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The 30 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time, Ranked
Cinema lovers should always strive to celebrate diversity in film. It might've taken long - too long, in fact - but cinema is becoming more inclusive, celebrating stories about every identity in the wide and colorful sexual spectrum. Going back to the Novel Hollywood Age, stories about Queer people have been around, often standing as groundbreaking and pioneering efforts, especially at a hour when such films remained controversial and scarce.
Nowadays, representation is much healthier and standardized, with writers, directors, and producers making authentic and tangible efforts to multiply LGBTQ+ presence in mainstream cinema. Fortunately, their efforts have paid off. From certified classics about the seemingly never-ending struggles facing the community to lighthearted comedies about the nuances of lgbtq+ life, these efforts represent landmark achievements in representation and endure as the best LGBTQ+ films of all time.
30 'Bottoms' ()
Directed by Emma Seligman
Taking an LGBTQ+ approach to the classic style of raunchy, over-
Being homosexual is exhausting in a world which constantly villainizes it in various ways possible. It is a life of pride, but a difficult one. Sometimes one requires respite, to just unwind and unapologetically be themselves, not having to justify their self or fight for the right to exist. When your entertainment is also focused on the stories of loss and tragedies, it becomes especially hard to just escape the harsh realities for a while. So, here’s a list of ten films where tragedy doesn’t befall our gay protagonists when the film ends.
‘Crush’ () dir. Sammi Cohen
Crush is a coming-of-age romcom with a love triangle where the characters go through usual high school drama but everything light-heartedly ends without any tragedy. The plot twist? The primary characters in the triangle are all queer. The Latinx representation and the queer representation both perceive genuine with inside jokes and cultural references playing a role in shaping the humour. It isn’t the best script per se, but as a sweet romance, it’s the perfect cute and entertaining break from queer t
Hi, friend! I'm Samantha, I'm queer, and I watch a lot of movies. For Pride , here's 20 films important to, made by, about, and starring people in the LGBTQ group that I consider *everyone* should observe at least once.
You'll notice I left some movies you might expect off this list.
As much as I care Ang Lee (and all his film's rugged beauty), Brokeback Mountain is still a movie by and for cis/het people, whose actors often downplayed their characters' queer sexuality. And, yes, whileCabaret is funny and classic, gay novelist Christopher Isherwood (whose novel Goodbye to Berlin inspired the film) consideration the movie reduced homosexuality to a comedically incidental weakness "like bedwetting.” And then there's Boys Don't Cry Don't even get me started.
Your hard-won clicks should go to sustain films that actually uplift the LGBTQ community, rather than just use the idea of gender non-conforming people (and vertical, cis actors) to sensationalize our living, mock us, or make money.
The myths and morals we see onscreen enter our thought, shifting the way we engage with our wo
The 30 Best LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time
In this first major critical survey of LGBTQIA+ films, over film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Uppermost 30 LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (), Beautiful Thing (), Weekend () and Blue Is the Warmest Colour ().
The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong romantic drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. While Carol is a surprisingly recent film to top the poll, it’s a feature that has moved, delighted and enthralled audiences, and looks position to be a modern classic.
“The festival has long supported my work,” said Haynes, “from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the early s through to Carol which is screen