Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.Once upon a time in the annals of queer cinema, the “coming out and falling in love with the hot boy” trope dominated screen stories.
With the AIDS epidemic at last on the wane, a new generation of young LGBTQ people had begun to come out and explore sex for the first time.Get Real falls squarely in that category.
The film follows Steven (Ben Silverstone), a handsome, lonesome 16-year-old living in blue-collar Britain. Steven realizes he’s gay, and begins to seek out other men the only way he knows how: by cruising a public toilet.