Tag: coming out

  • Maurice

    After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

  • An Early Frost

    Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Beatrice. But when Michael discovers he has AIDS and is dying of complications from the disease, he must open up to his parents and the rest of his family. Though fearful…

  • LifeStories: Steve Burdick

    Steve Burdick is closeted television anchorman whose lover dies of an AIDS-related illness. Steve decides to come out and then tells his story about being gay and battling AIDS during a special segment of the nightly news. Originally episode eight of LifeStories, it was moved to later in the season due to the subject matter.

  • The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

    An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.

  • Beautiful Thing

    Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, where three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

  • The Birdcage

    Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club’s flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic community of South Beach and have raised a straight son. Now, their newly engaged son, 20-year-old Val, wants to bring his fiancée, Barbara, and her ultraconservative parents home to meet his family for…

  • Forgive and Forget

    David O’Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable. However, their friendship has become strained as Theo is about to move in with his long-term girlfriend, photographer Hannah. A raging jealousy awakes in David and he starts scheming to break up the loving couple using…

  • The Truth About Jane

    Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane’s troubles when Jane’s unaccepting mother, Janice, struggles with her surprising revelation of brought forth by her only…

  • Just a Question of Love

    After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He’s afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.

  • Doors Cut Down

    Guillermo seems like your average high school student, but in fact he’s a suave expert at cruising his local shopping malls for gay sex. From a random trick, to his English tutor, to the hottest guy he’s ever seen, Guillermo is completely honest and reveals everything.

  • Nico and Dani

    While his parents are away for the summer, 16-year-old Dani invites his best friend, the irrepressible Nico, to stay for the holidays. Jealously rears its head when Nico appears more interested in the local girls than in Dani. Hot summer nights and too many joints lead to experimentation which neither boy can talk about, a…

  • But I’m a Cheerleader

    Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn’t like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she’s pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to “sexual redirection” school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn…

  • I Think I Do

    The marriage of mutual friends reunites former college roommates Bob and Brendan, who tried to ignore the sexual tension that always flowed between them. Brendan finally comes out to Bob at the reception, but is it a case of too little, too late?

  • My Life in Pink

    Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl — and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt — as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent…

  • Steam: The Turkish Bath

    Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco’s aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives’ Instanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.

  • Wilde

    The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.

  • Chasing Amy

    Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she’s a lesbian.

  • Bedrooms and Hallways

    At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members.

  • Sitcom

    The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother’s discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister’s suicide attempt and sadomasochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband. And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.

  • Get Real

    Sensitive rural town model student Steven Carter hides his gay feelings, except with his neighbor and best friend Linda. Suddenly his desperate search for partners leads to a blind date with golden boy John Dixon, bound for an Oxbridge career.

  • Show Me Love

    Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.