Ambiguously Gay characters in past movies

*they recognised themselves from films from their eras

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Everyone was in love with Ferris.

Ferris killed us in Northern Ireland.

Unambiguously.

I always read Cameron as gay and repressed and Ferris as unfortunately milking this for everything he could get out of it.

There is no way that Russler and RDJ read as anything other than gay in Weird Science. They are smitten with Kelly LeBrock, but what gayling wouldn't be. They want her for eyeliner tips.

A bit more subtle but the only way the central male/male friendship in Christine makes sense is if the jock has at the very least a protective crush on the nerd.

Not the distant past but Bofir seems to have a thing for Bilbo in The Hobbit movies.

Emilio Estevez in That Was Then, This Is Now.

Thelma and Louise

He was sick, and they wrecked a goddamn car. Ferris wants too much!

James Dean and Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause.

Peppermint Patty and Marcie.

r7 To be fair Sloan said he saw her naked implying Ferris probably got naked in front of him by the pool too. Ferris is a pretty generous sociopathic overlord.

Tony Randall's character in the Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedy, PIllow Talk.

Mrs. Danvers in "Rebecca"

Felix Unger and Oscar Madison.

Nerdy, straight young men can be confused for gaylings.

That Harvey Fierstein dude in "Mrs. Doubtful"? I'm maybe getting some minor pings, but nothing blindingly obvious.

Yes, this is DL but same gender couples don't have to be gay to love each other.

There may have been some ambiguously gay characters in my movies...

I don’t think he was gay. Maybe bi. I think he and Ferris both admired in each other what they didn’t have in themselves, and also loathed in themselves. He was fkin hot I know that. Much hotter than Ferris.

I always suspected there was something funny going on with Eliot and E.T.

^ Well, E.T.'s finger did stink. Draw your own conclusions.

John Hoyt's character in Winter Meeting

E.T. molested me.

Hal Holbrook in “All the President’s Men”

Hugh Jackman and literally every male co-star he has ever had.

How many non X-Men or Wolverine movies has he made? So every co-star is Ian McKellan...

Ferris let Cameron fool around with him and see him naked, if Cam went along with all Ferris' shit. A bit like a modern day Loeb and Leopold, but without the murder.

[quote]Yes, this is DL but same gender couples don't have to be gay to love each other.

Same-sex couples you mean.

[quote]Cam went along with all Ferris' shit. A bit like a modern day Loeb and Leopold, but without the murder.

Now THAT would have been a sequel worth watching.

Hedy in Single White Female

Hedy was bi. She swallowed Sam's load with gusto!

I remember getting funny feelings as a kid, seeing him jump out of bed naked!

Cameron and the girl would have made a much better looking couple. They were both hot as fuck. Ferris was only cute.

Ferris was much sexier than dorky Cam. And he washed his cock with the showerhead so he was squeaky clean for bjs

David Wayne in Adam's Rib

Richard Basehart in Repeat Performance

James Fox in everything

Idgie and Ruth in Fried Green Tomatoes (although the book is much clearer about the nature of their friendship).

I don't think David Wayne is ambiguously gay Adam's rib. The guy is an out and out queen. Even Tracy has a snarky comment about it.

Eve Harrington appears to be at the very least bisexual.

Jedediah Leland in Citizen Kane seems to be sexually jealous of Kane.

Lowkey Morpheus is Matrix.

In* Matrix

Megan in Bridesmaids. She was an amazing lesbian deep down.

Van Heflin in Johnny Eager

[quote]Ambiguously Gay characters in past movies

Yeah. I hear alot of FAGS can use either hand. Cause of all them gangbangs.

Not just movie FAGS either. Little people, two.

One of the most blatant (if, of course, explicitly unstated) couples—Earl Holliman and Lee Van Cleef in The Big Combo (1955), surprisingly sympathetic for a couple of cold-blooded killers.

^ In an interview Holliman said that they definitely played the characters as a gay couple

Ben-Hur and Messala.

Martin Landau in North By Northwest.

Mrs. Danvers

Richard Haydn as Max in "The Sound of Music."

[quote] James Fox in everything

Jamie Foxx in everything.

Birdie (Thelma Ritter) in All About Eve.

Tom Hagen in The Godfather. Secretly gay and 100% in love with Sonny.

Doesn't Please Don't Eat the Daisies have a lesbian character in it? It's been a long time since I've seen it but she's there and it's interesting in a family film of the era.

Tony Randall in anything

Clifton Webb in everything.

Marjorie Main in everything

George Sanders in everything.

Johah Hill and MIchael Cera in Superbad.

[quote] Tom Hagen in The Godfather. Secretly gay and 100% in love with Sonny.

That's a good one! Tom never had a wife or a girlfriend. Sonny was flashy, flamboyant, etc. I still think James Caan didn't look like part of the family, though.

I think Ferris was playing out the whole film in his goo-filled Matrix pod. Jeffrey Jones, who played the high school principal in Ferris's fantasy, was clearly an Agent

What does "ambiguously gay" mean? Happy in some manner? Words are so confusing until I take a doll, and it wipes the confusion away. I know we have a gay old time each year at Christmastime!

Regardless, I have a friend named Ted who might fit. I know how bitchy fags can be, but Ted's a real man's man. Why, I heard he and Helen Lawson once had a fling!

[quote]Jeffrey Jones, who played the high school principal in Ferris's fantasy, was clearly an Agent

And also a pedo in real life, so EW and let's NOT go there, thank you.

Cameron was an awkward teenager. I’ve always assumed Cameron and Ferris were friends since childhood and maintained their friendship despite Ferris becoming the popular kid. Cameron was probably the first kid to idolize Ferris so he kept him around.

R58 Tom was married to Theresa and they had four kids, but you know he secretly wanted Sonny’s massive Sicilian donkey dick.

[quote]Tom never had a wife or a girlfriend.

Tom Hagen was married with children. It's in the beginning of The Godfather.

Tom: "I have to go back to work."

Theresa: "Oh, Tom."

Tom: "It's part of the wedding: No Sicilian can refuse any request on his daughter's wedding day."

Oh, shit. I thought Tom Hagen was single. I still think he was plausibly gay AND in love with hot-headed Sonny.

An unambiguously gay lesbian couple can be seen in the party scene near the beginning of "Auntie Mame," which is pretty unusual for a movie released in 1958, but if you blink, you'll miss them.

Tom Ripley in 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'

I see what you did there, R67, and I have to call bullshit. Damon's version may not be AS gay as Andrew Scott's, but it is definitely not "ambiguous" to anyone with functioning eyes.

The "Auntie Mame" lesbians can be seen at the right.

Javier Bardem's character in "Skyfall."

Oh, Mr. Bond!

Again, I don't know how you're defining "ambiguous," but considering Silva (Bardem) literally felt up Bond's nether regions while he was tied up – AND basically asked if he'd ever hooked up with a dude "for love of country" – and Bond indicated yes.

The "oh, Mr. Bond" retort was as unambiguous as Silva copping a feel. Do you need to see two dudes literally fucking for it to be "unambiguous"?

You rang.

Anthony from Designing Women. Sure, he had a few beards and ultimately married Sheryl Lee Ralph but gay, gay, gay!

Most of the dudes from CSI Las Vegas.

Except Warrick- that guy was straight.

^ Both Grissom and Sara on CSI seemed majorly gay. Never bought them as a couple AT ALL

[quote] Ferris was much sexier than dorky Cam.

Couldn't disagree more. I was hot for Cam as a teen watching this genial but overrated comedy. Alan Ruck was goofy boy next door hotness, and he aged a lot better than Broderick. I'd still do Ruck today. And while we're talking about underappreciated sexy sidekicks from the 80s, watching John Stockwell always gave me a raging semi.

The killers in Scream. I think the writer actually confirmed they were meant to be gay.

Steve Gutenberg in Three Men and a Baby

Bulletproof (1996) with Adam Sandler and Damon Wayans. They had to be ex-boyfriends, maybe in high school. One line of dialog to that effect and the movie would have been a lot better and made complete sense.

Can a semi actually rage, r77?

Ferris Bueller’s Day off – my friend and I saw that in the summer of 1986. We thought it was such a horrible movie that we walked out on it.

Mr. White and Mr. Orange from Reservoir Dogs. It seemed like Mr. White was two seconds away from whipping his dick out and pissing on Mr. Orange to mark his territory. He definitely wanted to fuck that.

Russ Tamblyn in Peyton Place

Stanley Kubrick said he intended the Jay C. Flippen character in The Killing to be gay, but the censors wouldn't allow it

Mr. White was Harvey Keitel ? Mr. Orange was the undercover cop?

Yes, played by Tim Roth

Merry & Pippin in LOTR, I'm surprised that they haven't been mentioned already.

Dodge (Ron Eldard) on Ghost Ship.

He kept sucking the Fisherman’s dick with his eyes - a nice distraction between horror scenes.

Speaking of fishermen, maybe Matt Hooper on Jaws. He was in love with Quint (Robert Shaw as the crusty old boat man).

Jerri Blank's brother in Strangers with Candy.

Regarding Cameron; I’m thinking he aged out of his dad’s dating pool and felt abandoned.

Marjorie Main in Ma & Pa Kettle

Kurt Russell as Lightfoot. Dressed in drag, kisses George Kennedy on the lips (bleech) and of course has the obligatory tragic death scene.

Renfield in Dracula, 1931 version.

[quote] Kurt Russell as Lightfoot. Dressed in drag, kisses George Kennedy on the lips (bleech) and of course has the obligatory tragic death scene.

That was Jeff Bridges, not Kurt Russell.

Christopher Lee in The Devil Rides Out - very sexy with his beard, taking charge of young Simon. "Put him in my bed'.

R91 Definitely the brother. Mac's mom on IASIP.

Meh, six of one.