‘Barbie’: Ken Has Never Been Barbie’s Boyiend. He’s Her Gay BFF.

movies gay 2016

A look at the stand out gay films, masterpiec, and near-masterpiec of the year.

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It's a sexy and substantative look at one gay Korean-Amerin life.MoonlightMoonlightis one of the year's bt films, LGBT or otherwise. The story follows a gay black man, Chiron, through three stag of his early life, along wh his stggl wh self-acceptance, bullyg, and his mother's addictn to crack e.

Black gay men rarely get this kd of screen portrayal -- the kd that shows them wh hntg and joyful plexy and receiv glowg reviews om top crics. In a time when so many of the topics addrsed by the film -- poverty, the school-to-prison pipele, homophobia -- rema real issu vulnerable muni and Ameri, is ed a privilege to have a film like Moonlight.Other PeopleMolly Shannon di over the urse of a year the film Other People. Inspired by Kelly's experience rg for his dyg mother, Other People also stars Jse Plemons as a gay son tasked to do the same, while figurg his own life out the procs.

Gay edic characters rarely, if ever, receive this level of humany and nuance.Kg CobraThe lurid tale of Brent Corrigan's early porn reer -- and the murr of a producer stmental to Corrigan's succs -- is the foc of Kg Cobra.

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But the animated Disney film is a timely allegory for how xenophobia -- and turn racism and homophobia -- n be ed for polil ga. But this extraordary turn the history of movi and gay culture never ma to the mastream media, which always distorts sex, polics, moraly, and was also the year when mastream media, which typilly margaliz gay movi, sudnly pretend to fd a rare gem (see the last sli). Beg 17Only Andre Teche has the breezy cematic mastery to make a story about high school enemi (one French, the other Algerian) reflect geopolil tensn and simultaneoly reveal the mols for gay alienatn and human nnectn fay and social dynamics--the roots of sire and self-nfince.

The heroe, a woman (Agns Deyn) who feels her ethnic herage and empathiz wh male anxieti, rells Srlett O'Hara seen through a gay man's sensibily.

A bpic of the great Sergei Eisenste, the gay Rsian geni who vented the actn film, seen durg his sexual and artistic exile Mexi. Film profsor and screenwrer Danny DeVo fac the tolerance of a lennial gay stunt more ncerned wh his own arrogance than life's of LoveIn Guillme Nicloux's Honor Thy Parents/Love Thy Child proverb and existential mystery, Gerard Depardi and Isabelle Huppert e to terms wh their ept issu when memorializg their gay son.

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A profoundly movg 't Call Me SonA gay Brazilian teen's (drag artist Naomi Nero) difficult self-realizatn is mirrored the vicissus of fay stcture.

Certa WomenKelly Reichardt's got m ol' smic blu aga, Mama, g the lonely landsp of Montana as her bt-yet settg for lbian character studi--by Krist Stewart, Lra Dern, Michelle Williams, and special gut lbian-of-lor Lily Gladstone searchg for a soul NightIn Los Angel' Koreatown, a gay youth (Joe Seo) balanc dutiful-son, immigrant-culture loyalti wh the need to embrace his sir. Years after Isaac Julien, Patrik-Ian Polk, and Carl Frankl's trailblazg movi about black gay life, this film ters to polilly rrect self-py and liberal nscensn, maly through s affectg black male actors.

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Barry Jenks' take on them om Trayvon Mart don't nnect to Teche's circle-of-life (or the other films listed here), merely rerc victimizatn as the gay and black social ndn. Moonlight is unacceptable but upg 2017 films by Davi, Dstel-Marte, Ala Guirdie suggt we are enterg a gay film renaissance. Two of the show’s most memorable characters are gay men, as different om each other as they are om the ritur one fds on primetime televisn.

Max and Patrick’s proment placement the first and last episos dit jt how tegral the plex gay men are to the succs of “High Matenance.

Related: Bt Gay Movi Streamg on NetflixTo make sure the movi liver all the passn, fatuatn, urtship and flirtatn you may be cravg, our remendatns only clu movi where romantic relatnships are ont-and-center—which means such LGBTQ+ gems as, say, Can You Ever Five Me? Fire Island (2022)Pri and Prejudice leans to pri Spa Night and Driveways director Andrew Ahn's magnificent rom- (wrten by star Joel Kim Booster) that loosely adapts Jane Aten for gay mec. Love, Simon (2018)You may never fd a film more quietly revolutnary than Love, Simon, the first-ever Hollywood stud-released picture centered on a gay teen.

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