New This Week – Page 64 – Discover great gay stories.

New This Week – 7/7/17

In 1952, Army Sergeant Bob Claunch was courted by his commanding officer Lieutenant Jack Reavley. In this self-narrated documentary, these two men recount the challenges they faced keeping their relationship intact, the issues they face growing old in a gay relationship, and their need for equal rights. Watch ‘Bob and Jack’s 52-Year Adventure’ on Dekkoo.com!

In ‘Tonight It’s Me‘, a hot young hustler finds himself in uncharted waters when he spends the night with a client who’s far from the “johns” he’s used to servicing.

Peter, a gay cabaret pianist, falls in love with Bill, a construction worker with intimacy issues. When Peter discovers Bill’s secret, he is determined to set him on a straight path, and when a shy young woman moves in across the hall, he puts his plan in motion, even as Bill seeks to strengthen his ties to Peter. Watch ‘Rhapsody’ on Dekkoo.com!

As their plane slowly makes its descent, a young couple is faced with their differences through sudden pockets of turbulence. Watch ‘Turbulence’, now available on Dekkoo.com!

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Coming next week – A stylish and supremely sexy gay road movie from acclaimed gay filmmaker Romas Zabarauskas.

New This Week – 6/30/17

A Spanish teenager is forced to abandon the safety of childhood (and his walking, talking teddy bear) for the troubling world of adulthood, sexuality and responsibility in this wildly original story. Watch ‘Animals’ on Dekkoo!

In the movie, ‘Kasal’, a gay couple, who resolve to stay together, is challenged as they attend a wedding.

‘It Gets Better‘ is a gay love story between Adam, a closeted jock, and Pierre, an openly gay boy, that revolves around peer pressure, bullying and acceptance.

‘The Abominable Crime‘ is a riveting documentary that explores the religious-based culture of homophobia in Jamaica through the eyes of gay Jamaicans forced to choose between their homeland and their lives.

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Coming next week – A true, self-told story about the same lifelong love we all hope for.

New This Week – 6/9/17

When siblings Emma and Toni inherit their family’s horse riding school things get tricky. Neither seem well equipped to keep the business going – Emma is young and Toni is busying leading a promiscuous gay sex life – but when they both fall for the school foreman’s beautiful and sexually fluid son things go haywire. Wild Awakening is an erotic forbidden love story.

In 1984, a scrappy little neighborhood in San Francisco – home to many low-income tenants and the heart of the gay male leather scene – faced destruction from the bulldozers of redevelopment and the AIDS crisis. The Folsom Street Fair was started to call attention to gentrification and raise money for AIDS charities. Folsom Forever tells the story of how this small street fair grew into the biggest outdoor kink and fetish event in the world, and managed to do a lot of good along the way. Folsom Forever is now available on Dekkoo!

In the short film, Johnny, a night with a troubled stranger forces a young male sex worker to confront a haunting moment from his past that he thought he’d left behind.

A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster’s involvement in a controlling street gang. Watch Eastern Boys on Dekkoo!

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Coming next week – “A pleasure to watch – a spot-on story about the agony and ecstasy of adolescent first love.” – San Francisco Chronicle

New this week on Dekkoo – 6/2/17

Set in the summer of 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, teenager Eric Hunter is terrified and exhilarated by his sexual attraction to Rod, a college student and co-worker at a local fast food joint. But, Eric’s sexual awakening is complicated by his new romance with his best friend Maggie. ‘Edge of Seventeen‘, a gay classic, is now available on Dekkoo!

Alan Turing set in motion the computer age and his World War II code-breaking helped save two million lives. Yet few people have heard his name, know his tragic story, or understand his important legacy. In 1954, Turing committed suicide at age 41 after being forced to undergo chemical castration because he was gay. He left behind a lasting legacy and lingering questions about what else he might have accomplished if society had embraced his unique genius instead of rejecting it. ‘Codebreaker‘ is now available on Dekkoo.

Dean and Ian are having relationships problems mostly caused by…him. Watch ‘Tonight‘ on Dekkoo.com!

in ‘The Dark Place‘, Keegan Dark returns to the the heart of California’s wine valley to make peace with his long-estranged family. Instead, he finds a harrowing mystery that endangers his life and those he loves.

Yuki Morimura is by all accounts a disappointment. The only thing the substitute teacher has going for him is that he is the concertmaster of an amateur orchestra. When music prodigy Kei Tonoin is recruited to be the orchestra’s first true conductor a battle for dominance begins. One that is driven by lust. ‘Fujimi Orchestra: Cold Front Orchestra‘ is available now on Dekkoo.

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Coming next week: “By turns a frightening home-invasion drama, a tender love story
and a tense hide-and-seek thriller, with far more control over these unsettling
tonal slides than initially seems feasible.” – Variety

New this week on Dekkoo – 5/19/17

The Monteiro and Campelo families live in the shadow of a crime committed in the past. But when chance puts Ramon and Romulo face to face, hatred turns into an unlikely love that can hurt parents, siblings, friends, and even themselves. ‘Romeu & Romeu‘ is available now!

‘Rag Tag‘ is a touching and earnest story of love about two friends who were separated through circumstance and reunite years later as young men. Entrenched in their West Indian and African cultures they must work out what family, friendship and love means to them. Then stake their future on it.

Chile, 1986. Young Luchito masturbates while watching Manuel, his 16-year-old neighbor, from his window. As Manuel discovers his sexuality, Luchito’s window turns into an erotic cinematographic world that awakens a curiosity in Luchito, with disastrous repercussions for Manuel. Watch ‘Blokes‘ now!

In ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?‘ optometrist Weichung begins to question his marriage with his wife Feng, upon learning of her desire to have another baby. When he runs into an old friend dormant emotions are awakened in Weichung, setting him off on a quest for true romance and desire.

A gay thirty year old lives at home and is in the midst of a serious creative funk. Rejected by numerous art schools and lacking romantic prospects, he looks to his charismatic Uncle Alfred for inspiration. ‘Never Met Picasso‘ is available now!

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Coming next week: “One of the most powerful films about the Arab-Israeli conflict
that has ever been attempted on screen.” – Rex Reed

New this week on Dekkoo – 5/12/17

A quartet of stories in which characters’ lives are changed by unusual sexual encounters, ‘Fourplay‘ frames desire through themes of connection, eroticism, shame, fear, love, spiritual healing and self worth.

Long after the end of the world, five strangers sharing an abandoned desert motel are forced to decide between love and survival. ‘Goodbye Blue Sky‘ is playing now!

When Guy Simms is yanked out of his mundane routine mopping floors at the gay cabaret and accused of burning down the evangelical church by the town preacher, Guy overcomes his fear of authority to prove his innocence in this sardonic film about Leathermen, the Bible and fighting for freedom. Watch ‘Theft‘ on Dekkoo!

Set on the Isle of Wight, ‘We Once Were Tide‘ tells the story of Anthony and Kyle, and their last night together as Kyle moves away leaving Anthony to look after his terminally ill mother.

New this week on Dekkoo – 5/5/17

R.J. and Chris, two young Mormon missionaries, are paired together on an assignment in small-town Oregon. Living in close quarters, they try to fight their temptations, but soon find themselves falling hopelessly in love. ‘The Falls‘ is a touching romantic comedy-drama that inspired a beloved trilogy.

In ‘Spring‘, a disturbing yet erotic short film, a young man meets a stranger to indulge in a game of S&M. It’s an experience that will change his life forever.

Often referred to as â€œThe Elvis of Homosexualsâ€, Judy Garland is a gay icon like no other. Thanks in part to her talent as a performer, the way her personal struggles mirrored those of gay men in America and her value as a camp figure, gay men adore her. Relive the sight and sound of one of the 20th century’s most memorable talents. Quiet please, there’s a lady on stage.

Relationships, stereotypes, drug addictions and sexual identities never intended for the camera are revealed when a young filmmaker breaks into his high school to make a movie with an eclectic group of his classmates. ‘Rolling‘ is now available on Dekkoo.

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Coming next week: An anthology of short tales of sexual intimacy set in four American cities.

New this week on Dekkoo – 4/28/17

Hosting a group of male friends at his family’s house for summer break, Fernando invites German, a team-mate from his taekwondo class. While the rest of the gang – usually clad in nothing at all – engage in random conversation, German wonders if Fernando is going to make a move. ‘Taekwondo‘ has been called the sexiest film of the year. Find out why!

From writer and director Adam Goldman (‘The Outs’) comes ‘Whatever This Is‘, a series about a diverse group of friends striving to achieve their dreams while struggling to make it as production assistants.

Alex is a paramedic who saves lives on London’s gay chemsex scene, but can he save himself from it? Watch the harrowing ‘G O’clock‘ on Dekkoo now!

London’s gay scene and one man’s search for love are the subjects of this groundbreaking 1978 drama – considered the first commercial gay feature ever made and released in the United Kingdom. Also featuring full-frontal male nudity, quite taboo for the time, and an early acting role for queer iconoclast filmmaker Derek Jarman, ‘Nighthawks‘ was ahead of its time in more ways than one.

‘Boy‘ tells the story of an undocumented Filipino janitor in Holland. He has no name and is constantly moving, but everything changes when his boyfriend auditions for a dance company and one of his employers commits suicide.

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Coming next week: Two Mormon missionaries succumb to their desire in a touching romance – the first film in a beloved trilogy.

New this week on Dekkoo – 4/21/17

I’m Fine‘ is a brand-new Dekkoo-original series follows Nate as he tries to find closure and break himself out of romantic purgatory.

At Goodkind High School, a group of students with varying sexual orientations form an after-school club as a discreet way to share their feelings and experiences. ‘Geography Club‘ is like a gay ‘Breakfast Club’!

In the Mexican short film, ‘A World for Raul‘ when a 13-year old boy is asked to entertain the local landowner’s son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.

The sexual desires of a country priest for a local boy threatens his sincere devotion to his calling in this impassioned Polish drama. ‘In The Name Of‘ is now available on Dekkoo!

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Next week: A relentlessly sexy new film from the director of Absent, Hawaii and Sexual Tension: Volatile.

New this week on Dekkoo – 4/14/17

Meet Myles and Brody, best friends and total opposites. Myles is a hopeless romantic looking for Mr. Right. Brody is a sexy player on the hunt for Mr. Right Now. These two friends make a plan that they’ll be together if both of them are still single in a decade. Nearly ten years later and still alone, both friends will do whatever it takes to avoid
becoming a couple. ‘The 10-Year Plan‘ is now available on Dekkoo!

In ‘The Wilding‘, a juvenile inmate named Malcolm is offered a chance at parole, he is torn between his chance for freedom and protecting the one he loves.

‘Five Moments of Infidelity‘ is a sensual, true to life drama, that looks at infidelities and the diverse consequences they create across five different worlds in the same city.

‘Straight Men and the Men Who Love Them: Vol. 3‘ is an international shorts collection that chronicles the pitfalls and pleasures surrounding gay/straight friendships and hidden attractions. The films included in this set are ‘Quarters’, ‘Rubber Duckie’, ‘Boy
Game’, ‘Early One Summer’ and ‘From Here to There’ – all of which screened at various LGBT film festivals around the world.