Gay movies in theater
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 lost 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 fun and sexy. In fact, fun and sexy are two of our greatest tools.
Even though Hollywood has pulled endorse 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 call for to shout out 20 more queer titles. (Plus 10 non-queer movies I loved too.) But as long as we’re living in complexity, I consider it’s important we mirror on which queer people are able to construct in the absence of more mainstream support. The vast majority of directors who released queer films this year are ivory — even more than most years. There’s plenty to complain about in the mainstream as Emilia Pérez will likely be the only queer production in the Best Picture Oscar race, but I think it’s also essential to look at wha
Pride Month Viewing: 20 Buzzy LGBTQ Movies Of
With another Pride Month underway, LGBTQ rights and visibility in media have never been more important.
Following the Trump administration&#;s attacks on DEI and recent endeavor to cancel Pride Month, GLAAD is preparing to release its 13th annual Studio Responsibility Index on June 11, showing the lowest percentage of LGBTQ-inclusive films in the past three editions of the report. The study tracks scripted films released in from ten top production distributors.
Although those numbers are bleak, LGBTQ stories maintain finding a way to the big screen and streamers alike, with titles from Andrew Ahn, Bill Condon and Ethan Coen, navigating topics of queer marriage, police profiling, sex work and anti-trans legislation.
From groundbreaking documentaries to kink-driven romance and intergenerational stories of family and society, these are some of the buzziest new and upcoming LGBTQ releases of
&#;The Parenting&#;
The Parenting follows young couple Rohan (Nik Dodani) and Josh (Brandon Flynn) as they intend a perfect weekend getaway in the country to introduce their parents. As tensions begin to flare between the more traditi
Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
The latest: With out latest update, we&#;ve added the most recent Certified Fresh films, including Backspot, Good One, Challengers, Bird, Love Lies Bleeding, Queer, Problemista, Fitting In, Housekeeping for Beginners, I Saw the TV Glow, In the Summers, The People’s Joker, National Anthem, Good Grief, Sebastian, FRIDA, Cuckoo, Fancy Dance, Femme, A Nice Indian Boy, and The Wedding Banquet! Watch them and more on Fandango at Home!
Our list of the Leading 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 result in in Russia; Certified Fresh comedy Shiva, Baby; and Netflix&#;s The Old Guard, a rare
20 Upcoming LGBTQ+ Movies We're Looking Forward To
The Gay community’s ties to Hollywood and cinema have been deeply intertwined from the early days of the medium. And yet, the fight for authentic visibility of queer people in film continues to be a rarity (especially when it comes to high-profile movies). With the movie schedule here (and Pride Month coming up very soon!) there’s quite a few LGBTQ+ titles to look forward to, and we’ve rounded up what to look forward to below.
Coming Soon
Honey Don’t! - August 22,
In , Ethan Coen and wife Tricia Cooke made Drive-Away Dolls, which they called the first of their planned “Lesbian B-Movie Trilogy”, which continues with this summer’s Honey Don’t. The dark comedy once again stars Margaret Qualley as a queer woman private eye named Honey Donahue who gets embroiled in a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church in the movie also starring Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Afternoon, Billy Eichner and Chris Evans. I can’t hang around for this one.
Twinless - September 5,
During the Sundance Film Festival, James Sweeney’s black comedy Twinless premiered to positive revi
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