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BL series have become immensely popular in recent years. It used to be that you could hardly find a non-stereotypical queer character on a TV show, let alone a same-sex couple. Sometimes, storytellers would jump through hoops to imply the characters had feelings for each other without actually showing them get together. Due to the lack of overt representation, I became skilled at reading into subtext. Are those two guys a couple? Hmm, let me analyze and fantasize!
Nowadays, BL dramas are loud, proud, and out front and centre in the mainstream market. I'm still startled by how much BL dramas are thriving in countries worldwide, including Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, and even South Korea. Is this a dream? When did I fall asleep and stir up to a nature where other people like the obscure BL series I watch? Despite my confusion, I'm glad the genre has taken off because it means there's a growing list of good shows to watch.
I love all the recent BL series coming out every other week. I can barely catch up with the flurry of upcoming BL series, but that's a good difficulty to have. As I catch up on each show in my BL series list, I will share my detailed thoughts and personal
Proper representation on screen, especially as we grow up, is foundational to our understanding of ourselves. Queer representation in films has expanded and evolved, particularly in the late 20th and early 21st century, away from stereotypes and tropes and into more fully fleshed-out characters. The history of queer cinema is long and often fraught, with early tall points including The Rocky Horror Picture Show and John Waters's filmography, and many unfortunate low points. But daring artists possess explored identity and advocacy in fascinating and lovely ways, both in fiction and nonfiction spaces.
From heartwarming rom-coms to tragic dramas to compelling coming-of-age stories, these are some of the best LGBTQ+ movies—some of which have gone down in history as the best films of all time. There's a lot to love, and a lot to decide from, but here are some picks to begin with if you're a fan of queer cinema.
'All of Us Strangers' ()
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Andrew Haigh’s fantasy drama will craft you feel a range of emotions you’ve never felt. Based on the Taichi Yamada novel Strangers, it stars Andrew Scott as a lonely screenwriter w
Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
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Our list of the Foremost LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time 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 like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking their lives for the generate in Russia; Certified Fresh comedy Shiva, Baby; and Netflix&#;s The Old Guard, a rare
The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
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With the help of foremost directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential Queer films of all time
Like queer culture itself, lgbtq+ cinema is not a monolith. For a drawn-out time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if male lover 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 transgender community and queer people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in community 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 acknowledge them. To that finish, we enlisted some Homosexual cultural pioneers, as adequately as Time Out writers to assist in assembling a list of the greatest gay films ever made.
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