Mainstream gay movies
12 of the Most Important LGBTQIA+ Movies in Cinematic History
LGBTQIA+ representation has always existed on production – whether overtly or covertly shown through queer actors, writers and directors. But it’s only been in the last two decades or so that these LGBTQIA+ movies are starting to get seen by a wider audience and regaled with some of the biggest awards in the film industry. The visibility of these fresh, mighty and divergent narratives can be empowering for the LGBTQIA+ community and can help foster a greater understanding and acceptance in society.
While there are hundreds of films that reflect the homosexual experience, here is a list of twelve LGBTQIA+ movies (in no particular order) that will be remembered for having a powerful influence on cinematic history, not only for their forceful and relatable homosexual characters but also the conversations about the LGBTQIA+ people the films inspired.
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12. Paris is Burning (1990)
This documentary explores the ball culture of Fresh York City in the 1980s and the lives of the queer people who bravely forged its culture. This film is an important record
161 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
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Our list of the 200 Best 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 cause in Russia; Certified Fresh comedy Shiva, Baby; and Netflix’s The Old It’s grainy, faded, and, given the clip is now 125 years old, more than a short-lived worse for wear. But this concise footage is not so ancient that you can’t clearly make out two men, waltzing together, as a third man plays a violin in the background. It was an experimental concise made by William Dickson, designed to test syncing up moving pictures to prerecorded sound, a system that he and Thomas Edison were developing established as the Kinetophone. It’s known as “The Dickson Experimental Sound Film,” and dates back to 1895, the identical year movies were born. While there’s nothing to outright suggest that these men were romantically involved or attracted to each other during the roughly 20-second length of their pas de deux, there is nothing that contradicts that notion either. It’s considered by many to be one of the first examples of gay imagery in film, and a reminder that lgbtq+ representation has been with the medium from the very beginning. That clip appears in The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s documentary based on Vito Russo’s learn of homosexuality in the movies, along with It’s February 2021, and away from all the COVID-19 madness, it is also LGBT history month. To celebrate, I’ve picked out five films that I feel are some of the best mainstream same-sex attracted movies ever released. Emily Light shared with us her picks for the optimal alternative LGBT films of the last decade, and I thought it was only right to grab out the five top mainstream LGBT movies ever made. In the interests of clarity, mainstream in this list is determined by box-office success, a wide theatrical release and by having well-known and recognised stars in a pivotal role within the movie. Any of those three criteria can be met for a film to be featured in this list. So without further ado, shall we begin? Here are our picks for the five top mainstream gay-themed films ever made. If there was an award for funny LGBT movies, then I Love You Phillip Morris could get home the crown. The clip received a relatively minor theatrical release and only just managed to recoup its $13million budget, but I Love You Phillip Morris but two Hollywood names in leading roles in this gay comedy drama. Jim Carrey may not own been at the pinnacle of his
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#5 I Love You Phillip Morris