Have you watched any gay-themed movies/series/etc?

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What was the reason you watched it? How was it? If you haven't, any movies/series in mind that you are considering?
I watched a gay-themed mainstream movie, Call Me By Your Name. I was on a long flight and decided to use my headphones with the inflight entertainment system. This was a few years ago, the movie was free, and I wanted to watch it since it won a bunch of awards.

It really hit me on a personal level. All of the honest love and exploration between two guys, set against the confusing challenges of growing up for one of them, and what turns out to be the charade of straight behavior and expectations in society for the other. At the time I was ending a long term relationship with my ex-gf, and starting a relationship with a new girlfriend. Both of us have mutual friends who are gay, and on some levels this movie put a lot of things into perspective for me. A new appreciation of what love means, no matter if you are gay or straight.
 

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I tried to watch some of "The L Word", not a fan. "Orange is the New Black" and its British source series were both nice, seemed more grounded in reality while offering perspectives I would necessarily recognize as a straight guy...the aforementioned was awash in conformation bias about architects of their own destruction interlaced with mildly arousing skinemax quality porn.
I always thought "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" nicely straddled dwelling within gay stereotypes and promoting more camaraderie amongst men of all sexual expressions.
 

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Is it not an obligation of Hollywood now to have at least one gay/lesbian in every movie/tv series.
Preferably the main relation?!

Personally I did love "will and grace". But I must say am saturated by that quota. I'm at a point that my wife and me do a check list of lgbtq appearance in everything we see and it's close to 100%

I can now say that straight relation appearance in what we watch is the minority. It's bug me a bit since it's flip from none to saturated in 10 years. At the end I would appreciate a more accurate proportion to the reality.
 

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What was the reason you watched it? How was it? If you haven't, any movies/series in mind that you are considering?
I think the first approach was Victor Victoria. No reason it just was on tv, there must be a reason. This was ages ago but my sensation is that was a powerful story.
Now a days is hard not to find on any story an LGTB added character but is hard to find the story supporting it.
For example on money heist season 5 a character was supposed to be trans but it was portrait by a woman born as woman making the attempt laughable.
On star trek discovery they make a couple between the doctor and a science officer but even they appeared to be gay on real life it didn't add anything to the story and felt forced to me, I mean riker could easily be bi or even gay overcompensating but I wouldn't feel anyway different about riker whatever his orientation was, perhaps is better to leave the sexuality untold and let the viewers assume his.
On black sails there is a twist but its wonderfully performed, I don't want to spoil it for anyone.
 

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I think the first approach was Victor Victoria. No reason it just was on tv, there must be a reason. This was ages ago but my sensation is that was a powerful story.
Now a days is hard not to find on any story an LGTB added character but is hard to find the story supporting it.
For example on money heist season 5 a character was supposed to be trans but it was portrait by a woman born as woman making the attempt laughable.
On star trek discovery they make a couple between the doctor and a science officer but even they appeared to be gay on real life it didn't add anything to the story and felt forced to me, I mean riker could easily be bi or even gay overcompensating but I wouldn't feel anyway different about riker whatever his orientation was, perhaps is better to leave the sexuality untold and let the viewers assume his.
On black sails there is a twist but its wonderfully performed, I don't want to spoil it for anyone.
Regarding money Heist, excuse me? Not every trans woman is obviously trans, some look like cis women and you could sleep with a trans woman without knowing her past. You're clearly uneducated on this subject.