The gay Everett has said he thinks his own coming out in 1989 diminished his career as an actor.
Please, feel free to express that outrage - courteously - on our website and suggest some ideas for our next outing.ĭirector Marek Kanievska’s stylish 1984 adaptation of Julian Mitchell’s play Another Country was the movie that introduced the world to Rupert Everett – not to mention Cary Elwes and recent Oscar winner Colin Firth.
(And bless the existence of Netflix, on which most of these films can either be ordered via disc or streamed.)Īs with any list that limits itself to 25 - or 27, if you really want to get picky, as two of our items are “double features” - we’re likely missing a title and you’ll feel outraged over its exclusion. Some you might not even have been considered gay, yet they hold a unique place both in our history and in the motion picture terrain that defines them as such. Some of these films you’ve heard of, but possibly have never seen. Yes, the first two times out, we had to hit the obvious notes - Brokeback Mountain, La Cage, Bound, Priscilla - but once you start to reach deeper into our cinematic heritage, new takes on timeworn themes start to emerge. This third list branches even further into the LGBT film canon than the first two installments, and in that sense, it achieves even greater depth. But let’s look at 3D from a non-literal standpoint.