#GiveSpockABoyfriend: 5 Same-Sex Relationships We’d Like To See In Summer Blockbusters

From: NewNowNext

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Ben Hur

 and 

Messala 

in

“Ben-Hur”

The 1959 version of this sword-and-sandals epic had plenty of gay subtext: Screenwriter Gore Vidal explicitly stated that Ben and former BFF Messala were lovers before the latter betrayed the former.

Will we see a sex scene between Jack Huston and Toby Kebbell in Timur Bekmambetov’s “re-imagining” of the story? It might take a miracle.