Each week online comedian, voice actor and chest hair model Sam Kalidi creates a comedic post for Queerty readers. This week he gets ready for Valentine’s Day by looking at same-sex romance in the movies while crooning Edith Piaf’s ballad “La Vie en Rose.” You can find him on Twitter, Facebook,Instagram and at your local glory hole.
Check it out below.
Since Valentine’s Day is this Sunday, here’s Edith Piaf’s LA VIE EN ROSE.
Posted by Sam Kalidi on Thursday, February 11, 2016
Kieru
For me it would be the scenes from Latter Days.
Not necessarily because those scenes are objectively better or hotter… that movie just happened to be released around the same time I had started college and was suddenly free from a small, conservative town. It basically set the metric for what I thought passionate love should feel like.
In hindsight probably a pretty naive metric to use, but hey… I was young.
martinbakman
It may not be the hottest but has been copied so many times. Kudos to Ang Le. When Jack arrived at the apartment, Ennis went down, pushed Jack against the wall kissing him with all his might.
tommyboy5023
The kisses were great. Latter Days and broke back conspicuous by their absence. But,how many of these characters lived to the end of the movie? Until just recently we didn’t get and they lived happily ever after in movies.
Aromaeus
Out of the ones featured in the video I’d go with the goodbye kiss in Weekend simply because it marked a change in one of the characters. Out of all the gay movies I’ve seen the stand out is probably the kiss in The Way He looks.
Also someone pointed this out on another blog but what is up with the hand on the face thing when straight actors do a same-sex kiss? Like the one where each person has both hands on either side of the other persons face as if they are trying to control how close they get to them or something. It’s just weird.
ChuckGG
@martinbakman: I have to agree. It was the aggression and passion the two showed, clearly admitting to themselves what they really wanted.
walterhpdx
With the exception of 2 movies, I didn’t recognize any of these kisses. And yes, I’m missing kisses from Big Eden, Latter Days, Shelter, and the Donald Strachey Mysteries movies.
Robert-in-Seattle
The hottest kiss – for me – was from Brokeback Mountain. The first time “Jack nasty” comes to visit Ennis del Mar after not seeing him for years (where they’re caught by Ennis’s wife through the upstairs window, is so passionate, so deep, and so real that I FELT their need! The bounced off wall to wall, and it was one of those ‘to hell with everything’ moments. Hot as hell, and one I’ve replayed over and over when needed…
chuck
The reunion kiss in Brokeback Mountain.
spiffy
A kiss can have many meanings — to me a “hottest” kiss would convey eroticism, which none of these kissing scenes denotes. Most of these are romantic kisses, which I have no problem with whatsoever.
Having said that, I don’t recognize half of these movies — it used to be that any gay plots, good or bad, are memorable simply because there are so few of them… Now I can’t keep track, so it must be progress!
silveroracle
Round about 1.35, who was the blonde hairy bear? Absolutely gorgeous.
kel777
I admit I’m only moved by younger guys kissing. I don’t think middle aged straight people kissing is hot or adorable either. So I guess I lean to the coming of age films, which in their totality are usually horrible, except for Wild Reeds, conspicuously absent in the video.
zooby
I wanted to watch the gay kisses but that guy’s face kept popping up…
surreal33
The most sensual, mesmerizing, soul stirring, passionate (words fail miserably to do it justice) kiss occurred in Paul Verhoeven’s film The Forth Man?. See it as it surreal!!!!!!!!!!
Chris
Replay those scenes with Edith’s own voice in the background and the longing in the kisses becomes an almost unbearable ache.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0feNVUwQA8U
Seattleguy
@surreal33: I had forgotten that riveting kiss. I agree!!!! Very good movie.
Profe Sancho Panza
At the risk of showing my age, nothing touches My Beautiful Laundrette.
SFHandyman
Making Love 1982
Harry Hamlin and Michael Ontkean
It was groundbreaking. It was also the movie that solidified for me that it would never be anything but guys for me. (I wasn’t confused, but society shoved so hard towards forcing everyone into the straight roles.)
Starts at 1:00
https://youtu.be/AN4bac7NZPQ
I have to agree My Beautiful Laundrette was incredible.
The kiss in Brokeback Mountain was also amazing. Too bad I went with my Mom. hahaha
dvlaries
Linus Roache and Robert Carlyle weren’t so bad in “Priest” either
https://youtu.be/ri-qGpTz9eg
girldownunder
By 1982, I knew I wasn’t str8, but there were no actual “role models” anywhere to be seen.
I was shocked, then, that Making Love was even actually aired! I mean, think about it…And the actors were well-known– this wasn’t some seedy, no-name budget deal. All the leads were in recent shows or movies. Very ahead of it’s time.
I think the film really gave a very touching & “human” look at a subject that, even now, there seems a tough time doing.
As a lesbian, that Ontkean/Hamlin kiss gave even me shivers- lol…I also agree BBM was a weird one to miss on the list, as was Latter Days (shmaltzy acting but decent kiss/sex-ish scenes).