Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time.
Contents:
- 16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
- THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
Throughout the film, the characters’ attractns are fluid, makg this one of the earlit films to feature lbian, gay, bisexual/pansexual, and transgenr them. 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.
Crics Consens: We Were Here reviss the cris facg the gay muny the early 1980s -- and offers a powerful tribute to the spirg rolve shown at a time of turmoil. Surprisg for Wolfgang Petersen's most directn and Jürgen Prochnow's mature actg, sce both would go on to make 'Das Boot', this is one of the bt early gay-themed films I know. first Spanish film to addrs the subject of homosexualy head-on, the film als wh an ageg magician rellg his love affair wh gay poet (and Nobel lreate) Garcia Lor.
THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
Perhaps the most tertg of the 70s post-Fran gay films, as this one b anti-fascist ristance wh unrground culture and a love story, which mak for a pretty good, albe tragic, story. Paris street slang for homosexual, is a four-part French film that argu that ''gay liberatn was not born the 60's'' but, stead, had s roots the mid-19th century. A factory worker known for his tough attu and for fightg for workers' rights starts losg credibily when iends and -workers see him helpg a young gay man.
stage adaptatn of a popular theater piece of the time, this is more an examatn of machismo unr threat than homosexualy self, which is more of a talyst. Goln Bear-wng adaptatn of Cao José Cela's ntroversial masterpiece 'The Hive' (1951) wh a multu of characters, among which an ageg homosexual stands out for what happens at the end.
A mp melodrama/edy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sac (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the dghter of a dry-cleaner). Brander's portrayal of an officer set up for treason bee of his homosexualy won the Jury Prize at Cann, but is admtedly a very ee enactment of the te story. As Michael and Robert, a gay uple New York, prepare for Robert's parture for a two-year work assignment Ai, Michael mt face Robert's te motiv for leavg while alg...