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Shortbus
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality. From TMDB
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Shortbus is a 2006 romance comedy drama film, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, starring Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson and PJ DeBoy.
- 92 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon
- posts span Jul 6, 2023 to Oct 23, 2026
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60 of 105 · most liked firstShortbus is such a good movie
positive · AI labelView post →in the deep history of 2007, the outrageously adorable and wildly talented Jay Brannan (from John Cameron Mitchell's SHORTBUS (2006)) posted a video to YouTube of him singing his song from the movie, "Soda Shop," naked on his toilet, I love gay people www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVuh...
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday! What's YOUR #LastFourWatched? Bangers across the board 🙏 Titus is enormous and rich and good for the culture. Shortbus was foundational for me as a young slut and totally holds up. I see why all the film boys love AM. Thief! Thief!! Haven't stopped thinking about it since.
positive · AI labelView post →"Shortbus is a movie about connection and disconnection with your sexuality, with queerness, with people, with life. It shows the beauty in the ugliness of humanity, of being depressed, obsessed, repressed, in love, alone, etc." tryst.link/blog/whor...
neutral · AI labelView post →Nine Songs, one of two contemporaneous “what makes us different is the actors actually fuck” films*, which was the most boring and least sexy film I have ever watched * Shortbus being the superior one
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched Babygirl. Really enjoyed it. Occurs to me that I also really loved Secretary, Crash, In the Realm of the Senses, Sex Lies & Videotape, Belle De Jour, Leap Year (the 2010 Mexican movie not that awful ‘Irish’ one), Shortbus and Damage (1992). Just love humans being lil freaks I guess.
positive · AI labelView post →12 movies to get to know me*: 1. Wicked 2. The Muppet Movie 3. Flight of the Navigator 4. Bedknobs & Broomsticks 5. Shortbus 6. Newsies 7. Flash Gordon 8. Bride of Frankenstein 9. Psycho 10. Little Shop of Horrors 11. Gremlins 12. Return to Oz *picked ones I don't usually do for these memes
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to the amazing John Cameron Mitchell, Tony-winning actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, producer and director, best known for his innovative stage play/film HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, as well as SHORTBUS, RABBIT HOLE, and episodes of NURSE JACKIE and GLOW, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →losing my mind at Brunswick Underground Film Fest announcing their closing night film is a new 4K restoration of SHORTBUS (2006). this is dizzy stuff, folks.
neutral · AI labelView post →anyway Shortbus was a phenomenal movie. Triple blowjob on camera! I’ll bet the audience at Cannes shit a brick
positive · AI labelView post →The last movie I watched in 2024 was SHORTBUS, which we hadn't watched in years, and it's still kinda messy and I still kinda love it and now watching it exhausts me
neutral · AI labelView post →The last time we were there we saw "Air Doll" (beautiful but a BUMMER) and the lightest movie on their NOW PLAYING was "Shortbus" (which I love but isn't an easy movie to watch)
positive · AI labelView post →You can bet your ass if Miriam Shor is in something, she will have a necklace that telegraphs character Shortbus (dir. Mitchell, 2006) #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Shortbus, maybe? The whole film is about becoming more sexually aware. No idea if it’s any good, though. My research into the matter was only so thorough...
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone told me Copes i Bastos felt like being on the movie Shortbus. Then he told me that's his favorite movie. I think that's one of the best compliments I've ever recieved.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shortbus is great. John Cameron Mitchell wanted to film a plot driven movie where the actors actually had sex on camera. It’s been years since I saw it but I remember it being really tender and moving.
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched Shortbus again for the first time in maybe a decade and goddamn that movie is so good.
positive · AI labelView post →#songayear #musicchallenge Working backwards Day 20 - 2006 - Jay Brannan - Soda Shop - A sweet sounding little song from the movie Shortbus. “You held my head over the edge of the bed. I remember it now but at the time I thought I was dead.” #jaybrannan #sodashop
neutral · AI labelView post →We will be showing Shortbus on July 7th at 8pm pacific to wrap up our Pride movies. This film has explicit sex scenes in it so give it a pass if that bothers you. If you want to join, here is the link. discord.gg/bwQcuV4r
neutral · AI labelView post →A Film to Check Out! #15 It’s poignant n unique film that portrays the complexities of sex n relationship in a realistic beautiful way: a sex therapist who can’t climax, a couple who gets a third, a dominatrix wanting connection, n more. 🎥 John Cameron Mitchell #lgbtqiafilm #queerfilm #shortbus
neutral · AI labelView post →I am not a parent and I never wanted to be (because I my own parents weren’t great) so I freely admit that shows about families can be triggering But this show…it reminds me of the film Shortbus and how it was about creating a new kind of family and 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
neutral · AI labelView post →I was gonna say HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, but John Cameron Mitchell's follow-up film SHORTBUS has a 3-way blowjob in the first 20 minutes, so I THINK that might take the cock, er, cake.
neutral · AI labelView post →There is a fake listing of movies that were screened in the Biden administration's White House. One of which is Shortbus (2006). While the list is absolutely fake the movie is actually real. And it's fantastic. It's screening on Mubi, but I'm sure intrepid internet users can find it elsewhere. 🎥
positive · AI labelView post →We went to #Shortbus at #CinemaDuParc tonight for the 20th anniversary showing with A&A with Sook-yin Lee and John Cameron Mitchell. It was really a pleasure to watch; a snapshot in time from the mid-2000s. See it if it's coming to your town!
positive · AI labelView post →Today, I got to personally thank John Cameron Mitchell for inspiring me. Many of you know him from ''Hedwig and the Angry Inch,'' but if you've never seen the movie ''Shortbus,'' you absolutely should. Hit me up, and we can watch it in my basement.
positive · AI labelView post →I blame Gay Bluesky for this purchase. I can’t remember who recently posted about Jay Brennan, but that conversation inspired me. Shortbus is a great movie with a lovely soundtrack.
positive · AI labelView post →I like enough to move the characters forward in their story. If it's gratuitous, it makes me go "meh!" Just watched Pillion a few days ago and it was fairly steamy and funnier than hell in some points.. it was odd, as a dom/sub story it somewhat fell flat at the end for me. The guy I was watching it with was likewise disappointed as he's gay and said that most gay-centered stories rarely have a happy ending. The sex scenes were okay and both of us ooohed and ahhed over seeing Alexander…
neutral · AI labelView post →Q&A with Sook Yin Lee and @peterknegt.bsky.social after Shortbus screening for Queer Cinema Club. Sucha wonderful gathering for an important film
neutral · AI labelView post →Basically turning my love of Shortbus & This Film Is Not Yet Rated into a short film that I then used to explore my own bisexuality (Still exploring). It's also a comedy (Kinda) - Had a horrible time making it but still wish it got more of a festival run and public release.
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven't seen Shortbus, but from what i understand, it's a very sex-positive movie with unsimulated sex scenes and an orgy. So... I dunno give that film a watch i guess?
neutral · AI labelView post →I have been invited to be part of the curation team for a queer film festival at Filmhaus Nürnberg and now they make me chose between either Shortbus or Hedwig and the Angry Inch and now I know why I'm a better fan and critic than a curator. My heart bleeds.
neutral · AI labelView post →Imagining the anti-sex scene people encountering SHORTBUS, a (technically) non-porn film where the sex is the whole point
neutral · AI labelView post →Savage Grace used its sex scene's extremely well. A lot like the other reply about Shortbus, the sexuality is at the front and center of the film's plot. PS: there should be a bit of a trigger warning as there's a strong element of parental sexual abuse and this movie gets fucked up
neutral · AI labelView post →The film Shortbus features real unscripted penetrative sex and a gay man reciting the pledge of allegiance or maybe the star spangled banner to eat his boyfriends ass 1000% more controversial than this lol
positive · AI labelView post →National Anthem scene from Shortbus. Teenage me during the Bush 2 years was shook that something like this could be filmed 😂 (Shoutout to my late, straight brother for watching this movie with me and not running away screaming)
neutral · AI labelView post →Shortbus is an amazing film about all the ways we as people connect through sex. And yes, that sometimes involves singing the National Anthem directly into someone’s hole. Plus it was banned in Korea and that’s how you know a film’s great 👇🏻 www.cruisingcinema.com/blue-film-so...
positive · AI labelView post →Adore! I'd recommend his later film Shortbus as one of my favorites, it's a lot.
positive · AI labelView post →Some good gay movies: - Shortbus (queer erotic comedy with unsimulated sex) - Stranger by the Lake (a slow burn thriller with unsimulated sex) - Dry Wind (very sexy Brazilian movie with unsimulated sex) - Knife + Heart (thriller) - Hellbent (fun slasher) - Drop Dead Gorgeous (fun slasher)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm annoyed that the movie Shortbus isn't really available to stream outside of porn sites. It's a lovely, funny, underseen movie.
positive · AI labelView post →As an aside, have you seen the film Shortbus?
neutral · AI labelView post →Soundtrack: “Winter's Love” by Animal Collective, if only because it was featured in a scene at a sex party in John Cameron Mitchell's 2006 film Shortbus. (Fin)
neutral · AI labelView post →Shortbus (2006)? It's not JUST sex scenes, but it has more sex scenes in its runtime than most HBO series. It also happens to be an amazing film and easily one of my top 5 favorites.
positive · AI labelView post →Would add Babygirl, Quills, The Dreamers, Please Baby Please, Shortbus, A Serbian Film, The Night Porter, Sliver, 9 Songs, Cruising, Interior: Leather Bar, Paris France, Meridian, Boxing Helena, Cam, Deadgirl, Savage Grace, Caligula, Nekromantik +
neutral · AI labelView post →Memories of autofellatio from the movie “Shortbus.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Today - SHORTBUS + Sook-Yin Lee at Paradise via Queer Cinema Club, UNINVITED via When Animals Attack at Revue, Mexico's THE PEARL on 16mm via Media Commons, Toronto film collective The Funnel is remembered at TMU, more! Rundown: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep
neutral · AI labelView post →Just rewatched "Shortbus" for the first time in a long time, which bears some tonal similarities with a Greg Araki film, but almost nobody dies and there's much less crazy-ass violence and ultimately a more upbeat message.
positive · AI labelView post →Sometimes I sit and think about the movie Shortbus
neutral · AI labelView post →oh I see that you've already seen the Wachowskis' Bound and Park Chan-wook's the Handmaiden. Maybe I can entice you to add John Cameron Mitchell's film Shortbus into that folder of films.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shortbus great movie. Also Pollock
positive · AI labelView post →I'm halfway through Red, White and Royal Blue and it's delightful? It's quite funny, the leads have chemistry and they actually fuck! They suck dick and do butt stuff! Okay it's not, like, Shortbus-explicit but people have some really weird expectations if they wanted more from an Amazon Prime movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I tried as a kid (maybe 10 or 11?). I for sure could not reach including my tongue. I assume I still can't today and have no urge to find out. Especially after watching Shortbus.
neutral · AI labelView post →We somehow happened to pick the perfect July 4 morning movie: Shortbus. It contains a scene in which three men who are engaged in a full-on threesome sing The Star Spangled Banner in its entirety, into each others’ dicks and asses. Fully recommend. Increased my patriotism
positive · AI labelView post →I accidentally rewatched "Shortbus" tonight. It was accidental in that I only wanted to briefly turn it on while I waited for the shower to free up, and tbh also the spoons to get up. And suddenly it was 3 am. But it's a hot night and it felt kinda fitting given that I first saw this 1/6
positive · AI labelView post →He talks about a Japanese film called "After Life" and says something like "The director loved Hedwig and was scared of Shortbus". Haha.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shortbus is a Valentine’s Day movie, I will not be taking questions at this time
positive · AI labelView post →I get it, I have been thinking about how the last time I liked something this queer it was Shortbus, a movie so niche most of my friends haven’t heard of it (and I went to Lesbian College!), but honestly it’s nice to have people to talk about it with and the possibility of nice merch????
positive · AI labelView post →if you watch Rear Window again you might even see this scene shortly after your library, which is arranged alphabetically, jumps forward to the next movie: Shortbus
neutral · AI labelView post →The film Shortbus, which is a very explicit erotic comedy, has a character named Ceth (spelled differently to my name, but pronounced the same). I saw Shortbus well before I identified as bisexual, so seeing a very sexually-active gay guy with my name was a little weird.
neutral · AI labelView post →That movie should have had the trumpet scene from Shortbus
neutral · AI labelView post →The film Shortbus which is basically the most sexually explicit film that wasn’t a porn features a scene with 3 gay men having sex and the one recited the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem while eating the others ass
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