Billy Collier (Sean P. Hayes), is a 26-year-old photographer in LA who announces, "My name is Billy, and I am a homosexual." He is tired of being the "other woman" with his attached lover Fernando (Armando Vales-Kennedy). Billy decides to recreate famous Hollywood screen kisses using drag queens in the female roles. While out with his roommate Georgiana (Meredith Scott Lynn), he meets Gabriel (Brad Rowe). That night at a party, Billy's friend Perry (Richard Ganoung) agrees to finance Billy's Screen Kiss project and Billy runs into Gabriel. Billy recruits him to model and shoots his first setup, and the two develop a friendship. At Billy's apartment they share a bed, but Gabriel rejects his sexual advances and Billy sleeps on the couch. Gabriel gets an underwear modeling job and goes to Catalina. Billy follows after him but cannot find him. Eventually Billy wonders if Gabriel was just using him. The movie ends with the opening of Billy's "Hollywood Screen Kiss" exhibition, which includes his photos of Gabriel. Perry shows Billy a magazine with the underwear ad featuring Gabriel and suggests that Billy give him a call. Billy says no. Near the end of the night, Billy meets Joshua (Robbie Cain), suggesting that along with his artistic success Billy may have found a boyfriend as well.
This film has fantasy sequences of Billy and Gabriel in romantic scenes. Billy carries a Polaroid camera with him everywhere, and his memories are illustrated with photos. "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" opens with a series of photos and a monologue by Billy explaining how he grew up gay "in a small town in Indiana, where there's plenty of corn, fast cars, and straights. Lots and lots of straights. I mean, a lot." Some scenes are backed up by old classic songs lip-synced by the drag queens, a running gag throughout the film. There are cameos by Paul Bartel as Rex Webster and Warhol "superstar" Holly Woodlawn as Holly. The music score was composed by Alan Ari Lazar. Written and directed by Tommy O'Haver, a remake of his short film "Catalina".
This film has fantasy sequences of Billy and Gabriel in romantic scenes. Billy carries a Polaroid camera with him everywhere, and his memories are illustrated with photos. "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" opens with a series of photos and a monologue by Billy explaining how he grew up gay "in a small town in Indiana, where there's plenty of corn, fast cars, and straights. Lots and lots of straights. I mean, a lot." Some scenes are backed up by old classic songs lip-synced by the drag queens, a running gag throughout the film. There are cameos by Paul Bartel as Rex Webster and Warhol "superstar" Holly Woodlawn as Holly. The music score was composed by Alan Ari Lazar. Written and directed by Tommy O'Haver, a remake of his short film "Catalina".
