Ten of the Most Romantic Gay Moments in Entertainment!

How do we celebrate Valentines Day here at AfterElton.com? With roses, chocolates, and long, lingering kisses alongside rainswept sidewalk cafes in Paris.

Unfortunately, it’s the characters on TV and in movies we’re watching who get to enjoy these moments, not us.

No, we sit at our keyboards grinding out articles like this one, merely writing about some of the most romantic moments in the history of gay entertainment.

*Sigh*

Still, who knows? Maybe by the end of this article, my partner Michael (who is also the editor of this site) will come crashing through the door of my dreary downstairs office, pulling me away from computer like Richard Gere pulls Debra Winger away from that boring factory machine at the end of An Officer and a Gentlemen, kissing me passionately, then sweeping me up into his uniform-clad arms in order to carry me out into the bright sunlight — all to the strains of "Up Where We Belong" sung by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.

Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he?

In the meantime, let’s look at some of those romantic moments in gay entertainment, shall we?

“Kish” Make Love on One Life to Live

Cheesy, candle-lit love-making has been a mainstay of American daytime drama since the early 1950s, when the TV genre first appeared.

It just never involved us ‘mos.

But all that changed in December of 2009 when One Life to Live’s Officer Fish and Kyle, or “Kish” as the duo became known, went somewhere daytime drama had never gone before: the two of them had cheesy soap opera sex, complete with fireworks exploding outside the window.

Hey, they even spooned after! I was verklempt – weren’t you?

Sam and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings

"Kiss him, you fool!"

Here's a confession: I generally hate "slash" and "hoyay." I'll take my gay characters gay, thank you very much, and I actually get vaguely annoyed when people are convinced they see gay subtext where it obviously wasn't intended to be.

That said? I think one of the most romantic same-sex pairings of the last ten years doesn’t involve gay characters at all. In the three Lord of the Rings movies, Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins share a bond that goes beyond friendship: Sam and Frodo are soulmates, joined together like, well, a ring, where you're not quite sure where one's spirit ends and the other's begins.

And while they may both be straight males (although we don't really know about Frodo, do we?), their characters completely lack one characteristic that just might be relatively common in straight men: competition. Except when infected by the evil of The One Ring, Sam and Frodo work together.

And they die together too. "I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things," Frodo tells Sam when it seems that all hope is lost. I first saw this movie with a group of my straight guy friends, but I was still blubbering like a mad fool, and Sam and Frodo's love was the reason why.

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