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What If These Iconic Romantic Movie Moments Starred Gay Couples?
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By Raffy ErmacApril 26 2017 / 6:32 PM
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Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel. 
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Gay vloggers James and John took to their YouTube channel, A Brit And A Yank, to release a short video that answers one burning question: instead of the movie industry's most iconic and romantic scenes featuring straight couples, what would they be like if they starred gay men?
While their spoofs of films like Love Actually, Ghost, Dirty Dancing, Romeo + Juliet, and Say Anything, were obviously meant to be hilarious (and they are!), they also made us painfully aware of how few big, mainstream movies there are that positively portray queer love and romance. *sigh*
Watch some funny, gay romance blossom in the video below.
h/t: Queerty

        
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