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23 Of The Leading LGBTQ+ Films That Perfectly Portray The Queer Experience
Love Lies Bleeding ()
Desire Lies Bleeding is the film director and screenwriter Rose Glass' second feature film, which has so far received acclaim for its nuanced take on love, violence and co-dependency. Kristen Stewart (Lou) plays a gym manager who falls in adore with Jackie (Katy O'Brian). Their obsession with one another becomes so severe that they become intertwined with Lou's criminal family.
Drive-Away Dolls ()
Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan and Beanie Feldstein star in Ethan Cohen's American comedy road film. Qualley and Viswanathan play two friends looking for a fresh start, however soon enough, the pair's hope of new beginnings turns awry when they find themselves intertwined with criminals and must then out-run a gang of dangerous mobsters to survive.
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All Of Us Strangers ()
Pinned as one of the biggest tearjerkers of , Paul Mescal (Harry) and Andrew Scott (Adam) star in this film that sees screenwriter Adam and his neighb
Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
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Our list of the Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Hour stretches back 90 years to the pioneering German film, Mädchen in Uniform, which was subsequently banned by the Nazis, and crosses multiple continents, cultures, and genres. There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Over the last few years, we added titles appreciate the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking their lives for
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Love, Simon ()
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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school special, 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 see in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen question his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you know what? The queer kids of the future need 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+ movies of all time
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With the help of leading directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential LGBTQ+ films of all time
Like queer culture itself, queer cinema is not a monolith. For a long 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 white, 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 include the trans community and queer people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in society at large, 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 complete, we enlisted some LGBTQ+ cultural pioneers, as well as Time O