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Movies with gay themes

A Home at the End of the World

Colin Farrell is a boy without a family who strikes up a ménage à trois with Dallas Roberts and Robin Wright Penn in Seventies New York. Released in the US next week; UK opening unannounced.

De-Lovely The gay press is hardly in de-love with this new biopic of gay songwriter Cole Porter (Kevin Kline), which focuses on his sham marriage to a wealthy socialite (Ashley Judd). Out in October.

Alexander Colin Farrell is joined by Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins in Oliver Stone's epic about the emperor who loved both men and women. Out in December.

Beauty Shop Kevin Bacon plays a flamboyant hairdresser in this spin-off of the Barber Shop movies. Queen Latifah is Bacon's business rival. Opens early next year.

Kinsey Liam Neeson plays polysexual Dr Alfred Kinsey, who studied America's sexual habits in the 1950s while having an affair with his gardener, Peter Sarsgaard. Opens early next year. Strange Bedfellows The gay community is hardly likely to cheer this broad Australian comedy about two straight blokes pretending to be gay as a tax dodge With Paul Hogan. Already released in Australia; UK opening unannounced. DEBS A cheerful spoof on spy movies about a leggy grade-A student of a secret agent academy who falls for the world's biggest villain. The first movie with a gay kiss to get a lenient PG-13 rating in the US. Due out early next year.

Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee's film of E Annie Proulx's short story about a lifelong love affair between two gay cowboys, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Due autumn 2005.

Touch of Pink Charming romantic comedy with Jimi Mistry as a Canadian Indian living in London whose happy love affair with a handsome man is shattered when his nosy Indian mother comes to stay. Opens in the US this week.

IN THE PIPELINE

Gay Secret Agent Brendan Fraser has signed on to play a flamboyantly gay, sharp-dressed secret agent in this spoof.

The Closet Bend It Like Beckham's Gurinder Chadha is to direct this remake of the French comedy about a nerdy accountant who poses as a gay man in order to save his job at a condom factory.

Coming Out Alan Cumming as a gay man who is called back to Wales when his father dies and must take over the local rugby team. Catherine Zeta-Jones is co-starring and producing.