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!
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* gay movies to watch in 2022 *
— Mathew RodriguezThe InspectnActor Jeremy Pope has been stealg scen both on stage (Choir Boy) and on screen (Hollywood) for several years now, but never have his talents been ployed as brilliantly as they are The Inspectn, Elegance Bratton’s tobgraphil feature but about his young adult years, when he joed the Mar to pe homelsns and try to rekdle his actured relatnship wh his homophobic mother. A Jarhead-style trag film that foregrounds the homoeroticism that has always unrgird ary spac, The Inspectn is a dazzlg g-of-age tale about trma, rilience, faial strife, and personal growth. If LGBTQ+ media reprentatn had reached s current levels , say, 2007 stead, I’m nvced Billy Eichner’s gay rom- would have been a box-office smash.
That's right — not every gay movie has to end wh heartbreak. * gay movies to watch in 2022 *
Basilly, image the moviegog experience of the 2000s wh none of the sual homophobia and that’s what was like to watch Bros a crowd theater. Y, Bros was the first gay rom- om a major stud, but was also a lot of fun. The film jumps between World War I memori, a stt a mental stutn, a seemgly endls stream of gay love affairs, and one sexls marriage to pat a vividly plex portra of an unr-acknowledged but unniably signifint queer hero.
— Rendy JonCloseAfter the ntroversial misstep that was Las Dhont’s 2018 but Girl, the 31-year-old director has ma a triumphant rebound wh his sophomore effort Close — a heartbreakg, timate tale about the makg and breakg of young iendship. Set post World-War II Germany, this Atrian drama follows Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) who's imprisoned several tim for beg gay and durg his time prison shar an timate relatnship wh his cellmate, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), who is servg a life sentence for murr. Directed by wife team Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, this film follows two bt iends, One and Lucy, as they face two major life chang: one is movg abroad and other out as gay.
Based on a wild but te story, Potato Dreams of Ameri follows openly gay wrer-director W Hurley's move om Rsia to Ameri when his mother be a mail orr bri and marri a much olr and eccentric man. Wolfe (Ma Raey's Black Bottom), wrten by Dt Lance Black, and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's productn pany Higher Ground, this film is a mt-watch this year, pecially wh Coleman Domgo as civil and gay rights in Bayard Rt.