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I'm looking specifically at Confessions of Dorian Gray, but I'm interested in picking up anything new this year.

All the KJ Charles. All of it.

Do you like them all? They're very hit and miss for me, and the impression I've gotten in fandom is that that's a broadly held sentiment, just with the hits and misses varying.

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I'm a bit of the same--I have loved a few of KJ Charles' books (Simon Heximal, Spectred Isle, Any Old Diamonds, but haven't really connected with the longer series.

For me her longer series vary in quality even within the series. In both Society of Gentleman and Sins of the Cities, I adore the second book, like the finale, and am indifferent to the first one. I feel like she does her best when she's not worried about introducing a verse or wrapping it up.

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I've read all of her historicals and liked every one except for the first Society of Gentlemen book. I'm not fannish about all of her ships, though--I enjoy them well enough in canon, but would only request and/or offer...maybe 10 or 12 of them.

Not "all" for me, but I deeply love Spectred Isle and Simon Heximal.

Pulled from last years tagset.

I’m only doing TV and Movies and I’m only talking about at least one-sided m/m relationships and not just the existence of gay characters. Other anons are welcome to fill in the gaps/share their summaries too.

Movies

Alien (Prequel Movies) - People keep going to into space where evil aliens want to kill them in body horror ways. On a colonizing mission, the head of security and gay and take this husband with him. A robot makes out with the newer version of himself.

Ben Hur - Messala is heavily implied/instructed to be portrayed ass Judah’s ex-boyfriend during the pink code when it couldn’t be explicit. Actual on-screen relationship is one-sided love between childhood friends. Overarching plot is about a contemporary to Jesus.

Big Eden - Man returns to hometown. He reunites with his childhood crush who desperately wants to try to have a relationship with him despite being unsure of his sexuality. Another potential love interest pines from afar.

Billy Elliot - A boy masters ballet in his tiny mining village with his eyes set on the London stage. His best friend will miss him when he’s gone.

Breakfast with Scot - Ex-hockey player laments when his husband’s nephew is even more seemingly gay than they themselves are.

Call Me By Your Name - Age gap romance.

Freier Fall/Free Fall - Two German police officers fall in love.

Fyra ar till/Four More Years - A politician falls from grace but meets a nice boy along the way.

God’s Own Country - The son of a Northern England sheep header/farm owner falls in love with their newly hired Romanian farmhand.

Hail Caesar - Wacky hijinks in the golden age of Hollywood. One of the most respected directors is gay and may have something going on with Hollywood’s biggest musical actor. He has a past with one of its most respected dramatic actors as well.

Handsome Devil - Irish boarding school where a teenager rugby player comes out as gay with the help of his indie friend and gay teacher, who has a boyfriend.

Hawaii - Two childhood friends reunite as men.

Lawrence of Arabia - Similar to Ben Hur. No on-screen sexuality but coded. Englishman always out of place in England finds himself a home during the Arab Spring.

Love Simon - Teenager gets outed and uses it as a means to find his online crush.

Mamma Mia - I admit this is the one I know mostly from osmosis. A woman tries to hunt down her daughter’s unknown father before her wedding. One of the potentials is Colin Firth, who is gay, and I think has a partner???

Moonlight - A complicated boy becomes a complicated man. The constant in his life is a decades-long romance with a boy from his neighborhood.

Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss Kiss - A gay man and his best girl friend have a list off men that are forbidden for either of them to go after.

Nico and Dani - Two friends come to terms with their respective gay and straight identities.

Mandy - A cult leader has sexual connotations with all his followers, male and female.

Neighbors/Bad Neighbours - Frat house has a feud with the family next door. One of the Brothers is gay and gets engaged to his boyfriend.

Plan B - A man tries to win back his ex but plays himself when he accidentally falls in love with her current boyfriend instead.

Pride - Gay activists supporting the miners during the UK coal strike. One-sided pinning between the younger crowd and two of the founding members are old marrieds.

Priest - Closeted gay priest struggles with keeping his vows when it’s confessed to him that a father is molesting his daughter.

RocknRolla - Eastend criminals. One is gay and in love with his best friend, who is willing to do him a favor before he has to go to jail. A lawyer is happy to pick up where the straight friend left off.

Rope - Same as Ben Hur/Lawrence. Based on a play that was explicitly homosexual and the writer and cast were gay/bi. Two men set out to commit the perfect murder just to show they can.

Talented Mr Ripley - A mild-mannered man becomes a killer when the man he desires rejects him. He finds love with a man that does adore him back but it can’t last long with the bodies piled up behind him.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Trying to find the mole in an English secret service agency. Two men were lovers in the youth, with one still in love with the other. Another agent has a boyfriend.

Velvet Goldmine - A journalist who used to be obsessed with a long lost glam rock icon tries to pull the fact from fiction between a rocker and grunge singer who had a whirlwind romance. He ends up reconnecting with the grunge rocker and sparks rekindle. Word of Ewan McGregor says the journalist and grunge rocker get their HEA.

TV

American Crime Story: The Assassination of Giovani Versace - Fictionalized version of a true-crime event. Versace was gay, his killer was gay, as were his other victims.

American Horror Story Apocalypse - The world ends thanks to the antichrist who is sexually ambiguous. One of the survivors is gay and possibly has sex with said anti-christ. Two tech nerds fuck Ryan Reynolds (Gosling?) every week.

American Gods - Gods are real and they’re fighting all the time. A Middle Eastern God falls in love with a mortal.

Animal Kingdom - A white trash family pulls weekly heists. One of the sons is gay and has an on-again/off-again relationship with a guy he can’t let go of.

Arrested Development - One man can’t seem to escape the orbit of his ridiculous and corrupt family. His brother accidentally stumbles into being gay with his magical rival.

As the World Turns - Longrunning soap with two gay ships. One is a childhoodish friends become lovers and the other is enemies to lovers to lovers that actually like one another. Both ships share one party, yay!

Atlantis - Jason, a modern man, finds himself in the not so lost city of Atlantis. He meet Pythagoras of that-theorem’s fame, who is a childhood friend and in love with Icarus, of that-Sun’s fame.

Barry - Another osmosis one for me. A hitman tries to hang up his gun belt to become an actor but his past keeps following him. A very sweet gangster latches on to him - and has feelings for him???

The Borgias - A sketchy family manages to snag the Pope seat. One of the son’s main henchmen is gay and reconnects with his childhood boyfriend before falling for someone new. It’s also implied that the devotion to the son ins’t entirely platonic.

Caprica - Battlestar Galactica prequel. The uncle of a future main character is gay. He and his husband have a big part to play in how said character’s moral compass forms.

Champions - A man’s estranged young gay son comes to live with him and his brother. While the dad struggles to be a decent father, the son deals with crushes and the usual sitcom hijinks.

Charité - A German hospital during WWII. A doctor finds love with a soldier turned medical student in their shared distaste with the Nazi regime.

Class - Exists within the Doctor Whoverse. In an English high school where creatures of the universe can come through weekly, a gay Polish student finds love with an alien prince.

Club de Cuervos - A soccer team down in Mexico tries to be the best. One of the players is unabashedly bisexual and there’s one teammate he wouldn’t mind fucking.

Crashing - A group of British fuckups try to sort their lives out. A previously aggressively heterosexual member of the flatshare finds himself obsessed with his new gay flatmate, who unfortunately has a boyfriend.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - A woman deals with the men she loves and tries to figure out if she’s been the bad guy all along. Her boss is a late in life bisexual who gets a younger lover.

Cuffs - Cops in Brighton meet bad guy off the week. The boss's son is new to the force and gets involved with every cops enemy: a public defender.

Da Vinci’s Demons - Cool indie Da Vinci has hijinks and gets involved in Italian drama. For some reason this show did the most de-gaying they could but Leo still has his gay trial for about five minutes.

Difficult People - Two friends try to make it in New York even in middle age. Billy Eichner makes out with John Cho multiple times while they both enjoy being OTT assholes is the most honest way I can think to sell this.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Man solves crimes by allowing the universe to work itself out. Two princes from warring countries are in love with one another, and journey from an alternate universe to ours.

Dynasty - Rich people problems. The son is gay and falls in love with his cousin-in-law.

The Exorcist - Two priests deal with the supernatural that threatens their flock. One of the priests is actually an ex-priest, who gets himself a very nice boyfriend.

Fear The Walking Dead - The Walking Dead but on the West Coast. One of the survivors is gay and has a rich boyfriend that can afford them shelter - or can he?

The Get Down - How record spinning became a thing in NYC. One of the hip hop boys falls for someone from the disco scene.

Grace and Frankie - Two elderly women have their lives rocked when their husbands reveal that they’re gay and have been in a relationship for most of their lives. They would like a divorce so they can finally marry one another.

Grantchester - Small town priest solves crimes with his cop BFF. His priestly cohort is a closeted man that gradually comes out and even gets himself a boyfriend.

Greek - Sorority and fraternity life at a college. One of the Bothers comes out at gay and the boys take it well. Things get better when another Brother comes out because he likes the OG.

The Halcyon - An English hotel tries to survive WWII aka a Downton Abbey type show set during WWII. The owner’s son is gay and falls for the downstair’s barman which comes as a great joy, although he’ll need to keep it a secret as he steps up to become a civil servant.

Halt and Catch Fire - The race to make the first commercial PC is on. The man who gets the ball rolling is bisexual with a tragic dating life behind him.

Happy Endings - A group of friends in Chicago has minor dramas each week. One of the group is gay and has random romances before an old fling he really liked enters the picture.

Hit the Floor - The ruthless lives of basketball cheerleaders. Elsewhere, a closeted bisexual player falls for his agent and they try to come to terms with what the other wants.

In The Flesh - The zombie apocalypse comes and goes with the undead needing to be brought back into society. The main character killed himself over the loss of his childhood best-friend/boyfriend. He gets a second chance at love with another man who had a similarly sad go of things the first time was alive.

Insatiable - An overweight girl becomes thin and it turns her whole life around as enters the beauty queen scene. Her coach has a rival that he eventually realizes is in love with him. Since it’s always good to try everything at least once, they have an affair to see how it goes.

Kingdom - MMA boxing in Southern California. A local legend’s son is gay and struggles with it before he finally gets himself a boyfriend. That son is played by Nick Jonas.

Kings - Modern retelling of the story of David being the God-chosen successor to Saul’s kingdom. The price is gay and tries to hide it at his father's behest, but he can’t help having a boyfriend that meets a tragic end.

Letterkenny - Canadian dudebros have rivalries and do funny things. There’s a gay pastor who lusts after one of the main characters. Two sideline dudebros are mirrors of some of the mains, but they’re gay and get married.

Looking - An array of gay friends in San Francisco. About 10 different pairings to be had here.

Man in an Orange Shirt - Two men find love during WWII but face societal pressure to stay apart. In modern times, one of the men’s grandson struggles to find love because of his cultural pressures.

Midnight Texas - True Blood closer to the West Coast. An angel and his demon husband play their part in stopping the apocalypse as well as monsters of the week.

Misfits - Young offenders get superpowers. In one episode, a villain uses his powers to make one of the boys fall for his friend, much to the friends dictate.

Mr Robot - Anarchist hackers want to save us all from debt. One of the world’s biggest execs is bisexual and falls for the main anarchist leading the charge, causing him to question his loyalties and what he actually stands for.

Narcos - The rise and fall of various cocain druglords in Colombia. The most violent member of one of the biggest cartel businesses is unabashedly gay and has a man waiting for him at every drug port.

The Orville - Star Trek parody played straight. Two of the alien crewmates are old marrieds.

Outlander - A woman goes back in time to Jacobite Scotland and finds love among other things. The main antagonist is a sadist obsessed with the main male protagonist. He rapes him until the man’s mind breaks and he briefly falls in love with antagonist.

Ozark - Money laundering in Arkansas. A member of a lower-tier criminal family is seduced by an FBI agent trying to fry bigger fish.

Partners - Two childhood best friends open up an architectural firm together. One of them is gay and has a loving, doting boyfriend.

Penny Dreadful - Mismash of open domain horror characters deal with spooky stuff. Wolfman makes out with Dorian Grey, who has various male loves of his own.

A Place to Call Home - Downton Abbey in 50s Australia. The son struggles with lost loves and his sexuality but eventually finds a man to call his own.

Preacher - God’s voice grants superpowers to a preacher and he and his girlfriend and vampire best friend try to figure out where God’s gone. The vampire finally meets another one of his kind and they have a whirlwind romance.

The Prisoner - A man gets teleported to a strange world where everyone is a number. The leader’s son is gay and in a secret relationship with the main member of the police.

Political Animals - A family deals with the former first lady becoming the POTUS. Their twins were warped by being political family children and one of the now-adult sons has the issues to prove his. Falling in love with a closeted senator does him no favors.

Pose - Ball culture at its peak. Lots of different expressions of homosexuality.

Quantico - FBI trainees trying to stop terrorism? Another osmosis addition. Someone pretends to be gay but then actually ends up in a relationship with a man?

Queer as Folk UK - Lives of gay men in late 99s/00s Manchester.

Redwater - Spinoff of the EastEnders soap. A woman goes in search of his long lost son. A death in the family reunites two cousins who had a childhood fling that is lingering into their adulthood.

Revenge - A woman goes after the rich people that ruined her father. Her best friend is a bisexual uber-rich techie who dates many men.

Rome - …It’s Rome. I never watched this one but I meant to, but there’s gay stuff.

Sense8 - Eight people from around the world are connected via a strange event during their birth. One of the pod is a gay Mexican actor who has a boyfriend that he loves very much. The nature of his connection with the other members of his group sees him having sex with them as well.

Schitt’s Creek - Rich family loses it all. The pansexual son tries his hand a love a few times before meeting the man of his dreams.

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Three siblings have a fucked-up life. Whys Darby and Son Johnson are partners by the name of Charles and Sir, which tells you everything you need to know.

Smash - A playwright and a composer trying to make the next big Broadway hit. The composer falls into a romance with one of the performers.

Strangers with Candy - An older woman gets out of jail and decides to finish high school. Two of her teachers have a torrid romance.

Succession - The über rich babe to deal with who will be next in line as the patriarch of their family company grows older. While dealing with that, the company acquires a company that has a gay CEO that cannot stand them, although they need to schmooze him and his husband at times to stay afloat.

Taboo - A man returns from abroad when his father dies and seeks to reclaim the land that belonged to his war-bride mother. His best friend from his time at the East India Company’s military branch is gay and still holds a bit of a flame for him.

The Terror - An arctic expedition goes horribly wrong. One of the main antagonists is gay and has a lover onboard.

This Close - Two deaf friends navigate the world together. The male friend is left reeling from his failed engagement and has to decide if he can forgive when his fiancée finally manages to catch up with him.

Victoria - Adventures of Queen Vic and Prince Albert. One of her court is gay and finds love with a civil servant.

Westworld - In a theme park where androids are used and abused, the world will be alarmed to find they’re waking up. The original backer of the park is bisexual and hooks up with men, robots and humans alike.

The Young Pope - Someone not old is chosen to be Pope and the church quickly decides they’ve made a mistake. His right-hand man is a closeted gay priest trying to come to terms with himself. His childhood best friend/brother is bisexual and has male lovers.

True Detective - Different crime-solving partners solve a major crime each season. Season 2 had a closeted cop struggle to hide his past. Season 3 hard a gay suspect. One of the detectives has slightly ambiguous sexuality depending on who you ask.

Unter Uns - German soap. A bad boy tries to clean up his act for his good-guy boyfriend.

Versailles - Life in France’s King Louis XIV’s court. His brother is openly gay and has a live-in lover, along with their occasional third (or fourth).

We Hot American Summer First Day of Camp - TV prequel to a 80s camp movie satire. Two of the camp members are gay. They get married in the film, and this shows their meet-cute.

Will - Shakespeare but grungy and sexy. Will William’s bisexuality is still muddy, Marlowe is out and proud with his boyfriend of the court, twink orgies to help writers block, and older patron lover that thinks he can do no wrong.

The Wire - Drug trade in Baltimore. One of the dealers is gay and has his boy.

You’re impressive, nonny.

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This is great, coalie! Thank you!

Ooh, I can request Omar from The Wire!!!

DA- To clarify for Mamma Mia, Harry is canonically gay, but has no canon love interest aside from five seconds of being flirted at by a customs officer. I love the character but sadly he doesn't fit your parameters.

NA

Nope, that's the second movie. He gets together with a hot younger Greek guy in the first one. Sadly that's about the amount of actual canon for them, they pretty much dance together once. But it's sweet.

I'm nominating The Dare Project. It's a short film about two guys who had a sexually-charged encounter in high school, then run into each other unexpectedly 15 years later. The UST between them instantly amps back up and the meeting shakes them out of their respective ruts. It's BEGGING for a continuation.

As a nonny who plans to request/write some CODG, you've got some good taste anon. I don't know how much you know about the canon, but if you've got any questions, feel free to ask.

This looks amazing, although I'm not quite sure how to get a hold of it.

You need a Big Finish account in order to download & purchase CODG audios, even the free ones. Give me a moment though and I'll upload all the free ones/freebies to a mega account for easier nonny access.

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Jordan L. Hawk's work often gets nominated. The final Whyborne & Griffin comes out on the 11th, so I expect people will be excited about it this year.

I'm not sure which other "m/m romance" (a lot of which is more like m/m urban fantasy, mystery, thriller, etc.) series are likely to get nominated, but I can make recs if you give me some parameters. KJ Charles is far from the only writer of this stuff.

SA
Here are the books I spot in last year's tagset. This is stuff I recognize as being marketed as "m/m romance" currently and other stuff that tends to get lumped into the same recs lists. (i.e. It doesn't include everything with m/m content.)

Whyborne and Griffin - Jordan L. Hawk - Queer shenanigans in a Lovecraftian New England town at the turn of the 20thC
The Turner Series - Cat Sebastian - Classic Regency romance
The Administration - Manna Francis - Near future sf with kink
Adrien English - Josh Lanyon - Bookseller solves mysteries and deals with asshole boyfriend (I hate this series soooo much despite loving Lanyon's later work.)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley - 19thC steampunk? (I disliked this book and didn't finish it.)
Think of England - K. J. Charles - English house party + spies
A Charm of Magpies Series - K. J. Charles - 19thC magic cop angsts about his job and gets hot aristocrat boyfriend. There are side books about other characters.
Tales of the High Court Series - Megan Derr - High fantasy? (I haven't liked Derr's writing in the past. Haven't read this one.)
The Rifter - Ginn Hale - M/M plus some kind of fantasy
Astreiant Series - Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett - Renaissance-ish fantasy setting. I was unenthused by the oldschool style (i.e. it has like 1% focus on the relationship for the first two books--I'm told it gets shippy in book 3, but there are a lot of more recent m/m books I'll catch up on first)
The Plumber's Mate - J. L. Merrow - Contemporary English village cozies. The hero is a plumber who can find water and lost objects. He gets together with a bully from his school days. (I thought this was handled 1000x better than most bully/victim romance, but ymmv.)
The Kingston Cycle - C. L. Polk - Magic in Edwardian England? This got good reviews from sff readers and bad ones from m/m romance readers from what I saw.
Cut & Run - Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux - Buddy cops? All I remember is that I once owned a paper copy of book 1, and it was truly one of the worst books I ever read.
Society of Gentlemen - K. J. Charles - Regency romance-ish? Everyone likes the kink in book 2.
Sins of the Cities Series - K. J. Charles - M/M sensation novel trilogy. Charles tries to go more diverse and fails epically on many counts. People like the fake medium in book 2.
Green Men Series - K. J. Charles - Paranormal investigations in 1920s London?
Hexworld - Jordan L. Hawk - Magic cops and shapeshifting familiars in 19thC NYC
Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott - 19thC magic detectives?

Integrate - Thea Hayworth - One's a human. One's a tentacle shark alien. They fight crime! (Seriously, this is the best thing ever. Get yourself to Smashwords and purchase a copy.)

I think a couple of the Chinese nominations were m/m works, but I don't know that category well.

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Books from this year's nominations spreadsheet not already listed above:

A Matter of Oaths - Helen S. Wright. Fun space opera. One half of the m/m ship has amnesia.

At Swim Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill. Historical fiction about the Easter Rising. Unsurprisingly heartbreaking. Fixit requests tend to be popular, but so do canon-compliant requests, iirc.

Band Sinister - K. J. Charles. Frothy Regency romance, like an m/m (and m/m/m, and implied m/m/m/m) Georgette Heyer novel.

Dark Matter - Michelle Paver. Historical ghost story set in the Arctic. Canonical UST.

False Colors - Alex Beecroft. Age of sail historical romance.

For Real - Alexis Hall. Contemporary BDSM age difference romance with an older sub and a younger dom.

In Other Lands | The Turn of the Story - Sarah Rees Brennan. YA portal fantasy.

Lilywhite Boys - K. J. Charles. Victorian historical fantasy about a jewel heist.

Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee. Space opera/military SF with bodysharing and numerous other identity-themed tropes. Extremely not fluffy.

Moby Dick - Herman Melville. Arguably canonical, but if Queequeg wants to say that he and Ishmael are married, who am I to gainsay him?

Proper English - K. J. Charles. Historical country house murder mystery. Primary ship is f/f, but there's a secondary m/m ship.

Silver in the Wood - Emily Tesh. Historical fantasy about a Green Man.

The Amberlough Dossier - Lara Elena Donnelly. Secondary world fantasy modeled on the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazi party. Unsurprisingly brutal.

The Binding - Bridget Collins. AU historical fantasy. I'd recommend reading this book unspoiled.

The Charioteer - Mary Renault. Historical fiction about WWII soldiers.

The Fire's Stone - Tanya Huff. Secondary world quest fantasy. Some people might request the f/m/m OT3, but as long as you just offer the guys, you'll be fine.

The Nightrunner Series - Lynn Flewelling. Secondary world adventure fantasy. Heads up that the series is fairly long, and most people say that it goes downhill after the first two books. (I've only read the first two myself and can't comment.)

I just finished reading The Binding and really, really hope someone requests it.

Amy Rae Durreson's Reawakening series - I nominated Raif and Arden from book 3.

Medieval fantasy world with dragons. Book 3 is largely set in Not!Venice.

YMMV about Fly Me to the Saitama because one of the leads is played by a woman (while the character is a cis male and is never treated as anything but that), but the movie is about two students that fall in love in an alternate world where people from the country-side and suburbs are treated as second-class citizens, and they start a revolution together.

Like I said, the two main characters fall in love, with the addition that one of them is also convinced that the butler of his family wants to seduce the other (the butler might be bi, but his only real concrete scene is with a woman)

Somebody from ffa wrote this list for the movies with focus on canon m/m, and I just can't stop laughing. It's a solid list with hilarious summaries. Using actor names is the chef's kiss.

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/394603.html?thread=2323421035#cmt2323421035

Movies:

4th Man Out - Evan Todd comes out to his friends - Chord Overstreet, Parker Young, and Kool Gabrus - and they try to help him land his first boyfriend.

Another Country - Headmasters finding out about a love affair in a pre-WWII English all-male boarding school. All the boys try to close ranks, besieging the one student - Rupert Everett - that they've all slept with to keep quiet about their trysts. He could care less, as he’s falling in love with Cary Elwes. His best friend Colin Firth opines it all from his communist high horse. Rupert’s character is based on Guy Burgess.

Beach Rats (2017) - Harris Dickinson plays a Brooklynite that spends most of his time starting shit and lurking online chartrooms trying to work up the nerve to hook up IRL with an older man.

Boys in the Band (1970) - An all-gay group of friends are throwing a party for their mutual friend, when Kenneth Nelson’s straight (….or is he?) friend from college calls and frantically begs to stop by. The night descends into chaos as all the guests - a couple struggling with an open relationship, the only black person in an all-white friend group, the overly flamboyant friend in a group that can mostly pass as straight, and the core three friends that all know one another’s weakest points - have their secrets reveals and examined.

Breakfast with Scot - Tom Cavanagh is an ex-hockey player that has turned to sports journalism in his retirement. He leaves a mostly-closeted life with his partner Ben Shenkman that is all well and good until Ben’s flamboyant nephew comes to live with them, forcing Tom’s character to deal with his own internalized homophobia.

Burnt (2015) - Daniel Brühl is a maître d'hôtel that has his life upended when the man he’s been in love with for his entire life, Bradley Cooper, comes barreling back into it, demanding to be the head chef of Daniel’s new restaurant.

Call Me By Your Name (2017) - 17-year-old Timothée Chalamet has a love affair with Armie Hammer, his father’s post-grad research assistant.

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (2018) - Kit Harrington, a teen actor on the precipice of breaking into the serious acting echelon - receives a letter from Jacob Tremblay, a young boy realizing that he may be gay. The two of them strike up a penpal correspondence, as Kit is very lonely despite his fame. He struggles with remaining closeted, having an affair with Chris Zylka that finally makes him happy. In the future, Ben Schnetzer (the adult version of Jacob’s character) speaks with a journalist about his friendship with Kit.

The Favourite (2018) - Olivia Colman is a queen that has never been led astray by her close friend and favourite, Rachel Weisz. When Rachel’s character Emma Stone turns up, she quickly begins to seek out means to reverse her family’s fall into serfdom.

Fyra år till | Four More Years (2010) - Sweden’s expected prime minister has his life thrown for a loop when he flames out at the polls. Then comes Martin.

God’s Own Country (2017) - A small family farm requires a second pair of hands after Josh O’Connor’s father is left weakened by a stroke. They hire on Alex Secareanu, a Romanian worker to assist Josh.

Hail Caesar! (2016) - Set during the golden age of Hollywood, Ralph Fiennes is an acclaimed European director that is well known in the business for being gay; Channing Tatum is a Gene Kelly-type actor/dancer who is Ralph’s latest paramour; and George Clooney is the Robert Taylor-type film star (currently starring in the industries’ upcoming Biblical blockbuster) who started his career by loving up on Ralph, and has recently found himself kidnapped by communists.

History Boys - A group of boys in the 80s are trying for Oxbridge. Their school headmaster hires Stephen Campbell Moore to help round out their education. Dominic Cooper, never one to go for men in the past, falls in love with him instantly. This is a bit of a sore point for Samuel Barnett, who has been in love with Dominic since puberty struck.

Ideal Home. (2018) - Steve Coogan is a Food Network star that runs a show with Paul Rudd, his partner. One day Steve’s estranged son - Jake McDorman - gets arrested, leaving Stave’s previously unknown grandson to show up on his doorstep.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr. is a low-level crook that stumbles into being an actor to avoid jail time. He’s tasked to shadow Val Kilmer, a gay detective that can’t stand him.

Legend (2015) - Based on true events, Tom Hardy plays both halves of an infamous EastEnd twin crime lord duo. One of the twins, Reggie, is openly gay and is mentally unstable. His kept boy is Taron Egerton, who is known to be just as unstable as his partner.

Moonlight - A look at a man's life - played by Travante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, and Alex Hibbert - as he grows up. The one constant in his life is Kevin - André Holland, Jharrel Jerome, and Jaden Piner.

Neighbors | Bad Neighbours (Movies) - Dave Franco starts out in the series as Zac Efron’s best friend that can give himself a raging erection at-will, but in the second film we see he’s come out of the closet and is dating John Early. Their engagement and potential plan to start a family throws Zac for a loop, as he thought Dave and he would live and be together forever.

Paris je t’aime (2006) - A series of collected shorts, in Le Marais Gaspard Ulliel wonders into a printers shop and finds himself entranced by Elias McConnell, an American working there. He opines about soulmates, not realizing that Elias speaks very little French. Still, their connection moves Elias despite the language barrie.

Plaire aimer et courir vite | Sorry Angel (2018) - 39-year-old author Pierre Daladonchamps meets 22-year-old Vincent Lacoste by chance, sparking an intense love affair. Pierre does his best to keep things between Vincent and him chaste, as his declining health will surely only lead to heartache.

Pride (2014) - London-based gay and lesbian activists - Andrew Scott, Dominic West, Joe Gilgun, Ben Schnetzer, George MacKay, Faye Marsay, Jessie Cave - stand up against Thatcher and the police to support striking miners in Wales. Dominic encourages his partner Andrew to reunite with his family in Wales, Joe pines after Ben who never gives him the time of day, and recently out George is just trying to find where he fits in the world. Bill Nighy, a resident of the mining town, finds their visits illuminating.

Rocketman (2019) - Taron Egerton is Elton John. After brief affairs with various men, he meets Richard Madden in a romantic whirlwind, but things don’t stay happy for long.

A Single Man (2009) - Colin Firth relives his life with Matthew Goode, his partner for over a decade. On the day in which he decides to take his life, he’s inundated with the beauty of life and the potential for what else he has to look forward to, not least in part thanks to a handsome rent boy that shows genuine interest in him (Jon Kortajarena) and a student that has been crushing on him for a while (Nicholas Hoult).

Talented Mr Ripley (1999) - Matt Damon longs to live the life of the young and carefree, but his class means that he has to work. He falls in love with errant playboy Jude Law, though at times it's hard to tell if he wants to be Jude or be with him. When Matt’s passions are rebuked, he reacts badly. Forced to go on the run, Matt teeters between assuming Jude’s identity and being himself. In a strange reversal of the usual, Jack Davenport falls easily for Matt. For the first time in his life, someone prefers Matt to the facade of Jude, but will it last?

Testament of Youth (2015) - Taron Egerton hopes to attend Oxford with his sister Alicia Vikander, but WWI gets in the way. After his sexuality causes some problems at Uppingham School, he enlists in the war and meets Jonathan Bailey, a man who returns his effects and serves as the only point of kindness in a brutal war.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) - Mark Strong’s capture by the Russian side during the cold war causes Colin Firth - his on-again/off-again lover for most of their adult lives, the off-again status being largely at Colin’s discretion, as it’s clear Mark has eyes for no other - to make a decision to spare him that sets off a chain of events to reveal a Soviet spy within the British midst. The subsequent molehunt brings Benedict Cumberbatch, previously on the edges of the inner circle, into the fold. In a world where personal secrets are a liability, he must decide what to do about his boyfriend.

Torch Song Trilogy (1988) - Harvey Fierstein is always looking for love and acceptance. His first attempt at starting a life with bisexual Brian Kerwin, but when young model Matthew Broderick meets Harvey is love at first sight. After a few years together, the two decide to adopt a child (gay teenager Eddie Castodad).

Velvet Goldmine - Christian Bale is a journalist asked to figure out what happened to now-disappeared pop idol Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It’s a topic that hits very close to home, as the musician was one of the reason’s that Christian first figured out his sexuality as a young man. Looking into the past brings up the failed relationship between Jonathan and Ewan McGregor, another idol, a man that Christian himself had a relationship with. Post-canon/Word of God is that Christian and Ewan are endgame.

Wonder Boys (2000) - Tobey Maguire is the odd but talented student of Michael Douglas, an English professor suffering from writer's block. His bisexual editor, Robert Downey Jr, comes into town demanding a manuscript that should have been delivered pages ago. Robert instantly finds himself attracted to Tobey, and the feeling is mutual. Even better, Tobey’s writing talents might solve Michael and Robert’s other problem as well.

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