Well, well, imagine my delight when I clicked over to the terrific AfterElton.com site this morning to see their lead story: Gay Movie Sex Scenes that Made History.Now most of them in the article, I'm seen and loved - including the photo at right of Daniel Day Lewis and another actor whose name I can't recall in "My Beautiful Launderette."
But one movie I had never heard of and now absolutely must see (I mean, look at the pictures!) is "Wet Hot American Summer. Set in 1981, the article states that "Summer" has become a cult favorite (sign me up for that cult!), especially among gay viewers for its unabashedly positive portrayal of a gay couple — sex and all. In fact, the gay couple is the only one in the film who even has a sex scene, and it's played more for heat than laughs.
The camp's hottest preppy (played by Alias' Bradley Cooper) is in love with another counselor (comedian Michael Ian Black), and they even get married, to the supposed dismay of the straight colleagues who — in true summer camp form — have been trying to get one of the men laid with a girl counselor all summer (the straight guys, far from horrified, actually buy the newlywed gay couple a chaise lounge for a wedding present)."
So sweet! How did I not ever see this movie? In addition to Cooper and Black, the cast also includes Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Rudd, Christopher Meloni, Molly Shannon ands Amy Poehler.
Check out the article, lots of video clips with it too!