Is it Exploitation?

"My Beautiful Launderette" had a male-male sex scene, but Daniel Day-Lewis wasn't really mainstream yet.

I bet it'll happen, though, with some of the younger eye-candier male actors.

There was a bit of discussion in the entertainment press a year or two ago about how being lesbian and/or bi had become a bit of a fad in Hollywood circles (I suspect it was always there, just more hidden in the past but...) so it doesn't really seem surprising that the same people in Hollywood would be incorporating it into movies more.

Thats it. I am off to Hollywood

"My Own Private Idaho" with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves also comes to mind. I think you'd see more male love scenes if they didn't look so ridiculous naked.

As Seinfeld's Elaine said "The female body is a work of art. The male body is utilitarian. It's for gettin' around. It's like a Jeep."

Elaine was wrong

eoe- Sure it's exploitation. But as long as people plunk down their bucks to see that sort of thing, Hollywood will keep making then!

I agree!

What about William Hurt and - dammit, cannot recall his name - (he played the straight political activist - fantastic actor) - in "Kiss of the Spider Woman"?


Edit: I meant I agre with gautam about men's bodies!

yes, it was Raoul Julia - thank you!

Raul Julia would be that fantastic actor.

There was the 1982 film Making Love with Harry Hamlin and Michael Ontkean. It made some waves at the time.

How can it be exploitation when the participants do it of their own free will?

Whoring for a buck is more like it

Seinfeld was a comedy -- I'm not surprised considering the time it was made that Elaine didn't end up in more than one lesbian encounter! As if Elaine or any of the Seinfeld characters were actually normal.

Seems some have dated men who are lacking in the physically attractive attributes. What a shame.

As already pointed out, men have supposedly been exploited in sex and kissing scenes and this year alone, especially in independent films, it's been like a flood of coming out of the closet. HBO and Tony Kurshner provided quite sedate love scenes between males considering the "let it all hang out" of Queer As Folk and, to an extent, Six Feet Under. Better watch the documentary about the history of gay in film (there are actually two of them and I can look them up on IMDb but a quick search will reveal them to anyone).

This isn't the first time Murial was in a lesbian film --"Personal Best" of 1982.

In "Philadelphia" before the "gay wave" Antonio Banderas kisses Tom Hanks but in an askew rear shot so we can only imagine if there was tongue involved. There's no mistake in some of the other examples, some are, in fact, straight actors. It's acting, stupid. Not you, eoe, as you obviously know Ms. Hemingway has outed herself several years ago.

Ooooo. Didn't know that about Ms. Hemingway. She's been married for a long time and has two daughters so I just assumed...

Never saw some of the movies with the guys, Keanu and River, William Hurt and Raoul, but I do remember the movie with Harry Hamlin and Michael Onkean and the big whoopdedoo surrounding it. Never saw it tho. Let me ask... Were the guys really kissing or was it merely implied like with Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas?

Actually, it was a pretty graphic kiss and although Onkean is gay, Hamlin is not. I kind of smiled at the expressions on their faces -- someone wasn't having trouble acting at all!

How many well known people have been married and have children who end up coming out? I would run out of time to count.

Many in Hollywood have "the arrangement" and we all know the rumors about Bill and Hillary although I doubt we will ever know. Rock Hudson married.

I pride myself on keeping up with the entertainment industry but you've got me on this one, LW. I can't think of any well known people who have been married and had children who actually proclaimed to be gay. We all know Anne Heche's tale and Tom Cruise has always been suspect but who has actually come out of the closet? Not just rumor but truth from their own mouths or public lifestyle?

What about Cary Grant? He was married for some time, but I am not sure whether he had any children.

Cary Grant had a daughter named Jennifer with Dyan Cannon.

mac- Shows you where my head is. I was thinking that he was married to Betsy Drake. I didn't realize that he had been married five times.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026/bio

I never believed the story about him and Randolph Scott, tho. Didn't want to.

You've got your straight actors portraying gay characters. Does anybody think it's possible for a gay actor, such as Rupert Everett, to be accepted in a straight role?