Cine Crush

"I did not discover my sexuality with a classmate, nor with a summer love. I discovered my sexuality with Kurt Russell in Coup in little China." Thus begins Cinema Crush. The involuntary homoerotic cinema in our sexual awakening, the book with which Popy Blasco reviews some of the erotic myths that made us discover our identity through a bunch of commercial films that, in memory, are presented as involuntarily homoerotic. Titles starring idols brimming with pro-gay eroticism, invisible to the heteronormative eye; stars and legendary characters that while in some aroused admiration, in the LGBTIQ+ collective aroused desire, becoming the first crush. In the book, Blasco establishes the differences between LGBTIQ+ cinema and homoerotic or philo-gay cinema and reviews some of the erotic myths in the boomer generation (Hercules and the peplum, Tarzan, from Gene Kelly to Clint Eastwood); Generation X (Top Gun, Bruce Willis, from Flash Gordon to McGyver); the millennials (Batman and Robin, from Mel Gibson to Ryan Phillippe) and the GenZ (from the vampires of True Blood to Hawaii 5.0 and Magic Mike).