Omar & Johnny, My Beautiful Launderette
The beautiful gay love story of My Beautiful Launderette remains one of the best to come out of the 1990s indie filmmaking scene thanks in large part to the honest depiction of playful affection between the main characters, Omar and Johnny. As the film closes with the two splashing at one another across a washbasin, we can’t help but feel all’s right with the world.
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djbear
You miss several – I think of Call Me by Your Name in particular – particularly if you read the book. I know Brokeback Mountain did not last to the end but it meant so much to me as it was supposedly 1961 in western Us (actually filmed in Canada) and I had my firsy summer job in western Canada in 1960 and repeated it in 1961 and had a crush on one of my co-workers – the scenery and the awakening in that film just was amazing. My partner also saw it more than once before we got together 16 years ago.
toddlicious
Agreed.
dali
Did you read the title? This post is about adorable cinematic couples. Nothing to do with gay awekening films that you are suggesting. So yeah. Call Me by Your Name is not in the list, nor is Brokeback Mountain.
Jerry
We need more white, gay, male, couples in media/movies.
Jon in Canada
No, what’s needed is rich non-white/non-cis producers and/or rich folk (of which there are many) to step up and produce films that reflect their lives and experiences as well. If white cis producers made films about non-white or non-cis stories there’d be screams and cancel culture howls of indignation and you know it. So enough with the white guilt whine and manufactured self-flagellation, time for others to step up to tell their stories as well.
Kangol2
Any reason there was no mention Noah and Wade from 2008’s Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom, which featured one of the first Black gay weddings in US cinema? It was a good movie too!
hotdogla
Freddy and Jim, so good.
Bubbleandsqueal
MBL was made in 1985, so it was a real trailblazer.