23 Gay Shorts On YouTube To Watch If You Love Seeing Boys Fall In Love – BuzzFeed

Hetero best friends and roommates, Jay and Alex, spend a whole day debating sexuality before deciding to try something new.

Directed by: Sophie Kargman

Starring: Justice Smith, Graham Patrick Martin

When David returns home from college, he finds a hired hand named Brent kipping in his bedroom. Brent’s the strong-and-silent type, and David can’t help but by intrigued by his new roomie.

Directed by: Tyler Reeves

Starring: Cooper Stone, Damian Joseph Quinn, Lauren Elyse Buckley

Two “straight” guys hook up on a whim. Afterwards, they try to resolve their very different feelings about the encounter.

Directed by: Branden Blinn

Starring: Carlos Salas, Nick Soper

A basketball team is rocked by a disagreement between two players, one of whom is seriously anti-gay. Behind the scenes, however, his home life paints a very different picture.

Directed by: Branden Blinn

Starring: William Jennings, Lee Amir-Cohen, Ronnie Prouty

A man spends the night with another guy, but wakes up and instantly regrets his decision. Over the course of a day, he figures out exactly how he feels about the experience.

Directed by: Bruno Collins

Starring: Joshua Berg, Luke Striffler, Juliet Lundholm

Set in early ’90s Northern Ireland, a teenager dogged by daily physical and mental abuse finds solace in looking after younger brother, and spending time with his best friend.

Directed by: Ethan McDowell

Starring: Oliver Scullion, Josh Hegarty, Conor Gormally

A shy teen tries to conceal his homosexuality whilst suuuuuper crushing on a bad boy at his school.

Directed by: Tamer Ruggli

Starring: Benjamin Décosterd, Manuela Biedermann, Anton Ciurlia

A down-on-his-luck actor meets another actor in the street. Through him, he realises how great his life can be if he finally accepts himself.

Directed by: Nicholas Zhur

Starring: Charles-Curtis Sanders, Landon Tavernier, Donnie Luther

A blind teen keen to assert his independence begins to push away his mother and his best friend. He even considers leaving school, but he changes his mind when a new student shows an interest in him. (FYI this is the short film version of The Way He Looks, which is also fantastic).

Directed by: Daniel Ribeiro

Starring: Ghilherme Lobo, Tess Amorim, Fabio Audi

This is an all-time classic! A popular boy has his nerdy classmate over to help him with school work, but when they start goofing off in the pool, tensions start to rise.

Directed by: Adam Salky

Starring: Michael Cassidy, Adam Fleming, Marla Burkholder

Two guys living in a remote area of the Isle of Wight spend their last day together before one of them moves away for good.

Directed by: Jason Bradbury

Starring: Alexander Scott, Tristan Bernays, Mandy Aldridge

There’s no actual kissing in this one, but there’s a simmering romance that I think is well worth mentioning! Two high schoolers on the brink of a change in their lives skirt around the fact that they like each other, much to the chagrin of the little sister of one of them.

Directed by: Benedict Campbell

Starring: Aaron Michael Davies, Brian Dare, Carina Goldbach

In this poignant time travel short, a gay teen in the present is helped by a gay teen in the past who lived/are living in the same bedroom, and have been through similar struggles. Side note: I’m also 100% here for the Waterloo Road reunion happening in this film!!

Directed by: Lloyd Eyre-Morgan

Starring: Ceallach Spellman, Tommy Knight, Julie Hesmondhalgh

A teen delivers dumplings to upscale apartments all over Hong Kong. He takes a liking to a handsome British expat, but struggles to get him to notice him in the way he desperately wants him to.

Directed by: Hugo Kenzo

Starring: Cheuk Piu “Champi” Lo, Phillip Smith, Thisby Cheng

Two men on a desert trek together violently lock heads when one of them wilfully loses their water and their way.

Directed by: Guy Sahaf

Starring: Dor Ronen, Ziv Shalit

Frustrated by the online dating game, a guy decides to go on an actual date with a one-night stand from several months before, but the experience throws up issues he has yet to confront.

Directed by: Nathan Nie

Starring: Harrison Grant, Matthew Bunker

Short but sweet, this movie depicts a guy struggling to balance his faith with his feelings for another man.

Directed by: Jędrzej Gorski

Starring: Daniel Namiotko, Daniel Skrzypczak

Despite already having his life planned out for him by his traditional parents, a muslim teenager can’t stop himself being drawn to his worldly English teacher.

Directed by: Yudho Aditya

Starring: Chicco Kurniawan, Karlina Inawati, Jacob McCarthy

Two guys catch each other’s eye at their local subway station. When one strikes up the courage to talk to the other, he realises his crush is deaf. 

Directed by: Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Starring: John P. McGinty, Preston Sadleir

A wealthy banker invites a sex worker to his apartment, and ends up having to deal with his own past as well as the reality of a humanitarian crises that hits close to home for him.

Directed by: Saleem Haddad

Starring: Zed Josef, Marwan Kaabour

A student hides his loving boyfriend from his conservative father, but in order take things to the next level, he must reveal his biggest secret.

Directed by: Mariana Thome

Starring:  Todd Lien, Zach Cramblit, Nathan Chen

A self-effacing teenager is outed after he admits to kissing another guy at a party and liking it. You know who else liked it though? The guy he kissed! However, he’s not going it admit that in hurry.

Directed by: Olivier Lallart

Starring: Paul Gomerieux, Jacques Lepesqueur, Yannis Perrier-Gustin

A New Yorker returns home from Korea admidst an existential crisis, only to find his home city doesn’t feel so homely anymore.

Directed by: Nick Neon

Starring: Nick Neon, Taylor Bloom, J.J. Mattise