Another Gay Movie: An oral history

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8 GAY DIRECTORS WHOSE MOVI AND TV SHOWS YOU SHOULD KNOW

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Billy Eichner is headg up the first gay rom- om a major stud wh “Bros, ” “Heartstopper” is a tween smash on Netflix, and Jerrod Carmichael, one of the folks on our list of the 10 LGBTQ Film and TV Creators on the Rise 2022, me out on an HBO special.

” The HBO Max edy seri, -created wh Schneir, about a warped brother and sister pair tryg to make the dtry fearlsly took on gay taboos this past Season 2 — cludg an entire episo about the social-media fallout of accintally postg a “hole pic. The Chigo-based filmmaker is bt known for 2015’s “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party, ” which was hailed by crics as a naturalistic and nuanced look at a teenage boy rencilg his burgeong homosexualy wh his relig upbrgg. Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich kissed women on-screen the 1930s, and filmmakers ever sce have tackled queerns profound, tillatg and sultg my unt, there are four typ of queer-awakeng movi:Comg-of-age pictns built around sex and romance, often volvg characters who are disverg or g to terms wh their own potential queerns (“Heavenly Creatur, ” “Pariah, ” “Call Me by Your Name”)Slice-of-life stori that show queer people embracg their inti spe of the world around them (“The Boys the Band, ” “Longtime Compann, ” “The Kids Are All Right”)Megahs that brg queerns to the mastream (“The Color Purple, ” “Philalphia, ” “The Birdge”)Movi wh mp eccentrici, gay ins or d queerns (“Lawrence of Arabia, ” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show, ” anythg starrg Judy Garland)Wh Pri Month arrivg, I wanted to know what shaped today’s LGBTQ directors, so I asked a number of filmmakers and shownners to reflect on the first queer or queer-adjacent movie they fell love wh.

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It also showed that morn munitn uld be held the hands of the gay fashn pirat: John Waters, Dive and Mk Soloway (“Transparent, ” “I Love Dick”)Their pick: “Workg Girls” As someone who really didn’t intify as queer or trans until waaaaay after I started seeg movi, I’ll talk about a movie that vibrated me to my very re.

Jefey Schwarz (“Tab Hunter Confintial, ” “I Am Dive”)His pick: “The Boys the Band”I love “The Boys the Band, ” the film versn of Mart Crowley’s play about a group of pre-Stonewall gay iends gatherg for a dnken birthday party.

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