Must see lgbtq movies
Don't let your LGBTQ+ movies marathon be relegated only to Lgbtq+ fest Month! Just like the finest LGBT TV shows, queer films can and should be enjoyed all year long, not just rainbow-colored June.
Our favorite LGBTQ+ movies (and if you're wondering "what does LGBTQ+ mean?" it's a catch-all highlighting lesbian, gay, bisexual person, transgender and queer communities) move the gamut from iconic documentaries like Paris is Burning to modern-day classics such as Moonlight to comedic newcomers like Energy Island.
And luckily for all of us, these titles are all available to watch on streaming platforms like Netflix, HBO Max and more. Here are some amazing LGBTQ+ movies to include to your watch list ASAP!
LGBTQ+ movies on Netflix
'Disclosure: Gender non-conforming Lives on Screen'
This Netflix documentary is a must-watch. Featuring interviews with the likes of Laverne Cox, Mj Rodriguez and Elliot Fletcher, as well as Hollywood royalty including Tom Hanks and Julie Andrews, it examines Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact the entertainment industry has left on both the tra
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50) The Living End ()
"Fuck The World." The motto of The Living End's protagonists might stand as a slogan for the whole of filmmaker Greg Araki's career. A key shitkicker in the early '90s Fresh Queer Cinema movement, Araki took a baseball bat to hetero-normative culture and explored gay life on the margins during Bush's administration in films by turns funny, frank and anguished. The Living End is his best picture, a so-called 'gay Thelma & Louise', as motion picture critic Jon (Craig Gilmore) and drifter Luke (Mike Dytri), both diagnosed as HIV-positive ("the Neo-Nazi Republican final solution," says Jon about AIDS), kill a homophobic cop and leave on the lam, offing any bigot who pose in their way. Rather than pity themselves, these characters unleash their nihilism on the world, tempered by a kind of freewheeling anarchy and enhanced by Araki's eye-catching images and jump cuts. As the film's dedication puts it, it's a punch in the gut to "a Big White Home full of Republic
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'Bottoms' ()
If ever there was a Superbad for queer girls, Bottoms is it. The second film from director Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) follows two uncool steep school seniors (Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott) who launch up a academy fight club to try and meet up with their cheerleader crushes (Kaia Gerber and Havana Rose Liu).
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'Bound' ()
In the Wachowskis’ landmark erotic thriller predating the Matrix trilogy, butch ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) is the newly-hired handyperson at an apartment building when she meets her next-door neighbors: mobster Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) and kept woman Violet (Jennifer Tilly). As Corky and Violet strike up an affair, they hatch a plan to flee Violet’s abusive relationship—and steal $2 million of Caesar’s mafia money along the way.
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'Circus of Books' ()
Southern Californians will likely recognize Circus of Books as the famed porn shop and dirty bookstore that has presided over the gayborhood of West Hollywood since the e
Hi, friend! I'm Samantha, I'm queer, and I monitor a lot of movies. For Pride , here's 20 films important to, made by, about, and starring people in the LGBTQ community that I think *everyone* should observe at least once.
You'll see I left some movies you might expect off this list.
As much as I love Ang Lee (and all his film's rugged beauty), Brokeback Mountain is still a show by and for cis/het people, whose actors often downplayed their characters' homosexual sexuality. And, yes, whileCabaret is funny and classic, gay novelist Christopher Isherwood (whose novel Goodbye to Berlin inspired the film) thought 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 travel to support films that actually uplift the LGBTQ community, rather than just use the idea of queer people (and unbent, cis actors) to sensationalize our existence, mock us, or make money.
The myths and morals we see onscreen enter our consciousness, shifting the way we engage with our wo