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INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * gay independent films *
Queer women tend to love this Betiful Lndrette (1985)Wrer Hanif Kureishi and director Stephen Frears proved you uld be racism, class warfare and gay love one story wh this Br flick that put the entire creative team on the map. Don’t expect a happy Flamgos (1972)Booed by crics and banned by many theaters upon s release, Pk Flamgos is perhaps one of the most impactful works by gay director John Waters, beg a mpy o to “the other. Gervais, Zac’s father, stggl wh acceptg his son’s homosexualy, and Zac aims to make his father proud (often failg), transformg this to a story that transcends time perd or settg.
The summer before that, Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller ma history wh Universal Pictur’ “Bros, ” among the first ever gay rom-s fund by a major stud: an important victory — even if that film did go, uh, soft at the box office.
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“Brokeback Mounta” turned Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger to cema’s most famed gay wboys, ls than a year before John Cameron Mchell shattered boundari wh the spectacularly provotive “Shortb” 2006. No longer limed by mcule budgets every se as they once were, films wh gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, and otherwise queer stori have flourished the first two s of the 21st century.
That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country.