Big boy gay
Synopsis
A coming-of-age story about Jamie, a teenage boy who develops a crush on his older cousin Allie’s boyfriend on a family camping trip.
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Alternative Titles
小熊大個仔, 빅 보이즈, Nois grans, 大男孩
Premiere
18 Mar 2023
- UKBFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival
17 Jun 2023
- USAFrameline Film Festival
22 Jul 2023
- USAOutfest LA Film Festival
11 Sep 2023
- Hong KongHong Kong Lesbian & Homosexual Film Festival
04 Nov 2023
- South KoreaSeoul International Pride Film Festival
31 Aug 2024
- AustraliaQueerscreen Film Festival
Theatrical
31 May 2024
- USA
28 Jun 2024
- Spain12
16 Aug 2024
- SwedenBtl
29 Aug 2025
- UK15
Digital
11 Jun 2024
- USA
05 Dec 2024
- France
Big Boys!
How deeply interested are you with the queer community in Aotearoa?
Tia: In the past, I've done some promo operate for the Burnett Foundation Aotearoa Love Your Condom campaign, and in 2014 I was part of the First Kiss (Gay Version) viral YouTube video. And then in 2020, I competed for Mr Gay New Zealand and I won Mr Congeniality. In 2024, I won Mr Bear New Zealand.
Morro: I’m not as active now, but I used to go to a lot of the bear events. I also won Mr Bear New Zealand, and then went on to compete alongside the Australian states, and I ended up winning Mr Bear Australasia – both in 2017. After that, I made a lot of friends and met so many people from all over the world.
As an active community member, what are your thoughts on representation?
Tia: Ever since Aotearoa was colonised, existence takatāpui was frowned-upon, not only by Western culture, but among our hold Māori communities as successfully. A lot of the mahi in breaking down that stigma, and de-colonising our people, is also connected to breaking down the stigma around having a bigger body – both as a Māori and as a gender non-conforming person.
Now, lots of campaigns for the gender non-conforming communit
Accurately portraying the little details of life as a gay 14-year-old was one of my biggest priorities when making my recent feature, Big Boys. My collaborators and I wanted to cram the production full of specifics to better evoke the audience’s memories of their have adolescence, particularly if they were ever closeted. There were certainly details I pulled from my control life, but I start that as I opened the film up to ideas from the cast and crew, that’s when the movie really started to feel lived-in. However, nailing those details wasn’t always easy. It committed a lot of help and forth, as we weighed different options. We often had to receive time away from a problem before we could figure out a resolution we were happy with. Sometimes we had to sacrifice details, because they distracted from the story. I found the whole process to be one of the most challenging and rewarding parts of making this film.
Below are some examples of the collaborative process that went into trying to receive those specifics just right …
Size-Consciousness
The production is called Big Boys for a reason. I was a big lad growing up (and am to this day!) and was tired of seeing chubby characters humiliated or
As I sit here, with a bleak post-Heartstoppers hole in my TV viewing life, the UK’s brilliant (and currently embattled) Channel 4 comes to the rescue with a very different queer love story, Big Boys. It also conveniently fills that gaping space left by Sex Education and Derry Girls.
Adapted from writer, narrator, and executive producer Jack Rooke’s autobiographical stage show, Big Boys introduces us to Jack (Derry Girls’ Dylan Llewellyn) as he starts Brent University two years after his father passed away. Instead of living in uni halls as planned, he and another freshman, Danny (Plebs’ Jon Pointing), are moved into abandoned classrooms while a gas leak is fixed. It’s the start of a platonic, coming-of-age care for story celebrating allies and those tentative first steps into the big lgbtq+ world.
Socially awkward gay Jack and the laddish vertical Danny don’t seem prefer obvious friends, but through the travails of their first year at uni, Danny turns into an unexpectedly positive ally doing things like buying Jack lube and walking him to his first Grindr hookup. Jack slowly builds his new life with help from the studious Corinne (Izuka Hoyle) and more experienced fell
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