Here's our list of the Bt Gay movi and LGBTQ+ TV shows of the year that was 2022 — and what a queer year was!
Contents:
- IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
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And even gog past Patrick and David’s romance though, many of the non-gay characters still have a strong queer appeal; “A Ltle B Alexis, ” anyone?
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
One of the earlit h shows to center around gay characters, “Will & Grace” foced on the tense, more than a ltle -pennt iendship between gay lawyer Will (Eric McCormack) and straight terr rator Grace (Debra Msg).
Although the show has been dged recent years for the perceived stereotypg of s gay characters — pecially Sean Hay’ bed-hoppg queen Jack — ’s origal eight-season n holds up as a fun, sharply wrten s, and one of the first of s kd to give gay characters the full spotlight they serve. Based on the Black gay thor’s unfished mancript “Remember This Hoe, ” Raoul Peck’s geoly produced documentary brgs the work — focg on Civil Rights lears like Medgar Evers, Mallm X, and Mart Luther Kg Jr.
Ford employed the same productn sign team that worked on “Mad Men, ” envisng a sexy midcentury LA teemg wh, y, hot gays, but also an irreprsible air of sadns that mt be what ennui looks like. A film so good that we n’t qu almost 20 years later, “Brokeback Mounta” was a watershed moment LGBTQ cema, markg the turng pot where gay love stori began to enter mastream cema.