A sad gay love story

And getting to see tragic sapphics was just so [ clenches fist ] rewarding and uplifting. It's a melodrama of the highest, purest form from start to finish. We need all the queer books about all the queer experiences there are, both good and bad.

Knowing that some trick of fate or miscommunication will tear them asunder by the end of the story makes watching them fall deeper in love — and desperately attempting to defy their fate — all the more intense. So rarely do the happy gay couple remain together at the end of the film or show.

The film invokes the classic tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice a story they actually read and discuss together when Marianne finishes her painting and has to leave the manor. It moved.

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Watching them love in spite of the barriers that would otherwise keep them apart makes their passion all the more enthralling. Even though the main character, a gay Taiwanese American man in a committed relationship with a White man, is forced to marry a woman to appease his overbearing parents, he, his wife, and his boyfriend find a way to make their queer family work for them.

Even Ang Lee let one of his gay couples remain happy and together — even if they had to fight and make a lot a LOT of personal sacrifices to get there — in The Wedding Banquet. And secretly, I think I like tragedy because I want a love as passionate and intense as theirs.

I think Star Wars is at its best when angst drives the narrative; my favorite fictional character of all time is Ophelia from Hamlet ; I have at least half a dozen thinkpieces buzzing around in my head about the superhero genre and the tragic form.

But the most heartbreaking part of Brokeback is the fact that Jack desperately tries to make their romance work, and is even willing to leave his wife and son for Ennis, but Ennis fears the consequences of being found out. The story follows a gay high school student who discovers a love potion to make his small town more accepting and open-minded, and this is a great film to watch anytime you need a pick-me-up.

Because the story is set in the s and 70s, societal expectations meant that they needed to marry women to hide their sexualities. As a lesbian who terminally falls for straight women, watching Marianne fall hopelessly in love with a woman she knows is duty-bound to marry a man hit extremely close to home.

Before they can meet again, Jack dies in a car repair accident, leaving Ennis heartbroken and mourning for his lost love. Watching Lady on Fire filled me with such joy because it was like watching Brokeback all over again.

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And all the discourse about tragic and buried gays melts away because to me, seeing the strength of the love between two queer folks in spite of the homophobia they deal with on a day-to-day basis fills me with so much joy.

Books shelved as sad-gay: They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuo. Their trips to Brokeback are becoming too difficult for Ennis to manage with his obligations to his family and his job, which frustrates Jack and pulls the unhappy couple in opposite directions.

Sure, there are plenty of LGBT books that will make you cry because horrible, sad, upsetting things happen. Besides, sometimes tragedy is just good sometimes. If I had Letterboxd back then, it would be an incoherent, grade-A mess because of how many times I logged it.

Sometimes beautiful, sometimes devastating, but always powerful. Brokeback Mountain just scratched an itch. And of course, it just hurts. Read the most popular sad gay stories on Wattpad, the world's largest social storytelling platform. It changed. I love period pieces with a passion, especially ones set in the eighteenth century, so I was willing to sit through two hours of the most indiscernible French just to watch a painter and her subject fall in love — only to be ripped apart by an arranged marriage.

These are the gay films (movies, and TV series) that stayed with me long after the credits rolled — stories that broke my heart, made me cry, or reminded me of how tough and tender queer life can be. He had Oedipus Rex and Orestes in mind, where a series of choices made to avoid fate leave the hero unhappy.

At long last, there was a movie about two women falling in love with all the angst, melodrama, and tragedy I want out of my movie-going experience. It makes me thankful that I am able to love without having to do it in secret, makes me appreciative of just how far things have come since the s and 70s where Brokeback is set — and especially since the s when Lady on Fire takes place.

And there’s nothing wrong with books like that, stories that delve into queer suffering. But this time, it was for me.