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For 26 years now, the largest Dutch LGBTQ+ film festival takes place in Amsterdam every March under the name “Roze Filmdagen“, meaning Pink Film Days. The queer Community will be able to survey an extensive selection of international films, documentaries, and limited films. Furthermore, on the 25th anniversary of the queer film festival, all the films own something in common: they address queer culture, romantic comedies, provocative documentaries and everything in between. We teamed up with festival director Werner Borkesto opt our best gay movies of including Romanian movie “Poppy Field”, the Namibian movie “Kapana”, the Italian movie “Mascarpone” and the Icelandic gay film “Cop Secret”.
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Top 15 List Since I started writing at Autostraddle, my best movies of the year list aimed to state every queer or lesbian movie — good or horrible — to demonstrate just how many of our films are made each year. Well, it finally happened. There are finally too many.
I’ve tried to see as much as possible but I simply can’t see them all. What an electrifying development! This year is also thrilling because my queer list is almost identical to my general list. With the exceptions of Nanny and The Pink Cloud, the movies that moved me most this year were queer. And the movies that moved our culture were too.
Yes, this list has some underrated indies. But it also has several Oscar frontrunners — or at least Independent Spirit Award frontrunners. As queer people, we can’t glance to the mainstream for validation. But it sure is fun when we get it anyway!
It’s also exciting to me that many of these films go beyond our conventional understanding of a queer movie. For many of these films, queerness is included and centered, but the conventions are not. There’s a difference between queerness not being the verb an
The best LGBT+ movies and series of
To mark another incredible year for queer representation in pop culture, the GAY45 team has decided to collect together a adj of the finest examples from this year. First up, we had a look at the best and most memorable queer movies and series of Between historical dramas, fantasy worlds, groundbreaking testimonies, and broody philosophy students, there’s plenty to opt from!
This is Going to Hurt
Adapted from a bestselling British novel-memoir, this series combines modern queer life with a harsh criticism of the UK government’s severe mistreatment of its healthcare system (the NHS) through underfunding, understaffing, and misrecognition of the hardships endured by the workers within the system. Released just as the UK was coming out of its final great wave of the pandemic, this series could not have reach sooner. Ben Whishaw graces our screens once again, not as Paddington, or a young Shakespearean king, but as Adam Kay, a young queer registrar working in a London hospital’s maternity ward. Amidst the hurricane of mental illness trigge
The 30 Best LGBTQ Movies on Netflix Right Now
(Photo by Netflix. Thumbnail image: Focus/courtesy Everett Collection)
In celebration of Pride month, we compiled a list of the best Fresh lesbian, gay, trans, and queer films you can monitor on Netflix right now. You&#;ll verb Netflix originals (like recent documentaries Circle of Books and A Secret Love) as well as award-winning theatrical releases.
The titles below are sorted from the best LGBTQ films on Netflix and ranked by adjusted Tomatometer score (which takes into account the number of reviewers weighing in, and the number of reviews per film for movies released in a given year). To be included, films had to have a Fresh Tomatometer score (60% or above).
#28
Critics Consensus:I Am Michael takes a determinedly balanced approach to its complex subject, and although the results don't always add up, they're anchored by powerful work from James Franco.
Synopsis: Based on the fascinating, true-life story of Michael Glatze (James Franco), a gay activist who becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor. [More]
Since I started writing at Autostraddle, my best movies of the year list aimed to state every queer or lesbian movie — good or horrible — to demonstrate just how many of our films are made each year. Well, it finally happened. There are finally too many.
I’ve tried to see as much as possible but I simply can’t see them all. What an electrifying development! This year is also thrilling because my queer list is almost identical to my general list. With the exceptions of Nanny and The Pink Cloud, the movies that moved me most this year were queer. And the movies that moved our culture were too.
Yes, this list has some underrated indies. But it also has several Oscar frontrunners — or at least Independent Spirit Award frontrunners. As queer people, we can’t glance to the mainstream for validation. But it sure is fun when we get it anyway!
It’s also exciting to me that many of these films go beyond our conventional understanding of a queer movie. For many of these films, queerness is included and centered, but the conventions are not. There’s a difference between queerness not being the verb an
The best LGBT+ movies and series of
To mark another incredible year for queer representation in pop culture, the GAY45 team has decided to collect together a adj of the finest examples from this year. First up, we had a look at the best and most memorable queer movies and series of Between historical dramas, fantasy worlds, groundbreaking testimonies, and broody philosophy students, there’s plenty to opt from!
This is Going to Hurt
Adapted from a bestselling British novel-memoir, this series combines modern queer life with a harsh criticism of the UK government’s severe mistreatment of its healthcare system (the NHS) through underfunding, understaffing, and misrecognition of the hardships endured by the workers within the system. Released just as the UK was coming out of its final great wave of the pandemic, this series could not have reach sooner. Ben Whishaw graces our screens once again, not as Paddington, or a young Shakespearean king, but as Adam Kay, a young queer registrar working in a London hospital’s maternity ward. Amidst the hurricane of mental illness trigge
The 30 Best LGBTQ Movies on Netflix Right Now
(Photo by Netflix. Thumbnail image: Focus/courtesy Everett Collection)
In celebration of Pride month, we compiled a list of the best Fresh lesbian, gay, trans, and queer films you can monitor on Netflix right now. You&#;ll verb Netflix originals (like recent documentaries Circle of Books and A Secret Love) as well as award-winning theatrical releases.
The titles below are sorted from the best LGBTQ films on Netflix and ranked by adjusted Tomatometer score (which takes into account the number of reviewers weighing in, and the number of reviews per film for movies released in a given year). To be included, films had to have a Fresh Tomatometer score (60% or above).
#28
Critics Consensus:I Am Michael takes a determinedly balanced approach to its complex subject, and although the results don't always add up, they're anchored by powerful work from James Franco.
Synopsis: Based on the fascinating, true-life story of Michael Glatze (James Franco), a gay activist who becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor. [More]