From modern classics to neo love-stories, these are the Top Ten LGBTQ+ films to watch this winter.

1) Call Me By Your Name (2017)

The tentative romance at the heart of Call Me By Your Name is one of the most moving and convincing coming-of-age love stories Hollywood has produced in the last 10 years. Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer both deliver timeless performances and the pair’s love story is as intoxicating as the heat of the woozy Italian summer it’s set against.

2) God’s Own Country (2017)

This critically-lauded story of a Yorkshire farmhand who develops an unexpected and profound relationship with Romanian migrant worker made a big impact upon its release in 2017, featuring one of the most tender romances in recent memory. The film also cleaned up at the Evening Standard film awards where it won the Best Film prize.

3) Moonlight (2016)

This semi-autobiographical tale from Barry Jenkins is a profound portrait of burgeoning sexuality and masculinity in poverty-stricken Miami. The movie follows a young black man discovering his identity against the backdrop of personal and socioeconomic struggle and it was one of the most moving film experiences of 2017. 

4) Bent (1997)

Bent shines a harrowing light on how gay people were treated under Nazi rule. Based on Martin Sherman’s play, Clive Owen stars as a gay man living in 1930s Berlin, sent to Dachau concentration camp where he falls in love with a fellow prisoner. The star-studded cast is completed by Sir Ian McKellen, Jude Law, Mick Jagger and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

5) My Own Private Idaho (1991)

River Phoenix gives one of the most memorable performances of his tragically short career in 1991’s My Own Private Idaho, playing a gay hustler and sex worker suffering with narcolepsy who falls for Keanu Reeves’ conman Scott Favor. It has to go on record as one of the most significant LGBTQ+ films of the decade, which takes a closer look at those on the margins of society.

6) Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain proved a landmark moment in cinematic history when it came out in 2005 as one of the first major LGBTQ+ movies to prove a big success at the box office, with worldwide takings of $178m. It was a scandal that the movie missed out on the Best Picture to Crash at the Oscars.

7) Weekend (2011)

What starts as a fling escalates into something much more meaningful in this 2011 British indie drama, which has found a cult audience in the years following its release. British newcomers Tom Cullen and Chris New star as two men who meet shortly before one is due to leave the country, falling for each other in the most inconvenient of circumstances.

8) Pride (2014)

British underdog stories don’t get much more inspiring than Pride, which focuses on the members of London's queer community who pledge their support for the striking Welsh miners in 1984. It’s become a cliche to describe British films like this one as "feel-good", but no movie is more deserving of the description than Pride.

9) A Single Man (2009)

Colin Firth delivers an Oscar-nominated performance as an English professor in the grips of depression after losing his partner of 16 years in this adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel. While many LGBTQ+ classics centre around coming-of-age stories, Tom Ford’s directorial debut takes a thought-provoking look at long term queer relationships and living with loss in middle age.

10) Tropical Malady (2004)

The first half of this 2004 drama focuses on the fledgling romance between a Thai soldier and a young boy, before the film flips in surreal style to focus on a man entering deep into the Thai jungle to recover a lost boy. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s movie is bizarre, baffling and yet somehow all the more affecting as a result. 

1. Anti Reproductive Mating Ritual (2011)

Two young men skateboarding on the dock as they undress. A beautiful and intimate courtship ritual.

2. About Him (2016)

Dustin is in his junior year at Monroe College. He follow his crush on a random sexcapade and ends up witnessing a horrid hate crime.

3. Sacred Hearts, Holy Souls (2014)

Two teenage misfits at an all-boys Catholic boarding school become unlikely comrades in a struggle against hormonal bullies and dinosaur-aged priests.

4. Intruders (2018)

In the midst of political upheaval in Brazil, Travis Mathews directs this startling and moving film of the intersection between class, privilege and sex. 

5. Trouser Bar (2016)

According to producer David McGillivray, "John Gielgud was obsessed with trousers, loved corduroy and leather. And so he wrote a film set in a menswear shop." Screenplay was originally penned for the late filmmaker Peter de Rome.

6. 1992 (2016)

Martin is seventeen and spends all day recording everything with his Hi8 camera. One day Martin meets Dominique, who works as a watchman at his school.

7. Adults Only (I) (2013)

Visions of a past relationship leave Matthew broken and isolated until an intimate encounter at a porn arcade opens a peephole to unexpected possibilities.

8. Young Man at the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve (2015)

Dance and prostitution play the same role for Jonathan body

9. Spunk (2015)

Spunk is an experimental documentary where reality and virtual reality blend into a surrealistic sexual collage. 36 minutes long, it showcases digital sex with webcams, mobile phones and more.

10. Brazil Carnival (2016)

It is a film about the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, with bodies that dance, talk and get excited. The city becomes a jungle and everything is allowed.

BONUS 

11. Underwater (II) (2015)

Situated within the confines of an upper-class international swimming institution in the UK's countryside. The seclusion of such a location facilitates the character's blossoming and inevitable explosion.

The two most commonly fetishized materials are leather and rubber. Rubber guys are usually into the same fetishes and enjoy the same kinks as leather guys, but prefer a different effect and use of the material. 

Leather kink shares overlaps with bondage, and often is expressed with harnesses, jackets and full leather pants. Rubber is not used for harnesses to the same degree that leather is.

Fetishes you should know.

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You may be surprised by how many men are turned on by these top clothing fetishes

This fetish involves sneakers, but it has nothing to do with fantasizing about feet. Men with a sportswear fetish are into all types of men's workout clothes and athleisure, like fitted bodysuits, meggings, and baseball caps. Maskulo is a sportswear brand (sold on Differio) that actually specializes in this type of fetish gear, in case you were feeling adventurous. 

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Kink : unconventional sexual taste or behavior

LEATHER KINK

The leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around sexual activities that involve leather garments, such as leather jackets, vests, boots, chaps, harnesses, or other items.

BDSM 

BDSM variety of sexual activities that range from role-playing, dominance and submission, restraints and a variety of other sexual behaviors. BDSM relationships vary from other sexual relationships as there is a dominant and submissive partner in BDSM.

JOCKSTRAP FETISH

The jockstrap fetish is for guys who like to play in their gym gear. Wearing the jock strap combines fashion and fetish into their sports based role-playing. The straps perfectly display the bare ass while the textured pouch cups the penis and balls.

SOCK FETISH

The sock fetish is an extension of the foot fetish, but can also be its own stand-alone kink. Playing off the teenage cum rag, the white tube sock has become iconic to sexual activity. From the dorm room flag for "we're busy' to the American Pie cum rag, guys have taken pride in sniffing their used and worn socks, and even using it to gag for their eager subs. The sock fetish isn't limited to the classic white, or stripped sock; lots of guys find dress socks insanely sexy and can't wait to untie their ties and toss aside their dress shoes. 

Black sheet party: Slang term for an orgy involving people into BDSM

Golden shower: The act of urinating on someone.

Hard limit: A non-negotiable boundary that is discussed and agreed upon as part of safe play.

Informed consent: The principle of consent being given with full knowledge of events, circumstances and participants -- and the ability to give consent.

Pansexual: A person who engages in erotic or sexual play with persons of any gender or sexual orientation.

Soft limit: A boundary that is more flexible, one which can be "pushed" to a comfortable degree. 

Zipper: A series of clothespins along a length of string or yarn, then placed on parts of the body and removed either one by one or all at once to produce various sensations.

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