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What is it about the human character that so draws us to love stories?
Hollywood has made a cottage industry out of happy, beautiful couples tying the knot accompanied by swelling music and impossibly elaborate — and dramatic — weddings. And yet, fans can't seem to get enough!
Of course, we in the queer world spent most of Hollywood's first century starved for love stories about people like us.
How lucky, then, that in the past few decades we've started to see tales of LGBTQ people finding romance in glossy, Tinseltown fashion. For an uplifting dose of puppy dog eyes, erotic tension, and passionate movie kisses, we love to turn to these stories of tenderness and enchantment in the hopes that we too might someday get to put a ring on it (and as an added bonus, we now have in Shane Co. a jeweler to make the ring a reality...). Here are some of our favorite LGBTQ love stories built to fit the big screen.
Courtesy Shane Co.
What is it about the human character that so draws us to love stories?
Hollywood has made a cottage industry out of happy, beautiful couples tying the knot accompanied by swelling music and impossibly elaborate — and dramatic — weddings. And yet, fans can’t seem to get enough!
Of course, we in the queer world spent most of Hollywood’s first century starved for love stories about people like us.
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Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
How lucky, then, that in the past few decades we’ve started to see tales of LGBTQ people finding romance in glossy, Tinseltown fashion. For an uplifting dose of puppy dog eyes, erotic tension, and passionate movie kisses, we love to turn to these stories of tenderness and enchantment in the hopes that we too might someday get to put a ring on it (and as an added bonus, we now have in Shane Co. a jeweler to make the ring a reality…). Here are some of our favorite LGBTQ love stories built to fit the big screen.
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Love, Simon
Closeted lad Simon’s ongoing virtual crush on “Blue,” a fellow student (and no, we will not reveal his identity here), still gives us all the feels. Maybe one day it will be common to see queer kids marrying their high school sweethearts, too. Until then, we’ll settle for a passionate kiss on the Ferris wheel.
My Beautiful Launderette
This ’80s classic gay love story between a Pakistani immigrant and a London punk still plays as a swoon-worthy romance thanks to the chemistry and performances by Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke. Who would have thought a movie set in a laundromat would make us well up with love?
Feeling inspired after revisiting these love stories? Visit Shane Co. to put a ring on the romance.
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