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Hello subscriber, What a month I have had. The website has been in repair to make all the pages have the same look-and-feel. And that with more than 110 titles plus all the general pages makes a lot of manhours. But it, as it is almost ready, has already paid off. We have crossed the barrier of 100 visitors per day and 500 hits per day. In total over 2.000 visitors have visited the website and there were way over 7.000 hits this month! Some more statistics: there are now 1.410 pictures, 5.385 internal and 794 external links in this website. So, come and visit the About Gay Movies website again and see what has been changed since your last visit. More changes and titles will be added soon. Kind regards, Eric

New titles I add new titles all the time. These were the titles that were added the last month. Bishonen Jet is the star gigolo in Hong Kong. Arrogant, sexy, everyone falls in love with him, but he falls in love with no one... until one day he meets Sam, the hunkiest policeman to ever pound a beat on Hollywood Road. Read more Butterfly Lovers In 3A.D., during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a very pretty, very privileged girl like a boy so she may be educated in a local boarding school. There, she falls in love with a poor, but handsome and industrious young man, but their short love affair ends in disaster. Read more East Palace West Palace In China, homosexuality isn't illegal, but homosexuals are routinely persecuted by police and arrested for "hooliganism". The film focuses on a young gay writer A-Lan who, being attracted to a young policeman, manages to have himself interrogated for a whole night. His life-story which he tells during the interrogation reflects the general repression of the Chinese society. The policeman's attitude shifts from the initial revulsion to fascination and, finally, to attraction. Read more Making Love A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. Zach and Claire live a comfortable life secure in their love for one another when Bart, a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach's office and awakens unfamiliar feelings in him. Read more Lost language of the cranes, The The rigid, angular movement of construction cranes becomes a metaphor for the destructive sexual hypocrisy that rips at one family in this compelling and affecting BBC adaption of David Leavitt's literary masterpiece. Philip, a London college student, is falling in love with a headstrong American - a young man named Elliot. The relationship makes him determined to tell his reserved English parents, an academician and a book editor, of his homosexuality. But his revelation exposes a foundation of hidden secrets and repressed passions that threatens to destroy the family - even if it promises to set each of its members free. Read more Portrait of a marriage Based on the biography by Nigel Nicolson, it tells the true story of the marriage of his parents, Harold Nicolson and the author Vita Sackville-West, who carried on a long-term passionate love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis. It is an absolutely convincing portrayal of a marriage that, although between two people who found most of their sexual release in homosexual contacts, was a loving partnership that far surpassed many conventional marriages. Read more Sebastian 16 year old Sebastian behaves strangely. He stays alone in his room for hours thinking and doesn't talk to his parents as he used to. He refuses to explain to them what his problem is. The truth is that he slowly discovers that he feels strangely for his best friend Ulf. Soon he is going to accept his true self - that he is gay and that he is also in love with his best friend Ulf. Read more Swordman II The lead character in the show is a man who betrayed his brother and stole the secret book to become the greatest martial art expert (The Invicible Master Asia). However there is a price to pay. He has to castrate himself. For the honour, greed and lust for power, he did. As he trained himself, he became more feminine in appearance. So much so that he met by accident, Ling. Ling mistaken him for a her. Read more Updates There were many small and larger updates of almost all the pages on the website. The ones that had a major update are mentioned here. Adieu Forain An old and sick fair man, his son and a danser in transvestite journeys travel in an old van through Marocco. In the back are the remains of what once was a popular entertainment: a wheel of fortune. Transvestity is in Marocco, different from the West, an old custom. Once born out of neccesity because a 'real woman' on stage was up till the end of the sixties a sin according to the islamic laws. But who expects that all adversity brings a closeness between the three carnies is wrong. Happiness, friendship nor humour have a place in Adieu Forain. The only thing that connects the three men is the endless road. Read more Happy together Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast. Read more Jeffrey Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams (who happens to be HIV-positive) and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying. Read more Like it is Craig is a 21 year old northern lad-about-town, making cash from illegal bare-knuckle fights. His is a hard and ugly world where survival means winning. To Craig's mates, trapped in a macho world of bravado and violence, he is 'one of us' but Craig knows that he is gay 'one of them'. A chance meeting outside a club leads Craig to a brief and clumsy sexual encounter with Matt, a self-assured Londoner visiting Blackpool, a liaison that irrevocably changes both their lives. Read more Longtime Companion Perhaps the first film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1980. First referred to as "Gay - Related - Immune - Disorder (GRID)" we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and Fire Island, vignettes carry us from the it-couldn't-happen-to-me mentality of the early days of the disease to the invasive effect it has had on all of our lives, today. The title of the film comes from the New York Times' refusal to acknowledge homosexual relationships in their obituary section during this period. Instead, survivors were referred to as "Longtime Companions" of the deceased. Read more Maurice Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. They have no sex however because Clive thinks this will degrade them. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice finally discovers romance in the arms of Alec, the gamekeeper. Read more My own private Idaho Story about a young male prostitute who together with a friend goes on a search for his mother. Read more Noir et Blanc Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a month to straighten out their books. The owner, M. Roland, encourages Antoine to use the facilities, including the massages, so Antoine goes to Dominique, a muscular African. In these sessions, Antoine discovers that the pain is comforting, and Dominique finds the accountant ideal for his own sadism. When Dominique breaks Antoine's arm and then goes to the hospital to take Antoine away, Antoine confesses his fascination with and fear of death. With Dominique's help, the accountant breaks all earthly ties to confront his fear. Read more Paragraph 175 Documentary showing interviews with the few surviving homosexuals, who endured unspeakable horrors under the Nazi regime. Through the testimonies of these men and women, an untold chapter of the Holocaust unfolds. It is extremely painful for these survivors to recall what they went through, and their expressive silences speak volumes. Read more Partners Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as his partner. In order to be noticed they have to be flamboyant enough to attract attention which Benson finds rather disturbing. Can an uptight heterosexual and a mousey homosexual form a meaningful relationship? Read more Philadelphia A gay lawyer stricken with AIDS seeks assistance from a homophobic personal injury attorney when a prestigious Philadelphia law firm fires him for incompetence. Not the standard 'issue' movie or even the standard courtroom drama but a sensitive and heartfelt look at the affect of AIDS on family, friends and the people who interact with an AIDS victim. Read more Picture of Dorian Gray, The The picture of the title is a splendid work painted by Basil Hallward of the orphaned boy Dorian Gray who is the heir to a great fortune. Lord Henry and Hallward discuss the boy and the remarkable painting. Dorian enters and declares that he would give his soul if he were always to be young and the painting instead would grow old. As the story pans out, Dorian leaves his fiancée - the actress Sibyl Vane - because through a single bad performance he claims that she has 'killed' his love. She kills herself with poison and Dorian is unaffected. Read more Portland Street Blues By means of flashbacks the story of Sister Thirteen, a leader of the Hung Hing triade, is told. They bring us back to the times when she first realises that she fancies girls in stead of boys. We meet her lazy father, the handsome boxer Coke, with whom she travels around China for a while, junkie Scarface and her real first love, Yun. A catching film, with actrice Sandra Ng in a convincing role. Read more Priest Priest presents a vivid and uncompromising journey into the soul of a tortured Catholic priest, played by Linus Roache. Suddenly Father Greg's world is turned upside down when he is forced to keep a tragic secret told to him by a young girl in the sanctity of the confessional. He must choose between keeping his faith and exposing the truth, and his world becomes one of lies and betrayal as he proceeds to confront his own hidden demons. Read more

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