Over the next few months, there is a whole new batch of movies with gay characters hitting theaters in both wide and limited release. Coming up first (Sept. 29) is "Broken Sky" which was the Dramatic Showcase feature at Outfest this year. With a running time of two hours and 20 minutes, most in the audience felt the Spanish-language movie could use some serious editing.
"Maybe the movie feels longer because there is so little dialogue," star Fernando Arroya told me during the festival.
In the film, Arroya (sitting right in photo) plays a college student in love with another student (Miguel Angel) and follows their journey through bliss, then growing apart, heartache and finally, reconcilitation. "My character is a big motherf*****! He hides all of his feelings, represses them. but he realizes, for all of his life, don't lose the opportunity to love if you feel it."
The two actors have countless kissing scenes and several very intense love scenes without a stitch of clothing on that make Heath and Jake's scenes in "Brokeback" look tame.

Also screened at Outfest to a SRO crowd was the documentary "Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner" (Oct. 4)which covers the "Angels in America" playwright's life between 2001 and 2004 as he writes, works on John Kerry's presidential campaign, marries his partner and opens the accilamed musical "Caroline or Change."

The drama "Wild Tigers I have Known" (Oct. 4) follows 13-year-old Logan (Malcolm Stumpf) as he copes with his budding homosexuality and he falls for the popular kid in class. It is a Gus Van Sant production.

The big-screen adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' memoir "Running with Scissors" hits theaters on Oct. 11. It tells the story of a young Burroughs (Joseph Cross) who is pawned off by his mother (Annette Bening) to her therapist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox). The film is a comic tale about a young gay man growing up in the middle of an extended crazy family. Joseph Fiennes' plays a pedophile who becomes Burroughs' first lover. The movie is directed by Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck).

"Infamous" (Oct. 13) is the second biopic about gay author Truman Capote as he researches his book "In Cold Blood." It will be fun to compare Philip Seymour Hoffman's Oscar-winning performance in "Capote" to Toby Jones' performance in this version. "Infamous" has what "Capote" certainly did not: a passionate same-sex kiss between Capote and one of the killers (played by the new James Bond, Daniel Craig!). Also in the cast is Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini and Sigourney Weaver.

The thriller "The House of Adam" (Oct. 27) is about a closeted police detective who investigates the unsolved death of his lover, Adam. Complicating mattersis that Adam comes back to haunt him.