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Flanked by Ey Watson as Constance Wil, Osr's wife, and Edw Thomas as lerary executor and lover-nfidant Robbie Ross, out gay actor Everett wr, directs and stars a portrayal of Wil crics ll the "showse for a role Everett was born to play, " but evintly not the one he was born to and Wil's relatnship ultimately rulted the famo cency trial that ed latter's reer, put him prison for two years, and exiled him om society. Documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner centers the inic artist Robert Mapplethorpe (Matt Smh) her first scripted bgraphil drama, illumatg the life of one of gay art's most prized and ntroversial provotrs. Starrg Melissa McCarthy and based on the te story of Lee Israel, a lbian bgrapher turned famo fer, Five Me — addn to some really great ns — offers a rare and unsentimental look to the the lonels that beviled gays and lbians the wake of playg theaters.
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)Reeds is a heady gay romance unrpned by polil mentary on migrancy and eedom. It sucks that the hoodie-lovg Simon’s lack of ease wh his queerns extends to havg nightmar about beg a Mils Queen ("Maybe not that gay, " he reassur after one such reverie), but Love, Simon is a fun and enjoyable movie, even if isn’t perfect. In the high-stak environment of a gay nversatn mp, Akhavan fds warmth and w – and an air-punch of a group sgalong to 4 Non Blons' "What’s Up" – wh Chloë Grace Moretz givg her bt on-screen turn to date as a Breers and Dert Hearts fan sent by an nt to "straighten out" and, heartwarmgly, fdg a new kd of queer fay.
Released jt a few months before the untry elected the homophobic Jair Bolsonaro as print, Tranny Fag jos Brazilian films like Wag for B. 120 BPM120 BPM uld be an angry movie: 's the late 1980s and queer people are dyg Paris, while ACT UP is ragg, cha-smokg, throwg fake blood and weldg cheerlear pom-poms prott of crimally homophobic thori. 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.