List of feature films with gay characters

This article is about live-action feature films. For animated films, see List of animated films with LGBT characters. For television films, see List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters.

For lesbian, bisexual, transgender characters, see List of feature films with lesbian characters, List of feature films with bisexual characters, and List of feature films with transgender characters.

The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual gay characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-linear network).

Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

20th century

1900–1959

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1919	Different from the Others	Paul Körner	Conrad Veidt Karl Giese (young)	The first film supportive of homosexuality.	Germany
1924	Michael	Claude Zoret	Benjamin Christiensen	Claude is a painter who falls in love with his assistant, Michael. Michael eventually leaves Claude for a woman.	Germany
1941	The Maltese Falcon	Joel Cairo	Peter Lorre	In the novel upon which the film is based, Cairo is referred to as "queer" and a "fairy" but, in the film, his sexuality is not directly addressed, likely a decision by filmmakers to comply with the Hays Code, which banned the depiction of homosexuality in American films.	United States
1948	Rope	Phillip Morgan	Farley Granger	Because of the Hays Code, the word "homosexual" could not be stated outright and was referred to as "it". Adapted from the 1929 British play Rope's End, which is loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case.	United States
		Brandon Shaw	John Dall
1950	All About Eve	Addison DeWitt	George Sanders	Addison is a gossip columnist who engages in loveless relationship predation. (The constraints of the Motion Picture Production Code did not allow homosexuality to be portrayed overtly.)	United States
1955	Rebel Without a Cause	John "Plato" Crawford	Sal Mineo	Plato was brought in for killing a litter of puppies.	United States
1959	North by Northwest	Leonard	Martin Landau	Leonard is Vandamm's right-hand man.	United States
1959	Suddenly, Last Summer	Sebastian Venable	(Uncredited)	The film centers on Catherine Holly, a young woman who was evaluated by a psychiatric doctor to receive a lobotomy after the events surrounding her cousin Sebastian's death	United Kingdom, United States

1960–1969

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1960	Oscar Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Robert Morley	The film is a biography of poet and playwright Oscar Wilde.	United Kingdom
1960	Spartacus	Crassus	Laurence Olivier	In a deleted scene, Crassus attempts to seduce his slave Antoninus.	United States
1961	A Taste of Honey	Geoffrey Ingham	Murray Melvin	Ingham is Jo's friend.	United Kingdom
1961	Victim	Melville Farr	Dirk Bogarde	Melville is a barrister threatened with blackmail. The film is credited for being important in the decriminalization of homosexuality in Britain. It is also the first British film to use the word "homosexual" in the narrative.	United Kingdom
1962	Advise & Consent	Senator Brigham "Brig" Anderson	Don Murray	Anderson is a Senator in Utah.	United States
1962	The L-Shaped Room	Johnny	Brock Peters	Johnny is a resident in a run down boarding house in Notting Hill, London.	United Kingdom
1962	The Trial	Josef K.	Anthony Perkins	A closeted homosexual.	France, Italy, West Germany
1963	Scorpio Rising	Scorpio	Bruce Byron	The film follows a group of bikers preparing for a night out.	United States
1964	The Leather Boys	Pete	Dudley Sutton	Pete is Reggie's fellow biker friend.	United Kingdom
1965	Bus Riley's Back in Town	Spencer	Crahan Denton	Spencer is the boss of a customer of Bus's.	United States
1965	Darling	Robert Gold	Dirk Bogarde	Gold is a literary interviewer/director for television arts programmes	United Kingdom
1965	Inside Daisy Clover	Wade Lewis	Robert Redford	An extremely intoxicated Melora Swan reveals to Daisy that she had an affair with closet homosexual Wade.	United States
1965	King Rat	Steven	Michael Lees	Stevens is a hospital staff.	United States
1965	The Loved One	Mr. Starker	Liberace	Mr. Joyboy is Whispering Glade's chief embalmer.	United States
		Mr. Joyboy	Rod Steiger
1965	The Pawnbroker	Rodriguez	Brock Peters	Rodriguez is a racketeer who uses Nazerman's pawnshop as a front.	United States
1967	Bedazzled	Envy	Barry Humphries	Envy and Vanity are Stanley's staff of seven deadly sins, who are helping him with minor acts of vandalism and spite to be readmitted to Heaven.	United Kingdom
		Vanity	Alba
1967	The Fearless Vampire Killers	Herbert von Krolock	Iain Quarrier	Krolock is a local vampire lord in Transylvania.	United States
1967	The Incident	Kenneth Otis	Robert Fields	Otis is a homosexual who earlier made an unsuccessful attempt at befriending McCann.	United States
1967	Portrait of Jason	Himself	Jason Holliday	Documentary about American hustler and nightclub performer Jason Holliday.	United States
1967	Reflections in a Golden Eye	Major Weldon Pendertis	Marlon Brando	Penderton is a closeted homosexual army Major and husband to Leonora.	United States
1967	Tony Rome	Rood	Lloyd Bochner	Rood is a drug dealer.	United States
1968	The Anniversary	Henry Taggart	James Cossins	Henry is a transvestite.	United Kingdom
1968	Boom!	The Witch of Capri	Noël Coward	The Witch of Capri is Mrs. Goforth's wickedly gossipy friend.	United Kingdom
1968	The Boston Strangler	Terence Huntley	Hurd Hatfield	Huntley is a rich murder suspect who is interrogated by Detective Bottomly in a gay bar.	United States
1968	Deadfall	Richard	Eric Portman	Fé and Clarke begin a romantic affair, which Fé's husband Richard, who has a young male lover, does not discourage.	United Kingdom
1968	The Detective	Teddy Leikman	James Inman	Teddy, the son of a powerful businessman, is found murdered.	United States
		Colin MacIver	William Windom
1968	Flesh	The Artist	Maurice Braddell	The Artist wishes to draw Joe, a hustler working on the streets of New York City.	United States
		David	Louis Waldon
		Joe's Customer	John Christian
1968	if....	Wallace	Richard Warwick	Wallace is Mick Trav's fellow non-conformist friend in the lower sixth form, their penultimate year at a traditional British public school for boys in the late 1960s.	United Kingdom
		Bobby Philips	Rupert Webster
1968	Inadmissible Evidence	Maples	John Normington	Maples is a distraught client of Barrister, Bill Maitland.	United Kingdom
1968	Joanna	Lord Peter Sanderson	Donald Sutherland	Sanderson has a terminal illness and sponsors an exhibit of Hendrik's paintings.	United Kingdom
1968	The Lion in Winter	Philip II of France	Timothy Dalton	Philip reveals he had been caballing with Richard separately, and that he and Richard may once have been lovers.	United States, United Kingdom
		Richard the Lionheart	Anthony Hopkins
1968	The Mercenary	Ricciolo (Curly)	Jack Palance	Curly is Kowalski's flamboyant American rival.	Italy, Spain, United States
1968	No Way to Treat a Lady	Christopher Gill	Rod Steiger	Gill is a serial killer fixated on his late mother, a noted stage actress.	United States
1968	P.J.	Shelton Quell	Severn Darden	Quell is the family butler.	United States
1968	The Queen	Himself	Flawless Sabrina	Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies for the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest.	United States
1968	The Sergeant	Albert Callan	Rod Steiger	Callan is a dedicated and decorated war veteran, posted in France at a fuel supply depot in 1952.	United States
1968	Star!	Noël Coward	Daniel Massey	Biopic about Gertrude Lawrence who, besides collaborating with him in theater productions, also had a close friendship with Coward off stage.	United States
1969	Angel, Angel, Down We Go	Willy Steele	Charles Aidman	Willy is a wealthy airplane manufacturer and the closeted father of Tara.	United States
1969	The Damned	Konstantin von Essenbeck	Reinhard Kolldehoff	Part of a wealthy industrialist family, Konstantin is an SA officer who is part of homosexual orgy in Wiesee.	Italy, West Germany
1969	Fellini Satyricon	Ascyltus	Hiram Keller	Encolpius and his friend Ascyltus to win the heart of a young boy named Gitón within a surreal and dreamlike Roman landscape.	Italy, France
1969	The Gay Deceivers	Malcolm	Michael Greer	Malcolm is Danny and Elliot's landlord, who has a husband.	United States
		Colonel Dixon	Jack Starrett
1969	Justine	Toto	Cliff Gorman	The film centers around Justine, who is working against the British government to send weapons to Jews in Palestine. Toto is among the film's casualties.	United States
1969	Listen, Let's Make Love	Baron von Tummler	Amerigo Tot	Lallo's presence arouses the sexual interest of Baron von Tummler, an old homosexual, and Flavia, a steel heiress. Tummler competes with her at an auction for a pair of antique cufflinks that interest Lallo.	Italy, France
1969	Midnight Cowboy	Young Student	Bob Balaban	The young student offers Joe money in exchange for giving Joe fellatio in a Times Square movie house and afterward confesses he has no money to pay him.	United States
1969	Riot	Mary Sheldon	Clifford David	Sheldon is a tough prison queen Briston faced.	United States
1969	Staircase	Harry C. Leeds	Richard Burton	An ageing couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London.	United Kingdom
		Charles Dyer	Rex Harrison
1969	Two Gentlemen Sharing	Marcus	Ram John Holder	Marcus makes a pass at Roddy.	United States, United Kingdom
1969	Women in Love	Loerke	Vladek Sheybal	Loerke is a German sculptor who is befriended by Gudrun, who is also an artist.	United Kingdom
1969	Z	Vago	Marcel Bozzuffi	Vago is based on Emmanouel Emmannouilidis, the man who struck Lambrakis.	Algeria, France

1970–1979

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1970	Bloody Mama	Kevin Dirkman	Bruce Dern	Kevin is Fred's older cellmate who eventually became his lover.	United States
1970	The Boys in the Band	Michael	Kenneth Nelson	This was the first Hollywood film in which all of the principal characters are homosexual.	United States
		Harold	Leonard Frey
		Emory	Cliff Gorman
		Hank	Laurence Luckinbill
		Donald	Frederick Combs
1970	The Conformist	Marcello Clerici	Jean-Louis Trintignant	Clerici is a mid-level Fascist functionary (Trintignant) who is ordered to assassinate his former professor, an antifascist dissident in Paris.	Italy, France, West Germany
1970	Entertaining Mr Sloane	Ed	Harry Andrews	Ed is Kath's closeted brother.	United Kingdom
1970	The Kremlin Letter	The Warlock	George Sanders	"The Warlock" is a culturally sophisticated homosexual member of the group.	United States
1970	Little Big Man	Little Horse	Robert Little Star	Little Horse is a native American that holds a sacred position in the tribe.	United States
1970	Loot	Dennis	Hywel Bennett	Hal is the seaside hotel owner's son, and he robbed a bank with his boyfriend, Dennis.	United Kingdom
		Hal	Roy Holder
1970	Myra Breckinridge	Irving "Blaggot" Amadeus	Calvin Lockhart	Blaggot is an effete man.	United States
1970	The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes	Robert Stephens	Offering an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, and draws a distinction between the "real" Holmes and the character portrayed by Watson in his stories for The Strand magazine.	United States, United Kingdom
1970	Something for Everyone	Konrad Ludwig	Michael York	Konrad and Helmuth are star-crossed lovers.	United States
		Helmuth von Ornstein	Anthony Higgins
1970	Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon	Warren	Robert Moore	Warren is the paraplegic friend of Junie Moon whom she meets in an institution.	United States
		Guiles	Leonard Frey
1971	The Anderson Tapes	Haskins	Martin Balsam	Haskins is a crooked antique dealer.	United States
1971	The Cat o' Nine Tails	Dr. Braun	Horst Frank	Dr. Braun is a scientist and one of the innocent leads in a murder case.	Italy, France, West Germany
1971	Death in Venice	Gustav von Aschenbach	Dirk Bogarde	Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for rest, due to serious health concerns.	France, Italy
1971	Diamonds Are Forever	Mr. Wint	Bruce Glover	Wint and Kidd are hit men who work for Ernst Stavro Blofeld.	United Kingdom
		Mr. Kidd	Putter Smith
1971	Fortune and Men's Eyes	Queenie	Michael Greer	Queenie is a drag queen incarcerated for robbery. Mona is a teenager who was arrested for flirting with boys.	United States
		Mona	Danny Freedman
1971	It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives	Daniel	Bernd Feuerhelm	Daniel from the province comes to Berlin and meets Clemens. Both experience great love, move in together and try to copy the bourgeois marriage.	West Germany
		Clemens	Berryt Bohlen
1971	The Last Picture Show	Coach Popper	Bill Thurman	Coach Popper is closeted and married to Ruth.	United States
1971	The Music Lovers	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Richard Chamberlain	Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.	United Kingdom
1971	Pink Narcissus	Pan	Bobby Kendall	Pan is a young and attractive male escort.	United States
		Bar Owner	Charles Ludlam
1971	Shaft	Rollie	Rex Robbins	Rollie is the bartender at a bar that Shaft frequents.	United States
1971	Some of My Best Friends Are...	Scott	Gil Gerard	On Christmas Eve of 1971, in Greenwich Village, a group of gay men and lesbians meet at the Blue Jay Bar to talk about their lives and relationships.	United States
		Jim	Gary Sandy
1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Daniel Hirsh	Peter Finch	Hirsh is a Jewish doctor.	United Kingdom
1971	Vanishing Point	Male hitchhiker No. 1	Anthony James	The two men hitchhike while standing next to a broken-down car with a "Just Married" sign on the back. Kowalski picks them up and they attempt to rob him before he throws them out of the car.	United States, United Kingdom
		Male hitchhiker No. 2	Arthur Malet
1971	Villain	Vic Dakin	Richard Burton	Dakin is a ruthless and sadistic London gangster.	United Kingdom
1971	Whity	Frank Nicholson	Ulli Lommel	Frank is a member of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878.	West Germany
1972	Blacula	Bobby McCoy	Ted Harris	Bobby and Billy are lovers and interior decorators. They purchase the coffin containing Blacula and ship it to Los Angeles, becoming his first victims.	United States
		Billy Schaffer	Rick Metzler
1972	Georgia, Georgia	Herbert Thompson	Roger Furman	Herbert is Georgia's manager.	United States
1972	Pete 'n' Tillie	Jimmy Twitchell	René Auberjonois	Jimmy is Tillie's close friend.	United States
1972	Play It as It Lays	B.Z. Mendenhall	Anthony Perkins	B.Z. is a suicidal movie producer and best friend of Maria.	United States
1972	X Y & Zee	Gordon	John Standing	Gordon is a close friend of Zee's.	United Kingdom
1973	A Bigger Splash	David Hockney	Himself	Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic about Hockney.	United Kingdom
		Peter Schlesinger	Himself
1973	Day for Night	Alexandre	Jean-Pierre Aumont	Alexandre is an actor whose lover is killed in a car accident.	France
1973	The Day of the Jackal	Bernard	Anton Rodgers	Bernard is picked up by the Jackel at a Turkish bathhouse and murdered.	United Kingdom
1973	The Last of Sheila	Tom Parkman	Richard Benjamin	Screenwriter Parkman is a guest on a one-week Mediterranean pleasure cruise aboard the yacht of movie producer Clinton Greene.	United States
1973	Ludwig	Ludwig II of Bavaria	Helmut Berger	Ludwig has doubts if he can be a good husband to Sophie who loves him, and he postpones and eventually cancels the marriage. Instead, he starts having relationships with his servants, although being a devout Catholic makes him feel guilt about his homosexuality.	Italy, France, West Germany
1973	Papillon	André Maturette	Robert Deman	Maturette is an orderly and fellow prisoner who assists Papillon in his escape plot from a labor camp in French Guiana.	United States
1973	Scarecrow	Riley	Richard Lynch	Riley is an inmate who sexually assaults Lion in prison.	United States
1973	Sleeper	Jeb Hrmthmg	Spencer Milligan	Jeb is a futuristic man that has a gay robot.	United States
1973	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams	Bobby Walden	Ron Rickards	Bobby comes out to his parents at 15 and later moves to Amsterdam.	United States
1973	The Tenderness of Wolves	Fritz Haarmann	Kurt Raab	Based on the crimes of German serial killer and cannibal Fritz Haarmann.	West Germany
1973	Theatre of Blood	Meredith Merridew	Robert Morley	Meredith is the theatre critic who wears a pink suit and has two poodles.	United Kingdom
1974	125 Rooms of Comfort	Billie Joyce	Tim Henry	Billie is left with ownership of his father's hotel after he dies.	Canada
1974	Butley	Ben Butley	Alan Bates	Butley, a literature professor and longtime T. S. Eliot scholar with a recently developed interest in Beatrix Potter, is a suicidal alcoholic, who loses his wife and his male lover on the same day.	United States, Canada, United Kingdom
1974	The Conversation	Martin Stett	Harrison Ford	Martin is the Director's loyal assistant.	United States
1974	The Night Porter	Bert	Amedeo Amodio	Bert is a German dancer.	Italy
1974	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three	Subway passenger	Gary Bolling	Based on the 1973 novel of the same name	United States
1974	The Tamarind Seed	Fergus Stephenson	Dan O'Herlihy	Stephenson is a conduit of state secrets.	United States
1974	A Very Natural Thing	David	Robert Joel	David is a public school teacher and former monastic monk. He meets Mark at a disco. After their relationship ends he meets Jason, a photographer who came out after divorcing his wife. Containing documentary footage of the Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York City (known today as NYC Pride March).	United States
		Mark	Curt Gareth
		Jason	Bo White
		Alan	Jay Pierce
1975	Barry Lyndon	British Soldier	Anthony Dawes	While on the run, Barry stumbles upon two soldiers in a pond, naked and holding hands, professing their love for each other. He takes the uniform of one of the men in an attempt to steal his identity.	United States, United Kingdom
1975	Deep Red	Carlo Manganiello	Gabriele Lavia	Carlo is Marucs' best friend.	Italy
1975	The Eiger Sanction	Miles Mellough	Jack Cassidy	Miles is an assassin.	United States
1975	Fox and His Friends	Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Fox is a working-class man who wins the lottery.	West Germany
1975	Funny Lady	Bobby Moore	Roddy McDowall	Bobby is Fanny's assistant and friend.	United States
1975	In Celebration	Colin Shaw	James Bolam	Shaws' son Colin, who was a Communist party member for a year, is now a prosperous but unfulfilled industrial relations manager for a car manufacturer, dealing with negotiations with the unions.	United Kingdom, United States
1975	Mahogany	Sean McAvoy	Anthony Perkins	Sean is a fashion designer who works with Tracy.	United States
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Dale Harding	William Redfield	Dale is a patient at the mental institution.	United States
1975	Saturday Night at the Baths	Scotti	Don Scotti	Scotti manages a bathhouse and falls in love in love with Bisexual piano player, Michael.	United States
1975	The Sunday Woman	Massimo Campi	Jean-Louis Trintignant	Massimo is Anna's best friend.	Italy, France
1976	L'Alpagueur	Gilbert ("L'Epervier")	Bruno Cremer	Gilbert is a killer and crook who has feelings for a young man he hires to rob a jewelry store.	France
1976	The Best Way to Walk	Marc	Patrick Dewaere	In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country in 1960, Marc and Philippe are two of the counsellors.	France
		Philippe	Patrick Bouchitey
1976	Car Wash	Lindy	Antonio Fargas	Lindy is the flamboyant, yet unashamed employee of the car wash.	United States
1976	Coup de Grâce	Erich von Lhomond	Matthias Habich	Lhomond is the leader of a group of soldiers in Russian Civil War that followed the Bolshevik Revolution	West Germany, France
1976	Drum	Bernard DeMarigny	John Colicos	Bernard is a villainous plantation owner in 19th century New Orleans.	United States
1976	Face to Face	Dr. Tomas Jacobi	Erland Josephson	Dr. Jacobi is a close friend of Dr. Jenny.	Sweden
1976	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Oliver V. Farnsworth	Buck Henry	Oliver is a lawyer and Newton's business partner.	United Kingdom
1976	Next Stop, Greenwich Village	Bernstein	Antonio Fargas	Bernstein has a Norwegian lover and becomes close friends with Larry and Sarah after they move to Greenwich Village.	United States
1976	Norman... Is That You?	Garson Hobart	Dennis Dugan	Norman is Ben's only child. Garson is Norman's lover.	United States
		Norman Chambers	Michael Warren
1976	Ode to Billy Joe	Billy Joe McAllister	Robby Benson	Billy Joe is a high school student in Mississippi who jumps off of a bridge due to the shame he feels for his sexuality.	United States
1976	The Ritz	Chris	F. Murray Abraham	Chris befriends Jack, a heterosexual businessman who goes into hiding from his murderous mobster brother-in-law at a gay bathhouse in Manhattan. Chris shows him the ropes. Claude is the "chubby chaser" who regularly patronizes the bathhouse.	United States
		Claude Perkins	Paul B. Price
1976	Sebastiane	Sebastian	Leonardo Treviglio	The events of the life of Saint Sebastian, including his iconic martyrdom by arrows.	United Kingdom
1976	Swashbuckler	Lord Durant	Peter Boyle	Durant is the tyrannical and cruel governor of Jamaica.	United States
1977	The Choirboys	Blaney	Michael MacKenzie Wills	Blaney is a closeted high school student who is murdered.	United States
1977	Hidden Pleasures	Eduardo	Simón Andreu	Eduardo is a middle-aged, closeted banker from a wealthy family, who falls in love with a much younger heterosexual man.	Spain
1977	Looking for Mr. Goodbar	Gary	Tom Berenger	Gary is a repressed homosexual who flies into a rage and murders Theresa when she suggests that he might be gay. Inspired by the 1973 murder of New York City schoolteacher Roseann Quinn.	United States
1977	Outrageous!	Robin Turner	Craig Russell	Robin is a hairstylist who creates a drag act to earn extra money after his schizophrenic friend, Liza, becomes pregnant and needs to move in with him.	Canada
1977	The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	J. Edgar Hoover	Broderick Crawford	Fictionalized chronicle of forty years in the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, from his earliest days in the FBI in the 1920s until his death in 1972.	United States
1977	Rituals	Martin	Robin Gammell	Martin is one of five doctors who are targeted by a killer while they are on group camping trip for the weekend.	Canada
1977	A Special Day	Gabriele	Marcello Mastroianni	Set in Rome in 1938, the narrative follows Antonietta and her neighbor, Gabriele, who stay home the day Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini; the same day that Gabriele comes out to her.	Italy, Canada
1977	To an Unknown God	José	Héctor Alterio	José is an aging man coming to terms with his homosexuality and mortality.	Spain
1978	The Betsy	Loren Hardeman Jr.	Paul Ryan Rudd	Loren is the closeted son of a tycoon.	United States
1978	The Big Sleep	Arthur Geiger	John Justin	Geiger is a homosexual pornographer.	United States, United Kingdom
1978	Bloodbrothers	Paulie	Bruce French	Paulie is a jewelry salesman who has a strained relationship with his father.	United States
1978	California Suite	Sidney Cochran	Michael Caine	Sidney is a closeted antique dealer and husband of movie star, Diane Barrie.	United States
1978	A Different Story	Albert Walreavens	Perry King	A man and a lesbian who become temporary housemates end up falling in love with each other. Film critic Janet Maslin's original review elaborates: "The movie's use of [Albert and Stella's] homosexuality is indeed exploitative, insensitive, and offensive in a variety of ways. Even worse, it is unconvincing ... Albert's homosexuality is nothing but a gimmick, something for the screenplay to coax him out of."	United States
1978	El diputado	Roberto Orbea	José Sacristán	Roberto gets elected as Deputy and falls in love with Juanito.	Spain
		Juanito	José Luis Alonso
1978	Midnight Express	Erich	Norbert Weisser	Erich is a Swedish drug smuggler.	United States
1978	Nighthawks	Jim	Ken Robertson	Jim is a geography teacher who goes to gay pubs at night. His students ultimately challenge him with questions as to whether he is "bent" (i.e. homosexual). He responds that he is and answers their questions about his homosexuality calmly.	United Kingdom
1979	10	Hugh	Robert Webber	Hugh is George's best friend.	United States
1979	Ernesto	Ernesto	Martin Halm	In Trieste, Austria-Hungary (Italy after the end of World War I) in 1911, Ernesto (Martin Halm) is a 17-year-old boy who lives with his widowed mother in the home of his violin-loving Jewish uncle and works in an office at a routine job. He espouses socialist views largely to cause his uncle distress.	Italy, Spain, West Germany
		The Man / The stableman	Michele Placido
1979	Hot Potato	Claudio	Massimo Ranieri	Claudio is a frail young mana involved in a fascist gang beating.	Italy
1979	Saint Jack	Senator	George Lazenby	The subplot involves a closeted and married conservative senator who flies to Singapore to pick up male prostitutes.	United States
1979	Savage Weekend	Nicky	Christopher Allport	Nicky is one of the members of a friend group who go away for the weekend and are stalked by a masked killer.	United States
1979	To Forget Venice	Nicky	Erland Josephson	Nicky has resided in Milan for three years with his partner Picchio.	Italy

1980–1989

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1980	American Gigolo	Leon James	Bill Duke	James is Julian's pimp.	United States
1980	Cruising	Ted Bailey	Don Scardino	Ted is the next-door neighbor of undercover cop Steve. The two become friends while Steve works to track down a serial killer targeting gay men. Gregory is Ted's boyfriend.	United States
		Gregory	James Remar
1980	Fame	Montgomery MacNeil	Paul McCrane	Montgomery is a student in the Drama department who comes out to his peers during their second year.	United States
1980	Happy Birthday, Gemini	Francis Geminiani	Alan Rosenberg	On the eve of his 21st birthday, Francis realizes that he is in love with his girlfriend's brother, Randy.	United States
1980	The Last Married Couple in America	Donald	Stewart Moss	Donald and Reggie are the neighbors of Jeff and Marie. While most couples that Jeff and Marie know have crumbling relationships, Donald and Reggie are well adjusted and happy.	United States
		Reggie	Colby Chester
1980	Life and Death	John	[actor name N/A]	A medical student.	Norway
1980	The Long Good Friday	Colin	Paul Freeman	Colin is the underworld lieutenant whose murder triggers a bloodbath.	United Kingdom
1980	Nijinsky	Sergei Diaghilev	Alan Bates	Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality. Diaghilev is an impresario.	United States
		Vaslav Nijinsky	George de la Peña
1980	Serial	Luckman	Christopher Lee	Luckman is an executive headhunter by day and the head of a motorcycle gang by night.	United States
1980	Squeeze	Paul	Paul Eady	Paul is a timid young man who develops a relationship with bisexual businessman, Grant.	New Zealand
1980	Stir Crazy	Rory Schultebrand	Georg Stanford Brown	A drag-wearing convict who killed his stepfather. (For his drag performance, Brown was nominated for the 1980 Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award as "Worst Supporting Actress".)	United States
1980	Taxi zum Klo	Frank	Frank Ripploh	Frank ponders whether to continue a life on anonymous sex or settle down with his eventual boyfriend, Bernd.	West Germany
		Bernd	Bernd Broaderup
1981	Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker	Phil Brody	Caskey Swaim	Landers is Billy and Eddie's basketball coach.	United States
		Coach Tom Landers	Steve Eastin
1981	The Fan	Douglas Breen	Michael Biehn	Douglas is the obsessed fan of film star Sally Ross.	United States
1981	Knightriders	Pippin	Warner Shook	Troupe member Pippin comes to terms with his homosexuality and finds love with Punch.	United States
1981	Mad Max 2	The Golden Youth	Jimmy Brown	The Golden Youth is a punk on a motorcycle in post-nuclear society.	Australia
1981	Only When I Laugh	Jimmy Perry	James Coco	Jimmy a struggling actor and the best friend of Georgia.	United States
1981	The Woman Next Door	Roland Duguet	Roger Van Hool		France
1981	Zorro, the Gay Blade	Bunny Wigglesworth	George Hamilton	Wigglesworth is Zorro's twin brother.	United States
1982	Angel	Angelos	Michalis Maniatis	Michalis is a young man in Athens, Angelos, who keeps his sexual identity a secret from his family. He falls hard for a rough sailor, Mihalis, and moves in with him.	Greece
1982	The Clinic	Dr. Eric Linden	Chris Haywood	Linden is a doctor at Melbourne VD (venereal disease) clinic.	Australia
1982	Deathtrap	Sidney Bruhl	Michael Caine	Sidney and Clifford are lovers trying to do away with Sidney's wife.	United States
		Clifford Anderson	Christopher Reeve
1982	Drifting	Robi	Jonathan Sagall	Robi is a young man trying to find love and break into the movie business.	Israel
1982	Evil Under the Sun	Rex Brewster	Roddy McDowall	Rex is a gossip columnist in the process of writing a biography of Arlene Stuart Marshall.	United Kingdom
1982	Forty Deuce	Ricky	Kevin Bacon	Ricky is a street hustler in Times Square.	United States
1982	Labyrinth of Passion	Riza Niro	Imanol Arias	Niro is the son of the Emperor of Tiran (a fictional Middle Eastern country).	Spain
		Sadec	Antonio Banderas
1982	Luc or His Share of Things	Luc	Pierre Normandin	After coming out as gay, Luc grapples with depression and suicidal thoughts but is saved by the acceptance and support of his friends, François and Louis.	Canada
1982	Making Love	Zack Elliot	Michael Ontkean	Considered a Hollywood landmark film, for its portrayal of the relationship between Zack and Bart as equally valid to a heterosexual one.	United States
		Bart McGuire	Harry Hamlin
1982	Night Shift	Prisoner	Charles Fleischer	Fleischer has a cameo as a Prisoner in the film.	United States
1982	Partners	Kerwin	John Hurt	Officer Kerwin is a Records Clerk.	United States
1982	Privates on Parade	Capt. Terri Dennis	Denis Quilley	Dennis is the military drag queen in the movie.	United Kingdom
1982	Victor/Victoria	Carroll "Toddy" Todd	Robert Preston	Toddy is an aging performer at Club Chez Lui in Paris.	United Kingdom, United States
		'Squash' Bernstein	Alex Karras
1982	The Year of Living Dangerously	Wally O'Sullivan	Noel Ferrier	Wally is an Australian journalist.	United States, Australia
1983	The Dresser	Norman	Tom Courtenay	During World War II, Norman works as a dresser who falls in love with an actor he serves.	United Kingdom
1983	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Capt. Yonoi	Ryuichi Sakamoto	Capt. Yonoi is the commander of the POW camp in Lebak Sembada in Japanese-occupied Java in 1942.	United Kingdom
1983	Self Defense	Daniel	Terry-David Després	While the police are on strike, a fascist group goes to a gay bar and begins murdering the patrons. Daniel is the sole bar patron that escapes and he takes refuge in a local apartment.	Canada
1983	Sleepaway Camp	John Baker	Dan Tursi	Baker and his boyfriend, Lenny, take John's children Angela and Peter on a boating trip.	United States
		Lenny	James Paradise
1983	Staying Alive	Butler	Charles Ward	Butler is replaced as the lead dancer in a Broadway show by Tony.	United States
1983	Streamers	Richie	Mitchell Lichtenstein	In 1965, four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to Vietnam deal with racial tension and their own intolerance when Richie reveals his sexuality.	United States
1983	To Be or Not to Be	Sasha	James Haake	Sasha is Anna's dresser.	United States
1983	Without a Trace	Philippe	Keith McDermott	Philippe is Susan's housecleaner.	United States
1984	Another Country	Guy Bennett	Rupert Everett	Explorating Bennett's homosexuality and exposure to Marxism, while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public school system.	United Kingdom
		James Harcourt	Cary Elwes
1984	Beverly Hills Cop	Serge	Bronson Pinchot	Serge is an art dealer.	United States
1984	Garbo Talks	Bernie Whitlock	Harvey Fierstein	Bernie is a kindhearted man on Fire Island who helps Gilbert find reclusive Hollywood legend Greta Garbo for his mother as her dying wish.	United States
1984	Horror Vacui	Frankie	Folkert Milster	Hannes attempts to save his lover, Frankie, by stopping him from joining a religious cult.	West Germany
		Hannes	Tom Vogt
1984	The Hotel New Hampshire	Frank	Paul McCrane	Frank is one of the Berry's kid.	United States, United Kingdom, Canada
1984	Irreconcilable Differences	Howard Kay	Richard Minchenberg	Howard becomes Lucy's secretary after she achieves great success as a writer.	United States
1984	La Muerte de Mikel	Mikel	Imanol Arias	Mikel falls in love with a drag queen and is murdered by his mother.	Spain
		Fama	Fernando Telletxea
1984	Mass Appeal	Deacon Mark Dolson	Željko Ivanek	Seminarian Mark Dolson questions Farley's position on the ordination of women.	United States
1984	Meatballs Part II	Lieutenant Felix Foxglove	John Larroquette	Felix is the closeted assistant of Colonel Hershy.	United States
1984	Mike's Murder	Philip Green	Paul Winfield	Philip is the sympathetic and straightforward record producer who was in a relationship with Mike prior to his murder.	United States
1984	Monaco Forever	Karate Man	Jean-Claude Van Damme	Marking the first (although brief) appearance of Jean-Claude Van Damme	United States
1984	Protocol	Jerry	Grainger Hines	Jerry and Ben are in a committed relationship and are the roommates of Sunny.	United States
		Ben	Joel Brooks
1984	Revenge of the Nerds	Lamar Lutrell	Larry B. Scott	Lamar is an openly fraternity member.	United States
1985	Adiós, Roberto	Marcelo	Víctor Laplace	Marcelo is the roommate of Roberto.	Argentina
1985	After Hours	Mark	Robert Plunket	Mark is a novelist who picks up Paul.	United States
1985	The Boys Next Door	Chris	Paul C. Dancer	Chris is the ill-fated gay bar patron who unknowingly invites two killers to his apartment on the evening of their murder spree.	United States
1985	Buddies	Robert Willow	Geoff Edholm	David is the volunteer "buddy" from the Gay Center who is assigned to help care for Robert, who is dying of AIDS. The film explores how David copes with Robert's illness and death. It is the first narrative film about the AIDS crisis, preceding television film, An Early Frost (also released in 1985).	United States
		Steve	David Rose
1985	A Chorus Line	Paul San Marco	Cameron English	San Marco and Walter are part of the dancers auditioning for a part in a new Broadway musical.	United States
		Greg Gardner	Justin Ross
1985	Colonel Redl	Colonel Alfred Redl	Klaus Maria Brandauer	Redl is head of the Austrian Imperial Secret Service who gets exposed as a spy.	West Germany
1985	Dona Herlinda and Her Son	Ramón	Arturo Meza	Rodolfo, a young bachelor doctor, has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramón.	Mexico
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Luis Molina	William Hurt	Luis is a prisoner who survives through recreating old movie fantasies. (Hurt won an Academy Award for his performance.)	United States
1985	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Yukio Mishima	Ken Ogata	Depicting the life and work of the eponymous writer and activist.	United States
1985	My Beautiful Laundrette	Omar Ali	Gordon Warnecke	Focusing on Omar, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion and eventual romance with his childhood friend Johnny.	United Kingdom
		Johnny	Daniel Day-Lewis
1985	A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge	Coach Schneider	Marshall Bell	Jesse is caught by Schneider ordering a drink in a gay bar and is made to run laps at school as punishment.	United States
1985	Once Bitten	Sebastian	Cleavon Little	Sebastian is the flamboyant, stereotypically servant to the Countess. The film contains a running gag of Sebastian continuously "coming out" of the Countess' closet.	United States
1985	Spies Like Us	Russian Rocket Crew Member No. 1	Bjarne Thomsen	The two Russian crew members go off arm in arm into the woods.	United States
		Russian Rocket Crew Member No. 2	Sergei Rousakov
1985	St. Elmo's Fire	Ron Dellasandro	Matthew Laurance	Dellasandro is Jules' neighbor.	United States
1985	Westler	Felix	Sigurd Rachman	Felix and Thomas are lovers who are divided by the Berlin Wall.	West Germany
		Thomas	Rainer Strecker
1986	Absolute Beginners	Henley of Mayfair	James Fox	Suzette plans to marry the middle-aged, homosexual Henley for her career.	United Kingdom
1986	Caravaggio	Caravaggio	Nigel Terry	Fictionalised retelling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.	United Kingdom
		Jerusaleme	Spencer Leigh
1986	The Decline of the American Empire	Claude	Yves Jacques	Claude speaks about pursuing men reckless of fear of STDs, while secretly being fearful of having one to his friends.	Canada
1986	Mala Noche	Walt Curtis	Tim Streeter	Walt falls in love with Mexican migrant, Johnny.	United States
1986	The Morning After	Frankie	James Haake	Frankie is the drag queen friend of Alex, who lets her borrow clothing while she is on the run from the police for suspicion of murder.	United States
1986	Parting Glances	Michael	Richard Ganoung	One of the first motion pictures to deal frankly and realistically with the subject of AIDS and the impact of the relatively new disease on the gay community in the Ronald Reagan era and at the height of the pandemic.	United States
		Nick	Steve Buscemi
		Robert	John Bolger
1986	Tough Guys	Bar Patron	Matthew Faison	Long was asked by the bar patron for a dance in a gay bar.	United States
1987	Beyond Therapy	Bob	Christopher Guest	Bob is Bruce's jealous live-in lover who decides to assert himself and do everything possible to maintain his status quo.	United States
1987	Friends Forever	Patrick	Thomas Sigsgaard	Partrick is the best friend of the main protagonist, Kristian, and develops a relationship with Mads, the captain of the soccer team.	Denmark
		Mads	Morten Stig Christensen
1987	The Heart Exposed	Jean-Marc	Gilles Renaud	Jean-Marc and Mathieu fall in love despite a ten-year age difference and the complication that Mathieu is the father of a five-year-old son.	Canada
		Mathieu	Michel Poirier
1987	Law of Desire	Pablo Quintero	Eusebio Poncela	Focusing on a complex love triangle between three men. Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director, and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.	Spain
		Antonio Benítez	Antonio Banderas
		Juan	Miguel Molina
1987	Maurice	Clive Durham	Hugh Grant	Hall struggles to fit into society, and ultimately united with his life partner.	United Kingdom
		Maurice Hall	James Wilby
		Alec Scudder	Rupert Graves
1987	A Month in the Country	James Moon	Kenneth Branagh	Moon is a archaeologist and a war veteran who forms a close friendship with Birkin.	United Kingdom
1987	No Way Out	Scott Pritchard	Will Patton	Pritchard is the general counsel to Brice.	United States
1987	Prick Up Your Ears	Joe Orton	Gary Oldman	Playwright Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are lovers.	United Kingdom
		Kenneth Halliwell	Alfred Molina
1987	Radio Days	Fred	Robert Joy	Fred's coming out is treated with compassion and understanding by his girlfriend, Bea, when he bursts into tears after hearing "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You", a song which reminds him of his departed lover.	United States
1987	Stage Fright	Brett	Giovanni Lombardo Radice	Brett is one of the actors in a theater troupe being targeted by a killer wearing an owl mask.	Italy
1987	Tough Guys Don't Dance	Lonnie Pangborn	R. Patrick Sullivan	Pangborn is Pond's effete husband	United States
1987	Withnail and I	Monty	Richard Griffiths	Monty is Withnail's Uncle.	United Kingdom
1988	The Fruit Machine	Eddie	Emile Charles	Eddie and Michael are best friends who are on the run from a killer after they witness him murdering a drag queen at a gay club called "The Fruit Machine."	United Kingdom
		Michael	Tony Forsyth
1988	Madame Sousatzka	Mr. Cordle	Geoffrey Bayldon	Mr. Cordle is an osteopath who obsessively creates color-coded maps of the human body	United Kingdom, Canada
1988	Once More	Louis	Jean-Louis Rolland	Following Louis' life through the span of 10 years.	France
1988	Salome's Last Dance	Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas	Douglas Hodge	Douglas is Oscar Wilde's lover.	United Kingdom, United States
1988	Torch Song Trilogy	Arnold Beckoff	Harvey Fierstein	Arnold Beckoff is a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.	United States
		Alan Simon	Matthew Broderick
		David	Eddie Castrodad
1988	We Think the World of You	Frank Meadows	Alan Bates	Frank is a middle-aged man who helps support the younger and bisexual Johnny and his family.	United Kingdom
1989	Apartment Zero	Adrian LeDuc	Colin Firth	LeDuc is the British owner of a revival house in Buenos Aires.	United Kingdom, Argentina
1989	Coming Out	Philipp Klarmann	Matthias Freihof	Klarmann is a high school teacher who is "coming out" and accepting himself as gay.	East Germany
		Matthias	Dirk Kummer
1989	Fun Down There	Buddy Fields	Michael Waite	Fields is a young man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.	United States
		Joseph	Nickolas B. Nagourney
1989	Getting It Right	Harry	Richard Huw	Harry is the best friend of the protagonist, Gavin. Winthrop is Harry's boyfriend.	United Kingdom, United States
		Winthrop	Kevin Drinkwater
1989	Last Exit to Brooklyn	Harry Black	Stephen Lang	Black is a union strike overseer trying to hide his homosexuality in a bitter marriage.	West Germany, United States
1989	Longtime Companion	David	Bruce Davison	Bruce, a wealthy man, becomes the caregiver of his lover, Sean, a soap opera writer, after he is infected with the HIV virus. The film depicts the increasing effect of HIV/AIDS on a group of gay men during eight-years, between 1981 and 1989. Willy and Fuzzy begin a relationship and move in together.	United States
		Fuzzy	Stephen Caffrey
		Sean	Mark Lamos
		Willy	Campbell Scott
1989	Looking for Langston	James	Akim Mogaji	James and Beauty fall in love in 1920s Harlem.	United Kingdom
		Beauty	Matthew Baidoo

1990–1999

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1990	Europa Europa	Robert Kellerman	André Wilms	Robert and Solek (a Jewish) hold each other's secret in solidarity while fighting in the German Army during World War II.	Germany, France, Poland
1990	Miller's Crossing	Bernie Bernbaum	John Turturro	Bernbaum is Verna's bookie brother, who is skimming off the match fixing scheme of Leo's rival	United States
		Eddie Dane	J.E. Freeman
		Mink Larouie	Steve Buscemi
1990	Q & A	Josè Malpica	International Chrysis	Malpica is Montalvo's lover	United States
		Roger Montalvo	Paul Calderón
1991	The Adjuster	Larry	Stephen Ouimette	Larry is The Butterfly Collector.	Canada
1991	Edward II	Edward II	Steven Waddington	Based on the play of the same name by Christopher Marlowe, the film revolves around Edward II of England's infatuation with Piers Gaveston, which proves to be the downfall of both of them	United Kingdom
		Piers Gaveston	Andrew Tiernan
1991	The Fisher King	Homeless Cabaret Singer	Michael Jeter	Jack first meets a homeless cabaret singer in a hospital, and who talks to him about losing his friends.	United States
1991	Frankie and Johnny	Tim	Nathan Lane	Tim is Frankie's friend and neighbor and is in a relationship with Bobby.	United States
1991	The Hours and Times	Brian Epstein	David Angus	Epstein was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles.	United States
1991	JFK	Willie O'Keefe	Kevin Bacon	Willie is a male prostitute serving five years in prison for soliciting. He was romantically involved with Clay.	United States
		Clay Shaw	Tommy Lee Jones
1991	Madonna: Truth or Dare	Himself	Salim "Slam" Gauwloos	The documentary film chronicles the life of entertainer Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour.	United States
		Himself	Gabriel Trupin
1991	My Own Private Idaho	Mikey Waters	River Phoenix	Waters is a street hustler. He embarks on a journey of personal discovery with his friend Scott Favor that takes them from Portland, Oregon, to Mike's hometown in Idaho, and then to Rome in search of Mike's mother.	United States
1991	Naked Lunch	Yves Cloquet	Julian Sands	Cloquet is an attractive young Swiss gentleman.	Canada, United Kingdom, Japan
1991	The Prince of Tides	Eddie Detreville	George Carlin	Detreville is Savannah's neighbor.	United States
1991	Queens Logic	Eliot	John Malkovich	Eliot is a later friend who roomed with a group of working-class, now-thirtysomething childhood neighborhood friends in a two-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens as adults and is lonely but dislikes "camp" men.	United States
1991	Young Soul Rebels	Caz	Mo Sesay	Caz is a soulboy and is in a relationship with punk Billibud.	United Kingdom
1992	Being at Home with Claude	Yves	Roy Dupuis	Yves is a man who has just murdered his lover Claude, and is attempting to explain his reasons to the police investigator	Canada
		Claude	Jean-François Pichette
1992	Inside Monkey Zetterland	Brent Zetterland	Tate Donovan	Brent is Monkey's brother, who is a hairdresser.	United States
1992	The Living End	Jon	Craig Gilmore	Luke is a restless and reckless drifter and Jon is a relatively timid and pessimistic film critic. Both are HIV positive.	United States
		Luke	Mike Dytri
1992	The Long Day Closes	Bud	Leigh McCormack	Concerning a shy twelve-year-old boy, Bud, and his loving mother and siblings in Liverpool in the mid-1950s	United Kingdom
1992	Passed Away	Boyd Pinter	Tim Curry	Pinter is Terry's former husband.	United States
1992	Peter's Friends	Peter	Stephen Fry	Peter has inherited the family estate, and invites his friends up for the 1992-1993 New Year's weekend.	United Kingdom
1992	Single White Female	Graham Knox	Peter Friedman	Knox is Allie's neighbor and an aspiring actor.	United States
1992	Swoon	Richard Loeb	Daniel Schlachet	Recount of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other films based on the case.	United States
		Nathan Leopold Jr.	Craig Chester
1992	When the Party's Over	Banks	Kris Kamm	Banks is an actor who is best friends with Amanda.	United States
1993	Blue	Himself	Derek Jarman	This was Jarman's final experimental film and documents his last years while living with AIDS. It was released four months before his death.	United Kingdom
1993	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	The Countess	John Hurt	The Countress is a femine hygiene products mogul.	United States
1993	Farewell My Concubine	Cheng Dieyi	Leslie Cheung	Retelling the troubled relationship between Peking opera actors Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou, and Xiaolou's wife Juxian.	British Hong Kong
1993	Grief	Mark	Craig Chester	Mark is a writer who contemplates suicide on the one year anniversary of his lover's death.	United States
1993	Love and Human Remains	David McMillan	Thomas Gibson	McMillan and his heterosexual, female roommate try to find love and sexual gratification in Edmonton, as a serial killer is loose in the city.	Canada
1993	M. Butterfly	René Gallimard	Jeremy Irons	Loosely based on true events which involved French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu.	United States
		Song Liling	John Lone
1993	Mrs. Doubtfire	Frank	Harvey Fierstein	"Uncle Frank" is Daniel's brother. He and his partner "Aunt Jack" are makeup artists.	United States
		Jack	Scott Capurro
1993	Naked in New York	Chris	Ralph Macchio	Chris is Jake's best friend who kisses him during a party.	United States
1993	Philadelphia	Andrew Beckett	Tom Hanks	Beckett was fired from his employment as a senior associate attorney at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia after they found out he had AIDS. Alvarez is Beckett's partner. Philadelphia is the first major Hollywood film to deal with the subject of AIDS.	United States
		Miguel Alvarez	Antonio Banderas
1993	Six Degrees of Separation	Paul	Will Smith	Paul is a skillful con-artist, who mysteriously appears at Kittredges' door one night, injured and bleeding	United States
1993	This Boy's Life	Arthur Gayle	Jonah Blechman	Gayle is a misfit classmate of Toby at school whom he befriends.	United States
1993	Tombstone	Billy	Jason Priestley	Billy is an outlaw in the Old West nicknamed "Sister Boy."	United States
1993	The Wedding Banquet	Wai-Tung Gao	Winston Chao	Gao marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card.	Taiwan, United States
1994	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra	Hugo Weaving	Bernadette is shocked to learn that Anthony/Mitzi was not only once married to a woman but also has a son.	Australia
1994	Der bewegte Mann	Norbert Brommer	Joachim Król	Walter is a crossdresser using the name "Waltraud".	Germany
		Horst/Metzger	Armin Rohde
		Walter/Waltraud	Rufus Beck
1994	Double Happiness	Andrew Chau	Johnny Mah	While on the date, Chau reveals his sexuality to a relieved Jade as he describes hiding his identity and managing to only be set up once a year.	Canada
1994	Drunken Master III	Gay bus passenger	Simon Yam	Yam played a gay bus passenger who wants to steal Sum-yuk's jade thumb ring.	Hong Kong
1994	Ed Wood	John "Bunny" Breckinridge	Bill Murray	Bunny is Ed's drag queen friend.	United States
1994	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Gareth	Simon Callow	Gareth and Matthew are romantic partners.	United Kingdom
		Matthew	John Hannah
1994	A Man of No Importance	Alfred Byrne	Albert Finney	Byrne is a closeted homosexual bus conductor in 1963 Dublin. His sister tries to find him a suitable woman, but his real passion is putting on amateur theatre productions of Oscar Wilde plays, particularly Salome. The film deals with his struggle, temptation, and friendships, and how they are affected by his homosexuality.	United Kingdom, Ireland
1994	Oh! My Three Guys	Ching Yu-hoi	Lau Ching-wan	Good friends Kau, Hoi and Fa are homosexual men. Hoi works in an advertising firm while Kau and Fa have not found a suitable job yet. Hoi's new female colleague Mei became interested in him.	British Hong Kong
		Fa	Dayo Wong
		Kau Ku-neung	Eric Kot
1994	Prêt-à-Porter	Cy Bianco	Forest Whitaker	Bianco and Romney are fashion designers.	United States
		Cort Romney	Richard E. Grant
1994	Priest	Father Greg Pilkington	Linus Roache	Concerning a Roman Catholic priest (Pilkington) as he struggles with two difficulties that precipitate a crisis of faith. He meets Graham at a local gay hangout and the two embark on a physical relationship.	United Kingdom
		Graham	Robert Carlyle
1994	Pulp Fiction	Zed	Peter Greene	Zed rapes Marsellus Wallace.	United States
1994	Reality Bites	Sammy Gray	Steve Zahn	Gray is Vickie's friend who remains celibate, not due to a fear of AIDS, but because forming a relationship would force him to come out to his conservative parents.	United States
1994	The Sum of Us	Jeff Mitchell	Russell Crowe	Widower Harry Mitchell lives with his son Jeff, with both men struggling in their searches for true love.	Australia
1994	Threesome	Eddy	Josh Charles	Alex falls in love and tries unsuccessfully to seduce; Eddy falls in love with Stuart; Stuart is in love with Alex.	United States
1994	Trevor	Trevor	Brett Barsky	Following what happens to 13-year-old Trevor, a Diana Ross fan, when his crush on a schoolmate named Pinky Faraday gets discovered.	United States
1994	Uncovered	César	John Wood	César is Julia's guardian.	United Kingdom
1994	Wagons East	Julian Rogers	John C. McGinley	In the 1860s Wild West, Rogers is a bookseller.	United States
1994	Wild Reeds	François Forestier	Gaël Morel	Forestier is a shy young man from the lower middle class in southwest France in 1962, is working towards his high school diploma.	France
1995	An Awfully Big Adventure	Meredith Potter	Hugh Grant	Meredith is a manager, actor and director of a troupe.	United Kingdom
1995	The Basketball Diaries	Swifty	Bruno Kirby	Swifty is Jim's coach.	United States
1995	Billy Madison	Max Anderson	Josh Mostel	The principal of the elementary school, and a former masked wrestler known as the "Revolting Blob".	United States
1995	Braveheart	Prince Edward	Peter Hanly	Edward II was the fourth son of Edward I.	United States
1995	Carrington	Lytton Strachey	Jonathan Pryce	Lytton is the sadomasochistic lover of Roger. Lytton was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. His homosexuality was well known.	France, United Kingdom
1995	Clueless	Christian Stovitz	Justin Walker	Stovitz is a fashion-conscious new student Christian Stovitz attracts Cher's attention and becomes her target for a boyfriend.	United States
1995	Home for the Holidays	Tommy Larson	Robert Downey Jr.	Tommy married his boyfriend Jack in a beach wedding.	United States
		Jack	Sam Slovick
1995	Jefferson in Paris	Richard Cosway	Simon Callow	Richard is the husband of Maria Cosway, a beautiful Anglo-Italian painter and musician.	France, United States
1995	Jeffrey	Darius	Bryan Batt	Based on the play of the same name by Paul Rudnick,	United States
		Steve Howard	Michael T. Weiss
		Jeffrey	Steven Weber
		Sterling	Patrick Stewart
1995	Nixon	J. Edgar Hoover	Bob Hoskins	Hoover was first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).	United States
1995	Party Girl	Derrick	Anthony DeSando	Derrick is a gal bestie of Nary.	United States
1995	Stonewall	La Miranda	Guillermo Díaz	Fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots, a seminal event in the modern American gay rights movement.	United Kingdom, United States
		Matty Dean	Frederick Weller
		Vinnie	Bruce MacVittie
		Bostonia	Duane Boutte
		Ethan	Brendan Corbalis
1995	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Vida Boheme	Patrick Swayze	Vida and Noxeema are drag queens.	United States
		Noxeema Jackson	Wesley Snipes
1995	Total Eclipse	Arthur Rimbaud	Leonardo DiCaprio	Presenting a historical account of the passionate and violent relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, at a time of soaring creativity for both men.	United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, United States
1995	Waiting to Exhale	David Matthews	Giancarlo Esposito	Matthews is Gloria's ex-husband and father of Tarik.	United States
1996	Beautiful Thing	Ste Pearce	Scott Neal	Set in Thamesmead, a working class area of South East London dominated by post-war council estates, teenager Jamie is in love with his classmate, Ste	United Kingdom
		Jamie Gangel	Glen Berry
1996	The Birdcage	Agador	Hank Azaria	A same-sex couple whose son is set to marry the daughter of a conservative senator.	United States
		Albert Goldman	Nathan Lane
		Armand Goldman	Robin Williams
1996	Dream for an Insomniac	Rob	Michael Landes	Rob is apprehensive about coming out to his father.	United States
1996	Flirting with Disaster	Paul Harmon	Richard Jenkins	Tony and Paul are ATF agents who are in a relationship with each other.	United States
		Tony Kent	Josh Brolin
1996	Get on the Bus	Kyle	Isaiah Washington	Kyle is an ex-Marine who is the midst of breaking up with his lover Randall.	United States
		Randall	Harry Lennix
1996	Hollow Reed	Martyn Wyatt	Martin Donovan	Martyn, a family doctor, married Hannah to hide his homosexuality, and they divorced after he finally came out. Tom is Martyn's lover.	Germany, United Kingdom, Spain
		Tom Dixon	Ian Hart
1996	I Shot Andy Warhol	Andy Warhol	Jared Harris	The life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with the artist Andy Warhol.	United Kingdom, United States
1996	Indian Summer	Tonio	Jason Flemyng	Tonio is a rising young star of a London ballet company. Ramon is the former star-turned-choreographer of the company, who is dying of AIDs. Jack is an older Therapist who falls in love with Tonio.	United Kingdom
		Jack	Antony Sher
		Ramon	Anthony Higgins
1996	It's My Party	Nick Stark	Eric Roberts	Stark, an architect who hosted a two-day party after being diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, will fall into a state of mental lapse lasting for months until his death. He decides to host a party for his family and friends, at the end of which he will commit suicide by taking Seconal.	United States
1996	Johns	Donner	Lukas Haas	Donner is a fellow hustler who's new to the streets and has fallen for John.	United States
1996	Mrs. Winterbourne	Paco	Miguel Sandoval	Paco is the loyal chauffeur of the Winterbournes.	United States
1996	Mulholland Falls	Jimmy Fields	Andrew McCarthy	Allison's friend, Jimmy Fields, admits that he and Allison made numerous such films, including one with Hoover in it.	United States
1996	Sling Blade	Vaughn Cunningham	John Ritter	Cunningham is Linda's friend and boss.	United States
1996	Stealing Beauty	Alex Parrish	Jeremy Irons	Parrish is a dying English writer and a guest at the Tuscan villa of the Graysons.	United Kingdom
1996	When the Cat's Away	Michel	Olivier Py	Michel is a friend of Chloé who she shares an apartment with.	France
1996	Who's the Woman, Who's the Man?	Auntie	Eric Tsang	Auntie is Sam's manager.	Hong Kong
1997	All Over Me	Luke	Pat Briggs	Jesse is Claude's co-worker at the pizzeria. Luke is a musician who has just moved into Claude's apartment building.	United States
		Jesse	Wilson Cruz
1997	As Good as It Gets	Simon Bishop	Greg Kinnear	Simon is an artist living in Manhattan. We learn that his parents kicked him out for being homosexual and was abused by his father because of it. Homophobic neighbor Melvin Udall uses derogatory terms when referring to Simon, but after Simon is brutally attacked he becomes the caretaker of Simon's dog, Verdell.	United States
1997	Bent	Max	Clive Owen	Max is a promiscuous man living in 1930s Berlin. He is at odds with his wealthy family because of his homosexuality.	United Kingdom, Japan
		Ruby	Brian Webber II
1997	Best Men	Sergeant Buzz Thomas	Dean Cain	Thomas is a former soldier and a groomsman.	United States
1997	Black Rose II	Dan	Blackie Ko	Dan is Chi-Mo's co-worker and a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual.	Hong Kong
1997	Boogie Nights	Scotty J.	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Scotty is a boom operator who is in love with Dirk.	United States
1997	Chasing Amy	Hooper	Dwight Ewell	Hooper is a black cartoonist, an African-American writer and activist who masks his flamboyantly personality with a militant image to promote his comic White-Hating Coon.	United States
1997	The Fifth Element	Baby Ray	Ian Beckett	Baby Ray is a background character accompanied by a male significant.	United States
1997	The Full Monty	Lomper	Steve Huison	Lomper is a security guard at the steel mill where Dave and Gaz once worked.	United Kingdom
		Guy	Hugo Speer
1997	The Hanging Garden	William	Chris Leavins	Hinging on a fateful incident from William's teenage years, when his grandmother caught him attempting to have sex with his friend Fletcher, involuntarily outing him to his dysfunctional family.	United Kingdom, Canada
		Fletcher	Joel Keller
1997	Happy Together	Ho Po-Wing	Leslie Cheung	Ho Po-Wing and Lai Yiu-Fai are a couple from Hong Kong with a tumultuous relationship marked by frequent separations and reconciliations. They visit Argentina together but break up after they become lost while traveling to visit the Iguazu Falls.	British Hong Kong
		Lai Yiu-Fai	Tony Leung Chiu-wai
1997	In & Out	Howard Brackett	Kevin Kline	Inspired by Tom Hanks's tearful speech when he accepted his 1994 Oscar (for his role in Philadelphia), in which he mentioned his high-school drama coach Rawley Farnsworth, and his former classmate John Gilkerson, "two of the finest gay Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with."	United States
		Peter Malloy	Tom Selleck
1997	The Jackal	Douglas	Stephen Spinella	Douglas is a man who the Jackal encountered earlier in a bar and pretends to date with.	United States
1997	Kiss Me, Guido	Warren	Anthony Barrile	Warren is an actor who's recently broken up with his director boyfriend.	United States
1997	Love! Valour! Compassion!	Gregory Mitchell	Stephen Bogardus	Revolving around eight gay men who gather for three summer weekends at a lakeside house in Dutchess County, New York, where they relax, reflect, and plan for survival in an era plagued by AIDS.	United States
		James Jeckyll	John Glover
		Perry Sellars	Stephen Spinella
		Buzz Hauser	Jason Alexander
		Ramon Fornos	Randy Becker
		Arthur Pape	John Benjamin Hickey
		Bobby Brahms	Justin Kirk
1997	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	Jim Williams	Kevin Spacey	Williams is an antiques dealer.	United States
1997	My Best Friend's Wedding	George Downes	Rupert Everett	George is Julianne's friend and confidante. He agrees to pose as her fiancé so that she can make Michael, the college friend she thought would marry her, jealous.	United States
1997	Nowhere	Cowboy	Guillermo Diaz	Cowboy and Bart are bandmates as well as boyfriends.	United States
		Bart	Jeremy Jordan
1997	Spice World	Himself	Elton John	John, who is a world-renowned musician and a homosexual, has a role as himself in the film.	United Kingdom
1997	Swept from the Sea	Dr. James Kennedy	Ian McKellen	Local doctor Dr. Kennedy's compassion towards Yanko marks the beginning of a devoted friendship.	United Kingdom, United States
1997	'Til There Was You	Gregory	Ken Olin	Gregory is a college professor and an architect.	United States
1997	Waiting for Guffman	Corky St. Clair	Christopher Guest	In the fictional small town of Blaine, Missouri, a few residents prepare to put on a community theater production led by eccentric director Corky St. Clair.	United States
1997	Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Stephen Fry	Oscar loves his wife and children, but is sexually attracted to men. He becomes obsessed with Alfred. Alfred is Wilde's lover. Their relationship becomes a scandal resulting in Oscar's downfall.	United Kingdom
		Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas	Jude Law
		John Gray	Ioan Gruffudd
1998	Alice and Martin	Benjamin	Mathieu Amalric	Martin's half-brother Benjamin is a struggling actor sharing living arrangements with his best friend Alice, a violinist in a local quintet that specializes in tango music.	France, Spain
1998	B. Monkey	Paul Neville	Rupert Everett	Paul and Bruno are a couple and Beatrice's partners in crime.	United States, United Kingdom
		Bruno	Jonathan Rhys Meyers
1998	Bedrooms and Hallways	Darren	Tom Hollander	Darren is a roommate of Leo's.	United Kingdom
1998	Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss	Billy Collier	Sean Hayes	Billy is a photographer who falls in love with sexually ambiguous waiter/model Gabriel. He hires Gabriel Perry is Billy's mentor, patron, and admirer. Fernando is Billy's on-again, off-again lover. He has an open relationship, but frequently pursues Billy.	United States
		Perry	Richard Ganoung
		Fernando	Armando Valdes-Kennedy
1998	Dark Harbor	Young Man	Norman Reedus	David and the young man are lovers.	United States
1998	Edge of Seventeen	Eric Hunter	Chris Stafford	In 1984 Sandusky, Ohio, Hunter is a Eurythmics-obsessed, musically driven teenager coming to terms with his sexual identity.	United States
1998	54	Steve Rubell	Mike Myers	Steve Rubell is co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54.	United States
1998	Bishonen	Jet	Stephen Fung	Jet is a handsome hustler whose sex appeal seems to know no bounds.	Hong Kong
1998	Get Real	Steven Carter	Ben Silverstone	Centering the coming of age of a teen while growing up in rural Britain during the Cool Britannia era of the late 1990s.	United Kingdom
		John Dixon	Brad Gorton
1998	Gods and Monsters	George Cukor	Martin Ferrero	Recounting the partly fictionalized last days of the life of film director James Whale.	United Kingdom, United States
		David Lewis	David Dukes
		James Whale	Ian McKellen
1998	Head On	Ari	Alex Dimitriades	Retelling the story of Ari, a dissolute 19-year-old Greek-Australian drug addict living in St Kilda, Victoria.	Australia
1998	Hold You Tight	A-che	Lawrence Ko	The story of a man living in Hong Kong who is initially drawn to a young woman, but soon finds he is more attracted to her boyfriend.	Hong Kong
		Tong	Eric Tsang
1998	Illuminata	Umberto Bevalaqua	Christopher Walken	A flamboyant theater critic.	United States
1998	The Impostors	Mr. Sparks	Billy Connolly	Sparks is an aging professional tennis player.	United States
1998	The Object of My Affection	George Hanson	Paul Rudd	George is a first grade teacher.	United States
1998	The Opposite of Sex	Bill Truitt	Martin Donovan	Bill is Dedee's much older half-brother and a teacher in a conservative, suburban community in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.	United States
		Matt Mateo	Ivan Sergei
1998	The Velocity of Gary	Valentino	Vincent D'Onofrio	Valentino is a former porn star. Gary (not his real name, which is never revealed) is a hustler walking through the streets of New York City, looking for business.	United States
		Gary	Thomas Jane
1999	Advice from a Caterpillar	Spaz	Andy Dick	Spaz is Missy's best friend.	United States
1999	American Beauty	Jim Berkley	Sam Robards	Frank is closeted.	United States
		Jim Olmeyer	Scott Bakula
		Frank Fitts	Chris Cooper
1999	Big Daddy	Phil D'Amato	Allen Covert	D'Amato and Grayton are lawyer friends of Sonny's who are also in a relationship.	United States
		Tommy Grayton	Peter Dante
1999	The Big Tease	Crawford Mackenzie	Craig Ferguson	Mackenzie is a Scottish hairdresser who, while being filmed as part of a fly-on-the-wall BBC documentary, is invited to the World Hairdresser International Federation annual contest.	United States
1999	Black and White	Terry Donager	Robert Downey Jr.	Terry is the closeted husband of a documentary filmmaker.	United States
1999	Blast from the Past	Troy	Dave Foley	Troy is Eve's housemate and best friend.	United States
1999	The Boondock Saints	Paul Smecker	Willem Dafoe	Smecker is an FBI agent who is assigned to the murders linked to the MacManus twin brothers.	United States
1999	But I'm a Cheerleader	Dolph	Dante Basco	Dolph, Clayton, Andre, and Joel are campers. Rock is the son of Mary Brown, the founder of True Directions. Supposedly straight, he is actually closeted. Mike is supposedly an ex-gay who helps with the process of "curing" campers of their homosexuality; however, he is clearly shown to be still attracted to men. Lloyd and Larry are a couple described as "ex, ex-gays". Before the events of the film, they were once campers at True Directions before they defected. They help the campers sneak out and go party at a gay bar, and also give advice about dealing with one's own sexuality. They let ex-camper Dolph live with them when he is expelled from True Directions for having sex at the camp.	United States
		Clayton Dunn	Kip Pardue
		Andre	Douglas Spain
		Joel Goldberg	Joel Michaely
		Rock Brown	Eddie Cibrian
		Mike	RuPaul
		Lloyd Morgan-Gordon	Wesley Mann
		Larry Morgan-Gordon	Richard Moll
1999	Cruel Intentions	Blaine Tuttle	Joshua Jackson	Tuttle is a friend of Sebastian who is struggling towards his relationship with a Football stud at his private school, Greg.	United States
1999	East Is East	Nazir "Nigel" Khan	Ian Aspinall	Nigel is one the Khans' children.	United Kingdom
1999	Go	Adam	Scott Wolf	Adam and Zack are soap opera actors who are in a relationship.	United States
		Zack	Jay Mohr
1999	Happy, Texas	Sheriff Chappy Dent	William H. Macy	Dent is the sheriff of Happy, Texas.	United States
1999	It's the Rage	Chris	David Schwimmer	Chris and Tim are a couple.	United States
		Tim	Andre Braugher
1999	Magnolia	"Quiz Kid" Donnie Smith	William H. Macy	Former What Do Kids Know? champion Donnie Smith, whose parents took all his prize money, has been fired from his job due to performance issues and is in love with a male bartender with braces.	United States
1999	Man of the Century	Tim	Anthony Rapp	Tim is a photographer.	United States
1999	Second Skin	Diego	Javier Bardem	Diego is the handsome surgeon who Alberto has an affair with.	Spain
1999	Summer of Sam	Bobby Del Fiore	Brian Tarantina	Del Fiore is a customer in the Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx	United States
1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Peter Smith-Kingsley	Jack Davenport	Peter is Ripley's lover later in the story.	United States
1999	Three to Tango	Peter Steinberg	Oliver Platt	Steinberg has landed a career-making opportunity to design a multimillion-dollar cultural center for wealthy businessman Charles Newman along with Novak.	Australia, United States
1999	Trick	Gabriel	Christian Campbell	Gabriel, an office temp by day and aspiring Broadway composer by night, makes eye contact with Mark, a go-go dancer at a gay bar. The two meet again in the subway the same night, and go back to Gabriel's place to have sex.	United States
		Mark Miranda	John Paul Pitoc
1999	The Underground Comedy Movie	Gay Man	Ant	Gay Virgin has repeatedly protested to a persistent would-be sex partner that he is saving himself for the right man.	United States
		Gay Virgin	Michael Clarke Duncan

21st century

2000–2004

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2000	American Psycho	Luis Carruthers	Matt Ross	Carruthers is a colleague of Bateman and closeted homosexual	United States
2000	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas	Javier Bardem	Reinaldo is imprisoned in Cuba for his homosexuality and later moves to New York City, where he contracts HIV/AIDS. He begins friendships with two other men, Pepe and Tomas. José is a literature writer. Virgilio is an influential writer. Pepe is in a relationship with Reinaldo before leaving him to pursue a woman.	United States
		José Lezama Lima	Manuel González
		Tomas Diego	Santiago Magill
		Virgilio Piñera	Héctor Babenco
2000	Best in Show	Scott Donlan	John Michael Higgins	Donlan and Vanderhoof are a campy couple who take great pride in their Shih Tzu Miss Agnes	United States
		Stefan Vanderhoof	Michael McKean
2000	Billy Elliot	Michael Caffrey cross-dresser	Stuart Wells (young Michael) Merryn Owen (adult Michael)	Michael is a young boy and the best friend of Billy Elliot. At some point, Michael is seen using a dress and makeup. He shows interest in Billy, who does not reciprocate but is supportive of his friend.	United Kingdom
2000	Borstal Boy	Charlie Milwall	Danny Dyer	Charlie is a young Irish sailor in 1941.	United Kingdom, Ireland
2000	Bounce	Seth	Johnny Galecki	Seth is Buddy's secretary	United States
2000	Bring It On	Les	Huntley Ritter	Les is a member of the Toros cheerleading team.	United States
2000	The Broken Hearts Club	Benji	Zach Braff	The film follows the lives of a group of friends in West Hollywood.	United States
		Cole	Dean Cain
		Dennis	Timothy Olyphant
		Howie	Matt McGrath
		Kevin	Andrew Keegan
		Marshall	Justin Theroux
		Patrick	Ben Weber
		Taylor	Billy Porter
2000	Chuck & Buck	Buck O'Brien	Mike White	Buck O'Brien is a 27-year-old amateur playwright with the maturity level of an adolescent.	United States
2000	Finding Forrester	William Forrester	Sean Connery	Forrester is a reclusive writer who James befriends.	United States
2000	Lavender	Chow Chow	Eason Chan	Chow Chow is Athena's nosy next door neighbor.	Hong Kong
2000	The Next Best Thing	Robert Whittaker	Rupert Everett	Robert is Abbie's best friend, who she decides to have a child with.	United States
2000	Sexy Beast	Teddy Bass	Ian McShane	Bass is a London crime boss.	United Kingdom, Spain
2000	Traffic	Francisco "Frankie Flowers" Flores	Clifton Collins Jr.	Flores is a sicario who works for the Obregón brothers.	United States
2000	28 Days	Dutch Gerhardt	Alan Tudyk	Gerhardt is a patient in rehab and a dancer.	United States
2000	Urbania	Charlie	Dan Futterman	After an unsuccessful bout of masturbation to the sound of his upstairs neighbors having sex, he prowls the streets looking for a man he saw several months earlier. The implication is that he's had a one night stand with the man, cheating on his boyfriend Chris.	United States
		Chris	Matt Keeslar
		Brett	Alan Cumming
2000	Wonder Boys	James Leer	Tobey Maguire	Leer is one of Grady's students.	United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
2001	Blow	Derek Foreal	Paul Reubens	Foreal is a marijuana dealer.	United States
2001	The Deep End	Beau Hall	Jonathan Tucker	Beau is a high school senior dating a 30-year-old club owner.	United States
2001	Der Schuh des Manitu	Winnetouch	Michael Herbig	Winnetouch is the effeminate twin brother of Abahachi and owner of the all-pink Powder Rouge Ranch.	Germany
2001	Gypsy 83	Clive Webb	Kett Turton	Clive is a young goth who joins his friend Gypsy on a road trip to see a Stevie Nicks tribute in New York City.	United States
2001	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Luther Robinson	Maurice Dean Wint	Robinson is an American soldier in East Germany.	United States
2001	Josie and the Pussycats	Wyatt Frame	Alan Cumming	Wyatt is a record producer.	United States
2001	Kissing Jessica Stein	Martin	Michael Mastro	Martin and Sebastian are Helen's friends.	United States
		Sebastian	Carson Elrod
2001	Lan Yu	Lan Yu	Liu Ye	The story of an affair between a young man and a middle-aged man. Set in mainland China.	China, Hong Kong
		Chen Handong	Hu Jun
2001	Legally Blonde	Enrique Salvatore	Greg Serano	Salvatore is the pool boy and a lynchpin in Elle's defense case with fitness guru Brooke Windham.	United States
2001	L.I.E.	Howie Blitzer	Paul Dano	Howie is discovering his sexual orientation. Gary is a hustler who becomes a friend of Howie. Big John is Gary's client and a pedophile.	United States
		Gary Terrio	Billy Kay
		Big John Harrigan	Brian Cox
2001	The Man Who Wasn't There	Creighton Tolliver	Jon Polito	Tolliver is a businessman looking for investors to invest $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning in 1949 Santa Rosa, California.	United Kingdom, United States
2001	The Mexican	Leroy	James Gandolfini	Leroy is a hitman.	United States
2001	Saving Silverman	J.D McNugent	Jack Black	Judith helps J.D. realize his sexuality.	United States
2001	Shake It All About	Jørgen	Troels Lyby	Jacob asks Jørgen to marry him, and he happily accepts. However, Jacob falls in love with another woman.	Denmark
2001	Wet Hot American Summer	McKinley	Michael Ian Black	McKinley and Ben are camp counselors and lovers.	United States
		Ben	Bradley Cooper
2002	Bend It Like Beckham	Tony	Ameet Chana	Tony is Jess's best friend.	United Kingdom, United States, Germany, India
2002	Boat Trip	Lloyd Faversham	Roger Moore	Brian and Michael are boyfriends.	United States
		Brian	Artie Lange
		Michael	Will Ferrell
2002	Dahmer	Jeffrey Dahmer	Jeremy Renner	The story of the real-life serial killer of the same name.	United States
2002	Far from Heaven	Frank Whitaker	Dennis Quaid	Frank is an executive at Magnatech, a television advertising company and Cathy's husband. She walks in on him passionately kissing a man and he confesses to having had "problems" as a young man.	United States
2002	Friday After Next	Damon Pearly	Terry Crews	Damon is a newly released ex-convict who developed homosexual tendencies in prison.	United States
2002	The Hours	Richard Brown	Ed Harris	Richard is a moody poet and author living with AIDS.	United Kingdom, United States
2002	Sweet Home Alabama	Bobby Ray	Ethan Embry	Bobby Ray is outed by his best friend.	United States
2002	Unconditional Love	Dirk	Rupert Everett	Dirk is closeted singer Victor Fox 's former lover.	United States
		Victor Fox	Jonathan Pryce
2003	American Wedding	Bear	Eric Allan Kramer	Bear is a balding shaggy lineman sort of guy who Kevin and Finch meet in the gay bar.	United States
2003	Arisan!	Nino	Surya Saputra	The first Indonesian film to feature a same-sex kiss.	Indonesia
		Sakti	Tora Sudiro
2003	Bright Young Things	Miles Maitland	Michael Sheen	Maitland is forced to flee the country to avoid prosecution for homosexuality.	United Kingdom
2003	Latter Days	Christian Markelli	Wes Ramsey	Christian makes a bet with his friends that he can seduce a neighbor (Aaron) who is a Mormon missionary.	United States
		Aaron Davis	Steve Sandvoss
2003	Mambo Italiano	Angelo Barberini	Luke Kirby	Angelo is the son of Italian immigrants. Nino is boyfriend, who is not out to his parents.	Canada
		Nino Paventi	Peter Miller
2003	Party Monster	Michael Alig	Macaulay Culkin	Based on Disco Bloodbath, the memoir of James St. James which details his friendship with Alig, an infamous New York City party promoter, that later fell apart as Alig's drug addiction worsened, and ended after he murdered Andre "Angel" Melendez and went to prison.	United States
		James St. James	Seth Green
2004	The 24th Day	Dan	James Marsden	Tom has been diagnosed with HIV and believes he infected his late wife with the AIDS virus. He had only one sexual encounter with a man, Dan, and thinks that it was he who transmitted the disease to him. Tom kidnaps Dan with the intent to kill him.	United States
2004	Alexander	Hephaistion	Jared Leto	Alexander has relationships with childhood friends Hephaistion and Bagoas.	Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States
		Bagoas	Francisco Bosch
2004	Bad Education	Enrique Goded	Fele Martínez	Focusing on two reunited childhood friends and lovers caught up in a stylized murder mystery.	Spain
		Father Manolo	Daniel Giménez Cacho
		Ignacio Rodriguez	Francisco Boira
2004	Brother to Brother	Perry	Anthony Mackie	Black art student Perry is thrown out by his parents for his homosexuality and is further disturbed by a potential romantic entanglement with a white boy in his class.	United States
2004	Enter the Phoenix	Georgie Hung Chi Kit	Daniel Wu	Georgie lives as a cook with his boyfriend Frankie, is uninterested to continue his father's work.	Hong Kong
2004	Formula 17	Chou T'ien Tsai	Tony Yang	Chou is looking for romance as he takes a trip to the capital, Taipei, to visit an online boyfriend in person for the first time. Disappointed to find that his online friend only wants sex and has no interest in forming a romantic bond, he starts to look elsewhere, finding his internet relationship. T'ien's roommate and friends help him look for the man of his dreams. The film was banned in Singapore because it "portrays homosexuality as normal, and a natural progression of society".	Taiwan
		Bai Tieh Nan/Richard Bai	Duncan Lai
		Yu	King Chin
		Jun	Jason Chang
		C.C.	Dada Ji
		Alan	James Yun
		Ray	Jeff Locker
		Kevin	Ladder Yu
2004	Hellbent	Joey	Hank Harris	Joey is one of Eddie's friends.	United States
2004	A Home at the End of the World	Jonathan Glover	Harris Allan / Dallas Roberts	Bobby finds a new home with his childhood friend Jonathan. The two boys come of age together and discover their sexuality.	United States
		Bobby Morrow	Colin Farrell
2004	Leave Me Alone	Yiu Chun Man	Ekin Cheng	Yiu is a fashion designer who has a boyfriend.	Hong Kong
		Man's boyfriend	Jan Lamb
2004	Mean Girls	Damian Leigh	Daniel Franzese	Leigh is Janis and Cady' friend.	United States
2004	Mysterious Skin	Neil McCormick	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Neil is the son of an irresponsible single mother who is already discovering his own homosexuality. He is sexually abused by the Little League baseball coach.	Netherlands, United States
2004	Rice Rhapsody	Daniel	Alvin Chiang	Daniel and Harry are the sons of Jen Fan, owner of a successful restaurant in Singapore's Chinatown.	Hong Kong, Singapore
		Harry	Craig Toh
2004	Saved!	Dean	Chad Faust	Dean is sent away by his parents to be "degayified". Mitch is Dean's boyfriend.	United States
		Mitch	Kett Turton
2004	Somersault	Richard	Erik Thomson	Richard is a neighbour who is in town for a few days clearing out his relative's house before it goes to auction.	Australia
2004	Stage Beauty	George Villiers	Ben Chaplin	Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, is the lover of Kynaston.	Germany, United Kingdom, United States
2004	The Stepford Wives	Roger Bannister	Roger Bart	Roger and his long-time partner Jerry are residents of Stepford.	United States
		Jerry Harmon	David Marshall Grant
2004	Summer Storm	Tobi	Robert Stadlober	Tobi fells in love with his heterosexual childhood friend Achim.	Germany
2004	Touch of Pink	Alim	Jimi Mistry	Alim and Giles are in an open relationship, but Alim is not out to his Muslim mother and family. When Alim's mother announces that she is going to be visiting him, he and Giles must pretend that they are only roommates, which begins to strain their relationship.	Canada, United Kingdom
		Giles	Kris Holden-Ried
2004	Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1	Jürgen T. Kork	Christian Tramitz	Parody of Star Trek with Jürgen T. Kork (i.e. James T. Kirk) and Mr. Spuck (i.e. Spock) depicted as effeminate.	Germany
		Mr. Spuck	Michael Herbig

2005–2009

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2005	Be Cool	Elliot Wilhelm	Dwayne Johnson	Elliot is Raji's Samoan bodyguard.	United States
2005	The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros	Maximo "Maxi" Oliveros	Nathan Lopez	Oliveros is a teenage effeminate boy who becomes infatuated with a police officer who rescued him from harassment.	Philippines
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Randall Malone	David Harbour	Randall has an affair with Jack.	United States
2005	Capote	Truman Capote	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Following the events during the writing of Capote's book In Cold Blood.	United States, Canada
		Jack Dunphy	Bruce Greenwood
2005	The Constant Gardener	Arnold Bluhm	Hubert Koundé	Arnold Bluhm is a Belgian doctor who Tessa befriends during her husband's posting in Kenya, and keeps his homosexuality a secret.	United Kingdom, Germany
2005	C.R.A.Z.Y.	Zachary Beaulieu	Marc-André Grondin	Zac is a young man dealing with homophobia whike growing up with his four brothers and his father in Quebec during the 1960s and 1970s.	Canada
2005	Cursed	Bo	Milo Ventimiglia	Bo is a wrestler repressing his sexuality.	United States
2005	The Dying Gaul	Robert Sandrich	Peter Sarsgaard	In 1995 Hollywood, novice screenwriter Sandrich has written an autobiographical script inspired by his lover's death by AIDS-related cerebral tuberculosis.	United States
2005	The Family Stone	Thad Stone	Tyrone Giordano	Thad is deaf and is the youngest son in the Stone family. He and his partner, Patrick, have an adopted son.	United States
		Patrick Thomas	Brian J. White
2005	Happy Endings	Charley Peppitone	Steve Coogan	Charlie runs a restaurant. Gil is his partner.	United States
		Gil Palmer	David Sutcliffe
2005	Kinky Boots	Simon / Lola	Chiwetel Ejiofor	A man who is a drag queen performer, with Simon as his alter ego.	United Kingdom
2005	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Perry Van Shrike/"Gay Perry"	Val Kilmer	Perry is a detective.	United States
2005	Little Fish	Lionel Dawson	Hugo Weaving	Rugby star Dawson is the former lover of 'The Jockey', a local gangster on the point of retirement.	Australia
2005	Loggerheads	George	Michael Kelly	George is a friendly motel owner who offers Mark, a young man obsessed with loggerhead sea turtles, to stay.	United States
		Mark	Kip Pardue
2005	Monster-in-Law	Remy	Adam Scott	Remy is Charlie's neighbor and best friend.	United States
2005	My Fair Son	Ray	Junrui Wang	Ray falls in love with one of his father's colleagues.	China
		Unnamed student	Guifeng Wang
2005	Rent	Thomas B. "Tom" Collins	Jesse L. Martin	"Tom" Collins is an anarchist and philosophy professor with AIDS. Schunard is a drag queen and street musician who is also suffering from AIDS.	United States
		Angel Dumott Schunard	Wilson Jermaine Heredia
2005	Tides of War	Frank Habley	Adrian Paul	Cmdr. Habley and Lt. Cmdr. Palatonio (Frank's executive officer) are partners serving on the same submarine. Tom is killed in a battle and Frank must continue to serve on the same vessel. Released in theaters as Phantom Below with the gay theme excluded. The original gay version was broadcast by the Here network.	United States
		Tom Palatonio	Mike Doyle
2005	V for Vendetta	Gordon Deitrich	Stephen Fry	Deitrich is Evey's former boss and a talk show host.	Germany, United Kingdom, United States
2005	Wedding Crashers	Todd Cleary	Keir O'Donnell	Todd is the hunchbacked brother of Claire who aggressively comes on to Jeremy. A GQ review described the character as an inexcusably unfunny riff on the old "predatory gay man" trope.	United States
2006	Another Gay Movie	Griff	Mitch Morris	Following four friends, Andy, Jarod, Nico and Griff, who vow upon graduating high school that they will all lose their "anal virginity" before their friend's Labor Day party.	United States
		Nico Hunter	Jonah Blechman
		Jarod	Jonathan Chase
		Andy Wilson	Michael Carbonaro
2006	The Architect	Shawn	Paul James	Martin is a college dropout who explores his sexuality with a young man named Shawn.	United States
		Martin Waters	Sebastian Stan
2006	Boy Culture	Alex "X"	Derek Magyar	Identical to the novel's plot, the film follows a man who goes by only the letter "X" to maintain his anonymity and relationships between his two roommates—one of whom he's in love with	United States
		Andrew	Darryl Stephens
		Joey	Jonathon Trent
		Gregory Talbot	Patrick Bauchau
2006	The Bubble	Ashraf	Yousef 'Joe' Sweid	Retelling the story of two men who fall in love, one Israeli and one Palestinian.	Israel
		Noam	Ohad Knoller
		Yali	Alon Friedman
2006	Confetti	Archie	Vincent Franklin	Archie and Gregory are wedding planners and partners in both business and love.	United Kingdom
		Gregory	Jason Watkins
2006	Crank	Kaylo	Efren Ramirez	Kaylo is Chev Chelios' informant.	United States
2006	The Devil Wears Prada	Nigel Kipling	Stanley Tucci	Nigel is Runway Magazine's art director.	United States
2006	Eternal Summer	Jonathan	Bryant Chang	Jonathan, a studious schoolboy, is asked by his teacher to look after another boy, Shane, who is rebellious and dislikes learning. Ten years on, they have developed a good friendship despite their divergent lives: Jonathan on course to go to university and Shane to become a basketball player. Jonathan is also attracted to Shane, but the attraction is not reciprocated. However, the young men's fates change when a girl, Carrie, has a secret affair with Shane (who is determined to keep it secret in order to protect Jonathan's feelings) and also does her best to persuade Shane to abandon basketball and instead work hard to try to enter university.	Taiwan
2006	The History Boys	Douglas Hector	Richard Griffiths	Based on the play of the same name.	United Kingdom
		Tom Irwin	Stephen Campbell Moore
		David Posner	Samuel Barnett
2006	Infamous	Truman Capote	Toby Jones	The time of author Capote's life during which he researched and wrote In Cold Blood.	United States
2006	Let's Go to Prison	Barry	Chi McBride	Barry and Biederman eventually develop a romantic relationship in the movie's process.	United States
		Nelson Biederman IV	Will Arnett
2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Frank Ginsberg	Steve Carell	Frank, an unemployed scholar of Proust, is temporarily living with his sister's family after having attempted suicide.	United States
2006	The Night Listener	Gabriel Noone	Robin Williams	Gabriel is a popular New York City radio show host, is dealing with a separation from his partner, Jess.	United States
		Jess	Bobby Cannavale
2006	No Regret	Lee Su-min	Lee Yeong-hoon	Jae-min is a former driving client of Su-min who falls in love with him.	South Korea
		Song Jae-min	Kim Nam-gil
2006	Poseidon	Richard Nelson	Richard Dreyfuss	Nelson is an architect and one of the survivors.	United States
2006	Running with Scissors	Neil Bookman	Joseph Fiennes	Augusten and Neil begin an erratic sexual relationship.	United States
		Augusten Burroughs	Joseph Cross
2006	Scenes of a Sexual Nature	Billy	Ewan McGregor	Billy and Brian are life-partners.	United Kingdom
		Brian	Douglas Hodge
2006	Shortbus	James	Paul Dawson	James and Jamie are a couple. James wants to introduce other men into their relationship for sex.	Canada
		Jamie	PJ DeBoy
2006	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby	Jean Girard	Sacha Baron Cohen	Jean is a French Formula One driver and Bobby's archrival.	United States
2006	United 93	Mark Bingham	Cheyenne Jackson	During the September 11 attacks in 2001, Mark was on board United Airlines Flight 93. He was among the passengers who formed the plan to retake the airplane from the hijackers, resulting in the plane crashing into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and thwarting the hijackers' plan to crash into a building in Washington, D.C. (most likely either the U.S. Capitol Building or the White House).	United States
2007	Breakfast with Scot	Eric McNally	Tom Cavanagh	McNally is a retired hockey player turned television sportscaster who lives with his partner Sam, a sports lawyer.	Canada
		Sam	Ben Shenkman
		Scot	Noah Bernett
2007	I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	Fred Duncan	Ving Rhames	Duncan is a firefight who despite his intimidating appearance, is uncomfortable of disclosing his sexuality.	United States
2007	Love Songs	Erwann	Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet	Ismaël, Julie, and Alice are in a ménage-à-trois. After a tragedy strikes and breaks them apart, the characters learn to deal with loss and mourning. Ismaël unexpectedly finds love again with a young man named Erwann.	France
2007	Shelter	Shaun	Brad Rowe	Shaun is Gabe's older brother who develops a close relationship with Zack, his brother's best friend, and struggles with his sexuality.	United States
2007	Stardust	Captain Shakespeare	Robert De Niro	Captain Shakespeare is a sky pirate.	United States, United Kingdom
2007	The Walker	Carter Page III	Woody Harrelson	A middle-aged male escort living in Washington, D. C.	United States, United Kingdom
2008	Brideshead Revisited	Anthony Blanche	Joseph Beattie	Flyte is the younger son of Lord and Lady Marchmain who forms a deep friendship with Ryder. Blanche is a friend of Flyter and Ryder's and an overt homosexual.	United Kingdom
		Lord Sebastian Flyte	Ben Whishaw
		Charles Ryder	Matthew Goode
2008	Death Race	Joseph "Machine Gun Joe" Mason	Tyrese Gibson	Machine Gun Joe is a sociopathic racer who looks to use Death Race as a means to escape from prison.	United States
2008	Doubt	Donald Miller	Joseph Foster	Miller is the first black student in a Catholic school in The Bronx who fears his homophobic father would kill him if he knew.	United States
2008	Dream Boy	Nathan Davies	Stephan Bender	Following two teenagers falling in love in the rural South in the late 1970s.	United States
		Roy	Maximillian Roeg
2008	Hamlet 2	Rand Posin	Skylar Astin	A drama student in love with his drama teacher.	United States
2008	Little Ashes	Salvador Dalí	Robert Pattinson	An unconsummated sexual attraction between Dali and Lorca (whose homosexuality was known).	United Kingdom, Spain
		Federico García Lorca	Javier Beltrán
2008	Mamma Mia!	Harry Bright	Colin Firth	Harry tells Donna: "You were the first woman I ever loved, and also the last."	Germany, United Kingdom, United States
2008	Milk	Harvey Milk	Sean Penn	Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Smith and Lira are Milk's lovers.	United States
		Cleve Jones	Emile Hirsch
		Jack Lira	Diego Luna
		Scott Smith	James Franco
2008	Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist	Beefy Guy (Lethario)	Jonathan B. Wright	Dev and Thom are Nick's bandmates. Beefy Guy is their new friend.	United States
		Dev	Rafi Gavron
		Thom	Aaron Yoo
2008	RocknRolla	Handsome Bob	Tom Hardy	Bob is a gangster.	United States, United Kingdom, France
2008	Sex Drive	Rex Lafferty	James Marsden	At Thanksgiving dinner, Rex tells his family about his sexuality.	United States
2008	Tropic Thunder	Alpa Chino	Brandon T. Jackson	Cino is a closeted rapper who is attempting to cross over into acting, portraying a soldier named Motown, while promoting his "Bust-A-Nut" candy bar and "Booty Sweat" energy drink.	United States, Germany, United Kingdom
2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno	Brandon St. Randy	Justin Long	Randy is Bobby's porn star boyfriend.	United States
2009	44 Inch Chest	Meredith	Ian McShane	Meredith is a suave gambler.	United Kingdom
2009	Brüno	Brüno Gehard	Sacha Baron Cohen	Gehard is a flamboyantly fashion reporter from Austria.	United States, United Kingdom
2009	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant	Mr. Tiny	Michael Cerveris	Mr. Tiny is a meddling trickster of immense magical power, responsible numerous creations.	United States
2009	Horsemen	Corey Kurth	Patrick Fugit	Kurith is Taylor's brother.	United States
2009	I Killed My Mother	Hubert Minel	Xavier Dolan	Following the complicated relationship between a young man and his mother.	Canada
2009	I Love You, Man	Robbie Klaven	Andy Samberg	Robbie is Peter's brother.	United States
2009	I Love You Phillip Morris	Phillip Morris	Ewan McGregor	While incarcerated, Steve falls in love with his fellow inmate, Morris.	France, United States
		Steven Russell	Jim Carrey
2009	Permanent Residence	Ivan	Sean Li	Ivan seeks a long-term relationship with a straight friend. Befriending another young man, Windson, at a public sports club, the two build up a friendly rapport. However, Windson becomes aware of his inclination, and while happy to remain his friend, is initially very reluctant to become emotionally involved with him. This is the first feature film directed by award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker known as 'Scud'.	Hong Kong
2009	Shank	Cal	Wayne Virgo	Cal is a 19-year-old closeted homosexual member and hooks up with Scott online before assaulting and abandoning him out in the countryside. Acting on his own attraction to Cal, Olivier seduces him and in doing so, exposes Cal to new emotions and a tenderness that he has never experienced before.	United Kingdom
		Olivier	Marc Laurent
		Scott	Garry Summers
		Jonno	Tom Bott
2009	A Single Man	George Falconer	Colin Firth	In 1962, George dreams that he encounters the body of his longtime partner, Jim, at the scene of the car accident that took his life.	United States
		Jim	Matthew Goode
2009	Soundless Wind Chime	Ricky	Lu Yulai	An interracial love story, told through a linear narrative and a series of complex, interlocking flashbacks. Ricky, who has arrived in Hong Kong from mainland China, works as a delivery boy. He is robbed by a Swiss thief, Pascal, who admits his crime and returns the stolen item. The two eventually embark on a love affair, but through several flashbacks, it eventually becomes clear that Pascal has subsequently been killed in a road accident near their flat, which Ricky had witnessed. Some years later, Ricky visits Pascal's former home in Switzerland to find it abandoned. During his time there, he meets Pascal's doppelgänger in a man called Ueli, who nevertheless has a very different personality. They, too, fall in love and the contentment that Ricky finds enables him to reflect on the relationship he had with Pascal.	Hong Kong, Switzerland, China
		Pascal	Bernhard Bulling
		Ueli	Bernhard Bulling
2009	Taking Woodstock	Elliot Teichberg/Tiber	Demetri Martin	Tiber volunteered his family's motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers which would take place on a nearby farm.	United States
2009	Undertow	Santiago	Manolo Cardona	Miguel is married to Mariela, who is pregnant with their first son, but he also has a secret affair with a male painter called Santiago.	Peru, Colombia, France, Germany

2010–2014

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2010	Amphetamine	Daniel	Thomas Price	Daniel is a wealthy Chinese-Australian investment banker working in Hong Kong meets and befriends Kafka, a young swimming instructor from a poor local family, who has strong religious beliefs. Kafka was sexually assaulted as a teenager by a male gang after successfully defending a young woman from being raped, and as a result, he has become impotent and a habitual user of recreational drugs. Although initially uncomfortable with Daniel's obvious sexual attraction to him, he soon sees Daniel as offering him new hope in life, and he falls deeply in love with him. But Kafka's life begins to fall apart again when his mother dies suddenly, and he attempts to end his life.	Hong Kong
2010	Beginners	Hal	Christopher Plummer	Shortly after his wife's death, Hal comes out to his son and begins exploring life as an openly gay man.	United States
2010	Burlesque	Sean	Stanley Tucci	A wisecracking man who works in a strip club.	United States
2010	Death at a Funeral	Frank Lovett	Peter Dinklage	A dwarf in love with the late father of the protagonist.	United States, United Kingdom
2010	Dirty Girl	Clarke Walters	Jeremy Dozier	Walters is a chubby, shy 15-year-old classmate of Edmondston.	United States
2010	Easy A	Brandon	Dan Byrd	Olive's friend Brandon is bullied by other students for being gay.	United States
2010	Every Day	Jonah Freed	Ezra Miller	As a father, Ned is worried about his son coming out.	United States
2010	For Colored Girls	Carl Bradmore	Omari Hardwick	Carl is a rich closeted conducting a doomed marriage with Jo.	United States
2010	Howl	Allen Ginsberg	James Franco	Ginsberg is a central figure of the Beat Generation. Fellow poet Orlovsky is Ginsberg's life partner for over forty years.	United States
		Peter Orlovsky	Aaron Tveit
2010	The Last Exorcism	Logan	Logan Craig Reid	Logan explains to the crew about his sexuality and only had a brief conversation with Nell during a party at Manley's house six months prio	United States
2010	Little White Lies	Vincent	Benoît Magimel	Osteopath Vincent confesses his attraction to restaurateur Max.	France
2010	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Scott aka "Other Scott"	Ben Lewis	Ben is Wallace's best friend. Wallace is Scott's roommate, who has a boyfriend named Scott. He also hooked up with Stacey's boyfriend Jimmy.	United Kingdom, United States, Japan
		Stephen Stills	Mark Webber
		Wallace Wells	Kieran Culkin
2010	Valentine's Day	Sean Jackson	Eric Dane	Sean comes out on national television, and Holden, Sean's lover, goes back to him	United States
		Holden Wilson	Bradley Cooper
2011	Bernie	Bernie Tiede	Jack Black	Bernie is a closeted, yet flamboyant mortician who befriends a mean elderly widow.	United States
2011	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Graham Dashwood	Tom Wilkinson	Dashwood is a High Court judge who lived in Jaipur as a child, abruptly retires to return there.	United Kingdom
2011	The Broken Tower	Hart Crane	James Franco	Biopic about the American poet.	United States
		Emile Opffer	Michael Shannon
2011	The Guard	Garda Aidan McBride	Rory Keenan	McBride is Sergeant Boyle's new subordinate.	Ireland, United Kingdom
2011	J. Edgar	J. Edgar Hoover	Leonardo DiCaprio	Focusing on Hoover's life from the 1919 Palmer Raids onward.	United States
2011	Just Go With It	Ian Maxtone-Jones	Dave Matthews	Katherine's frenemy from college, Devlin, confesses that she is divorcing Ian because of his homosexuality.	United States
2011	The Ledge	Chris	Christopher Gorham	Chris is Gavin's roommate.	United States
2011	Love Actually... Sucks!	Bridesman	Ryo van Kooten	Inspired by real-life events, the film tells a series of interconnected stories, several with LGBT relationships. The opening wedding banquet reveals a sex affair between the bridegroom and a bridesman. Other stories include a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who becomes involved with his senior student, and a role-playing lesbian couple.	Hong Kong
		Model	Tang Wei
		Painter	John Tai
2011	North Sea Texas	Pim	Jelle Florizoone	Pim and his mother, Yvette, live in the Belgian countryside with their Miniature Pinscher.	Belgium
2011	Romeos	Lukas	Rick Okon	Trans man Lukas falls in love with cis man Fabio	Germany
		Fabio	Maximilian Befort
2011	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Peter Guillam	Benedict Cumberbatch	Peter is a spy.	United Kingdom
2011	The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin	Private Benjamin Santos VIII	Vice Ganda	Santos joins the military to save his grandfather.	Philippines
2011	Weekend	Russell	Tom Cullen	Russell and Glen are two men who meet and begin a sexual relationship the weekend before one of them plans to leave the country.	United Kingdom
		Glen	Chris New
2012	Celeste and Jesse Forever	Scott	Elijah Wood	Celeste runs her own media company with a business partner, Scott.	United States
2012	Cloud Atlas	Rufus Sixsmith	James D'Arcy	Rufus is Robert's lover.	Germany, United States
2012	For a Good Time, Call...	Jesse	Justin Long	Jesse is Lauren's friend.	United States
2012	Four	Joe	Wendell Pierce	Joe, a married middle-aged black man, goes out on a date with a young man with his daughter and her date.	United States
2012	Ginger & Rosa	Mark	Timothy Spall	Both Marks are port of a group of older activists in Anti-nuclear movement.	United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada
		Mark II	Oliver Platt
2012	Hit and Run	Terry Rathbinn	Jess Rowland	Terry is Gil's brother and a police officer.	United States
2012	On the Road	Tall thin salesman	Steve Buscemi	Sal and Dean travel back to New York with a tall, thin salesman from whom Dean tries to get money in exchange for sex.	France, United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, United States, Canada
2012	The Paperboy	Ward Jansen	Matthew McConaughey	Ward is not resented by his brother Jack for being a homosexual, but for keeping it a secret from him.	United States
2012	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Brad	Johnny Simmons	Patrick and Brad, the high school quarterback at Charlie's school, are in a relationship.	United States
		Patrick	Ezra Miller
2012	Rock of Ages	Lonny Barnett	Russell Brand	Dupree is the owner of the Bourbon Room and Barnett is his right-hand man.	United States
		Dennis Dupree	Alec Baldwin
2012	Sassy Pants	Chip Hardy	Haley Joel Osment	Chip is Dale's boyfriend.	United States
		Dale Pinto	Diedrich Bader
2012	Speechless	Luke	Pierre-Matthieu Vital	A mute Frenchman (Luke) is found naked by the banks of a river in Wuhan in mainland China. He is rescued and sent to a local hospital where he is treated by a nurse who cares for him and later discovers the secrets of his past.	Hong Kong, China
2012	Struck by Lightning	Nicholas Forbes	Carter Jenkins	As Carson is finishing up the school paper at night, he catches wealthy student Nicholas Forbes and the drama club president Scott Thomas kissing.	United States
		Scott Thomas	Graham Rogers
2012	Ted	Guy	Patrick Warburton	Guy is John's co-worker and Patrick is his boyfriend.	United States
		Jared	Ryan Reynolds
2013	After the Dark	Jack	Freddie Stroma	In the third trial, Petra saves Jack, who is gay outside of the simulation, to preserve diversity.	Indonesia, United States
2013	The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin	Private Benjamin Santos VIII	Vice Ganda	On a mission in Paris, Praybeyt Benjamin and his platoon defeat a horde of zombies in a parody of Plants vs. Zombies, leading to his promotion to Colonel	Philippines
2013	Baggage Claim	Sam	Adam Brody	Aam is one of Montana's friends.	United States
2013	The Bling Ring	Marc Hall	Israel Broussard	Hall is a quiet student arriving as a new student at Indian Hills High School in Agoura Hills, California.	United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan
2013	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	Valentin	Sandor Funtek	Valentin is Adèle's close friend.	France, Belgium, Spain
2013	Free Fall	Kay Engel	Max Riemelt	While on a training course, Borgmann meets fellow police officer Engel, and a romance develops between the two men.	Germany
2013	G.B.F.	Tanner Daniels	Michael J. Willett	Daniels is a comic book geek who is the first "out of the closet gay" at his school. Van Camp is Tanner's best friend who is very feminine and sassy.	United States
		Brent Van Camp	Paul Iacono
2013	Geography Club	Russell Middlebrook	Cameron Deane Stewart	Following a group of high school students who feel like outsiders, some because of their sexual orientations. Middlebrook then finds himself helping his friend Min to form an after-school club for the students, so that they can hang out together for support.	United States
2013	Grown Ups 2	Kyle	Oliver Hudson	Kyle is a yoga teacher at Squats Fitness.	United States
		Nick	Nick Swardson
2013	Kick-Ass 2	Insect-Man	Robert Emms	Insect-Man is an insect-themed superhero and a member of the Justice Forever team. He was bullied, inspiring him to become a superhero to stand up for the defenseless. He does not wear a mask because hiding his identity would feel like going back into the closet.	United Kingdom, United States
2013	Kill Your Darlings	Lucien Carr	Dane DeHaan	Carr is an unruly character who holds strong anti-establishment beliefs who runs into Allen Ginsberg in 1944 Columbia University.	United Kingdom
2013	The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones	Alec Lightwood	Kevin Zegers	Magnus is a warlock.	Canada, Germany, United States, United Kingdom
2013	Philomena	Michael	Sean Mahon	Hess is a lawyer and senior official in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations.	France, United Kingdom, United States
2013	Pit Stop	Ernesto	Marcus DeAnda	Retelling the story of two men in a small town in Texas.	United States
		Gabe	Bill Heck
2013	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	Hai Mai	Derek Tsang	The youthful Mai is teased often by his teammates of the SDU.	Hong Kong
2013	Starred Up	Neville Love	Ben Mendelsohn	Neville falls in love with his male inmate.	United Kingdom
2013	Tom at the Farm	Tom Podowski	Xavier Dolan	Tom travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother, Francis.	Canada
2013	Voyage	Ryo	Ryo van Kooten	Filmed across Asia and Europe, the story follows the journey of Ryo, a young Hong Kong psychiatrist, who is accompanied by his male lover as he visits former patients in neighbouring countries of South East Asia. Several of his clients are themselves in LGBT relationships. (The film features frequent full-frontal male nudity.)	Hong Kong
		Jip	Jason Poon
2014	Blackbird	Randy Rousseau	Julian Walker	In a small baptist community in the south of Mississippi, Rousseau is a 17-year-old high school senior and talented singer juggles with his sexuality and religion while also dealing with the disappearance of his younger sister as it tore his family apart.	United States
2014	Boulevard	Nolan Mack	Robin Williams	Mack has worked at the same bank for almost 26 years in a life of monotony. He and his wife, Joy, have embraced their marriage as a convenient and comfortable distraction from facing reality	United States
2014	The Circle	Ernst Ostertag	Matthias Hungerbühler	Docudrama about Ernst Ostertag and Röbi Rapp, the first gay men to register a domestic partnership in Switzerland.	Switzerland
		Röbi Rapp	Sven Schelker
2014	Coming In	Robert	Ken Duken	Robert is the boyfriend of protagonist Tom Herzner.	Germany
2014	Date and Switch	Matty	Hunter Cope	Best friends Matty and Michael make a pact to have a sexual relationship with an older woman after breaking up with their high-school girlfriends, while Matty also comes out as gay to his ex-girlfriend Em.	United States
2014	Dear White People	Lionel Higgins	Tyler James Williams	Higgins, a black student, gets a chance to find his place at Winchester by being recruited by the school's most prestigious student newspaper to write a piece on Sam and the black experience at Winchester.	United States
2014	Futuro Beach	Donato	Wagner Moura	Donato leaves for Berlin in search of his German lover, Konrad, whom he had met ten years earlier at Praia do Futuro and saved from drowning.	Brazil, Germany
		Konrad	Clemens Schick
2014	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing	Benedict Cumberbatch (adult) Alex Lawther (young)	Biopic about Turing, who deciphered the code of the Enigma machine, a device used by Nazi Germany during World War II. After the end of the war, he is convicted of indecency because of his homosexuality, undergoes chemical castration, and later commits suicide. The young Turing was close to his classmate Christopher Morcom, and they passed written encoded notes to each other. Their friendship ends when Christopher dies from bovine tuberculosis. Turing names the Enigma-breaking machine "Christopher" after him.	United States
		Christopher Morcom	Jack Bannon
2014	Just Before I Go	Zeke Morgan	Kyle Gallner	Ted's nephew, Zeke, is secretly gay and is involved with a schoolmate, Romeo (Evan Ross).	United States
		Romeo Semple	Evan Ross
2014	Lilting	Kai	Andrew Leung	Retelling the story of a mother's attempt at understanding who her son was after his untimely death. Her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of his lover.	United Kingdom
		Richard	Ben Whishaw
2014	Love Is Strange	George Garea	Alfred Molina	Ben and George, a couple from Manhattan, get married after 39 years together.	United States, France
		Ben Hull	John Lithgow
2014	Obvious Child	Joey	Gabe Liedman	Joey is Donna and Nellie's friend, who is also a comedian.	United States
2014	Pride	Mark Ashton	Ben Schnetzer	Based on a true story, a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.	United Kingdom
		Mike Jackson	Joe Gilgun
		Jonathan Blake	Dominic West
		Gethin Roberts	Andrew Scott
		Jeff Cole	Freddie Fox
		Reggie	Chris Overton
		Ray	Joshua Hill
		Joe "Bromley" Cooper	George Mackay
		Cliff Barry	Bill Nighy
		Tim	Russel Tovey
2014	The Skeleton Twins	Milo Dean	Bill Hader	Milo reconnects with his high school English teacher Rich, with whom he had a sexual relationship when he was 15.	United States
2014	Space Station 76	Captain Glenn Terry	Patrick Wilson	Captain Terry, whose struggle with his homosexuality caused his breakup with Daniel, and then his alcoholism.	United States
		Daniel	Matthew Morrison
2014	The Way He Looks	Leonardo	Ghilherme Lobo	Leonardo is a blind high school student who falls in love with the new kid, Gabriel. Gabriel falls in love with Leo. He was once aroused when he saw Leo naked in the showers.	Brazil
		Gabriel	Fabio Audi
2014	White Bird in a Blizzard	Mickey	Mark Indelicato	Mickey is one of Kat's best pals from high school.	France, United States

2015–2019

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2015	4th Man Out	Adam	Evan Todd	Adam struggles to come out as gay to his three best friends.	United States
2015	American Ultra	Petey Douglas	Tony Hale	Douglas is Lasseter's former assistant.	United States
2015	Burnt	Tony Balerdi	Daniel Brühl	Tony is a restaurant owner who's in love with Adam.	United States
2015	The Danish Girl	Henrik Sandahl	Ben Whishaw	Gerbada introduces Einar, who dressed as Lili somewhat dowdy companion as Einar's cousin, at a party. This strategy is so successful that Lili stirs the amorous interest of a man named Henrik.	United Kingdom, United States
2015	Entourage	Lloyd Lee	Rex Lee	Lloyd marries Greg Louganis. His former boss, Ari, gives him away at the wedding.	United States
2015	Get Hard	Chris	T. J. Jagodowski	Darnell befriends a man named Chris, even after Chris aggressively flirts with him.	United States
2015	The Heroes of Evil	Aritz	Jorge Clemente	Outcast teenagers Esteban, Sarita and Aritz share a common context of humiliation by their classmates meet, develop a strong friendship and plot to exert revenge.	Spain
2015	Holding the Man	John Caleo	Craig Stott	Retelling of Conigrave's 15-year love affair with John Caleo, which started when they met in the mid-1970s at Xavier College, an all-boys Jesuit Catholic school in Melbourne, and follows their relationship through the 1990s when they both developed AIDS.	Australia
		Timothy Conigrave	Ryan Corr
2015	Holy Mess	Oscar	Anton Lundqvist	Centering around Simon and Oscar, a couple that is expecting a child along with their close friend Cissi (Rakel Wärmländer).	Sweden
		Simon	Anastasios Soulis
2015	James White	Nick	Scott Mescudi	Nick is White's friend who works at a resort in Mexico.	United States
2015	Legend	Ronnie Kray	Tom Hardy	Dealing with the Kray twins' career and the relationship that bound them together, and follows their gruesome career to life imprisonment in 1969.	United Kingdom, United States
		Teddy Smith	Taron Egerton
2015	Stonewall	Danny Winters	Jeremy Irvine	Shortly before fleeing the conservative countryside in the late 1960s and moving to New York City, Winters, a boy from Indiana, is discovered by friends while making love with his boyfriend.	United States
2015	Those People	Charlie	Jonathan Gordon	Charlie has always been in love with his best friend Sebastian. Both of them are too afraid to admit their love for each other. But after some life changing events happen in their lives, they try to figure out what their relationship really is.	United States
		Sebastian	Jason Ralph
2015	Utopians	Antonio Ming	Jackie Chow	Ming is the professor of Hins Gao, and later begins a romantic relationship with him.	Hong Kong
2015	Wild Horses	Ben Briggs	James Franco	Ben is kicked out of the house by his father for his homosexuality.	United States
2016	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	Himself	Graham Norton		United Kingdom, United States
2016	As You Are	Jack	Owen Campbell	Jack is clearly in love with Mark. They later reunite in private, where Mark implies his feelings for Jack, and they kiss passionately.	United States
		Mark	Charlie Heaton
2016	Being 17	Damien Delille	Kacey Mottet Klein	The movie follows the romantic and sexual awakening of Damien and Thomas as their initial animosity, expressed in violence, morphs into love.	France
		Thomas Chardoul	Corentin Fila
2016	Cell	Thomas "Tom" McCourt	Samuel L. Jackson	McCourt is a train conductor.	United States
2016	Center of My World	Phil	Louis Hofmann	When school begins, the mysterious Nicholas enters the class. Phil feels drawn to him and they soon engage in a passionate love affair, even though it turns Phil's feelings upside down because he does not know what Nicholas thinks of him.	Germany
		Nicholas	Jannik Schümann
2016	Curmudgeons	Jackie	Danny DeVito	Surrounding the relationship between two senior citizens, Jackie and Pajovic.	United States
		Ralph Pajovic	David Margulies
2016	Dirty Grandpa	Bradley	Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman	Bradley is a friend of Jason's old photography classmate Shadia.	United States
2016	Handsome Devil	Conor Masters	Nicholas Galitzine	Masters is Ned's new roommate. A new English teacher, Mr Sherry, arrives at the school, who, though stern, is encouraging towards Ned and Conor.	Ireland
		Dan Sherry	Andrew Scott
2016	Heartstone	Kristján	Blær Hinriksson	Focusing on two young friends – Thor and Kristján – on the verge of puberty.	Iceland
2016	Independence Day: Resurgence	Dr. Brackish Okun	Brent Spiner	Dr. Okun is a Scientist. Dr. Isaacs is his co-worker and lover.	United States
		Dr. Isaacs	John Storey
2016	It's Only the End of the World	Louis	Gaspard Ulliel	Louis is a playwright dealing with a terminal illness.	Canada, France
2016	King Cobra	Brent Corrigan	Garrett Clayton	Focusing on the life and early career of former pornographic film actor Sean Paul Lockhart.	United States
		Harlow Cuadra	Keegan Allen
		Joe Kerekes	James Franco
		Bryan Kocis	Christian Slater
		Mikey	Spencer Lofranco
2016	Miss Stevens	Sam	Anthony Quintal	Sam is an affable student of Stevens'.	United States
2016	The Mobfathers	Wulf	Gregory Wong	Wulf is a flamboyantly ex-cop.	Hong Kong
2016	Moonlight	Chiron Harris ("Little" / "Black")	Trevante Rhodes	Chiron is a young Black man who grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood in Miami.	United States
			Ashton Sanders
			Alex Hibbert
2016	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	Pete Regazolli	Dave Franco	Regazolli is one of Sanders' former frat brothers.	United States
2016	Nocturnal Animals	Carlos Holt	Michael Sheen	Holt is Alessia's husband.	United States
2016	Other People	David Mulcahey	Jesse Plemons	David has a strained relationship with his father, who still refuses to accept David's sexuality ten years after he came out. He has broken up with his boyfriend Paul.	United States
		Paul	Zach Woods
2016	Rage	Yūma Fujita	Satoshi Tsumabuki	Naoto hides out at a gay bathhouse in Tokyo to avoid people. One night, he is approached by Yuma, an open homosexual. Naoto resists Yuma at first, but Yuma holds Naoto down and they have rough sex. Then, Yuma takes Naoto out for dinner and learns that he does not have a place to stay. Yuma offers to let him stay with him until Naoto finds a permanent place and they both become housemates. They slowly fall in love and Yuma even introduces Naoto to his sick mother and his other friends.	Japan
		Onishi Naoto	Go Ayano
2016	Raw	Adrien	Rabah Naït Oufella	On her first night, Justine meets her roommate Adrien, and they are forced to partake in a week-long hazing ritual, welcoming the new students.	France, Belgium
2016	Spa Night	David	Joe Seo	David, an 18-year-old living in Koreatown, Los Angeles becomes an employee at a spa to help his financially struggling parents. He soon discovers illicit gay sex between the customers, which forces him to consider his own sexuality.	United States
2016	Tallulah	Andreas	Zachary Quinto	Unknown to Tallulah, Margo is struggling with her own marital problems after her ex-husband Stephen has left her for a man, Andreas, and is pressing Margo to finalize their divorce.	United States
		Stephen Mooney	John Benjamin Hickey
2016	Two Is a Family	Bernie	Antoine Bertrand	Bernie is a Frenchman who works in the film industry and offers Samuel a stunt job.	France
2017	Alien: Covenant	Carl Lope	Demián Bichir	Sergeant Lope is the head of the security unit aboard the Covenant and Sergeant Hallett's husband.	United Kingdom, United States
		Hallett	Nathaniel Dean
2017	Battle of the Sexes	Ted Tinling	Alan Cumming	Biopic based on champion tennis player Billie Jean King and the 1973 match between her and Bobby Riggs.	United Kingdom, United States
2017	Beach Rats	Frankie	Harris Dickinson	Frankie is a repressed Brooklyn teen who has sex with older men.	United States
2017	Beauty and the Beast	LeFou	Josh Gad	LeFou is Gaston's sidekick.	United States
2017	God's Own Country	Gheorghe Ionescu	Alec Secareanu	Following a young sheep farmer in Yorkshire whose life is transformed by a Romanian migrant worker.	United Kingdom
		Johnny Saxby	Josh O'Connor
2017	Lady Bird	Danny O'Neill	Lucas Hedges	After the opening night of the school production of Merrily We Roll Along, Lady Bird sees Danny kissing a boy in a bathroom stall so she breaks up with him.	United States
2017	My Friend Dahmer	Jeffrey Dahmer	Ross Lynch	Based on the serial killer's early life.Dahmer has shown to be obsessed with a male jogger.	United States
2017	Permission	Hale	David Joseph Craig	Hale is Anna's brother and Reece's boyfriend. Reece, Hale's boyfriend and Will's co-worker.	United States
		Reece	Morgan Spector
2017	Rift	Einar	Sigurdur Thor Oskarsson	Gunnar and Einar get to grips with their fractured relationship amid some spooky situations in a remote cabin in Iceland.	Iceland
		Gunnar	Bjorn Stefansson
2017	The Shape of Water	Giles	Richard Jenkins	Elisa's next door neighbor is closeted and fearful, but bravely helps her and the Amphibian Man.	United States
2017	Speech & Debate	Howie	Austin P. McKenzie	Howie is new to the school, lonely, and tries to form a GSA (gay student alliance) club, but is blocked by the predominantly male conservative school board.	United States
2017	Thirty Years of Adonis	Yang Ke	Adonis He Fei	Focusing on a young man named Yang Ke, who is a Beijing Opera actor. He decides to pursue acting, and soon becomes a commercial sex worker for men and women.	Hong Kong, Taiwan, China
2017	Tom of Finland	Touko Laaksonen	Pekka Strang	Laaksonen is an artist who known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art.	Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, United States
2018	Alex Strangelove	Alex Truelove	Daniel Doheny	At a party, Alex meets Elliot, an openly gay teenager. Alex's continued interactions with Elliot, who has an obvious crush on Alex, lead him to question his sexuality.	United States
		Elliott	Antonio Marziale
2018	Bird Box	Greg	BD Wong	Greg is a man with a gratuitous allusion to his husband.	United States
2018	Bohemian Rhapsody	Jim Hutton	Aaron McCusker	Retelling the story of the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of British rock band Queen, from the formation of the band in 1970 up to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium.	United Kingdom, United States
		Paul Prenter	Allen Leech
		John Reid	Aidan Gillen
2018	Boy Erased	Jared Eamons	Lucas Hedges	Jared's childhood in a fundamentalist family in Arkansas that enrolled him in conversion therapy. (Based on Garrard Conley's memoir of the same name.)	United States
2018	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock	Richard E. Grant	Hock is a foppish drifter who helps Israel forging and selling rare literary letters to bolster her failing writing career.	United States
2018	Come Sunday	Reggie	Lakeith Stanfield	Reggie is Pearson's accompanist.	United States
2018	Crazy Rich Asians	Oliver T'sien	Nico Santos	T'sien is Nick's second cousin.	United States, Singapore
2018	The Death & Life of John F. Donovan	John F. Donovan	Kit Harington	Donovan is a closeted actor.	Canada
2018	Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot	Donnie	Jonah Hill	Donnie is John Callahan's Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) sponsor.	United States
		Martingale	Ronnie Adrian
2018	Game Over, Man!	Joel aka "Baby Dunk"	Blake Anderson	The film has a comedic subplot about Joel's sexuality.	United States
2018	Giant Little Ones	Ray Winter	Kyle MacLachlan	Ray leaves his wife for another man, causing his son Franky to refuse to talk to him despite his pleas.	Canada
2018	Green Book	Don Shirley	Mahershala Ali	Shirley had a homosexual encounter with a white man at a pool.	United States
2018	The Happy Prince	Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas	Colin Morgan	Centering on how Wilde lives out his remaining days in isolation and looks back at his life with great irony and wit.	Germany, Belgium, Italy, United Kingdom
		Robbie Ross	Edwin Thomas
		Reggie Turner	Colin Firth
		Oscar Wilde	Rupert Everett
2018	Ideal Home	Erasmus Brumble	Steve Coogan	Erasmus, a famous chef, and Paul, the producer of his cooking show, are a couple. They live in a large showplace house in New Mexico.	United States
		Paul Morgan	Paul Rudd
2018	Love, Simon	Simon Spier	Nick Robinson	Based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.	United States
		Bram Greenfeld	Keiynan Lonsdale
2018	Mary Queen of Scots	Lord Darnley	Jack Lowden	Mary marries Darnley, only to discover him in bed with her private secretary, David Rizzio.	United Kingdom, United States
		David Rizzio	Ismael Cruz Córdova
2018	Rainbow's Sunset	Ramoncito Estrella	Eddie Garcia	Ramon who is married to a woman and has children comes out as an elderly man. He has a secret relationship with his long-time friend Fredo who is dying of cancer.	Philippines
		Alfredo Veneracion	Tony Mabesa
2018	School's out	Pierre Hoffman	Laurent Lafitte	Pierre is a substitute teacher who becomes obsessed with his students' strange behavior. He is in love with his male best friend who just had a child. He also has a crush on one of his male colleagues who appears to be straight.	France
2018	Set It Up	Duncan	Pete Davidson	Duncan is Charlie's roommate.	United States
2018	To All the Boys I've Loved Before	Lucas Krapf	Trezzo Mahoro	Lucas is one the crushes that Lara Jean Covey wrote a letter to and then locked away. Kitty, Lara's younger sister, found the letter and sent it to him without Lara's knowledge. After reading it, he told Lara he was gay.	United States
2018	Truth or Dare	Brad Chang	Hayden Szeto	Brad is closeted.	United States
2018	You Are the Apple of My Eye	Kazuki Sugimura	Ryosuke Yusa	Sugimura is in a romantic relationship with his Indian business partner.	Japan
2019	Booksmart	George	Noah Galvin	George and Alan are theater obsessed classmates of Amy and her best friend Molly.	United States
		Alan	Austin Crute
2019	Frankie	Michel	Pascal Greggory	Michel, Frankie's first husband, learned about his homosexuality.	United States, France, Portugal
2019	The Gentlemen	Fletcher	Hugh Grant	Fletcher is a fast-talking, cockney-accented hustler.	United Kingdom, United States
2019	The Good Liar	Steven	Russell Tovey	Steven does research on Hans, who raped Lili, confirming his identity in a DNA test using a lock of Hans' hair. It is revealed at the end of the film that Michael is Lili's grandson and Steven's boyfriend.	United Kingdom, United States
		Michael	Tunji Kasim
2019	Isn't It Romantic	Donny	Brandon Scott Jones	Donny is Natalie's normally gruff neighbor, who has always come across as a misogynist, becomes a flamboyant homosexual friend offering advice.	United States
2019	Jojo Rabbit	Captain Klenzendorf	Sam Rockwell	Set in 1945 in Nazi Germany, Klenzendorf and Freddy are in a secret relationship.	United States, New Zealand, Czech Republic
		Freddy Finkel	Alfie Allen
2019	Judy	Dan	Andy Nyman	Stan opens up to Judy Garland about the difficulties he and Dan have had maintaining their relationship in the face of legal persecution.	United States
		Stan	Daniel Cerqueira
2019	Monsoon	Kit	Henry Golding	Durin his journey, Kit falls for Lewis, an American whose father had fought in the war.	United States
		Lewis	Parker Sawyers
2019	Nevrland	Jacob	Simon Frühwirth	17-year-old Jacob and 26-year-old Kristjan begin an intimate relationship after meeting in a video chat.	Austria
		Kristjan	Paul Forman
2019	The Obituary of Tunde Johnson	Tunde Johnson	Steven Silver	Johnson is a Nigerian-American teenager who is in a secret relationship with his school's white lacrosse champion Soren.	United States
2019	Pain and Glory	Salvador Mallo	Antonio Banderas	Retelling the story of Salvador's childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his poor parents to a small village in Valencia. (The story was inspired by director Pedro Almodóvar's personal experience.)	Spain
2019	Rialto	Colm	Tom Vaughan-Lawlor	Colm is a closeted homosexual married to a woman. Jay is a hustler. They enter into an intimate relationship.	Ireland, United Kingdom
		Jay	Tom Glynn-Carney
2019	Rocketman	Elton John	Taron Egerton	Biopic about the singer-musician's journey dealing with drug addiction and accepting his homosexuality.	United Kingdom, United States
		John Reid	Richard Madden
2019	Straight Up	Ryder	James Scully	Ryder is Todd's longtime friend.	United States
		Todd	James Sweeney
2019	Suk Suk	Hoi	Ben Yuen	Despite having families of their own, Hoi and Pak fell in love in their twilight years.	Hong Kong
		Pak	Tai Bo
2019	What Men Want	Brandon Wallace	Josh Brener	Wallace is Ali's assistant.	United States

2020

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2020	The Boys in the Band	Michael	Jim Parsons	Based on the 1968 play of the same name, a group of men gather for a birthday party in New York City.	United States
		Harold	Zachary Quinto
		Donald	Matt Bomer
		Larry	Andrew Rannells
		Cowboy	Charlie Carver
		Emory	Robin de Jesús
		Bernard	Michael Benjamin Washington
		Hank	Tuc Watkins
2020	Breaking Fast	Kal	Michael Cassidy	Mo is a Muslim doctor in Los Angeles who is emotionally closed off following a painful breakup with his former partner Hassan.	United States
		Mo	Haaz Sleiman
2020	Falling	John Peterson	Viggo Mortensen	John lives with his husband Eric in California.	United States
		Eric Peterson	Terry Chen
2020	Fantasy Island	Brax Weaver / Tattoo	Jimmy O. Yang	Brax is the stepbrother of JD.	United States
2020	Freaky	Josh Detmer	Misha Osherovich	Josh is Millie's best friend.	United States
2020	Happiest Season	John	Dan Levy	John is Abby's best friend.	United States
2020	Isa Pang Bahaghari	Domingo "Domeng" delos Reyes	Phillip Salvador	Long-time friend of Rey, a returning seaman aiming to amend with his estranged wife and children. Domeng, a baklang martir who has unrequited love towards Rey since their teenage years, seeks to help his friend regarding his family issue.	Philippines
2020	Joe Bell	Jadin Bell	Reid Miller	Following the true story of a man named Joe Bell, who sets out walking across America to speak out against bullying and honoring his teenage son, Jadin Bell, who died by suicide after he was bullied for being gay.	United States
2020	Jump, Darling	Russell	Thomas Duplessie	A rookie drag queen reeling from a break-up.	Canada
2020	My Spy	Carlos	Devere Rogers	Carlos, Sophie's neighbor, and Todd are partners.	United States
		Todd	Noah Danby
2020	The Old Guard	Yusuf Al-Kaysani / Joe	Marwan Kenzari	Yusuf is a Saracen who fought against the Crusaders, and Niccolò is a Genovese knight who fought in the Crusades. They are in a romantic relationship.	United States
		Niccolò di Genova / Nicky	Luca Marinelli
2020	The Prom	Barry Glickman	James Corden	Barry is a narcissistic Broadway actor.	United States
2020	Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan	Kartik Singh	Ayushmann Khurrana	Kartik is an out young man in love with Aman, who is closeted. It is the first Bollywood feature film to show two men kissing passionately.	India
		Aman Tripathi	Jitendra Kumar
2020	Stage Mother	Ricky Metcalf	Eldon Thiele	Following a conservative church choir director who inherits a drag club in San Francisco started by her deceased son Ricky, from whom she was estranged after he came out as gay.	United States
2020	Summer of 85	Alexis Robin	Félix Lefebvre	The intense friendship and romance of teenagers Alexis and David during a summer in Normandy in 1985.	France
2020	Supernova	Sam	Colin Firth	Sam and Tusker are partners for 20 years and amateur astronomers.	United Kingdom
		Tusker	Stanley Tucci
2020	The Thing About Harry	Sam Baselli	Jake Borelli	Sam connects with his high school bully Harry, who reveals to him that he is pansexual. Sam begins a romantic relationship with Harry, and they later marry.	United States
2020	Uncle Frank	Frank Bledsoe	Paul Bettany	A college professor who has been living with a man named Walid ("Wally") for over ten years and tries to come out to his family.	United States
2020	Your Name Engraved Herein	Chang Jia-han	Edward Chen Hao-Sen	Chang Jia-han and Wang Po Tea are students who fall in love.	Taiwan
		Wang Po Te	Jing-Hua Tseng

2021

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2021	Benediction	Siegfried Sassoon	Jack Lowden	Following the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a British poet and decorated World War I combat veteran who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance. He had love affairs with several men during the 1920s.	United Kingdom
			Peter Capaldi		United States
2021	Candyman	Troy Cartwright	Nathan Stewart-Jarrett	Grady's partner is Troy, Brianna's brother.	United States, Canada
		Grady Greenberg	Kyle Kaminsky
2021	Cruella	Artie	John McCrea	Artie is the first openly gay character in a live-action Disney film.	United States
2021	The Dig	Stuart Piggott	Ben Chaplin	In the movie, the marriage between real life archeologists Stuart Piggott and his wife Peggy is portrayed as a May-September relationship between the young, fresh-out-of-grad school Peggy and the older, closeted gay man Stuart.	United Kingdom
2021	Everybody's Talking About Jamie	Jamie New / Mimi Me	Max Harwood	Jamie wants to be a drag queen.	United Kingdom, United States
2021	The French Dispatch	Roebuck Wright	Jeffrey Wright	Wright is an American author who chose exile in Ennui-sur-Blasé. He became a food writer, and his report here is centered on Lieutenant Nescaffier, the greatest chef of police cuisine.	United States
2021	Great Freedom	Hans Hoffmann	Franz Rogowski	In post-World War II West Germany, Hans is imprisoned by the post war government having previously been imprisoned in a concentration camp for infringing the Nazi anti-gay laws, which are still on the statute. Hans develops a relationship with his cellmate Viktor, a convicted murderer.	Austria, Germany
		Viktor Kohl	Georg Friedrich
2021	Halloween Kills	Big John	Scott MacArthur	Big John and Little John live together as a couple in Michael Myers' former house.	United States
		Little John	Michael McDonald
2021	Jungle Cruise	McGregor Houghton	Jack Whitehall	McGregor is the heroine's brother and reluctant assistant. He turned down three engagements with women because of his sexual orientation.	United States
2021	Licorice Pizza	Joel Wachs	Benny Safdie	Joel is a politician running for Mayor of Los Angeles.	United States
2021	Moneyboys	Liang Fei	Kai Ko	Featuring the journey of Liang Fei, whose world collapses when he realizes that his family accepts his money but not his homosexuality.	Taiwan, Austria, France, Belgium
2021	No Time to Die	Q	Ben Whishaw	When James Bond and Moneypenny arrived at Q's house, Q was setting up a date for himself and another man.	United Kingdom, United States
2021	Operation Hyacinth	Arek	Hubert Miłkowski	Arek is an informant in the investigation of murdered gay men.	Poland
2021	The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank	Benedict Cumberbatch	Phil is a repressed homosexual, and a charismatic rancher who likes to torment his brother's wife and step-son.	United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada, New Zealand
2021	Single All the Way	Peter	Michael Urie	Peter asks his best friend Nick to pose as his boyfriend, and they develop feelings for each other. James is the blind date that Peter's mother sets him up with.	United States
		Nick	Philemon Chambers
		James	Luke Macfarlane
2021	Swan Song	Dustin	Michael Urie	Dustin is Rita's nephew.	United States
		Pat Pitsenbarger	Udo Kier
2021	Tick, Tick... Boom!	Michael	Robin de Jesús	Michael is Jonathan's best friend.	United States

2022

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2022	Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe	Aristotle "Ari" Mendoza	Max Pelayo	Following two Mexican-American teenage boys who find an instant connection in 1987 El Paso, Texas	United States
		Dante Quintana	Reese Gonzales
2022	Badhaai Do	Shardul Thakur	Rajkummar Rao	Shardul enters into a lavender marriage with Suman Singh to escape the pressure from their families.	India
2022	The Blackening	Dewayne	Dewayne Perkins	Dewayne joins nine college besties at a cabin deep, deep in the woods over Juneteenth weekend when things takes a turn.	United States
2022	Bros	Bobby Lieber	Billy Eichner	Following two men in Manhattan who avoid commitment but are drawn to each other.	United States
		Aaron Shepard	Luke Macfarlane
2022	Downton Abbey: A New Era	Thomas Barrow	Rob James-Collier	Uncloseted butler at the manor, he leaves to travel the world with Guy Dexter, a movie star in a film production filmed on the estate.	United Kingdom, United States
2022	Fire Island	Charlie	James Scully	Following a group of friends who go on vacation to Fire Island, only for things to become complicated by classism and romance.	United States
		Howie	Bowen Yang
		Noah	Joel Kim Booster
		Will	Conrad Ricamora
2022	The Inspection	Ellis French	Jeremy Pope	Following a young black man who defiantly endures brutal training at a Marine Corps boot camp, seeking approval from his homophobic mother.	United States
2022	A Madea Homecoming	Timothy "Tim" Marshall	Brandon Black	Tim is Cora's grandson and Laura's son who is struggling to come out	United States
2022	My Fake Boyfriend	Andrew	Keiynan Lonsdale	Andrew is trying to find a way to get over his toxic ex-boyfriend when meddling friends Jake and Kelly get involved.	Canada
2022	My Policeman	Patrick Hazlewood	David Dawson	Set in 1950s Brighton, Patrick is a museum curator in a relationship with a married policeman.	United States
			Rupert Everett
2022	Punch	Jim	Jordan Oosterhof	Jim is a boxer growing up in a seaside town in New Zealand where homophobia is alive and kicking	New Zealand
2022	See How They Run	Mervyn Cocker-Norris	David Oyelowo	Mervyn is a well-known playwright and screenwriter.	United States, United Kingdom
2022	Spoiler Alert	Michael Ausiello	Jim Parsons	Based on the Ausiello's 2017 memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies.	United States
		Kit Cowan	Ben Aldridge
2022	Swallowed	Benjamin	Cooper Koch	Benjamin is celebrating their last night together with his friend Dom in a small Maine town before Ben flies to Los Angeles to become a gay porn star.	United States
2022	Three Months	Caleb Kahn	Troye Sivan	Caleb is a South Florida boy realizes he has been exposed to HIV.	United States
2022	Two And One	Tino	Miggy Jimenez	Tino and Chan are both "tops" and sexually incompatible. They agree to find a "bottom" to have a threesome with, and meet Joaquin.	Philippines
		Chan	Paolo Pangilinan
		Joaquin	Cedrick Juan
2022	The Whale	Charlie	Brendan Fraser	Charlie left his family for a man, who later died. He then went on to binge eat out of pain and guilt.	United Kingdom, United States
2022	Winter Boy	Lucas	Paul Kircher	Lucas is a teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide.	France

2023

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2023	All of Us Strangers	Adam	Andrew Scott	Adam and Harry are neighbors in a modern London apartment tower, who develop a romantic relationship.	United Kingdom
		Harry	Paul Mescal
2023	American Fiction	Clifford "Cliff" Ellison	Sterling K. Brown	Cliff is a plastic surgeon and brother to Monk and Lisa, who is recently uncloseted as a homosexual.	United States
2023	Asteroid City	Conrad Earp	Edward Norton	Earp and Hall are lovers.	United States
		Jones Hall	Jason Schwartzman
2023	Broken Heart's Trip	TBA	Christian Bables	Plays as a host for a reality television show with five other LGBT contestants	Philippines
2023	Cassandro	Cassandro	Gael García Bernal	Cassandro is a wrestler.	United States
2023	The Critic	Jimmy Erskine	Ian McKellen	Erskine is a theatre critic.	United Kingdom
2023	Dicks: The Musical	Harrison	Nathan Lane	Harrison is Craig and Trevor's newly out father.	United States
2023	Down Low	Gary	Zachary Quinto	Gary is a newly-divorced father of two	United States
2023	Fairyland	Steve Abbott	Scoot McNairy	Shortly after the death of her mother in a car accident in 1973, Alysia Abbott moves to San Francisco to live with her father Steve Abbott, a poet and activist who has come out.	United States
2023	Femme	Jules	Nathan Stewart-Jarrett	Jules is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack.	United States
2023	Good Grief	Marc Dreyfus	Dan Levy	Oliver is Marc's late husband.	United States
		Oliver	Luke Evans
2023	Knock at the Cabin	Andrew	Ben Aldridge	Andrew and Eric are married.	United States
		Eric	Jonathan Groff
2023	Marry My Dead Body	Mao Pang-yu (Mao Mao)	Austin Lin	Mao was discussing marriage with his boyfriend but died unjustly because of an accident.	Taiwan
2023	Nuovo Olimpo	Enea	Damiano Gavino	Enea and Pietro are lovers.	Italy
		Pietro	Andrea Di Luigi
2023	Our Son	Gabriel	Billy Porter	Gabriel and Nicky are a divorced couple battling for their son's custody.	United States
		Nicky	Luke Evans
2023	Passages	Martin	Ben Whishaw	Martin is married to Tomas.	France
2023	Red, White & Royal Blue	Prince Henry	Nicholas Galitzine	Henry is the spare to the British throne.	United States
2023	Rustin	Bayard Rustin	Colman Domingo	Circling the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.	United States
2023	Strange Way of Life	Sheriff Jake	Ethan Hawke	Jake and Silva are old friends.	Spain
		Silva	Pedro Pascal
2023	Theater Camp	Gigi Charbonier	Owen Thiele	Charbonier is a flamboyant costume designer	United States

2024

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2024	Fly Me to the Moon	Lance Vespertine	Jim Rash	Vespertine is an auteur director and Kelly’s friend, who goes to great lengths to shoot the perfect fake moon landing.	United States
2024	Griffin in Summer	Griffin Nafly	Everett Blunck	Nafly is a fourteen-year-old ambitious playwright, whose life take an unexpected turn when a handsome 25-year-old handyman named Brad hired by his mum enters the picture.	United States
2024	High Tide	Lourenço	Marco Pigossi	Lourenço is a Brazilian Immigrant who develops a romance with Maurice, a nurse. Scott is the owner of the guest cottage Lourenço is staying in.	United States
		Maurice	James Bland
		Scott	Bill Irwin
		Todd	Bryan Batt
2024	I Don't Understand You	Cole	Andrew Rannells	Cole and Dom are a couple.	United States
		Dom	Nick Kroll
2024	On Swift Horses	Henry	Diego Calva	Lee's charismatic younger brother and Korean War veteran Julius finds employment in a Las Vagas casino and begins a secret romantic relationship with a male co-worker, Henry.	United States
		Julius	Jacob Elordi
2024	Queer	William Lee	Daniel Craig	In 1940s Mexico City, American expat Lee becomes infatuated with drug user Allerton, a discharged American Navy.	Italy, United States
2024	A Quiet Place: Day One	Eric	Joseph Quinn	Eric is a law student who joins Sam in escaping from the creatures. (His sexuality is never revealed in the film and was only described as such after release by the film's director.)	United States
2024	Stress Positions	Terry Goon	John Early	Bahlul recovers from a broken leg while quarantining with his uncle Terry.	United States

See also

• List of film franchises with LGBT characters
• List of LGBT-related films
• List of LGBT-related films by year
• Films about intersex

Further reading

• Barrios, Richard (2003). Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall (1st ed.). United Kingdom: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415923286.
• Davies, Steven Paul (2008). Out at the Movies: A History of Gay Cinema (1st ed.). Harpenden, United Kingdom: Kamera Books. ISBN 978-1842432914.
• Hadleigh, Boze (1993). The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films: Their Stars, Makers, Characters,and Critics. New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0806513411.
• Russo, Vito (25 June 1979). "The Closet Syndrome: Gays in Hollywood". The Village Voice. (2019 reprint)