When the pants start coming off and we realize that someone is actually about to have sex, the camera doesn't turn away. Set to "Take Me to the Pilot," the (albeit) brief sex scene between Taron Egerton and Richard Madden feels sensual and fun-as sex of any kind should be. That's not any kind of representation it's a coy nod to doing something dirty in a dirty place.īut the Elton John musical takes a moment to reimagine how gay sex could be depicted.
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The closest the film gets is a cheeky exchange where Mercury (Rami Malek) follows a truck driver (Adam Lambert) into a dirty bathroom. To tell the story of Freddie Mercury, one of the predominant queer icons of the 21st century, while barely attempting to highlight his queerness is less of a misstep and more of a flagrant dismissal of his intimate life. Gay sex isn't something that Hollywood typically depicts, instead the industry relegates it to innuendos and close ups of men wincing in pain.īohemian Rhapsody is the perfect example. Even the controversial peach scene (in the book, Oliver takes a bite from Elio's semen-filled peach) got a PG-13 edit. The intimacy of the scene feels sincere, but anyone who has read the book knows that some of the story's more suggestive scenes get the axe. Even in the groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain, the only sex scene shared between Ennis (Heath Ledger) and Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) was fleeting with a quick fingertip of spit and eight to 10 hard thrusts.Įven when a film "gets it right" like recent Academy Award-winning Call Me By Your Name, it's usually done through a heterosexual gaze. happened, or an uneducated charade of what gay sex might be. The majority of sex scenes between two men in Hollywood tend to lean in one of two directions: a metaphorical eyebrow raise that alludes to the idea that sex. Elton John and John Reid's Explosive Relationshipīut it's that last part-the gay sex-that is important to discuss.