John Benjamin Hickey in Love! Valour! Compassion!

Eight Men, On Summer, you figure it out....

Gregory invites 7 friends to his secluded home: Bobby, couple Art and Perry, John, Ramon, AIDS-afflicted James, HIV+ Buzz. They spend the summer navigating relationships, illnesses, and personal dynamics.

I remember that even before renting Love! Valour! Compassion! on VHS, the attention over the nudity.  Mostly it concerned seeing Jason Alexander's ass, who was at the height of his fame during the final seasons of Seinfeld.  Years later, when I got online, it was Randy Becker's nude scenes that seemed to get the lion's share of attention.

Understandable, sort of, at the time, Alexander was the most famous actor in the cast.  Becker was the young hottie in the group, and in the movie.  I fell into the trap of salivating over the young hottie myself.  Re-watching again though, it's John Benjamin Hickey and his character Arthur, who I zoom in on, both actually, and emotionally.

'You're right, I'm butch; I can catch a ball, I genuinely like both my parents, and I hate opera. I don't know why I bother being gay.'

Arthur

Of all the characters, I'm probably most like Arthur, and I too, would follow the young Ramon, (Becker0 down to the wharf to skinny dip with.  I think Hickey's character also showed the most nudity, with several clear frontals including the scenes in the field, and on the wharf, shown here.