Director Sean Penberthy took Lady Gaga‘s love anthem, “Edge of Glory” and used it as the inspiration for this concept video, showing the courtship and wedding of a gay couple, played by Jason O’ffill and Joel Harrison. It’s gorgeously shot and sweet without being saccharine. ” This video is for everybody who has ever loved and has been loved in return,” Penberthy writes. “To those that think it never does or will get better. It does. It does get better—it becomes beautiful.”
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Freddie
Yeah, I saw this back in July.
Gareth
Was about to say the same as Freddie above, this was post 6 months ago on here !!!!
Eric Auerbach
July 15, 2011. Link below:
http://www.queerty.com/fan-made-video-for-lady-gagas-the-edge-of-glory-features-gay-wedding-ridiculously-attractive-people-20110715/
Alex
Is this the part where the peanut gallery rips Queerty apart for daring to post something that features good looking white guys?
Eric Auerbach
@Alex: No, I think it’s the part where some douchy Queerty troll starts complaining about stuff that hasn’t happened.
Joetx
@Eric Auerbach: Well said, Eric.
Dirty Ole Man
@Gareth/Freddie/Eric: Queerty can post that article at least once a week as far as I am concerned.
If I had tried that when I was their age, I would still be serving my jail sentence
Alex
Eric- Have you read the comments section of the link you posted in comment number 3? IT CONTAINS EXACTLY THAT. So does damn near every other entry I’ve ever seen on this site. People just like to bitch around here, don’t fault me for pointing it out…
rodca
Well, I for one loved it when I saw it in July and still do! Thanks for the repost it brightened my day.
hudson
@rodca: yeah, that goes for me too! beautiful!
Dick F
As far as I am concerned, love is love and this is really lovely. Everyone should be given the chance to fall in love with one another whether straight or in same sex relationship. Love the video!
Mario
I found this so well made and so beautiful to see love that I posted it on my Facebook profile Quoted as ”Love has no gender barrier ”
Wingfield
Well this is my first time seeing this so I’m glad they reposted it. It was beautifully shot I just wish it was real! … Not to mention this video was MUCH better than lady gaga’s video for this song hah!
Triple S
Is it really that beautiful? I haven’t met my man yet, so I don’t have any solid ideas about marriage or even the relationship itself! But could that actually be me one day? Even though many would say ‘Oh, definitely!’ I just don’t know. It would be nice…well, it would actually really be the happiest day of my life, (cliche, I know). If only life could be so predictable.
Allen D.
@Triple S: Indeed it is, Triple S. Until it falls apart because one of you is more invested in the relationship than the other. I mean, seriously — our “divorce rate” has to be more than 50% (as is the usual stated statistic for heteros). With all of my gay friends on FB falling “madly in love” and “meeting the one” on a weekly basis just to break up a week later — it’s getting harder and harder to take any gay relationship seriously. I can think of exactly TWO people I know whose relationship has been going for more than 5 years.
That’s my cynical rant for the day.
Triple S
@Allen D.: Bugger
Allen D.
@Triple S: I don’t mean to sound overly cynical. Maybe my FB friends are just stupid.
But overall, I think the major problem is that gay men seem to completely ignore the standard heterosexual cues (because we’re DIFFERENT!). Everyone suffers from “but MY relationship is different! You don’t understand!”-itis. But really, you should not go from meeting someone to being “in a relationship” for several months. There’s a stage called “dating”. Which gay men seem to completely overlook. It’s not because you’re a slut, or needing to be able to fuck anyone else — it’s to see how you work together, how you fight, etc.
Then, after a couple years (yes, YEARS), go ahead and move in together. Speaking of, one of the best relationship advice things I’ve ever read was “NEVER move in together out of ‘necessity'”. That is the number one thing I’ve seen tear relationships apart.
Full disclosure — I’ve had 18 beers. Going to bed. But I wanted to reiterate that YES, love like that does happen… and it’s utter and complete magic while you’re wrapped up in it. It’s the build-up and the sustaining that we seem to ignore. As as long as guys are changing their ‘relationship status’ after 2 dates, we’re all going to keep having the same problem.
Have a good night!