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Contents:
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- THE 14 BT GAY/LGBTQ MOVI ON NETFLIX
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
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Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema.
And we regnize that some of the films the list will re-igne healthy bat that have been fixtur of discsn around LGBTQ+ films — straight actors playg gay characters, cis actors playg trans characters, and the historil domance of whe male perspectiv. For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life. The lp clus plenty of romance, tear jerkers, German ps havg gay shower sex, and classic tal of nocent young n check out the full movie scriptns and curated clips of their selected "Netflix and Chill" favor at the webse.
Molly Shannon giv a vastatg performance, the tragic quali of the Sacramento gay bar are hilarly explored, and the viewer is forced to re-evaluate Tra’s “Drops of Juper. That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
It’s an adaptatn of a novel by French liberte and gay in Jean Ge, settlg to a French port cy where a madame played by Jeanne More ns the world, and sailors engage explic sex acts that turn vlent.
Ala Guirdie’s sexy and sry “Stranger by the Lake” has earned cricisms for nflatg homosexualy wh crimaly, but ’s hard not to be drawn to the world of a nu beach that serv as a regular cisg spot for lonely gay men.
Set Cuba, the film centers on J (Héctor Meda), a young gay hairdrser whose aspiratns of beg a drag performer are upend by the return of his nservative (and not to mentn tranged) father. Risg star Josh O’Connor will soon steam up the tennis world Lu Guadagno’s “Challengers, ” set for a 2023 release, but he first ught the world’s eye Francis Lee’s blisterg gay farm romance om 2017.
THE 14 BT GAY/LGBTQ MOVI ON NETFLIX
The melancholic bgraphil drama, directed by acclaimed Brish filmmaker Terence Davi, don’t shy away om Sassoon’s queerns as hon on the bat veteran’s gay love affairs wh Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irve), Stephen Tennant (Calam Lynch) and Glen Byam Shaw (Tom Blyth), as well as his nversn to Catholicism. The first gay romantic edy om a major stud, Bros marked a historic moment for queer cema wh s prcipal LGBTQ+ st – even the heterosexual rol were played by actors of the LGBTQ+ experience.
Followg Billy Eichner’s character Bobby Lieber as a podster and rad show host as he falls for a ‘masc4masc’ gay (played by Le Macfarlane), Bros is one of the most outrageoly funny edi of the year and is, thankfully, not straightwashed to appeal to cis-het dienc. From Bobby snappg a pic of his butt for a Grdr hook-up (who subsequently blocks him) to the two lead characters brgg the foot fetish dtry to the big screen, Bros is g-g-g-gay.
Watchg Léo (En Dambre) distance himself om Rémi (Gtav Waele) as a rult of the homophobia of others is an excciatg watch, and the Belgian drama’s swch om buddy film to one about teen suici is equally as vastatg. An homage to teen classics like Cel Intentns, Jawbreaker and Mean Girls, Netflix’s black edy Do Revenge immediately ptured the attentn of viewers – particularly Gay Twter – thanks to the bonkers twists, 90s-spired athetic and sapphic chemistry between leads Caa Mens and Maya Hawke. Hailed by crics and viewers as an stant queer classic, Fire Island follows two bt iends (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) as they embark on their annual weeklong vatn to the tular gay hotspot.