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Contents:
- THE BT GAY AND LBIAN FILMS OF THE 2000S
- 25 OF THE GAYT STRAIGHT MOVI EVER MA
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
THE BT GAY AND LBIAN FILMS OF THE 2000S
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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.
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25 OF THE GAYT STRAIGHT MOVI EVER MA
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INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
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And that’s all before Gee Clooney’s Batman adopts a nearly grown man only ne years his to stream: HBO MaxThere’s a pot at which hyper-masculy starts to look an awful lot like homoeroticism, and you have to wonr how many sweaty, shirtls men you n lerally toss together a space that exclus women entirely before starts to look like a gay club.
The wise old drag-queen-as-mentor is an age-old trope of explicly gay movi, and, though his wardrobe is limed, Ian McKellen’s Gandalf, wh his luxuriant hair and mid-trilogy glow-up, fs the role to stream: Prime Vio, HBO Max300 practilly screams “no homo! We’re meant to see the queer-dg the heavily ma-up and bejeweled Persians (Snyr has been explic terviews about his tentn to make the Persians srier to his tend male dience by makg them gayer), but that feels like a movie missg s own pot, while also wildly overtimatg the heterosexualy of the ancient to stream: TubiThe story of four young men (oddly old for high schoolers) who are scend om wch and have to fight some kd of evil or plot don’t really matter, and the movie’s not very good.