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?
* gay movies or shows *
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In October last year, the pany’s Amazon Freevee ee streamg divisn dropped “High School”: a tenr and lovely g-of-age show spired by the liv of gay mic ins Tegan and Sara.
Perhaps the ultimate fort watch, “Scht’s Creek” famoly was a world where homophobia didn’t exist, and the gay characters were ee to be as cuddly and as msy as their straight unterparts. 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? 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).
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
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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. Though Eichner and the film’s PR mpaign end up upstagg the actual movie (this may have been a rare se of too much prs), “Bros” was a breakthrough moment for mastream gay storytellg, and a pretty entertag one, at that.