gay movie about a 13 year old boy named Emerson Thorsen. Emerson lives in an isolated house with his parents Rog and Kaya. Kaya home schools Emerson. Rog is obsessed with saving the environment and creating green energy.
Emerson is not showing any interest in mathematics. His mathematical skills are equal to those of a fourth grader or nine year old. When his mother Kaya tells him he might not make it into university with such poor math skills he answers that his books will be getting published and he might be too busy to attend.
Kaya decides to enroll Emerson at the nearby Chezbrook County Middle School even though his dad Rog is against it. She insists it will help him get structured for life. Emerson is bullied in school and comes home with a black eye. Although Rog protests Kaya insists Emerson must learn such things. Don Grant the English teacher is having a hard time teaching the pupils a book. Emerson who has written books of his own proposes Shakespeare insisting the book is boring and not fit for teaching English. Grant obliges and gets a Shakespeare book. Don Grant is gay and frequents a public toilet to cruise for sex from strangers.
Kaya has been cheating in her marriage. She does not know that Emerson knows about it. One day she confronts Emerson for being rude to his dad. Emerson confronts her about the relationship she has with Denny.
Emerson one day brings a boy from class to study with him at their home. The boy's name is Jeff. Emerson gets the boy to use the Sauna together with him. Jeff however tells boys at school what Emerson made him do. It gets Emerson bullied in school and called names such as sauna boy and queer.
Emerson is getting drawn to his teacher Don Grant. He writes a love letter and takes it to his house. He places it in the letter box but finds the door unlocked and goes in. He finds a gay magazine which he goes through then leaves. All this time Grant is cruising for sex only to find his former Claude there. Grant plays a CD in the car which Emerson gave him as a gift. Claude complains that it must be from a lover because it has love music.
Don eventually gets Emerson's letter. It turns out to be a love sonnet. Don calls Emerson to ask him why he did so. Emerson insists he is not gay but just wants to get close to Don.
Meanwhile Rog follows Kaya to the house where she is meeting another man. He watches them from the window as they have sex. He waits outside for them to leave.
Don takes Emerson home. His parents are not in. Emerson is trying hard to seduce Don who forbids it. Emerson grabs his keys and runs off with them into the sauna. He runs after him. In the sauna Emerson tries to kiss and seduce Don into sex. Don runs off.
Rog waits into the night when Kaya and the man have all left the house. He goes in with an axe and vandalizes it. The man finds him burning the house. Rog runs off to his house where police come for him.
Don does not show up for English class. Emerson asks the female teacher where Don is. She says Don has called in sick and she will teach on his behalf. Emerson runs out to Don's house where he finds him just about to leave. He opens the boot and hides there. Don comes and drives off without knowing Emerson is at the back. He drives to the toilet where he leaves the car and goes in. Emerson follows him and finds him with another man in the toilet having sex. He runs outside upset and waits. When Don emerges Emerson confronts him for having sex with a stranger whilst he has refused his approaches. Emerson runs off and Don tries to catch up with him. Emerson comes back to the toilet and gets picked up by a gay stranger who takes him to his house. In the house he pays Emerson some money and asks him to undress. Emerson removes his shirt but asks to use the wash room while bare chest. He locks himself in then tells the man that he is not 16 but 13 and promises to leave his money in the sink. Meanwhile the school has called Kaya and Rog about his escape. They go to Don's house where Rog does a redial on his phone and get Claude his former boyfriend. They ask him about Emerson's and Don's whereabouts. Claude calls Don on his cell phone to inform him that Emerson's parents are searching for their son at his place. Don is stressed and still looking for Emerson. The stranger lets Emerson leave his house. Emerson runs out and sees Don's car and runs in. Don takes him to Claude's house where his parents are waiting.
Emerson is not showing any interest in mathematics. His mathematical skills are equal to those of a fourth grader or nine year old. When his mother Kaya tells him he might not make it into university with such poor math skills he answers that his books will be getting published and he might be too busy to attend.
Kaya decides to enroll Emerson at the nearby Chezbrook County Middle School even though his dad Rog is against it. She insists it will help him get structured for life. Emerson is bullied in school and comes home with a black eye. Although Rog protests Kaya insists Emerson must learn such things. Don Grant the English teacher is having a hard time teaching the pupils a book. Emerson who has written books of his own proposes Shakespeare insisting the book is boring and not fit for teaching English. Grant obliges and gets a Shakespeare book. Don Grant is gay and frequents a public toilet to cruise for sex from strangers.
Kaya has been cheating in her marriage. She does not know that Emerson knows about it. One day she confronts Emerson for being rude to his dad. Emerson confronts her about the relationship she has with Denny.
Emerson one day brings a boy from class to study with him at their home. The boy's name is Jeff. Emerson gets the boy to use the Sauna together with him. Jeff however tells boys at school what Emerson made him do. It gets Emerson bullied in school and called names such as sauna boy and queer.
Emerson is getting drawn to his teacher Don Grant. He writes a love letter and takes it to his house. He places it in the letter box but finds the door unlocked and goes in. He finds a gay magazine which he goes through then leaves. All this time Grant is cruising for sex only to find his former Claude there. Grant plays a CD in the car which Emerson gave him as a gift. Claude complains that it must be from a lover because it has love music.
Don eventually gets Emerson's letter. It turns out to be a love sonnet. Don calls Emerson to ask him why he did so. Emerson insists he is not gay but just wants to get close to Don.
Meanwhile Rog follows Kaya to the house where she is meeting another man. He watches them from the window as they have sex. He waits outside for them to leave.
Don takes Emerson home. His parents are not in. Emerson is trying hard to seduce Don who forbids it. Emerson grabs his keys and runs off with them into the sauna. He runs after him. In the sauna Emerson tries to kiss and seduce Don into sex. Don runs off.
Rog waits into the night when Kaya and the man have all left the house. He goes in with an axe and vandalizes it. The man finds him burning the house. Rog runs off to his house where police come for him.
Don does not show up for English class. Emerson asks the female teacher where Don is. She says Don has called in sick and she will teach on his behalf. Emerson runs out to Don's house where he finds him just about to leave. He opens the boot and hides there. Don comes and drives off without knowing Emerson is at the back. He drives to the toilet where he leaves the car and goes in. Emerson follows him and finds him with another man in the toilet having sex. He runs outside upset and waits. When Don emerges Emerson confronts him for having sex with a stranger whilst he has refused his approaches. Emerson runs off and Don tries to catch up with him. Emerson comes back to the toilet and gets picked up by a gay stranger who takes him to his house. In the house he pays Emerson some money and asks him to undress. Emerson removes his shirt but asks to use the wash room while bare chest. He locks himself in then tells the man that he is not 16 but 13 and promises to leave his money in the sink. Meanwhile the school has called Kaya and Rog about his escape. They go to Don's house where Rog does a redial on his phone and get Claude his former boyfriend. They ask him about Emerson's and Don's whereabouts. Claude calls Don on his cell phone to inform him that Emerson's parents are searching for their son at his place. Don is stressed and still looking for Emerson. The stranger lets Emerson leave his house. Emerson runs out and sees Don's car and runs in. Don takes him to Claude's house where his parents are waiting.
ROMEOS
Romeos is a 2011 gay movie about Lukas a trans woman. Lukas turns up for his civilian service at Ehrenfeld. Lukas is designated the girl's dorm which he gets to know when a lady sees her in the bathroom looking like a man. Lukas considers herself a man and so he complains to Miss Kampmann who promises to move her when there is space in the boy's dormitory. Meanwhile he has to stay in the girl's dorm. She meets Ine who is an old friend from when she still identified as a girl. She tries to get Lukas a girl but she refuses when they go out that night with Sven and Fabio. Sven and Fabio are gay. While at the club Lukas goes to use the toilet and his rubber penis gets grabbed by a guy. Lukas fights the guy and he does not get to see her face. The guy displays the penis to everyone. Ine knows it belongs to Lukas but they leave it. She finds Fabio who knows she is a boy outside having sex in the car. Fabio thinks Lukas is a boy and is attracted. On one occasion Fabio takes Lukas out and tries to make out with her. She refuses fearing Fabio may feel her breasts and penis absence and know the truth. Lukas is however also attracted to Fabio.
One day Lukas goes out with friends to swim by the lake. Lukas cannot remove his clothes to swim because her secret might be revealed. Fabio does not understand and throws Lukas into the water. Lukas is very upset and Fabio does not understand why she reacts so.
Back at the dormitory he finds his family preparing surprise birthday. Fabio comes behind to pick his keys and jacket. Lukas has a little sister called Minnie Mouse. Minnie reveals to Fabio that Lukas is a girl and that her real name is Miriam. Lukas slaps her in rage and Fabio leaves shocked.
Lukas is eventually transferred to the boy's dorm even though they are not as friendly. She meets Sven who also thinks she is a boy crying after breaking up with his boyfriend. They go out together and Sven starts making out with Lukas. They go to Lukas' room where Sven attempts to remove his clothes. Lukas explains she is a trans and Sven insists he will penetrate her in front. Lukas is upset and kicks him out. Fabio comes next day to her room. A group of guys nearby begin making fun of them as being gay. Fabio goes away upset. Lukas goes to his home and finds his mother who invites her in. Fabio however removes her out rudely.
Ine and Lukas go out one day at night. They meet Fabio with a girl friend named Jacqueline. They four play pool together then leave in Fabio's car. Ine who is a lesbian manages to seduce Fabio's girlfriend Jacqueline and they go off together after making out in the car. Fabio and Lukas are left in the car alone and they begin making out also and later have sex.
THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND
The Devil's Playground is a 1976 movie about Tom Allen a 13 year old boy and his struggles in junior seminary. The movie is not necessarily gay but the story line arouses a gay interest. Allen gets in trouble frequently at the seminary. He wets his bed at night and so he has to wash the wet clothes every morning which makes him late for mass almost daily. Brother Francine finds Allen bathing naked and scoffs at him asking where is his modesty. The boys are supposed to bath with their inner wears on to prevent temptations. The movie gets its name from a quote in the seminary saying "an undisciplined mind is the devil's playground". The boys are just coming into puberty and the administration calls them one by one to talk about their sexual changes. Allen is caught by his friend masturbating outside the office. Allen's friend Turner is a religious fanatic who tells him to come over to some place at night. On arrival later that night he finds Turner whipping his naked colleague. Turns out they are practicing masochism and sadism. Allen is invited but he runs off and his friend Fitz rescues him from them. Brother Victor together with Francine and James decide to go out with the car. Victor and James decide to go watch a game while Francine decides he will be dropped off at a museum. Francine however goes to a public swimming pool where his sexual lust is awakened by the revealing costumes. James and Victor go to a bar after the game and see two ladies eyeing them. Victor decides to say hello while James runs off to the car. Victor gets drunk with the ladies and by the time he goes back to the car he is too drunk. He later causes an accident when he drives into trees but all three get out of it well. Allen's parents come to visit him. The mother will be staying over for two weeks at the guest house. Allen goes there after classes to spend time with them. His friends from home Nigel and Bryan talk to him about all the things he must be missing out on. A girl by the name Lynnette has been disturbing Allen by throwing stones. Allen runs after her and catches up in a nearby forest. They lie down facing the sky. Lynnette kisses Allen. The two begin developing feelings for each other. Later before leaving Lynnette makes Allen promise to write her. He accepts but tells her to write as his cousin so that the seminary does not suspect their relationship. The boys are going for retreat which is a period of deep prayer and meditation. Father Marshall comes to talk to them about it. Allen goes to see him in private to talk about his difficulties. He gives Allen Lourdes water to put on his tongue every night before sleep so as to prevent bed wetting. Fitz who works the kitchen with Allen asks him to put the Lourdes water on his penis instead so as not to masturbate and wet his bed. Brother Francine is still disturbed by the tempting experience at the swimming pool. Father Sebastian has always been free minded and advises Allen to live life and not to strive too much for perfection. When he eventually passes on Allen is very sad and brother Francine becomes more emotionally unstable. Tom goes to confession to talk about how he has been abusing himself by masturbating. Allen's friend Waite always likes to wrestle him. Allen thinks there is more to it and asks him to go ahead and say what he really wants. The two begin mutual masturbation but Waite does not know how to do it right. Allen is upset by his inexperience and explains what happens up to ejaculation. Waite is scared and he runs off with Allen scolding. Meanwhile Turner the fanatic is talking about crossing a nearby water body naked. When he later goes missing Allen reports it and his dead body is found by the water. Brother Francine later breaks down mentally and leaves the seminary. Fitz is one of Allen's best friends. When he gets kicked out of the seminary Allen pleads for the brothers to give him Fitz's address so he can write to him. They refuse citing he will be a bad influence. Allen escapes from seminary and hitchhikes. He is dropped off along the road as the driver is going to another location. He starts stopping cars to hitchhike again. One car stops and it turns out to be brother Victor and James. They tell him to get in as they are also heading his way and know he is running away. They decide to take him to the game to watch semi finals then ring his parents before taking him home. It turns out they are also fed up with the limited life in the seminary.
THE SILENT THIEF
The Silent Thief is a 2012 gay psychological thriller movie about Brennan Marley a young man looking for belonging in a family. He takes on a photography trip to USA. He comes across a poster advertising an available room. He goes over to the advertised house and meets Candi Henderson the landlady. He is invited over for a meal with Candi's husband Howard Henderson and daughter Elise.
The room being rented out to Marley belongs to Mike their son who is off to college. Mike is coming over for Thanksgiving holiday and the family is excited. He eventually comes and the mother gives him a very emotional welcome. Marley and Mike are introduced.
Mike takes Marley to his best friend Alex. While there he tries to make Marley lift a weight but it almost injures him. Mike is upset and says to Alex that something is off about Marley.
One night Marley observes Mike leaving the house at night through the window. He follows him and finds out he is meeting Alex. He takes photos of Mike and Alex kissing. Now he knows Mike is gay.
Candi is emotionally unstable and whenever Mike leaves she is very upset while parking his stuff. Marley helps him out. He tells her that his mother died of cancer when he was young. Candi is very sorry for him.
Later in Mike's room Marley searches and finds a video tape hidden. It shows Mike and Alex conversing in a gay manner. He plans to keep it together with the pictures he took as blackmail against Mike.
Candi forces Howard to go fishing with Marley. While fishing Howard asks him if he has family back in London. Marley answers that his dad died in a plane crash while mother abandoned him.
Elise gets permission to go out with Marley for the night. She has a crush on him. She tells Marley that Howard was an American Football jock until he dislocated his shoulder. Mike was a star racing athlete until he hurt his knee. Elise explains she was a good swimmer but left it for marine science which dad did not approve of. He tells Elise that his family got hit by a drunk driver and drowned in the lake.
Meanwhile Marley begins training in weights and jogging. He wants to be as good as Mike in order to replace him in the family. He uses Alex's weights. Alex is gay and is attracted to Marley. One day he asks him to use his bathroom. He follows Marley into the bathroom naked and they begin kissing even though Marley insists he is not gay. Marley eventually hits him with his forehead unconscious and runs off.
Mike comes back for Christmas holiday. They go over to Alex's house and he is upset to see him hurt all over the face. Alex refuses to say what happened between him and Marley. Marley dares Mike to hand over the knife his dad bought him if he can lift a very heavy weight. Marley manages to lift it and Mike looses his knife.
Back in the house Elise comes into Marley's room at night and they have sex.
One day Marley prepares cookies especially for Mike. From the hidden video tape he learnt that Mike is allergic to peanut. He puts peanut butter in the cookies. Mike takes one and has a life threatening allergic reaction. He is rushed to hospital and Marley is left in the house hoping he dies.
Howard comes back from hospital together with Elise and Candi. Marley learns Mike survived. Howard orders him out even though Candi is against it. He is eventually allowed back but Mike is convinced he tried to kill him. Marley is now upset that things are not going his way.
Marley calls Alex faking to be Mike and asks they meet at the beach. There he hits him unconscious and drags him to the water. He ties him with rope to a marina pillar as the tide rises. Elise had tried to follow him and discovered he is up to no good. She wakes Mike up. Mike meets Marley outside the house and they get into a fight. Marley threatens to tell Mike is gay using the photos. Meanwhile Elise does an internet search of the names behind photos Marley has in his back. She finds all to be missing.
Marley forces Mike to go tell his parents that he is gay in order to know Alex's whereabouts. Mike does it and asks Marley to now tell him where Alex is. Marley is upset because the parents react calmly to Mike's homosexuality. They start fighting. Elise goes out to find Alex and rescues him from the rising tide. They come back home and manage to corner Marley. Howard orders all his belongings burnt. They then take him to the bridge and throw him into the river. He however survives and moves on.
LOVE OR WHATEVER
Love or Whatever is a 2012 gay movie about Corey a 29 year old Therapist living with his 27 year old boyfriend Jon who is a gym instructor.
One day after having sex with Jon in the office Corey passes by Kelsey's cafe. Kelsey is his sister and has been nagging him to get married soon. Corey is turning thirty years old in 3 months. Kelsey tells him to propose to Jon or else she will call by midnight to inform him.
While in the house with Jon romancing, Corey receives a call from a distressed client and picks it. The pizza delivery guy rings the door bell as Corey is on the phone. Jon comes across two rings in Corey's coat while looking for his wallet in order to pay for the pizza delivery. Jon is shocked. Corey does not notice Jon saw the rings. He rushes to open the door and is struck by the good looks or the delivery guy. They start talking and Jon rudely interrupts claiming Corey is flirting with the delivery man. They get into a fight and Jon goes out to a bar. While there he meets an older lady who they strike a relationship with and have sex in the car afterwards. Back in the house while Corey is just about to show Jon the rings and propose. Jon however says that he is bisexual and reveals that he just had sex with a woman. Corey is upset especially when he realizes Jon already knew about the rings. Jon claims he is not ready to settle at age 27. They get into a fight and Jon leaves.
Jon does not come back. Corey spots him with an older lady at the store. He talks to Kelsey about it. Kelsey tells Corey that she will move in if Jon does not return. Corey later finds a letter from Jon in the house together with the key written "I Love You. I Am Sorry". The Pizza delivery guy finds him sobbing and hands him the pizza for free. Kelsey moves in.
Corey has a client back at therapy session who is excited of a new relationship. The woman Melissa has just started a relationship with a younger man. Corey is shocked to discover the young man must be his former boyfriend Jon especially when she says he calls himself flexisexual.
Corey goes to the internet to look for love. He explains to his sister Kelsey how he is meeting three gorgeous looking guys in a day. It however turns out the first guy is an old man who posted a picture of when he was 25 years old. The second guy turns out to be two identical twins who had the status reading "twice the man". The third guy Kyle turns out to be good looking but then says he has a son. Corey says he might want to meet the son one day. It turns out that the so called son is his hand held puppet. Kyle is upset when Corey calls him a puppeteer. Kyle starts a fight and almost stabs him before he is taking away by the police.
Corey goes to Kelsey's cafe to talk about his three dates. Kelsey installs the gay social networking application Grindr to his phone. Corey starts checking profiles and comes across the pizza delivery guy on Grindr. This confirms to him that the man is gay and he immediately tries to find him. Kelsey informs him that he knows the guy because he attends her poetry classes. It turns out his name is Pete.
Corey stays over until the poetry class begins and meets Pete. Pete explains that his uncle is the owner of the pizza business known as Uncle Sal. He developed heart problems and Pete has to help.
Melissa comes over for therapy and explains how his boyfriend is good in bed. Corey is upset and hands her over to another therapist claiming he will be away.
Meanwhile Corey collides with Pete leaving the store. Pete takes him to his getaway spot next to a waterfall where they have lunch and later make love back at Corey's house.
Melissa storms Corey's office one night just as he is leaving and explains how the boyfriend might be cheating on him. Jon does not know Corey is Melissa's therapist and so when he turns up with flowers for Corey he is shocked to find her there. He hands over the flowers to Melissa instead and they go off without her realizing.
Corey has a bad mood next day and will not listen to his sister Kelsey who is about to be foreclosed due to cash flow problems at the cafe. He also gives Pete the same mood while heading for a movie and they leave each other on the way. Back at his house Jon comes to bring him flowers and coerces him into sex. The two have sex but forget to lock the door. Pete, Melissa and Kelsey find them in the act. Melissa is very upset to realize her therapist has slept with her boyfriend. Pete goes away also upset.
Kelsey's cafe is foreclosed by the bank over a loan and she moves out. She plans to go back home to live with parents.
Corey reads about Uncle Sal's death and runs off the garden they once met with Pete. He meets him hiking and convinces him not to move away from there.
Corey gets a call about the foreclosure auction and decides to go through her sister's accounting records. He finds out that she only did some record keeping mistakes. The loan officer later informs then Pete paid off the outstanding loan.
Corey has to attend an Ethical Violations hearing summoned by the North American Psychological Association Ethics Committee. This is after Melissa accused him of breach of confidentiality. He however arrives late but luckily Melissa has just withdrawn the allegations in front of the committee.
Kelsey opens her cafe. Corey and Pete go off on a surprise trip together.
One day after having sex with Jon in the office Corey passes by Kelsey's cafe. Kelsey is his sister and has been nagging him to get married soon. Corey is turning thirty years old in 3 months. Kelsey tells him to propose to Jon or else she will call by midnight to inform him.
While in the house with Jon romancing, Corey receives a call from a distressed client and picks it. The pizza delivery guy rings the door bell as Corey is on the phone. Jon comes across two rings in Corey's coat while looking for his wallet in order to pay for the pizza delivery. Jon is shocked. Corey does not notice Jon saw the rings. He rushes to open the door and is struck by the good looks or the delivery guy. They start talking and Jon rudely interrupts claiming Corey is flirting with the delivery man. They get into a fight and Jon goes out to a bar. While there he meets an older lady who they strike a relationship with and have sex in the car afterwards. Back in the house while Corey is just about to show Jon the rings and propose. Jon however says that he is bisexual and reveals that he just had sex with a woman. Corey is upset especially when he realizes Jon already knew about the rings. Jon claims he is not ready to settle at age 27. They get into a fight and Jon leaves.
Jon does not come back. Corey spots him with an older lady at the store. He talks to Kelsey about it. Kelsey tells Corey that she will move in if Jon does not return. Corey later finds a letter from Jon in the house together with the key written "I Love You. I Am Sorry". The Pizza delivery guy finds him sobbing and hands him the pizza for free. Kelsey moves in.
Corey has a client back at therapy session who is excited of a new relationship. The woman Melissa has just started a relationship with a younger man. Corey is shocked to discover the young man must be his former boyfriend Jon especially when she says he calls himself flexisexual.
Corey goes to the internet to look for love. He explains to his sister Kelsey how he is meeting three gorgeous looking guys in a day. It however turns out the first guy is an old man who posted a picture of when he was 25 years old. The second guy turns out to be two identical twins who had the status reading "twice the man". The third guy Kyle turns out to be good looking but then says he has a son. Corey says he might want to meet the son one day. It turns out that the so called son is his hand held puppet. Kyle is upset when Corey calls him a puppeteer. Kyle starts a fight and almost stabs him before he is taking away by the police.
Corey goes to Kelsey's cafe to talk about his three dates. Kelsey installs the gay social networking application Grindr to his phone. Corey starts checking profiles and comes across the pizza delivery guy on Grindr. This confirms to him that the man is gay and he immediately tries to find him. Kelsey informs him that he knows the guy because he attends her poetry classes. It turns out his name is Pete.
Corey stays over until the poetry class begins and meets Pete. Pete explains that his uncle is the owner of the pizza business known as Uncle Sal. He developed heart problems and Pete has to help.
Melissa comes over for therapy and explains how his boyfriend is good in bed. Corey is upset and hands her over to another therapist claiming he will be away.
Meanwhile Corey collides with Pete leaving the store. Pete takes him to his getaway spot next to a waterfall where they have lunch and later make love back at Corey's house.
Melissa storms Corey's office one night just as he is leaving and explains how the boyfriend might be cheating on him. Jon does not know Corey is Melissa's therapist and so when he turns up with flowers for Corey he is shocked to find her there. He hands over the flowers to Melissa instead and they go off without her realizing.
Corey has a bad mood next day and will not listen to his sister Kelsey who is about to be foreclosed due to cash flow problems at the cafe. He also gives Pete the same mood while heading for a movie and they leave each other on the way. Back at his house Jon comes to bring him flowers and coerces him into sex. The two have sex but forget to lock the door. Pete, Melissa and Kelsey find them in the act. Melissa is very upset to realize her therapist has slept with her boyfriend. Pete goes away also upset.
Kelsey's cafe is foreclosed by the bank over a loan and she moves out. She plans to go back home to live with parents.
Corey reads about Uncle Sal's death and runs off the garden they once met with Pete. He meets him hiking and convinces him not to move away from there.
Corey gets a call about the foreclosure auction and decides to go through her sister's accounting records. He finds out that she only did some record keeping mistakes. The loan officer later informs then Pete paid off the outstanding loan.
Corey has to attend an Ethical Violations hearing summoned by the North American Psychological Association Ethics Committee. This is after Melissa accused him of breach of confidentiality. He however arrives late but luckily Melissa has just withdrawn the allegations in front of the committee.
Kelsey opens her cafe. Corey and Pete go off on a surprise trip together.
THE IMITATION GAME
The Imitation Game is a film based on the book "ALAN TURING: THE ENIGMA" BY Andrew Hodges. This movie is a true story which tells the life of Alan Turing.
Alan is a bright introverted boy at Sherborne School in 1928. He is constantly picked on by other boys because he is different. He only has one friend called Christopher who helps him out and keeps him company. One day Christopher brings him a book on encryption and Alan therein develops an interest in the field. They two boys constantly pass messages to each other in class using coded language which to everyone else is just gibberish. Christopher however later dies of bovine tuberculosis which he had for some while.
In 1939 during the second world war Alan Turing seeks a job with the government in cryptography. During the interview it is revealed that he is now a mathematics protege at Kings College Cambridge. They get into a misunderstanding with the navy officer conducting the interview especially when he reveals he does not speak or understand German language. He is almost let go until he mentions the word Enigma to the commander. The Enigma is a machine which encrypts German communications and is very difficult to break its code. He gets hired into the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. He is introduced to the team he will work with to try and break the German Enigma.
Alan is not very popular among his teammates. He prefers to stay alone and work on a machine which he insists should be able to break the enigma. His teammates are not sure about that idea and dismiss it. This puts him at a disadvantage when he tries to get funding for the machine parts. His team leader does not support it and it is rejected. The commander asks him to take it with Winston Churchill his senior if he can. Alan writes to the prime minister and he is appointed the leader of his team whereby he sacks two teammates immediately. This creates bad blood between him and remaining teammates and also the commander.
Being short of staff Alan is forced to hire more cryptologists. He devises a puzzle which he puts in the newspaper for anyone to call if they can finish it in less than ten minutes. The successful people come for a test and two get chosen. One lady named Miss Joan Clarke and a young man. Miss Clarke is very good in solving mathematical problems.
The parts needed to build the machine are at last delivered. Alan starts to work on it. The machine is taking too long to try and decipher the code which makes it impossible by midnight when the Germans change the code again. Everybody is upset with him including the commander who wants the machine taken away and the program ended. His teammates intervene and they are given a month to make it work.
Meanwhile Miss Clarke is under pressure from her parents to go back home since she is now 25 years old and not married. Alan begs her to stay and proposes to her in order to keep her there working on the enigma. They get engaged but Alan reveals he has no intimate feelings towards her. It is here the teammate confirms his thinking that Alan Turing is gay. During a night out with Miss Clarke and other teammates they meet a lady who works at the radio signals interceptions. She reveals that one of the German messages always begins with the letters CILLY. She thinks it might be a man whose girlfriend is named Cilly. To Alan this is great news because it has just given him an idea on how to break the enigma. He runs off and breaks the code using the information he just received. This becomes vital in Britain's war up to the end.
In 1951 Alan Turing who is now a professor at Leeds University has a break in at his house. A detective from Manchester finds it weird how Alan shrugs off the incident. He tries to dig deeper by accessing his classified military records but he finds they have been taken away and only an empty envelope is left. It is later discovered that the men who broke into his house are actually homosexuals Alan has had relations with. Alan is arrested for indecency by performing homosexual acts. He is charged and given the option of either 2 years in jail or hormonal therapy to cure his homosexuality. He takes the latter even though the drugs make him sick. He later commits suicide one year into the drugs on June 7 1954.
In 2013 Queen Elizabeth II granted Alan Turing a posthumous royal pardon.
Alan is a bright introverted boy at Sherborne School in 1928. He is constantly picked on by other boys because he is different. He only has one friend called Christopher who helps him out and keeps him company. One day Christopher brings him a book on encryption and Alan therein develops an interest in the field. They two boys constantly pass messages to each other in class using coded language which to everyone else is just gibberish. Christopher however later dies of bovine tuberculosis which he had for some while.
In 1939 during the second world war Alan Turing seeks a job with the government in cryptography. During the interview it is revealed that he is now a mathematics protege at Kings College Cambridge. They get into a misunderstanding with the navy officer conducting the interview especially when he reveals he does not speak or understand German language. He is almost let go until he mentions the word Enigma to the commander. The Enigma is a machine which encrypts German communications and is very difficult to break its code. He gets hired into the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. He is introduced to the team he will work with to try and break the German Enigma.
Alan is not very popular among his teammates. He prefers to stay alone and work on a machine which he insists should be able to break the enigma. His teammates are not sure about that idea and dismiss it. This puts him at a disadvantage when he tries to get funding for the machine parts. His team leader does not support it and it is rejected. The commander asks him to take it with Winston Churchill his senior if he can. Alan writes to the prime minister and he is appointed the leader of his team whereby he sacks two teammates immediately. This creates bad blood between him and remaining teammates and also the commander.
Being short of staff Alan is forced to hire more cryptologists. He devises a puzzle which he puts in the newspaper for anyone to call if they can finish it in less than ten minutes. The successful people come for a test and two get chosen. One lady named Miss Joan Clarke and a young man. Miss Clarke is very good in solving mathematical problems.
The parts needed to build the machine are at last delivered. Alan starts to work on it. The machine is taking too long to try and decipher the code which makes it impossible by midnight when the Germans change the code again. Everybody is upset with him including the commander who wants the machine taken away and the program ended. His teammates intervene and they are given a month to make it work.
Meanwhile Miss Clarke is under pressure from her parents to go back home since she is now 25 years old and not married. Alan begs her to stay and proposes to her in order to keep her there working on the enigma. They get engaged but Alan reveals he has no intimate feelings towards her. It is here the teammate confirms his thinking that Alan Turing is gay. During a night out with Miss Clarke and other teammates they meet a lady who works at the radio signals interceptions. She reveals that one of the German messages always begins with the letters CILLY. She thinks it might be a man whose girlfriend is named Cilly. To Alan this is great news because it has just given him an idea on how to break the enigma. He runs off and breaks the code using the information he just received. This becomes vital in Britain's war up to the end.
In 1951 Alan Turing who is now a professor at Leeds University has a break in at his house. A detective from Manchester finds it weird how Alan shrugs off the incident. He tries to dig deeper by accessing his classified military records but he finds they have been taken away and only an empty envelope is left. It is later discovered that the men who broke into his house are actually homosexuals Alan has had relations with. Alan is arrested for indecency by performing homosexual acts. He is charged and given the option of either 2 years in jail or hormonal therapy to cure his homosexuality. He takes the latter even though the drugs make him sick. He later commits suicide one year into the drugs on June 7 1954.
In 2013 Queen Elizabeth II granted Alan Turing a posthumous royal pardon.
TOM AT THE FARM
Tom at the Farm is a 2013 gay thriller film. This gay movie is about Tom who is in grief after the death of his boyfriend. He travels to the country side for his funeral. Drama starts when he realizes the family never knew about his lover's sexual orientation. The family goes to length to protect the name of the family including the emotions of the grieving mother.
THE NORMAL HEART
The Normal Heart is a 2014 gay movie about the 1980s AIDS epidemic among the gay community in New York. Ned Weeks attends Craig's birthday party at an Island along the beach. Craig is has not been feeling well and he faints on the beach as he walks. Later during cake cutting he can barely blow the candles because of a cough. Ned is a gay writer and reserved in his sexual life which keeps him away from other gay people on the island who are having a lot of casual sex.
Ned reads about a rare cancer diagnosed among 41 homosexuals in the newspaper as he heads out of the island in a boat. He pays a visit to Doctor Emma Brookner to ask about the gay disease. Dr. Emma orders him to remove his clothes so she can check if he is also infected. She cannot find any signs with Ned. Emma wants Ned to mobilize fellow gay men to raise awareness about the disease. Ned does not agree with her but as they converse Craig is brought in sick and dies. Emma recognizes one of the gay men that brought in Craig as the boyfriend of another man who died weeks before from the disease.Ned calls fellow gay men to his house for a meeting. During the meeting Dr. Emma asks them to abstain from sex because the disease is speculated to be sexually transmitted. They refuse to side with that opinion. Ned visits Felix Turner of the New York Times to try and persuade him to raise awareness through their newspaper. Felix is gay but reluctant the New York Times will be willing. Ned ends up trying to raise money through another newspaper called the New York Native. He also tries to get his brother offer free legal assistance including financial since he is the senior partner is a big law firm. The brother is adamant. The deaths from the disease continue rising. At the hospital where Dr. Emma works they have opened a wing described as a contagion area for the Gay Related Immunodeficiency Disease(GRID). The staff in the hospital refuse to attend to the sick homosexuals for fear of contamination.
Felix visits Ned and reminds him they met before at a gay sex club. They grow closer and eventually make love. Ned tries to approach the Mayor about the disease but security blocks him. Ned and fellow gay men for an organization called Gay Men Health Crisis to deal with the epidemic. Ned's aggressive and abrasive way of doing things in the organization is not appreciated by the rest and they do not vote him president. Bruce gets the presidency. At a gay party by GMHC they announce that they have managed to collect 53000$.
Ned eventually asks Felix Turner to move in with him. Felix goes on live TV accusing the government of neglecting gay people and having a conspiracy to get them dead. The GMHC member as furious claiming he is talking on behalf of the group. Ned and Bruce get into a fight when the former exposes him to a visiting TV crew at their new offices.
Felix eventually reveals to Ned that he was once married and had a son. He also shows Ned a Kaposi Sarcoma tumor on his foot which will not go away. Ned tells Doctor Emma about he and she asks to see Felix. Dr. Emma also reveals that she got crippled by polio as a child and that is why she is on wheel chair.
Felix gets worse to the point of messing his bed. His body is covered with Kaposi Sarcoma lesions when he visits the hospital. He is told to stay over for observation.
Doctor Emma is still struggling to get funding towards the gay cancer but government officials do not take her seriously and refuse. Ned creates some attention and gets an invitation to see a White House presidential adviser. They however disagree because the adviser thinks the disease is only among homosexuals. Ned gets furious.
Ned is eventually kicked out as a member of GMHC citing his exploitation of fear and death of gay men.
Felix gets worse and decides to visit the offices of Ned's brother the lawyer to leave a will. He faints on his way out and Ned's brother takes him to hospital where he later passes away after their bedside wedding with Ned presided over by Doctor Emma Brookner. Bruce also later dies from the disease which is later discovered to be AIDS.
HIDDEN HILLS
This is a 2013 comedy gay movie about two men in a secret relationship. Real estate agent Drew Drake and business partner Whitey Ford both live in Hidden Hills California. Almost everyone in Hidden Hills is gay but nobody is in a relationship with his own race. Drew and Ford are both Caucasian and they do not want to be seen as breaking away from tradition.
PIT STOP
Pit Stop is a 2013 gay movie about two gay men in a small town in Texas. Gabe and Ernesto start to build their relationship through interactions at the local gas station. Gabe is recovering from a bad relationship with a married man. He finds solace in the relationship with his ex wife and daughter. Ernesto leaves home life to spend time with an ailing ex boyfriend in hospital. The two men suffer from emotional isolation which leads them to yearn for romance.
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
This is a 2013 gay movie about Ron Woodroof who is diagnosed with AIDS and given only 30 days to live. A doctor prescribes a drug which is approved only for trials but his health deteriorates further. Another doctor whose license is revoked recommends another drug which is not approved but available across the border. After a period on the drugs his health improves. He figures out that he can make money selling the drugs and sets up the Dallas Buyers Club to sell them together with a trans woman Rayon. Ron is very homophobic but the club teaches him compassion towards gay people.
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