So, the happy peppy uber-gay folks over at Logo, the MTV affiliated gay cable channel (that is harder to subscribe to on (arguably homophobic) Comcast than the TransAsian Bobsled Channel) have come up with the 50 greatest LGBT-related films of all time...

The Top Ten, in case you were interested...

1. Brokeback Mountain (call this the recency phenomenon...it won't stay this high, as great as it is.) My one beef with this film, isn't with this film at all...It's that this tragic tale of unrequited love ending in death seems to be the only way main stream America likes its gay films...either this, or Birdcage--the gay man as cross-dressing, sexless, mincing poodle with a heart of gold.

2. Latter Days (closetted Mormon missionary falls for LA party boy/waiter, gets excommunicated, attempts suicide, reunites with party boy/waiter when his roommate makes a top 40 song out of their broken love story and he knows he's still loved) (call this the recency PLUS naked cute straight actors pretending to have gay sex phenomenon...it won't stay this high, though it's not a bad movie.)

3. Beautiful Thing (teenage coming of age boy on boy love story in the council flats of suburban London in the late 80's/early 90's)(I agree wholeheartedly).

4. Trick (NYC based romantic comedy of two twinks who want sex and, inadvertently, find love)(Again, I agree wholeheartedly) (also the best performance ever given by Tori Spelling, as the hag best friend).

5. Bound (Gina Gershon/Jennifer Tilly lesbian thriller) (yawn...killer lesbians...how origial...chalk this one up to a hot sex scene as well).

6. Angels in America (the HBO miniseries....without question, should be number 1....without question).

7. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert...groundbreaking, annoying, wonderful, tedious, unsubtle, fabulous, beautiful...like many drag queens. (if you've never seen it, you'll spend the whole movie saying things like "that's the guy from...")

8. Desert Hearts...probably the best lesbian-themed romantic drama ever, IMHO. But it does get tedious...

9. Tipping the Velvet...BBC lesbian themed miniseries...I can take it or leave it.

10. Big Eden, best gay themed romantic fantasy (a small town in Montana hasn't one single homophobe and the town biddy fixes up men with one another as easily as she fixes up men with women?) Still...it's awesome, and sweet without being cloying.

But this list isn't the purpose for this post. A confession is.

I looked through the list...There are 29 of these movies which are centered on the lives of gay men as opposed to having mostly lesbian or trans themes. I own 23 of these 29. And some of them, to be blunt....are not great. (I also own probably 40 MORE lgbt themed movies on DVD)

I bought many of them never having seen the film...just because they were gay themed films.

Why did I do this?

Do Native Americans buy every movie about Native Americans? Do dentists buy every movie about dentists?

There is a dilemma. If we don't support gay cinema, producers won't fund it. If we support mediocre cinema, we can't demand quality. So what's a homo-cinephile to do who wants to see characters I can really relate to on the screen?