Let’s Be a clichéd gay movie

I'm the hero's overweight female best friend. I'm jealous, but also there for him til the end.

I usually have the best lines.

I’m DL Fave, David Pevsner

1990s-2000

If it’s a European gay-themed film, the hero will have more sex with women than men.

If it’s American, the hero will barely have sex at all.

Awkward, skittish, bookish gay man has a crush on football/rugby/(insert manly sport here) player. They're thrown in together in some way and fireworks! magic!

Something happens at a sports practice - and the football player looks disturbed as the the bookish guy walks away by himself.

I'm the stunned girlfriend/wife who totally did not see it.

I'm Andrew Garfield.

R6. Mr Damon in itty bitty lime green speedo.

I'm the trailer or the VHS/DVD cover. I have a lot of titilating pictures of partial asses or silhouettes or treasure trails. I lead you to beleive there will be hot sex scenes with gratuitous nudity that last long enough for you to come. I usually don't because the director doesn't want to "make porn."

I'm the warmly accepting parents of the gay protagonist. Hugs and tears ensue after the reluctant "coming out."

I am the gay man in the film that guides the protagonist to getting who he seeks. I am usually a big black drag queen, or a fairy type older white guy. But no matter the form I take I am the gay no one is ever attracted to in the film. I am just the gay Mammy.

I am the impossibly hot love interest of the male protagonist. See Bros.

I'm one of the leads. I die.

I’m the protagonist’s fabulous NYC apartment yet I work at a non profit. No flatmates.

I don't think gay movies are any more (or less) clichéd than straight romcoms, dramas, etc.

I'm just glad for the more honest representations of our lives. After messes like Cruising, Boys in the Band, Staircase, and others of that ilk to see Ennis and Jake, Oliver and Elio in passionate embrace is thrilling, moving, and yes, hot.

I would like to see two ordinary Joes in a film. Not hot, not confused, not tortured, just in love and living a regular life.

I'm the straight (or "straight") actor playing the lead. I will give interviews talking about how hard it was to kiss a guy!

I'm the picturesque village, decorated for Christmas, that enthusiastically embraces gay men, but only long as they are handsome and monogamously married.

I'm the sassy, cynical African-American hag who befriended the protagonist in college and has been closerthanthis for more than a decade.

R14 Ennis and Jake were tortured and confused. And one was murdered.

Thank you, OP, for the correct use “clichéd.

I’m the supportive mom and I am SASSY!

I’m the entirety of Weekend.

I’m the inevitable Bowen Yang cameo.

I am the awkward dildo, being discovered for laughs and more present than any actual penis.

I'm the club the characters all hang out in, which looks exactly the same in every gay-themed movie.

I'm the generic "club music" playing in the background, because we couldn't afford the rights to any popular songs

I am a washed out female TV star of the 80s or 90s, appearing as the requisite faghag.

I'm the elder Buddy Cole style character who imparts his gay wisdom with much pointless bitchery.

I'm the two main male characters who look like models, and one's a lawyer and one's a doctor.

I'm the characters saying, "but we've been such good friends FOREVER!" and they're in their twenties.

I'm the endless virtue!

I’m the end credits that are as long as the film.

I'm the Kylie Minogue song on the soundtrack.

R14, that’s “My Beautiful Laundrette”.

I’m the dancing around the topic of when you get 💩 on your 🍆

We’re the flannel shirts. There are ALWAYS flannel shirts, even sometimes on the men!

r31, I'm the "Thanks" section that lists a whole bunch of nobodies.

R14 wtf was wrong with The Boys in the band? Who wants to watch a movie about gay guys in the 60s that all get along, have a very healthy sense of self, have no inner qualms about being gay, are all out of the closet and happy and emotionally healthy..

Boys in the Band does not belong next to Cruising!

I’m the mom being played by a drag queen.

I'm the sad "boy loses boy" montage sequence 2/3rds of the way through. Wistful, cooing noises from a pitchy untrained soprano accompanies me.

I’m how they’re both tops

I'm the very sexy jockey guy that all the girls want but secretly lust after the recently out gay guy in the school marching band.

Was masturbating with a peach a cliché? Asking for a friend.

Technically it does R38 - same director.

When I was a young gay in the early 90s, “The Boys in the Band” was considered a movie we weren’t supposed to like. It was called self-loathing, cringe, etc.

I finally saw it years later and thought it was great.

I'm the swimming scene - be it pool, river or ocean.

I'm here so the director can get his leading men to strip off and get wet without having to film a sex scene.

I'm the "sassy", femme, black, finger-snapping gay friend who later is shown to have a studly, masculine boyfriend.

Who needs AI, the character is simply transcribed from every gay show ever!

Shit, I forgot, R44. I gueeesss BitB is an exploitation movie too? But nothing like Cruising, yuck.

I am the phallic foodstuffs waved around to great comic effect, bananas being the most popular. Cucumbers, corndogs, and eggplant are other possibilities.

I'm a straight female. I haven't seen that many gay movies. After reading this thread, I'm not mad about that. I remember one from Australia decades ago where the guy might have been played by Russell Crowe. I think his working class father lovingly accepted him and bought him some gay porn? Yeah, that happened. Especially 25 years ago.

The Sum of Us r50.

I’m Wilford Brimley standing up in church saying “And I’m gay, too.”

I'm the scene in this mainstream-friendly, second-rate gay film where the barely-of-age, exploring-his-sexuality protagonist walks into a gay bar/club for the very first time. Against a background of pumping techno music, our wide-eyed hero takes in his surroundings as he slowly makes his way through the venue. There are same-sex couples sucking the face of each other left, right, and center, just so that even the dimmest straight viewer cannot be mistaken about what kind of club this is. Of course, all the guys stop their conversation briefly to eye up the "fresh meat" in the least subtle way possible.

For the lesbian version, see "Blue is the Warmest Color."

I'm the rough trade that beats up the horny ne'er do well lascivious bottom.

I'm the ambiguous possibly gay dude. Is he or isn't he? We never find out.

I’m the bully or homophobe who is secretly gay or trans who comes out at the end. Stunning and brave!

I’m the homophobic character praying in a church while reconciling her beliefs before the inevitable “I support you” monologue.

I'm the casting list for the mother of the main character.

I start with Andrea Martin and end with Judith Light.

I'm here for you Molly Ringwald and your obsessive stalker director what is my next line... hello?

Line!

These are mostly tropes from American made films. International films are much more realistic and varied. Tubi has a ton of them.

I’m the teacher who sees right through you.

I’m the majority of the cast that was hired for looks and the ability to sleep with the director/producers.

Can I act? You seemed pretty convinced that your 3 inch erect dick got me off.

So, yeah. I can act.

I’m Mara Hobel as the chubby hag.

I’m the elder, old-school butch lesbian who serves as a pillar of wisdom. I’m kind of like Yoda.

I'm the half of the once-blissful, idealized young couple who seeks the "easy" way out and flees into a straight marriage

Most of them are coming age stories- as if only youngsters are gay.

R10- Is your name Aunt Jemima?

I'm the hapless Elderly creating my first on-line dating profile, tutored by a sassy femme Twink. I am taken aback when he tells me I can't say I'm 58 and a bottom. "Put down 'hung top, 38.'"

I'm the vicious homophobe.

I will be found sucking someone's dick at some point.

I am the sensitive self righteous morons protesting the movie , that has not been made yet , because it will show men dressed in leather , fucking each other and sticking their hands and arms up someone’s ass in the 1970s just as HIV was taking hold. .

How unfair how homophobic. This movie needs to be shut down before it starts. Gay men are not like that .