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Bradley Manning - Gay Martyr

Bradley Manning Documentary on PBS

Watch the full hour documentary exploring the life of Bradley Manning, who leaked thousands of documents to Wikileaks.

The Gay Bar: Is It Dying?

The Gay Bar is it Dying?

Great coverage from Slate on this vexing issue in this Internet age with increasingly progressive gay rights.

The Fifty Gayest Ads of All Time

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Why is it still so shocking to see gay people in mainstream ads? At a time when every other demographic is practically shoehorned into marketing for the sake of diversity, gays and lesbians are still all but invisible in the TV advertising landscape. But while you might not have seen many yourself, gay-themed TV ads are definitely out there. To close out Gay Pride Month, we tracked down 50 of them from around the world and organized them into seven categories that seem to keep popping up ("Lesbians Are Hot," "Don't Tell Mom," etc.). Check out the collection after the jump.

THE BROKEN HEARTS CLUB

QUIRKY FACTOR: An oddball mix of actors, some of whom (Timothy Olyphant, Zach Braff) are in this film before going on to much bigger things, and one who seems to be here on his first step out to pasture (Dean Cain, at least I guess until he's a regular on Housewives).

BEST SCENE: The very meta scene in the cafe where they Bitch that noone makes gay movies without people dying of AIDS or overemoting their lives. Very smart, very meta.

GAY DEATH: Yes, there is one but its poignant and sad and he's left with a lamenting partner a la "Four Weddings and a Funeral."

CRINGE FACTOR: Given that almost all of the actors are (apparently) straight, they all pretty much play it "straight" with the man-on-man kiss/hug portion. John Mahoney from "Frasier" is the worst drag queen on Earth, however; could he at least have removed his white grubby tank top before slapping on that dress? His singing performance, however, is perfectly cut to one line...

OVERALL: A friendly, quirky LA-scene comedy obviously pre-L Word with all its posturing and arty louche disposition. Nice romantic gestures, boy loses boy, boy gets boy back again, new boy comes out, older boy goes to Europe. Recommended.

RATING: *** out of 5

This Guy Did A Good Job of Picking 101

Top 101 Movies at the Start

So where to start? Well let's start with the movies I have seen. 101 of the top gay movies, that in my opinion were the most affecting, artistic and heartfelt works in Queer film ever since the dawn of film making... not much to ask for, perhaps, but a start.

The list covers the gamut: American drama, World cinema, New Queer cinema, Madcap drag comedy, documentary, Camp Classics, Not Really Gay, Auteurs, Oddball, and a few Life Changing Films that, yes, changed my life). Here goes:

A Home At The End of the World
A Single Man
Adventures of Felix
All About Eve
All About My Mother
American Beauty
An Englishman in New York
Angels in America
Another Country
Bad Education
Beautiful Thing
Before Night Falls
Billy Elliott
Bound
Boy's Don't Cry
Breakfast on Pluto
Brokeback Mountain
Can't Stop The Music
Capote
Celluloid Closet
Chuck and Buck
Consenting Adults
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Far From Heaven
Fresa Y Chocolat
Fucking Amal
Get Real
Go
Gods and Monsters
Hairspray
Happiness
Happy Endings
Happy Together
Head On
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
High Art
History Boys
Howl
Kinsey
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Law of Desire
Less Than Zero
Living End
Longtime Companion
Lost Language of Cranes
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Maurice
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Express
Milk
Muriel's Wedding
My Beautiful Laundrette
My Own Private Idaho
Mysterious Skin
Okoge
Paris is Burning
Parting Glances
Philadelphia
Pink Flamingos
Poison
Postcards From the Edge
Prick Up Your Ears
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Rent
Rope
Shortbus
Showgirls
Six Degrees of Separation
South Park Bigger Longer Uncut
Sum of Us
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Taking Woodstock
The Birdcage
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveiros
The Boys in the Band
The Color Purple
The Crying Game
The Deep End
The Fluffer
The Hours
The Kids Are Allright
The Mudge Boy
The Naked Civil Servant
The Next Best Thing
The Opposite of Sex
The Times of Harvey Milk
The Wedding Banquet
The Witnesses
The Women
Threesome
Together
Undertow
Velvet Goldmine
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Wild Reeds
Women in Love
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Young Soul Rebels
Your Friends and Neighbours