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The 50 Best LGBTQ Movies Ever Made
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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school exceptional, that's no mistake: Teen-tv super-producer Greg Berlanti makes his feature-film directorial debut here. It's as chaste a love story as you're likely to observe in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen doubt his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you comprehend what? The queer kids of the future call for their wholesome entertainment, too.
Rocketman ()
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A gay fantasia on Elton themes. An Elton John biopic was never going to be understated, but this glittering jukebox musical goes way over the top and then keeps going. It might be an overcorrection from the straight-washing of the previous year's Bohemian Rhapsody, but when it's this much fun, it's best not to overthink it.
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Handsome Devil ()
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A charming Irish movie that answers the question: "What if John Hughes were Irish and gay?" Misfit Ned struggles at
The Best LGBTQ Films of All Time
Seven years ago this month, in the aftermath of the strike on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, one call to move rose above the din: “Say their names.” Recent Yorkers chanted it steps from the Stonewall Inn. The mother of a child gunned down at Sandy Hook penned it in an open letter. The Orlando Sentinel printed the names. Anderson Cooper recited them. A gunman, year-old Omar Mateen, murdered 49 people and wounded 53 others in the wee hours of that awful Sunday, massacring LGBTQ people of color and their allies in the middle of Pride Month, and the commemoration of the dead demanded knowing who they were. “These,” as MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell urged his viewers, “are the names to remember.”
The titles on our list of the best LGBTQ movies of all day are a globe-spanning, multigenerational testament to our life in a world where our erasure is no abstraction. From Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Michael to Todd Haynes’s Carol, naming and seeing emerge, intertwined, as radical acts—acts of becoming (Sally Potter’s Orlando) and acts of being (Shirley Clar
Autostraddle’s Pride theme was Rage Party. That’s also how I would describe the best queer cinema of
While I love an easy-to-digest comedy or an unapologetically heavy drama, something is disoriented when our cinema treats fun and importance as diametrically opposed. Queer cinema can be about the challenges we face, the oppression we experience, the microaggressions and aggression aggressions and all the rest, and still be amusing and sexy. In fact, fun and sexy are two of our greatest tools.
Even though Hollywood has pulled help from “diversity” this was still an excellent year for queer cinema. Below, I’ve written in-depth about my ten favorites, and also felt the necessitate to shout out 20 more homosexual titles. (Plus 10 non-queer movies I loved too.) But as long as we’re living in complexity, I believe it’s important we reflect on which queer people are able to design in the absence of more mainstream support. The huge majority of directors who released gay films this year are white — even more than most years. There’s plenty to criticize about in the mainstream as Emilia Pérez will likely b
The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
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With the aid of leading directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential LGBTQ+ films of all time
Like queer customs itself, queer cinema is not a monolith. For a prolonged time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of light, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their own stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently involve the trans community and homosexual people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in society at massive, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as do the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to accept them. To that end, we enlisted some LGBTQ+ cultural pioneers, as well as Time O