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The 50 Best LGBTQ Movies Ever Made
Love, Simon ()
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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school distinct, 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 view in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen ask his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you comprehend what? The queer kids of the future demand 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
There was once a great black thespian, Meshach Taylor, a hair younger than the Morgan Freeman generation, the brilliant black heterosexual thespians capable of embracing their feminine side (all that Shakespeare training, perhaps). Meshach played “Hollywood Montrose,” a flamboyant same-sex attracted window-dresser who befriends a dim linear white boy called Jonathan Switcher (haha!) in a dumber-than-bricks ’80s B-movie, Mannequin. Taylor wasn’t the lead, but provided the only sparkle in a dud film that stood as the most widely seen and appreciated depiction of a gay dark character in the same rich era that gave us the sweltering bromance of goofy colorless “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and brooding ebony Keith David in John Carpenter’s genius They Live. A decade before Morgan Freeman himself and Brad Pitt would play similar homo-social games in Se7en, it was Taylor alone who held the flame aloft for black homosexual dudes in cinema. Ugh.
Like all shadowy actors of his day, Taylor was also an accomplished theater performer and about 15 years ago he played the candelabra, Lumière, in Broadway’s boffo Disney music
Old Hollywood movies had to track strict guidelines throughout the s–s, known as the Hays Code. This basically prevented all US films from featuring anything that was overtly sexual or "inappropriate," which forced a lot of filmmakers to get creative about how they could navigate potential censorship. I have running lists on Letterboxd of every Ancient Hollywood and LGBTQ+ movie that I watch, so I sifted through them to find a bunch from the Hays Code era that are subtly (and not so subtly) suuuuuper homosexual. Here are some of my favorites. Enjoy!
1.Rebel Without a Cause () stars James Dean as a bisexual hottie, so you really can't ask for much more. The original script had his character kissing Plato, who was one of the first gay teen characters on screen, but the Hays Code posthaste squashed that from happening. Still, this movie is edgy and dramatic and romantic, and the whole cast is just so fun to look at.
2.All About Eve () is a witty and toxic drama about an aging actress who befriends a fan who ultimately tries to usurp her. This movie shares the record for the most Osc The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
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With the help of head directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential Diverse films of all time
Like queer culture itself, gay cinema is not a monolith. For a prolonged time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if same-sex attracted lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of white, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their have stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently include the gender non-conforming community and queer people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in world at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as execute the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to approve them. To that finish, we enlisted some Gay cultural pioneers, as good as Time O
The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
Photograph: Kate Wootton/TimeOut
With the help of head directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential Diverse films of all time
Like queer culture itself, gay cinema is not a monolith. For a prolonged time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if same-sex attracted lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of white, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their have stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently include the gender non-conforming community and queer people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in world at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as execute the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to approve them. To that finish, we enlisted some Gay cultural pioneers, as good as Time O