Out magazine has ranked the "30 Sexiest Gay Scenes In Film." (View HERE.) While I don't have too many strong feelings about their picks -- I can't really remember many of them -- I do know that the ONE scene that left a HUGE impression on me, or on my Calvins back in the late '80s, was Michael and Robert's "jogging/reading a book? scene in Bill Sherwood's "Parting Glances," which someone didn't even make the list. The hide-and-seek in the park, followed by the kissing and slowly undressing in the hallway -- and then the fleeting post-coital scene in the shower -- was the most romantic scene I had ever seen onscreen, and took my breath away.
Perhaps two men in a live-in relationship making love was considered too tame for a list that also boasts "brutality" and "recklessness," but the mere notion that two men could have a "traditional" relationship and, of course, have sex whenever they wanted was so erotic to me that I bought the VHS tape and watched it over and over again. I told John Bolger how much this example had meant to me when I met him at the film's restoration screening in New York. His feeling of being flattered was overshadowed only by his feeling of mortification when I couldn't resist also telling him that my attention was squarely on him!
