The gayt and happit queer movi to watch for Pri

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The new film Fire Island, streamg June 3 on Hulu, is a great place to start: the rom- centers on two bt iends who head to New York’s famed gay vatn statn for a memorable weekend wh their group of iends. Paris Is Burng (directed by Jennie Livgston) documents New York Cy’s ballroom scene durg the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and the Black and Late gay and trans ball walkers, queens, and fed fai at s heart.

This subtly W Anrson-que romance is also a powerful story of faial and muny love—wh a big, gay weddg as the cherry on top. A major ntributor to Natasha Lyonne’s legacy as a “straight gay in, ” and an sential part of queer non, But I’m a Cheerlear (directed by Jamie Babb and wrten by Babb and Brian Peterson) is a slightly surreal story set a pastel-hued gay nversn mp. Maybe Brokeback has bee somethg of a cliché sce s rerd-breakg premiere—but should that stop you om experiencg this piece of cematic history, and gettg a good, gay cry gog to boot?

The fact that ’s also a gay love story between Lady Hiko (Kim M-hee) and her handmain Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri)—albe one that’s both sexy and kd of gross, received by some as self-referentially playful and others as “disappotgly boilerplate”—is jt gravy. Rafiki brilliantly shows both the peril of gay love Kenya, where homosexualy is illegal, and the vivid, unntaable joy of a star-crossed, whirlwd romance.

If the first 20 mut of Kajillnaire are among the bleakt thgs you’ve seen, the rt is an creasgly geo and lorful romp about disverg you have the power to ci who you will bee, breakg cycl of generatnal trma, and the healg force of love—pecially gay love wh Ga Rodriguez-LoCicero. In a time of queer cema that’s posively saturated wh g-out stori, Csh is a breath of h, othy air that says, “gimme a teen rom-, but make gay! ” Awkward artist Paige (Rowan Blanchard) and sctably ol jock AJ (Auli’i Cravalho) mt work together to tch a myster guerilla artist this adorable triumph for sappy gays, people who had their first kiss on a school trip, cidly unathletic people forced to play sports agast their will, and, ankly, everyone else, too.

‘Weekend’ (2011)After bailg early om a party at a iend’s hoe, Rsell (Tom Cullen) ends up at a gay nightclub, where he meets Glen (Chris New). Based on the play of the same name, the story centers around a gay New York Cy wrer whose iends and acquatanc are creasgly afflicted by the vis. Portrayg a gay baret owner and his live- pann, the two pretend to be a straight, married uple a disastro attempt to assuage their future -laws.

‘Circ of Books’ (2019)“Circ of Books” chronicl the real-life story of Karen and Barry Mason, a uple who after fallg on hard fancial tim the 1970s, go on to bee the biggt distributers of gay pornography the U. Her life, and her myster 1992 ath after Gay Pri, are reunted through terviews and film footage this Netflix documentary. This documentary follows the liv of ball nttants, who s at var inty tersectns, like Latx, Black, gay and transgenr, pturg the muny's warmth and the dividuals' dreams.

Rope may be known to most as Hchck's experimental attempt to shoot an entire film what appears to be a sgle shot, but 's also the filmmaker’s gayt. The classic psychologil thriller is about a gay uple who murrs a man, then throws a dner party g the ad body's tnk as the buffet — que lerally "be gay, do crime, " Hchck-style.

Of urse, this was 1948, and that queerns is all subtext, but roars to the surface thanks to gay screenwrer Arthur Lrents's script and performanc by s notably gay leads, Farley Granger who plays Phillip Man wh an anx flamboyance, and John Dall, whose Brandon Shaw embodi a more rerved, posh queerns. Often dubbed the gay Thelma & Louise, Gregg Araki's The Livg End follows the reckls road trip of two HIV-posive, anti-tablishment gay men who go on the n after killg a homophobic p.