12 merry and gay movi to spice up your holiday

Contents:

• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• 25 BT GAY AND LGBTQ+ ROMANCE MOVI OF ALL TIME, RANKED
• MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
• THE 14 BT GAY/LGBTQ MOVI ON NETFLIX
• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

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.

25 BT GAY AND LGBTQ+ ROMANCE MOVI OF ALL TIME, RANKED

Y, Tman Capote was gay, y he is portrayed as such, y shows his partner, BUT the primary foc of the film was Capote's alholism and his wrg of In Cold Blood (and that is FINE, aga, was an EXCELLENT film, jt not a LGBT film my opn). Terrific st wh excellent chemistry and some genuely funny moments, Fourth Man Out is a rehg gay edy that I thk many would enjoy (even the "manlit" men of this world), thanks to the rehg and likable performance of Evan Todd as the likable, awkward, r-mechanic Adam and his goofy well-meang straight "bros. A young man returns to his fay farm, after a long stay ex-gay nversn therapy, and is torn between the expectatns of his emotnally distant father, and the memori of a past, lovg relatnship he has tried to bury.

Not nearly as good or funny as Borat, but the film do a good job revealg the nonsense that is homophobia (Brüno viss a gay-to-straight nverter, a group of redneck hunters, and a martial arts expert who shows him how to "fend himself agast the gays"). You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web My Fay follows a gay man and his partner who chose to have children via-surrogacy. A perfect addn to any Baby Gay™’s g-of-age non, The Half Of It tells the tenr story of Elie, a bookish high schooler who fds herself an unlikely love triangle when a jock recs her help urtg Aster, her own csh.

MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM

A gay man (Jse Plemons) returns home to his nservative fay to be wh his ncer-stricken mom (Molly Shannon) this sweetly ic semi-tobgraphil film wrten and directed by Chris Now20 The Death and Life of Marsha P. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web this documentary, a gay filmmaker shows his Che fay's road to acceptg him and his growg fay the Uned Stat. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Kramer's semi-tobgraphil drama to life this HBO film, tellg the story of the creatn of the Gay Men's Health Crisis at the height of the AIDS epimic.

Tellg the te story of a young man who is subjected to a gay nversn therapy program, the film featur a number of LGBTQ+ intifyg stars, cludg Cherry Jon and Troye nowMy Own Private Idaho (1991)This ntent is imported om youTube. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Hanks and Denzel Washgton star one of the first mastream Hollywood movi to tackle the subject of HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia.

THE 14 BT GAY/LGBTQ MOVI ON NETFLIX

Wh tl like Love, Simon and Paris Is Burng to Tangere and Brokeback Mounta, the list has a wi range of genr and moods, but they all have somethg mon: they all "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. In Brish wrer/director Geia Oakly’s but film, a high school gym teacher named Jean (Rosy McEwen) is livg 1980s England when the Conservative party, led by Margaret Thatcher, announced Sectn 28, which prohibed the “promotn” of homosexualy as a “pretend fay relatnship. After was origally supposed to be a Disney movie, Netflix soped up this stant classic about a gay supervilla and his shaphiftg sikick based on the award-wng graphic novel om ND Stevenson.

Somehow the movie is even gayer (and dare we say, better) than the amazg book, and arriv wh some of the most betiful animatn and one of the most powerful msag about seeg yourself and others for who they are you’ll see. While the film certaly touch on the stggl of beg gay and closeted—the tular Simon (Nick Robson) isn’t yet out to his iends or fay— is fundamentally a sweet, earnt high school rom where the guy gets the guy. The film clus a number of ntroversial scen that uld be triggerg — so, watch at your own Now Advertisement - Contue Readg Below8 'The Bter Tears of Petra Von Kant' (1972) Courty Everett CollectnThe Bter Tears of Petra Von Kant is a sapphic classic that has bee a key entry the largely gay male-domated non of high mp.

In I Killed My Mother, Dolan documents the ght relatnship between a gay teenager and his sgle mother dreamy, heart-wrenchg NowAdvertisement - Contue Readg Below13 'Cisg' (1980) ©Uned Artists/Courty Everett CollectnA crime thriller set agast the backdrop of the 1970s leather scene, Cisg is a polarizg film wh a plited legacy.

BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

When me out 1980, mastream dienc and gay rights activists alike were sndalized—the former due to the graphic sexualy and the latter on the grounds that portrayed the LGBTQ muny a bad light.

) In recent years, though, the film—which featur Al Paco as a New York p who go unrver the cy’s S&M scene to vtigate a serial killer targetg gay men—has been reevaluated and is now nsired by many as a classic. Set the world of the New York ballroom scene, Port Authory—which was executive produced by Mart Srse—tells of the love story between a whe man who has jt arrived New York whout a penny to his name (Fnn Whehead) and a Black transgenr woman wh ep ti to the cy’s ball culture (Leyna Bloom, the first Black trans actrs to star a film at Cann) Now Advertisement - Contue Readg Below15 'Young Soul Rebels' (1991) Courty EverettDcribed as a “part-thriller, part-gay love story, ” Young Soul Rebels—a film not often clud U. The first Hollywood movie to center on Che-Amerins sce The Joy Luck Club some 11 years before , Savg Face tells the story of a closeted Che-Amerin woman fallg love for the first time and stgglg to rencile the relatnship wh her and her girliend’s tradnal (read: homophobic), close-kn New York Cy muny.

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

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. It’s an adaptatn of a novel by French liberte and gay in Jean Ge, settlg to a French port cy where a madame played by Jeanne More ns the world, and sailors engage explic sex acts that turn vlent. Ala Guirdie’s sexy and sry “Stranger by the Lake” has earned cricisms for nflatg homosexualy wh crimaly, but ’s hard not to be drawn to the world of a nu beach that serv as a regular cisg spot for lonely gay men.

Set Cuba, the film centers on J (Héctor Meda), a young gay hairdrser whose aspiratns of beg a drag performer are upend by the return of his nservative (and not to mentn tranged) father. Risg star Josh O’Connor will soon steam up the tennis world Lu Guadagno’s “Challengers, ” set for a 2023 release, but he first ught the world’s eye Francis Lee’s blisterg gay farm romance om 2017. Badhaai Do is a Hdi edy-drama film and a spirual sequel to Badhai Ho, which picts the life and stggl of Shardul (Rao), a gay police officer, and Suman (Pednekar), a lbian physil tn teacher.

The team noted that did not clu miseri or movi for TV, and to be nsired for the list, "a movie had to 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. Rotten Tomato sre: 98%Where to watch: Available on NetflixWhat 's about: The bt picture-wng "Moonlight" tells the story of a young Black gay man named Chiron growg up and tryg to fd his place the world. Rotten Tomato sre: 99%Where to watch: Available on Amazon Prime VioWhat 's about: "McQueen" reunts the life and reer of gay fashn signer Lee Alexanr McQueen, om startg off as a tailor to lnchg his inic clothg le, to his untimely ath 2010.

Of urse, this was 1948, and that queerns is all subtext, but roars to the surface thanks to gay screenwrer Arthur Lrents's script and performanc by s notably gay leads, Farley Granger who plays Phillip Man wh an anx flamboyance, and John Dall, whose Brandon Shaw embodi a more rerved, posh queerns. It's love at first sight, as they say, and th begs a sweet love story between Rachel, who's only ever dated men, and Luce, an openly gay florist the most '00s lbian wardrobe you've ever seen.

This 1969 Japane New Wave film f avant-gar edg wh meta-documentary style filmmakg and non-lear storytellg to follow Eddie (played by androgyno cis actor Peter), a trans woman who works as a hosts as a gay bar — the l between trans and gay inty are msy at bt, given when this was ma. Set on a farm the Yorkshire untrysi, Francis Lee's film trac the lonely and paed day-to-day life of Johnny (Josh O'Connor), a young gay man who buri his anger at his father wh bge drkg and anonymo hookups. In this 1935 film that marks the first llaboratn between Hollywood gay ins Hepburn, Grant, and director Gee Cor, Hepburn plays Sylvia, the meek dghter of a bookkeeper who disguis herself as a boy to help her father flee gamblg bts.

In Caravagg, Jarman queers the history of the Italian Baroque pater Michelangelo Merisi da Caravagg by takg the highly homoerotic subtext of his work (along wh age-old spicns about his sexualy) and jectg right to the text, reimagg the artist openly gay affairs.

Tongu Untied (1989)Artist Marlon Riggs's experimental film Tongu Untied addrs the onslght of racist and homophobic prejudic Black gay men have been forced to endure and navigate for s.

Teamg wh documentarians Tyler Jensen and Roman Chimienti, this fascatg leadg man steps back to the spotlight to share his story as a closeted gay actor who survived public mockery and the AIDS crisis to fd a love and muny that tak pri him. Rafiki (2018)Starrg Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva as burgeong lovers, Rafiki was banned Kenya "due to s homosexual theme and clear tent to promote lbianism Kenya ntrary to the law.

Wele to Chechnya (2020)The third film om Amy Award-nomated documentarian David France, Wele to Chechnya tak viewers on a guerilla-style vtigatn to the anti-gay purg that still plague the nstuent republic of Rsia.

Not only do the explosive project tail the abhorrent polici created by Vladimir Put and Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov to crimalize homosexualy, also lv to the sid culture the ernment has stilled s cizens to enurage hate crim. Related: Bt Gay Movi Streamg on NetflixTo make sure the movi liver all the passn, fatuatn, urtship and flirtatn you may be cravg, our remendatns only clu movi where romantic relatnships are ont-and-center—which means such LGBTQ+ gems as, say, Can You Ever Five Me? Fire Island (2022)Pri and Prejudice leans to pri Spa Night and Driveways director Andrew Ahn's magnificent rom- (wrten by star Joel Kim Booster) that loosely adapts Jane Aten for gay mec.

NETFLIXRELATED: Bt LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pri Month12 Fire Island (2022)HuluIn this rough adaptatn of Pri & Prejudice, we get an hont look at gay iendship the queer paradise that is Fire Island. HULUAdvertisement - Contue Readg Below13 Philalphia (1993)AmazonIn this powerful film about the AIDs crisis, Tom Hanks and Anton Banras give landmark performanc as a lawyer and his client fightg for jtice after a lawyer los his job when he's outed as beg gay and APPLE14 Carol (2015)ImdbA wealthy woman and a partment store clerk beg an illic affair this classic LGBTQ+ film set the 1950s.