
The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual gay characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-linear network).
Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.
2000s
| Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | American Psycho | Luis Carruthers | Matt Ross | Carruthers is a colleague of Bateman and closeted homosexual | United States | [1] |
| 2000 | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas | Javier Bardem | Reinaldo is imprisoned in Cuba for his homosexuality and later moves to New York City, where he contracts HIV/AIDS. He begins friendships with two other men, Pepe and Tomas. José is a literature writer. Virgilio is an influential writer. Pepe is in a relationship with Reinaldo before leaving him to pursue a woman. | United States | [2][3][4] |
| José Lezama Lima | Manuel González | |||||
| Tomas Diego | Santiago Magill | |||||
| Virgilio Piñera | Héctor Babenco | |||||
| 2000 | Best in Show | Scott Donlan | John Michael Higgins | Donlan and Vanderhoof are a campy couple who take great pride in their Shih Tzu Miss Agnes | United States | [5][6] |
| Stefan Vanderhoof | Michael McKean | |||||
| 2000 | Billy Elliot | Michael Caffrey cross-dresser |
Stuart Wells (young Michael) Merryn Owen (adult Michael) |
Michael is a young boy and the best friend of Billy Elliot. At some point, Michael is seen using a dress and makeup. He shows interest in Billy, who does not reciprocate but is supportive of his friend. | United Kingdom | [7] |
| 2000 | Borstal Boy | Charlie Milwall | Danny Dyer | Charlie is a young Irish sailor in 1941. | United Kingdom, Ireland | [8] |
| 2000 | Bounce | Seth | Johnny Galecki | Seth is Buddy's secretary. | United States | [9] |
| 2000 | Bring It On | Les | Huntley Ritter | Les is a member of the Toros cheerleading team. | United States | [10] |
| 2000 | The Broken Hearts Club | Benji | Zach Braff | The film follows the lives of a group of friends in West Hollywood. | United States | [11][12] |
| Cole | Dean Cain | |||||
| Dennis | Timothy Olyphant | |||||
| Howie | Matt McGrath | |||||
| Kevin | Andrew Keegan | |||||
| Marshall | Justin Theroux | |||||
| Patrick | Ben Weber | |||||
| Taylor | Billy Porter | |||||
| 2000 | Chuck & Buck | Buck O'Brien | Mike White | Buck O'Brien is a 27-year-old amateur playwright with the maturity level of an adolescent. | United States | [13] |
| 2000 | Drôle de Félix | Félix | Sami Bouajila | Félix is gay man of Arab descent who decides to hitchhike from Dieppe to Marseille to search his father. | France | [14] |
| 2000 | Finding Forrester | William Forrester | Sean Connery | Forrester is a reclusive writer who James befriends. | United States | [15] |
| 2000 | Lavender | Chow Chow | Eason Chan | Chow Chow is Athena's nosy next door neighbor. | Hong Kong | [16][17] |
| 2000 | The Next Best Thing | Robert Whittaker | Rupert Everett | Robert is Abbie's best friend, who she decides to have a child with. | United States | [18] |
| 2000 | O Fantasma | Sérgio | Ricardo Meneses | Sérgio is a trash collector who becomes obsessed of the young man João, whom he stalks, kidnaps and rapes. | Portugal | [19] |
| 2000 | Sexy Beast | Teddy Bass | Ian McShane | Bass is a London crime boss. | United Kingdom, Spain | [20] |
| 2000 | Traffic | Francisco "Frankie Flowers" Flores | Clifton Collins Jr. | Flores is a sicario who works for the Obregón brothers. | United States | [21] |
| 2000 | 28 Days | Dutch Gerhardt | Alan Tudyk | Gerhardt is a patient in rehab and a dancer. | United States | [22] |
| 2000 | Urbania | Charlie | Dan Futterman | Charlie is a troubled man searching for answers, and Chris is the mysterious person tied to his pain. | United States | [23] |
| Chris | Matt Keeslar | |||||
| 2000 | Wonder Boys | James Leer | Tobey Maguire | Leer is one of Grady's students. | United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan | [24] |
| 2001 | Blow | Derek Foreal | Paul Reubens | Foreal is a marijuana dealer. | United States | [25] |
| 2001 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Tom | James Callis | Tom is Bridget Jones's gay best friend. | United Kingdom, United States | [26] |
| 2001 | The Deep End | Beau Hall | Jonathan Tucker | Beau is a high school senior dating a 30-year-old club owner. | United States | [27] |
| 2001 | Der Schuh des Manitu | Winnetouch | Michael Herbig | Winnetouch is the effeminate twin brother of Abahachi and owner of the all-pink Powder Rouge Ranch. | Germany | [28][29][30] |
| 2001 | Gypsy 83 | Clive Webb | Kett Turton | Clive is a young goth who joins his friend Gypsy on a road trip to see a Stevie Nicks tribute in New York City. | United States | [31] |
| 2001 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Luther Robinson | Maurice Dean Wint | Robinson is an American soldier in East Germany. | United States | [32] |
| 2001 | The Ignorant Fairies | Michele | Stefano Accorsi | Michele is the lover of Massimo, the dead husband of Antonia. | Italy | [33] |
| 2001 | Josie and the Pussycats | Wyatt Frame | Alan Cumming | Wyatt is a record producer. | United States | [34] |
| 2001 | Kissing Jessica Stein | Martin | Michael Mastro | Martin and Sebastian are Helen's friends. | United States | [35][36] |
| Sebastian | Carson Elrod | |||||
| 2001 | Lan Yu | Lan Yu | Liu Ye | The story of an affair between a young man and a middle-aged man. Set in mainland China. | China, Hong Kong | [37] |
| Chen Handong | Hu Jun | |||||
| 2001 | Legally Blonde | Enrique Salvatore | Greg Serano | Salvatore is the pool boy and a lynchpin in Elle's defense case with fitness guru Brooke Windham. | United States | [38] |
| 2001 | L.I.E. | Howie Blitzer | Paul Dano | Howie is discovering his sexual orientation. Gary is a hustler who becomes a friend of Howie. Big John is Gary's client and a pedophile. | United States | [39][40] |
| Gary Terrio | Billy Kay | |||||
| Big John Harrigan | Brian Cox | |||||
| 2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Creighton Tolliver | Jon Polito | Tolliver is a businessman looking for investors to invest $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning in 1949 Santa Rosa, California. | United Kingdom, United States | [41] |
| 2001 | The Mexican | Leroy | James Gandolfini | Leroy is a hitman. | United States | [42] |
| 2001 | Saving Silverman | J.D McNugent | Jack Black | Judith helps J.D. realize his sexuality. | United States | [43] |
| 2001 | The Score | Max | Marlon Brando | Max is a crook about to pull of the biggest job of his career. | United States | [44] |
| 2001 | Shake It All About | Jørgen | Troels Lyby | Jacob asks Jørgen to marry him, and he happily accepts. However, Jacob falls in love with another woman. | Denmark | [45] |
| 2001 | Wet Hot American Summer | McKinley | Michael Ian Black | McKinley and Ben are camp counselors and lovers. | United States | [46][47] |
| Ben | Bradley Cooper | |||||
| 2002 | Bend It Like Beckham | Tony | Ameet Chana | Tony is Jess's best friend. | United Kingdom, United States, Germany, India | [48] |
| 2002 | Boat Trip | Lloyd Faversham | Roger Moore | Brian and Michael are boyfriends. | United States | [49][50] |
| Brian | Artie Lange | |||||
| Michael | Will Ferrell | |||||
| 2002 | Dahmer | Jeffrey Dahmer | Jeremy Renner | The story of the real-life serial killer of the same name. | United States | [51] |
| 2002 | Far from Heaven | Frank Whitaker | Dennis Quaid | Frank is an executive at Magnatech, a television advertising company and Cathy's husband. She walks in on him passionately kissing a man and he confesses to having had "problems" as a young man. | United States | [52][53] |
| 2002 | Friday After Next | Damon Pearly | Terry Crews | Damon is a newly released ex-convict who developed homosexual tendencies in prison. | United States | [54] |
| 2002 | The Hours | Richard Brown | Ed Harris | Richard is a moody poet and author living with AIDS. | United Kingdom, United States | [55][56] |
| 2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | Bobby Ray | Ethan Embry | Bobby Ray is outed by his best friend. | United States | [57] |
| 2002 | Unconditional Love | Dirk | Rupert Everett | Dirk is closeted singer Victor Fox 's former lover. | United States | [58] |
| Victor Fox | Jonathan Pryce | |||||
| 2002 | Wie die Karnickel | Siegfried "Siggi" Purzmann | Sven Walser | Siggi is the neighbour and friend of the protagonist Horst Bömmelburg and introduces him to a new and much more relaxed perspective on his sex drive. | Germany | [59] |
| 2003 | American Wedding | Bear | Eric Allan Kramer | Bear is a balding shaggy lineman sort of guy who Kevin and Finch meet in the gay bar. | United States | [60] |
| 2003 | Arisan! | Nino | Surya Saputra | The first Indonesian film to feature a same-sex kiss. | Indonesia | [61] |
| Sakti | Tora Sudiro | |||||
| 2003 | Bright Young Things | Miles Maitland | Michael Sheen | Maitland is forced to flee the country to avoid prosecution for homosexuality. | United Kingdom | [62] |
| 2003 | Latter Days | Christian Markelli | Wes Ramsey | Christian makes a bet with his friends that he can seduce a neighbor (Aaron) who is a Mormon missionary. | United States | [63] |
| Aaron Davis | Steve Sandvoss | |||||
| 2003 | Mambo Italiano | Angelo Barberini | Luke Kirby | Angelo is the son of Italian immigrants. Nino is his boyfriend, who is not out to his parents. | Canada | [64] |
| Nino Paventi | Peter Miller | |||||
| 2003 | Party Monster | Michael Alig | Macaulay Culkin | Based on Disco Bloodbath, the memoir of James St. James which details his friendship with Alig, an infamous New York City party promoter, that later fell apart as Alig's drug addiction worsened, and ended after he murdered Andre "Angel" Melendez and went to prison. | United States | [65] |
| James St. James | Seth Green | |||||
| 2004 | The 24th Day | Dan | James Marsden | Tom has been diagnosed with HIV and believes he infected his late wife with the AIDS virus. He had only one sexual encounter with a man, Dan, and thinks that it was he who transmitted the disease to him. Tom kidnaps Dan with the intent to kill him. | United States | [66][67] |
| 2004 | Alexander | Hephaistion | Jared Leto | Alexander has relationships with childhood friends Hephaistion and Bagoas. | Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States | [68] |
| Bagoas | Francisco Bosch | |||||
| 2004 | Bad Education | Enrique Goded | Fele Martínez | Focusing on two reunited childhood friends and lovers caught up in a stylized murder mystery. | Spain | [69] |
| Father Manolo | Daniel Giménez Cacho | |||||
| Ignacio Rodriguez | Francisco Boira | |||||
| 2004 | Brother to Brother | Perry | Anthony Mackie | Black art student Perry is thrown out by his parents for his homosexuality and is further disturbed by a potential romantic entanglement with a white boy in his class. | United States | [70] |
| 2004 | Enter the Phoenix | Georgie Hung Chi Kit | Daniel Wu | Georgie lives as a cook with his boyfriend Frankie, is uninterested to continue his father's work. | Hong Kong | [71] |
| 2004 | Formula 17 | Chou T'ien Tsai | Tony Yang | Chou is looking for romance as he takes a trip to the capital, Taipei, to visit an online boyfriend in person for the first time. Disappointed to find that his online friend only wants sex and has no interest in forming a romantic bond, he starts to look elsewhere, finding his internet relationship. T'ien's roommate and friends help him look for the man of his dreams. The film was banned in Singapore because it "portrays homosexuality as normal, and a natural progression of society". | Taiwan | [72] |
| Bai Tieh Nan/Richard Bai | Duncan Lai | |||||
| Yu | King Chin | |||||
| Jun | Jason Chang | |||||
| C.C. | Dada Ji | |||||
| Alan | James Yun | |||||
| Ray | Jeff Locker | |||||
| Kevin | Ladder Yu | |||||
| 2004 | Hellbent | Joey | Hank Harris | Joey is one of Eddie's friends. | United States | [73] |
| 2004 | A Home at the End of the World | Jonathan Glover | Harris Allan / Dallas Roberts | Bobby finds a new home with his childhood friend Jonathan. The two boys come of age together and discover their sexuality. | United States | [74] |
| Bobby Morrow | Colin Farrell | |||||
| 2004 | Leave Me Alone | Yiu Chun Man | Ekin Cheng | Yiu is a fashion designer who has a boyfriend. | Hong Kong | [75] |
| Man's boyfriend | Jan Lamb | |||||
| 2004 | Mean Girls | Damian Leigh | Daniel Franzese | Leigh is Janis and Cady' friend. | United States | [76] |
| 2004 | Mysterious Skin | Neil McCormick | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Neil is the son of an irresponsible single mother who is already discovering his own homosexuality. He is sexually abused by the Little League baseball coach. | Netherlands, United States | [77] |
| 2004 | Rice Rhapsody | Daniel | Alvin Chiang | Daniel and Harry are the sons of Jen Fan, owner of a successful restaurant in Singapore's Chinatown. | Hong Kong, Singapore | [78] |
| Harry | Craig Toh | |||||
| 2004 | Saved! | Dean | Chad Faust | Dean is sent away by his parents to be "degayified". Mitch is Dean's boyfriend. | United States | [79][80] |
| Mitch | Kett Turton | |||||
| 2004 | Somersault | Richard | Erik Thomson | Richard is a neighbour who is in town for a few days clearing out his relative's house before it goes to auction. | Australia | [81] |
| 2004 | Stage Beauty | George Villiers | Ben Chaplin | Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, is the lover of Kynaston. | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [82] |
| 2004 | The Stepford Wives | Roger Bannister | Roger Bart | Roger and his long-time partner Jerry are residents of Stepford. | United States | [83] |
| Jerry Harmon | David Marshall Grant | |||||
| 2004 | Summer Storm | Tobi | Robert Stadlober | Tobi fells in love with his heterosexual childhood friend Achim. | Germany | [84] |
| 2004 | Touch of Pink | Alim | Jimi Mistry | Alim and Giles are in an open relationship, but Alim is not out to his Muslim mother and family. When Alim's mother announces that she is going to be visiting him, he and Giles must pretend that they are only roommates, which begins to strain their relationship. | Canada, United Kingdom | [85][86] |
| Giles | Kris Holden-Ried | |||||
| 2004 | Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 | Jürgen T. Kork | Christian Tramitz | Parody of Star Trek with Jürgen T. Kork (i.e. James T. Kirk), Schrotty (i.e. Scotty) and Mr. Spuck (i.e. Spock) depicted as effeminate. The film was partly criticized by the gay scene because the homosexual protagonists are consistently portrayed as full of clichés. | Germany | [87][88][89] |
| Mr. Spuck | Michael Herbig | |||||
| Schrotty | Rick Kavanian | |||||
| 2005 | Be Cool | Elliot Wilhelm | Dwayne Johnson | Elliot is Raji's Samoan bodyguard. | United States | [90] |
| 2005 | The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros | Maximo "Maxi" Oliveros | Nathan Lopez | Oliveros is a teenage effeminate boy who becomes infatuated with a police officer who rescued him from harassment. | Philippines | [91] |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Randall Malone | David Harbour | Randall has an affair with Jack. | United States | [92][93][94] |
| 2005 | Capote | Truman Capote | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Following the events during the writing of Capote's book In Cold Blood. | United States, Canada | [95] |
| Jack Dunphy | Bruce Greenwood | |||||
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Arnold Bluhm | Hubert Koundé | Arnold Bluhm is a Belgian doctor who Tessa befriends during her husband's posting in Kenya, and keeps his homosexuality a secret. | United Kingdom, Germany | [96] |
| 2005 | C.R.A.Z.Y. | Zachary Beaulieu | Marc-André Grondin | Zac is a young man dealing with homophobia whike growing up with his four brothers and his father in Quebec during the 1960s and 1970s. | Canada | [97] |
| 2005 | Cursed | Bo | Milo Ventimiglia | Bo is a wrestler repressing his sexuality. | United States | [98][99] |
| 2005 | The Dying Gaul | Robert Sandrich | Peter Sarsgaard | In 1995 Hollywood, novice screenwriter Sandrich has written an autobiographical script inspired by his lover's death by AIDS-related cerebral tuberculosis. | United States | [100] |
| 2005 | The Family Stone | Thad Stone | Tyrone Giordano | Thad is deaf and is the youngest son in the Stone family. He and his partner, Patrick, have an adopted son. | United States | [101] |
| Patrick Thomas | Brian J. White | |||||
| 2005 | Happy Endings | Charley Peppitone | Steve Coogan | Charlie runs a restaurant. Gil is his partner. | United States | [102] |
| Gil Palmer | David Sutcliffe | |||||
| 2005 | Kinky Boots | Simon / Lola | Chiwetel Ejiofor | A man who is a drag queen performer, with Simon as his alter ego. | United Kingdom | [103] |
| 2005 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Perry Van Shrike/"Gay Perry" | Val Kilmer | Perry is a detective. | United States | [104] |
| 2005 | Little Fish | Lionel Dawson | Hugo Weaving | Rugby star Dawson is the former lover of 'The Jockey', a local gangster on the point of retirement. | Australia | [105] |
| 2005 | Loggerheads | George | Michael Kelly | George is a friendly motel owner who offers Mark, a young man obsessed with loggerhead sea turtles, to stay. | United States | [106] |
| Mark | Kip Pardue | |||||
| 2005 | Monster-in-Law | Remy | Adam Scott | Remy is Charlie's neighbor and best friend. | United States | [107] |
| 2005 | My Fair Son | Ray | Junrui Wang | Ray falls in love with one of his father's colleagues. | China | [108] |
| Unnamed student | Guifeng Wang | |||||
| 2005 | Rent | Thomas B. "Tom" Collins | Jesse L. Martin | "Tom" Collins is an anarchist and philosophy professor with AIDS.Schunard is a drag queen and street musician who is also suffering from AIDS. | United States | [109][110] |
| Angel Dumott Schunard | Wilson Jermaine Heredia | |||||
| 2005 | Strangers with Candy | Chuck Noblet | Stephen Colbert | Chuck and Geoffrey are high school teachers. | United States | [111] |
| Geoffrey Jellineck | Paul Dinello | |||||
| 2005 | Tides of War | Frank Habley | Adrian Paul | Cmdr. Habley and Lt. Cmdr. Palatonio (Frank's executive officer) are partners serving on the same submarine. Tom is killed in a battle and Frank must continue to serve on the same vessel. Released in theaters as Phantom Below with the gay theme excluded. The original gay version was broadcast by the Here network. | United States | [112][113][114] |
| Tom Palatonio | Mike Doyle | |||||
| 2005 | V for Vendetta | Gordon Deitrich | Stephen Fry | Deitrich is Evey's former boss and a talk show host. | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [115] |
| 2005 | Wedding Crashers | Todd Cleary | Keir O'Donnell | Todd is the hunchbacked brother of Claire who aggressively comes on to Jeremy. A GQ review described the character as an inexcusably unfunny riff on the old "predatory gay man" trope. | United States | [116] |
| 2006 | Another Gay Movie | Griff | Mitch Morris | Following four friends, Andy, Jarod, Nico and Griff, who vow upon graduating high school that they will all lose their "anal virginity" before their friend's Labor Day party. | United States | [117] |
| Nico Hunter | Jonah Blechman | |||||
| Jarod | Jonathan Chase | |||||
| Andy Wilson | Michael Carbonaro | |||||
| 2006 | The Architect | Shawn | Paul James | Martin is a college dropout who explores his sexuality with a young man named Shawn. | United States | [118] |
| Martin Waters | Sebastian Stan | |||||
| 2006 | Boy Culture | Alex "X" | Derek Magyar | Identical to the novel's plot, the film follows a man who goes by only the letter "X" to maintain his anonymity and relationships between his two roommates—one of whom he's in love with | United States | [119] |
| Andrew | Darryl Stephens | |||||
| Joey | Jonathon Trent | |||||
| Gregory Talbot | Patrick Bauchau | |||||
| 2006 | The Bubble | Ashraf | Yousef 'Joe' Sweid | Retelling the story of two men who fall in love, one Israeli and one Palestinian. | Israel | [120] |
| Noam | Ohad Knoller | |||||
| Yali | Alon Friedman | |||||
| 2006 | Confetti | Archie | Vincent Franklin | Archie and Gregory are wedding planners and partners in both business and love. | United Kingdom | [121] |
| Gregory | Jason Watkins | |||||
| 2006 | Crank | Kaylo | Efren Ramirez | Kaylo is Chev Chelios' informant. | United States | [122][123] |
| 2006 | Eternal Summer | Jonathan | Bryant Chang | Jonathan, a studious schoolboy, is asked by his teacher to look after another boy, Shane, who is rebellious and dislikes learning. Ten years on, they have developed a good friendship despite their divergent lives: Jonathan on course to go to university and Shane to become a basketball player. Jonathan is also attracted to Shane, but the attraction is not reciprocated. However, the young men's fates change when a girl, Carrie, has a secret affair with Shane (who is determined to keep it secret in order to protect Jonathan's feelings) and also does her best to persuade Shane to abandon basketball and instead work hard to try to enter university. | Taiwan | [124] |
| 2006 | The History Boys | Douglas Hector | Richard Griffiths | Based on the play of the same name. | United Kingdom | [125] |
| Tom Irwin | Stephen Campbell Moore | |||||
| David Posner | Samuel Barnett | |||||
| 2006 | Infamous | Truman Capote | Toby Jones | The time of author Capote's life during which he researched and wrote In Cold Blood. | United States | [126] |
| 2006 | Let's Go to Prison | Barry | Chi McBride | Barry and Biederman eventually develop a romantic relationship in the movie's process. | United States | [127] |
| Nelson Biederman IV | Will Arnett | |||||
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Frank Ginsberg | Steve Carell | Frank, an unemployed scholar of Proust, is temporarily living with his sister's family after having attempted suicide. | United States | [128] |
| 2006 | The Night Listener | Gabriel Noone | Robin Williams | Gabriel is a popular New York City radio show host, is dealing with a separation from his partner, Jess. | United States | [129] |
| Jess | Bobby Cannavale | |||||
| 2006 | No Regret | Lee Su-min | Lee Yeong-hoon | Jae-min is a former driving client of Su-min who falls in love with him. | South Korea | [130] |
| Song Jae-min | Kim Nam-gil | |||||
| 2006 | Poseidon | Richard Nelson | Richard Dreyfuss | Nelson is an architect and one of the survivors. | United States | [131] |
| 2006 | Running with Scissors | Neil Bookman | Joseph Fiennes | Augusten and Neil begin an erratic sexual relationship. | United States | [132] |
| Augusten Burroughs | Joseph Cross | |||||
| 2006 | Scenes of a Sexual Nature | Billy | Ewan McGregor | Billy and Brian are life-partners. | United Kingdom | [133] |
| Brian | Douglas Hodge | |||||
| 2006 | Shortbus | James | Paul Dawson | James and Jamie are a couple. James wants to introduce other men into their relationship for sex. | Canada | [134][135] |
| Jamie | PJ DeBoy | |||||
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Jean Girard | Sacha Baron Cohen | Jean is a French Formula One driver and Bobby's archrival. | United States | [136] |
| 2006 | United 93 | Mark Bingham | Cheyenne Jackson | During the September 11 attacks in 2001, Mark was on board United Airlines Flight 93. He was among the passengers who formed the plan to retake the airplane from the hijackers, resulting in the plane crashing into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and thwarting the hijackers' plan to crash into a building in Washington, D.C. (most likely either the U.S. Capitol Building or the White House). | United States | [137] |
| 2007 | Breakfast with Scot | Eric McNally | Tom Cavanagh | McNally is a retired hockey player turned television sportscaster who lives with his partner Sam, a sports lawyer. | Canada | [138] |
| Sam | Ben Shenkman | |||||
| Scot | Noah Bernett | |||||
| 2007 | I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry | Fred Duncan | Ving Rhames | Duncan is a firefight who despite his intimidating appearance, is uncomfortable of disclosing his sexuality. | United States | [139] |
| 2007 | Love Songs | Erwann | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Ismaël, Julie, and Alice are in a ménage-à-trois. After a tragedy strikes and breaks them apart, the characters learn to deal with loss and mourning. Ismaël unexpectedly finds love again with a young man named Erwann. | France | [140] |
| 2007 | Shelter | Shaun | Brad Rowe | Shaun is Gabe's older brother who develops a close relationship with Zack, his brother's best friend, and struggles with his sexuality. | United States | [141] |
| 2007 | Stardust | Captain Shakespeare | Robert De Niro | Captain Shakespeare is a sky pirate. | United States, United Kingdom | [142] |
| 2007 | The Walker | Carter Page III | Woody Harrelson | A middle-aged male escort living in Washington, D. C. | United States, United Kingdom | [143] |
| 2008 | Brideshead Revisited | Anthony Blanche | Joseph Beattie | Flyte is the younger son of Lord and Lady Marchmain who forms a deep friendship with Ryder.Blanche is a friend of Flyter and Ryder's and an overt homosexual. | United Kingdom | [144] |
| Lord Sebastian Flyte | Ben Whishaw | |||||
| Charles Ryder | Matthew Goode | |||||
| 2008 | Death Race | Joseph "Machine Gun Joe" Mason | Tyrese Gibson | Machine Gun Joe is a sociopathic racer who looks to use Death Race as a means to escape from prison. | United States | [145] |
| 2008 | Doubt | Donald Miller | Joseph Foster | Miller is the first black student in a Catholic school in The Bronx who fears his homophobic father would kill him if he knew. | United States | [146] |
| 2008 | Dream Boy | Nathan Davies | Stephan Bender | Following two teenagers falling in love in the rural South in the late 1970s. | United States | [147] |
| Roy | Maximillian Roeg | |||||
| 2008 | Hamlet 2 | Rand Posin | Skylar Astin | A drama student in love with his drama teacher. | United States | [148] |
| 2008 | Little Ashes | Salvador Dalí | Robert Pattinson | An unconsummated sexual attraction between Dali and Lorca (whose homosexuality was known). | United Kingdom, Spain | [149][150][151] |
| Federico García Lorca | Javier Beltrán | |||||
| 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Harry Bright | Colin Firth | Harry tells Donna: "You were the first woman I ever loved, and also the last." | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [152][153] |
| 2008 | Milk | Harvey Milk | Sean Penn | Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Smith and Lira are Milk's lovers. | United States | [154][155][156] [157] |
| Cleve Jones | Emile Hirsch | |||||
| Jack Lira | Diego Luna | |||||
| Scott Smith | James Franco | |||||
| 2008 | Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist | Beefy Guy (Lethario) | Jonathan B. Wright | Dev and Thom are Nick's bandmates. Beefy Guy is their new friend. | United States | [158] |
| Dev | Rafi Gavron | |||||
| Thom | Aaron Yoo | |||||
| 2008 | Patrik, Age 1.5 | Göran Skoogh | Gustaf Skarsgård | Göran and Sven are married couple who are anticipating the arrival of their adopted baby son. Upon arrival, they discover their son is actually 15-year-old juvenile delinquent, Patrik. | Sweden | [159] |
| Sven Skoogh | Torkel Petersson | |||||
| 2008 | RocknRolla | Handsome Bob | Tom Hardy | Bob is a gangster. | United States, United Kingdom, France | [160][161] |
| 2008 | Sex Drive | Rex Lafferty | James Marsden | At Thanksgiving dinner, Rex tells his family about his sexuality. | United States | [162] |
| 2008 | Tropic Thunder | Alpa Chino | Brandon T. Jackson | Cino is a closeted rapper who is attempting to cross over into acting, portraying a soldier named Motown, while promoting his "Bust-A-Nut" candy bar and "Booty Sweat" energy drink. | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | [163] |
| 2008 | Zack and Miri Make a Porno | Brandon St. Randy | Justin Long | Randy is Bobby's porn star boyfriend. | United States | [164] |
| 2009 | 44 Inch Chest | Meredith | Ian McShane | Meredith is a suave gambler. | United Kingdom | [165] |
| 2009 | Brüno | Brüno Gehard | Sacha Baron Cohen | Gehard is a flamboyantly fashion reporter from Austria. | United States, United Kingdom | [166] |
| 2009 | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Mr. Tiny | Michael Cerveris | Mr. Tiny is a meddling trickster of immense magical power, responsible numerous creations. | United States | [167] |
| 2009 | Horsemen | Corey Kurth | Patrick Fugit | Kurith is Taylor's brother. | United States | [168] |
| 2009 | I Killed My Mother | Hubert Minel | Xavier Dolan | Following the complicated relationship between a young man and his mother. | Canada | [169] |
| 2009 | I Love You, Man | Robbie Klaven | Andy Samberg | Robbie is Peter's brother. | United States | [170] |
| 2009 | I Love You Phillip Morris | Phillip Morris | Ewan McGregor | While incarcerated, Steve falls in love with his fellow inmate, Morris. | France, United States | [171] |
| Steven Russell | Jim Carrey | |||||
| 2009 | Permanent Residence | Ivan | Sean Li | Ivan seeks a long-term relationship with a straight friend. Befriending another young man, Windson, at a public sports club, the two build up a friendly rapport. However, Windson becomes aware of his inclination, and while happy to remain his friend, is initially very reluctant to become emotionally involved with him. This is the first feature film directed by award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker known as 'Scud'. | Hong Kong | [172] |
| 2009 | Shank | Cal | Wayne Virgo | Cal is a 19-year-old closeted homosexual member and hooks up with Scott online before assaulting and abandoning him out in the countryside.Acting on his own attraction to Cal, Olivier seduces him and in doing so, exposes Cal to new emotions and a tenderness that he has never experienced before. | United Kingdom | [173] |
| Olivier | Marc Laurent | |||||
| Scott | Garry Summers | |||||
| Jonno | Tom Bott | |||||
| 2009 | A Single Man | George Falconer | Colin Firth | In 1962, George dreams that he encounters the body of his longtime partner, Jim, at the scene of the car accident that took his life. | United States | [174] |
| Jim | Matthew Goode | |||||
| 2009 | Soundless Wind Chime | Ricky | Lu Yulai | An interracial love story, told through a linear narrative and a series of complex, interlocking flashbacks. Ricky, who has arrived in Hong Kong from mainland China, works as a delivery boy. He is robbed by a Swiss thief, Pascal, who admits his crime and returns the stolen item. The two eventually embark on a love affair, but through several flashbacks, it eventually becomes clear that Pascal has subsequently been killed in a road accident near their flat, which Ricky had witnessed. Some years later, Ricky visits Pascal's former home in Switzerland to find it abandoned. During his time there, he meets Pascal's doppelgänger in a man called Ueli, who nevertheless has a very different personality. They, too, fall in love and the contentment that Ricky finds enables him to reflect on the relationship he had with Pascal. | Hong Kong, Switzerland, China | [175] |
| Pascal | Bernhard Bulling | |||||
| Ueli | Bernhard Bulling | |||||
| 2009 | Taking Woodstock | Elliot Teichberg/Tiber | Demetri Martin | Tiber volunteered his family's motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers which would take place on a nearby farm. | United States | [176] |
| 2009 | Undertow | Santiago | Manolo Cardona | Miguel is married to Mariela, who is pregnant with their first son, but he also has a secret affair with a male painter called Santiago. | Peru, Colombia, France, Germany | [177] |
See also
- List of feature films with gay characters: 1900–1999
- List of feature films with gay characters: 2010s
- List of feature films with gay characters: 2020s
- List of films featuring gay bathhouses
- List of gay characters in television
- List of LGBT-related films
- List of LGBT-related films by year
- List of fictional asexual characters in film
- List of feature films with intersex characters
- Films about intersex
- List of fictional non-binary characters in film
- List of fictional pansexual characters in film
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- Barrios, Richard (2003). Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall (1st ed.). United Kingdom: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415923286.
- Davies, Steven Paul (2008). Out at the Movies: A History of Gay Cinema (1st ed.). Harpenden, United Kingdom: Kamera Books. ISBN 978-1842432914.
- Hadleigh, Boze (1993). The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films: Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics. New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0806513411.
- Russo, Vito (25 June 1979). "The Closet Syndrome: Gays in Hollywood". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 7 June 2019. (2019 reprint)