The gay film ftival circu is ripe wh excellent foreign films that prove queer stori don't have to skimp on qualy.
Contents:
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
* gay movies from 2018 *
Kena and Zika's young, tenr romance is met wh evable plitns brought on by homophobia her nservative home. Kenyan wrer-director Wanuri Kahiu and South Ain -wrer Jenna Bass adapted their Cann Un Certa Regard ntenr om Ugandan thor Moni Arac Nyeko, and the project is actually banned Kahiu's home untry for attemptg to "legimize lbianism." From the looks of the trailer, don't jt attempt this, and by the laws of homosexualy, s ban means you mt post about on social media until 's available to stream or to the U.S.Premiere: Cann 2018Release: France, Sept.
Flanked by Ey Watson as Constance Wil, Osr's wife, and Edw Thomas as lerary executor and lover-nfidant Robbie Ross, out gay actor Everett wr, directs and stars a portrayal of Wil crics ll the "showse for a role Everett was born to play," but evintly not the one he was born to direct.Bosie and Wil's relatnship ultimately rulted the famo cency trial that ed latter's reer, put him prison for two years, and exiled him om society. Documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner centers the inic artist Robert Mapplethorpe (Matt Smh) her first scripted bgraphil drama, illumatg the life of one of gay art's most prized and ntroversial provotrs. A few of 2018's bt films for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr viewers are available on var subscriptn outlets like Netflix and HBO, while many are available to rent for unr $5.
Love, Simon is groundbreakg as the first movie about a gay teen to be backed by a major stud, 20th Century Fox. This documentary on the gay Brish fashn signer Alexanr McQueen, who died by suici 2010, explor the st of creativy and brilliance.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
I went straight om my mother's womb onto the gay para, " McQueen once said, and this film is a peek unr the hood to how hard the traffic was to navigate. He claims to have fixed Kathare Hepburn up wh 150 women, and that her supposed love affair wh Spencer Tracy was a ver for the gay tennci of both.
Wh McNally as the central terview subject, the film charts his begngs as a gay boy growg up homophobic Corp Christi, Texas, to his move to New York Cy and his creasg succs the theater world amid the LGBTQ civil rights movement and the AIDS epimic. Documentarian Hika Toda’s timate look at the hidn gay world strictly nformist Japan follows real-life uple Fumi and Kazu, an openly gay married uple who n a law firm together. 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?
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
)Bt Gay/LGBTQ Romantic Movi of All TimeNew Le Cema25. 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.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
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.
Stranger by the Lake has so much on s bra that would be entirely rctive to jt label a "gay movie. He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend.
The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.
BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends.
Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory. But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends.