Could this be the next Brokeback Mountain?

Attitude premiered the trailer for the new gay romantic drama Holding the Man, based on the 1995 bestselling memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and it certainly looks like you should have some tissues in reach while watching.

The film is about two teenage boys who meet in school and quickly fall in love. "Throughout the next 15 years they face everything together: the discrimination, the dramas, the temptations, the jealousies, and the laughs. But a tragedy is looming, and it threatens to rip them both apart, with horrendous consequences."

Australian actors Ryan Corr and Craig Stott play the two leads, and the film has already been successful in their home country where it won Peoples Choice Award for Best Narrative at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Last year singer Sam Smith wrote on Instagram about how the original novel changed his life:

No U.S. premiere date has been announced but you can watch the trailer below:

h/t: Attitude