A sweetly intimate bromance plays out in this progressive Canadian indie from 60 years ago

Image Credit: ‘Winter Kept Us Warm,’ Filmmakers Distribution Center

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, as the New Year brings us right until the middle of winter, let’s revisit 1965’s seasonally appropriate gay indie, Winter Kept Us Warm.

Happy 2025! To start the year off with the right intentions, this week we’ll take a look at an underrated, under-seen movie from across the northern border that—even though it’s never really gotten its due diligence—occupies a niche space in the queer film canon. It’s a film with a production and a legacy that perfectly reflect the scrappiness, ingenuity, and creative spirit that has characterized our community.

As we’ve discussed in this column for almost two years now, making a queer

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