A journey through involuntary homoerotic cinema that has been key to our sexual awakening.

“I didn’t discover my sexuality with a schoolmate, nor with a summer love. I discovered my sexuality with Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China.”

Thus begins Cine Crush. The Involuntary Homoerotic Cinema in Our Sexual Awakening, the essay in which journalist Popy Blasco reviews some of the erotic myths that made us discover our orientation through a bunch of commercial films that, in hindsight, appear as involuntarily homoerotic.

The book covers hundreds of titles starring idols brimming with filogay eroticism, invisible to the heteronormative eye; actors and characters already legendary who, while inspiring admiration in some, sparked desire within the LGTBIQ+ community.

Besides establishing the differences between LGTBIQ+ cinema and homoerotic or filogay cinema, Popy Blasco offers us a thorough review of many of the film and television stars who have marked the boomer generation, Generation X, millennials, and Gen Z.

Author biography

Popy Blasco (Madrid, 1978), author of Yo fui teen en los 90, has collaborated with various media outlets such as El País, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Neo2, Vanidad, V Magazine, Primera Línea, Candy, L’Officiel, Playground, and GQ. He is also a professor of coolhunting at IED and IADE, as well as a consultant on social and consumer trends.

In 2004, he began writing his blog PopyB, one of the longest-running in Spanish. As a cultural manager, he directed the programming of the film club Cineshock and has led podcasts such as Radioshock and currently Pijas Marrones for Subterfuge Radio.