These days, queer movies come in all shapes and styles, from handsomely mounted biopics (“Milk”) to kid-friendly rom-coms.
That’s a good thing; you want queer art to enjoy variety and novelty, and appeal to all audiences in the LGBTQ community.
But sometimes, you want something very specific from a queer film; you want it to be sexy as hell.When queer movies started bubbling into the mainstream in the early ’90s via movies like “Philadelphia,” they tended to be slightly sanitized, lacking much in the way of physical depictions of intimacy.
That’s changed as the years have gone on.
Thanks to films like “Brokeback Mountain,” there’s now a ton of modern examples of queer films that aren’t shy about their leads getting it on.
But there’s a longer history of sexy queer cinema that goes back well before the ’90s, even if many of those…
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