Homophobia manifests from many different insecurities, but in Triple Standard, one athlete’s prejudice is a symptom of his own struggle to come to terms with his sexuality. Ben lusts after his bad boy classmate Johnny, but when he’s offered a ride home one night, what seems like a dreaming coming true descends into heartbreak. It’s the age-old high school crush storyline.
Starring Broadchurch’s Chris Mason, Wonderkid focusses on a gay professional footballer who’s struggling with his sexuality in the high-pressured and masculine world of the Premiership League.
There, Johnny Saxby (played by The Crown's Josh O'Connor) is frankly.
But as is much the case in Tinseltown, he’s living a lie, and upon his return he attempts to rekindle a closeted relationship from his past. Francis Lee's feature film takes Brokeback Mountain and gives it a needed upgrade set in West Yorkshire. I AM SYD STONE (2014)ĭirected by Denis Theriault, this 10-minute visual follows a Hollywood hunk as he returns home. The days of the gay porn industry serving as a bastion of safer sex practices for a community in crisis (see Skee, 1997, 53) seem now to be long gone. Kendall wrote in 2004 (with Funk, 105), but is now the norm. Gay Times have rounded up just five of the best gay short films out there that you can watch online. After all, bareback is not creeping back into gay porn videos, as vocal anti-gay porn scholar Christopher N. From tackling the homophobic world of football, to a teacher exploring the sex party scene in New York City, they are touching upon real life emotions that your local Odeon is probably little way off from showing anytime soon. And GoFish is actually a public company.While mainstream Hollywood continues to catch up when it comes to LGBTQ representation in blockbuster movies, there are plenty of directors out there highlighting issues within the gay community through slick visuals.įor now, some of the most compelling and hard-hitting LGBTQ cinema exists in short films. These sites aren’t hiding out and trying to evade the law – they’re funded by well known venture capitalists and, in Veoh’s case, copyright holders. Its not clear if the MPAA and networks just aren’t focusing on these smaller video sharing sites yet, or if DMCA notices are simply being ignored. VideoHybrid even gives statistics showing exactly how many times copyrights have been violated.
And new site VideoHybrid is in a class of its own, with dozens of full length movies and virtually every popular TV show. Watch any episode from any of the 11 seasons of SouthPark on. Watch, for example, The Office on DailyMotion, Scrubs on GoFish, or SouthPark on Veoh ( update: GoFish and Veoh have apparently removed the shows I linked to).Īnd if searching for the shows on these sites is just too much work, there are other sites that aggregate and organize this content, and embed it on their own sites. Gay Times have rounded up just five of the best gay short films out there that you can watch online. The smaller guys are now stepping in to fill the void.įull length copies of well known TV shows and/or movies are readily available on a number of YouTube competitors. But limits on video length, DMCA takedown notices and billion dollar lawsuits have damaged YouTube’s ability to facilitate serious copyright infringement.
YouTube is clearly the most popular video sharing site on the web.