Beautiful Thing (1996)

Scott Neal: Ste Pearce

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• Ste : [reading magazine]  You cannot transmit the HIV virus by frottage.

  Ste : What's frottage?

  Jamie Gangel : It's yogurt. It's French.

• Jamie : Scared of being called "queer"?

  Ste : Are you?

  Jamie : Maybe... maybe not.

  Ste : And are ya?

  Jamie : Queer?

  Ste : Gay.

  Jamie : Very happy. I'm happy when I'm with you...

• Ste : There ain't nowhere else.

  Sandra : There is, actually, Ste. There's an island in the Mediterranean called Lesbian, and all its inhabitants are dykes. So you've got your eye wiped there.

• Ste : You always wear glasses when you read?

  Jamie : Supposed to.

  Ste : But you don't at school.

  Jamie : It's hardly fetching, is it?

  Ste : Nah, looks all right.

  Jamie : Really?

  Ste : I'm tellin' ya.

  Jamie : Cheers.

• Ste : Do you think I'm queer?

  Jamie Gangel : It don't matter what I think.

• Jamie : You're not ugly.

  Ste : They've made me ugly.

• Ste : Do you wanna come to the boxing?

  Jamie : Shut up!