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#bestgayever films: America (2022) Directed by Ofir Raul Graizer An Israeli swimming tutor living in Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years to bury his father. An encounter with a beloved childhood friend and his newly engaged girlfriend set a series of events in motion affect everyone's lives.

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#catchofthegay : gay quotes “Desire teaches us the truths we’re too polite to say aloud.” — Richard Siken

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: John Dugdale (b. 1960) Gay, visionary, nearly‑blind master of cyanotype and 19th‑century photographic processes.

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#onthisdayingayhistory: July 16 1976 The discharge of Sgt. Leonard Matlovich (July 6, 1943 – June 22, 1988) is upheld in a civilian court by Federal District Judge Gerhard Gesell. He was a Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.

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#bestgayever films: Sebastian (2017) Directed by James Fanizza Alex and Sebastian's budding romance in Toronto forces them to confront their pasts and differences, navigating familial ties and personal desires to determine if their love can overcome obstacles. Full streaming

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Sebastian | FULL MOVIE | Gay Romance | LGBTQ+ | Wolfe Video

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#catchofthegay : gay quotes “I learned to love men the way I learned to breathe — slowly, then all at once.” — Garth Greenwell

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#goodgayreads: Mark Merlis — American Studies (1994) A razor‑sharp gay novel about repression, desire, and the stories men tell to survive. Merlis threads together a closeted professor’s past and present, exposing how shame becomes a sort of architecture.

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Hernan Bas. A Miami‑born, Detroit‑based gay painter whose work blends queer romanticism, gothic melancholy, and literary references. Bas paints young men in lush, atmospheric settings — forests, abandoned rooms, strange coastlines.

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#onthisdayingayhistory: July 14 1914 ARTHUR LAURENTS, American playwright, novelist, director and one of the giants of the American theater, born (d: 2011); His credits included the stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the film The Way We Were.

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#saturdaynightgayfright film selection: In the Room Where He Waits (2024) Directed by Timothy Despina Marshall A queer theatre actor waits in a hotel room before father's funeral. Convinced there is someone or something in the room with him, he must come face-to-face with all that haunts him.

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In The Room Where He Waits (Trailer) - Iris Prize | Timothy Despina Marshall

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#catchofthegay : gay quotes “The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness. It’s belonging.” — Andrew Holleran

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#goodgayreads: Paul Lisicky – The Narrow Door (2016) A queer memoir about friendship, loss, art, and adulthood — written with the kind of emotional precision that feels like someone thinking in real time.

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Del LaGrace Volcano — A foundational figure in queer visual culture — genderqueer, intersex, and one of the earliest photographers to center butch, trans, drag‑king, and gender‑variant bodies with dignity, humor, and intelligence.

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#onthisdayingayhistory: JULY 11 1931 Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018) is born. He was an American actor, television host, pop singer, film producer, and author. He starred in more than 40 films and was a well-known star and heart throb of the 1950s and 60s.

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#bestgayever films: High Tide (2024) Directed by Marco Calvani Undocumented Brazilian immigrant Lourenço seeks meaning in the vibrant queer community of Provincetown. As summer draws to a close, he embarks on a passionate and unexpected romance with Maurice.

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High Tide | Official US Trailer | Strand Releasing

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#catchofthegay : gay quotes "Every man is afraid of being queer. I get a little tired of it. maybe we should all become queers and relax." — Charles Bukowski

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Slava Mogutin (full name Yaroslav Yurievich Mogutin, b. April 12, 1974, Kemerovo) is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, installation, sculpture, and painting.

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#onthisdayingayhistory: #goodgayreads: July 1 1925 Farley Granger (1925 – 2011) is born. He was an American actor best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock. In 2007, Granger published the memoir Include Me Out, co-written with domestic partner Robert Calhoun.

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#goodgayreads: Robert Ferro — The Family of Max Desir (1983) A gay, East‑Coast domestic novel about a closeted man whose return home detonates every unspoken tension in his Italian‑American family.

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Tony Greene (1955–1990) A gay LA artist whose work fused camp, baroque, queer eroticism, and memorial aesthetics. Best known for lacquered, jewel‑toned paintings that incorporate found imagery, devotional motifs, and a distinctly queer sense of glamour and mourning.

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#onthisdayingayhistory: June 27 2011 Brazil The first same-sex civil union is converted into same-sex marriage by Sao Paolo State Judge Fernando Henrique Pinto.

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#bestgayever films: The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel (2025) Directed by Nicholas Freeman, Ramiel Petros Documentary Former British soccer star Tony Powell manages a dying Hollywood motel, reflecting on his solitary life and the path not taken.

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THE LAST GUEST OF THE HOLLOWAY MOTEL Clip | BFI Flare 2026 – 18-29 March

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#catchofthegay : gay quotes “We invent ourselves because the world keeps trying to edit us.” — Hilton Als

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#goodgayreads: Michael Lowenthal — Avoidance (2002) A gay man returns home to care for his dying father and collides with the life he tried to outrun.

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Dean Sameshima Los Angeles–born, Berlin‑based. Queer minimalism with a cruising‑culture backbone. Photocopy aesthetics, repetition, and archival desire. deansameshima.com

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#onthisdayingayhistory: June 24 THE UPSTAIRS LOUNGE ARSON ATTACK occurred on this date in 1973 at a Gay bar on the second floor of the three-story building located at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. 32 people were killed by the fire or by smoke inhalation.

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#saturdaynightgayfright film selection: Blood-Red Ox (2021) Directed by Rodrigo Bellott Amir's trip to Bolivia with his boyfriend turns nightmarish with hallucinations, testing their trust and sanity.

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Blood-Red Ox | Official Trailer | Horror Brains

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#catchofthegay : gay quotes “Every gay life is a second draft — the one we write for ourselves.” — Edmund White

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#goodgayreads: A Visitation of Spirits — Randall Kenan (1989) Southern, Black, queer, haunted. Masculinity, religion, and desire colliding in rural North Carolina.

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Rafael Soldi (b. 1987) Peruvian‑born, Seattle‑based queer photographer whose work sits at the intersection of masculinity, migration, silence, and the self you build when the old one no longer fits. His images feel like the emotional aftershocks of a life.

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#onthisdayingayhistory: June 20 1940 JOHN MAHONEY, British actor, born (d: 2018); An award-winning English/American actor known for playing the retired police officer father, Martin “Marty” Crane, of Kelsey Grammar’s character, Dr. Frazier Crane in the popular TV series Frazier (NBC 1993-2004).

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#bestgayever films: Sandbag Dam (2025) Directed by Cejen Cerni In a flood-threatened village, Marko's life is turned upside down when Slaven returns for his father's funeral and rekindles their forbidden romance. Marko must confront his family and make a difficult choice.

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SANDBAG DAM (Trailer) - Frameline49

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