Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and the other streamg servic have a great selectn of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr classics to watch this June.
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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! * best movie gay 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.
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“The Inspectn, ” a drama about a gay Black man who enlists the Mar post 9-11, tells a versn of wrer-director Elegance Bratton’s own life story. Dpe the rampant homophobia of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era and a head drill stctor (Bokeem Woodbe) termed to make his life hell, Ellis striv to be a good person. A slasher flick wh an LGBTQ twist, Blumhoe’s “Them/Them” tak place at a gay nversn therapy mp whose sister tentns late to adly nsequenc wh a killer on the loose.
BenedictnOn June 3rd of 2022, two films featurg lic nstctns of muni of gay men were released on the very same day. One you've surely heard of (Fire Island, which I'll get to later) — and the other was Benedictn, a film that barely seemed to register spe beg helmed by one of our great queer filmmakers, Terence (who directed Rachel Weisz and Cynthia Nixon to arguably their greatt performanc The Deep Blue Sea and A Quiet Passn, rpectively) utiliz a bpic of Brish poet and rated WWI bat veteran Siegied Sassoon (played by Jack Lown his youth and Peter Capaldi olr age) to offer a wdow to the dramatic liv of aristocratic gay men the 1920s.