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10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

Celebrate the bt gay movi wh our list of the 50 most sential LGBTQ+ films ever ma * gay teen films *

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This 2018 romantic edy-drama follows Simon, a 17-year-old who has not yet e out to his iends or fay and fds himself nversatg onle wh an anonymo gay stunt who go by the name "Blue.

Based loosely on Shakpeare's Henry IV, Part 1 & 2, and Henry V plays, this movie shows the journey of gay htlers Mike and Stt, and their search for Mike's mother. UFO enthiast Brian reprs the memory and nvc himself he was a victim an alien abductn, whereas Neil mov to New York to seek fulfillment as a gay sex worker.

A queer cult classic, the film centers on a gay teen growg up ral England the 1990s. Somewhat based on Dolan's life, the film follows the plited, sometim tense relatnship between a young gay man and his mother.

THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY

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The film, based on the 1971 novel of the same name, featur a gay love story set Edwardian England. The members learn to embrace their tths and eventually bee a gay-straight alliance.

From Victim to Weekend, we remember some of the bt Brish gay films. * gay teen films *

For margalized groups, tthful reprentatn film is imperative, even lifavg, and today’s stormy polil climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgenr people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetilly — and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like bee they live we’re a long way om total clivy and gay movi sans stereotyp, the film dtry has ma recent stris centerg LGBTQ+ characters. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, the movie shows what ’s like to e out high school durg a post-Glee world. Featurg a queer actor as one of the ma love terts, and a gay director, Love, Simon is a movie that will likely have you cryg and clappg through scen as you watch.

©Foc Featur/Courty Everett CollectnMilk (2008)G Van Sant directed Milk, a film based on the life of gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk.

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The first openly gay man to get elected to public office California, 1977, Milk was, and is, a gay in. Among the fe reasons to love Other People is that featur a gay protagonist even though the movie isn’t about his sexualy. It’s always rehg to see gay characters gog about their daily liv as people who do thgs other than jt date each other!

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