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Contents:
- THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
- MEILLRS FILMS GAYS FRANçAIS ANNé 2010
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS
THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
Celebrate the bt gay movi wh our list of the 50 most sential LGBTQ+ films ever ma * 2010 gay film *
Christopher Plummer, who won an Osr for the role, plays the senr who is relieved to fally embrace his inty and who is tryg to keep up wh a new (and much younger) boyiend while learng what means to be gay at age 75, jt five years before he would die of ncer. The film, released after great polil turmoil Iran wh the electns of 2009, lv to a youth unterculture there which schoolmat and lovers-to-be Atafeh (The Bold Type's Nikohl Boosheri) and Shireen (Sarah Kazemy) jo a gay male iend clubs and helpg to secretly dub the gay-themed film Milk to Persian.
In the film directed by Wash Wtmoreland, who is gay, Keira Knightley embodi the pansexual bohemian femist who stepped out of her hband's shadow to bee the most famo female French thor the film chronicl Colette's rise to fame as she leav behd her untry upbrgg to bee the toast of Paris along wh her hband, Willy (Domic Wt), who spurs her to chronicle her life for his lerary factory where only his moniker appears on everythg that's published. "After you've watched however many mut of this que reprsed society where you n't exprs your sexualy if you're gay, when the women fally are alone together -- [the sex scene] is credibly important. But even more revelatory are the nversatns the men have wh one another as Glen prepar to leave the untry -- nversatns that speak to life, love, and what means to be a gay man the 21st century.
Origally banned by the homophobic head of Kenya's Film Classifitn Board, Ezekiel Mutua, bee he alleged would "promote lbianism, " the film enjoyed massive dienc when the ban was lifted for a brief time orr to make eligible for the foreign-language Amy Award. That will ultimately benef all Kenyans -- apart om those who seek to stmentalize homophobia to ga polil relevance, " Neela Ghoshal, a senr LGBTQ rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch, wrote The Advote. In a time when so many of the topics addrsed by the film -- poverty, the school-to-prison pipele, homophobia -- rema real issu vulnerable muni and Ameri, is ed a privilege to have a film like Moonlight.
MEILLRS FILMS GAYS FRANçAIS ANNé 2010
From 1894, when the very first gay film premiered to this year when a mastream children's movie featurg a ma character who is queer beme available to stream, look back at the history of * 2010 gay film *
Thanks to this legendary leage, one uld argue that the mastream was ultimately refed (and even queered) the 2010's, not jt polilly but cematilly, 2010s saw LGBTQ+ reprentatn crease throughout the movie mastream a seri of landmarks: Moonlight won the first Bt Picture Osr for an LGBTQ+ film; the Star Wars anchise clud s first LGBTQ+ character; the ver of TIME magaze featured s first transgenr actor; a transgenr actor was nomated for a major film award for the first time, followed by many more; Disney featured s first gay characters; and on and on, the mastream beeg mold to somethg different and diverse all the while.
Fally, the mastream had begun to tch up to the variety of realy, and films were released year after year which tthfully reprented the liv of so many wonrful lbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, queer and qutng people. Cast a few top-shelf gay ins there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playg Joan Crawford — and pecially have them reparteeg bchy l tearg each other to piec, and have an athetic that’s outre and unironilly mp, and you’ve got the wng-formula starter-pack for somethg licly fabulo and queer, even if not by tentnal sign.
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
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But settg a precent for movi now nonized by gay culture that don’t technilly have any (non-d, anyway) gay characters were some of Hollywood’s most all-time legendary actrs: Bette Davis “All About Eve” ma “’s gog to be a bumpy ri” an idmatic quip, while Elizabeth Taylor then ma Bette Davis’ “what a dump” even more inic aga the openg le of “Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf, ” livered while gnawg down on a chicken wg. Ed Bianchi’s 1981 “The Fan, ” meanwhile, livered perhaps the greatt gift to gay film fans of a certa era stg Lren Ball as an agg actrs stgglg to hold onto her legacy while beg stalked by, what else but, a psychotic gay fan.
Films like “9 to 5” and “Steel Magnolias” keep ptivatg bee their sts are all top-to-toe, inic-among-the-gays women who n duce tears and lghs and shout unfettably quotable l the same scene. There’s also, of urse, the trend many of the movi of men beg huiated and based — somethg the gay mal the dience love to partake — leavg our inic women wh all the chips the end and whom we n leave the theater rootg for. But even if you thk everyone the film is heterosexual, s gay appeal is unniable, wh an in like Davis the lead, geo stum, and all of the lightfully bchy snark between the magnificent actrs.
Why ’s gay: Ameri’s arguably greatt director is normally regard as heteronormative (Wterns, war films, John Wayne, Amerin history), but his work is full of subtextual gay tert, rarely as much as here. Why ’s gay: Beyond s possible cln bee of the bare-chted Holn — a 1950s Hollywood beefke, seen here ep to his reer — what is notable is a possible alternative terpretatn of two female characters.
GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS
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From the tfight the powr room to the over-the-top dialogue to the jaw-droppg mil numbers and not one but two montag that serve as md-bogglg time psul of the ’60s, the film is so outrageo that spired generatns of gay viewers to scream, “Sparkle, Neely, sparkle!
Why ’s gay: A wacky sexploatn film wh high mp productn valu and a killer theme song, Barbarella mt fight the evil Durand Durand (om which inic New Wave band Duran Duran took s name), while scg a shirtls Aryan angel and outlastg an evil sex mache. What is: Although has been staged wh two men ( 2015 London), the straight uple’s suatn “Brief Enunter” — a drama of two married people (Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard) meetg by chance and their growg mutual affectn — works fe as a metaphor for barriers to gay romance.
Why ’s gay: More than the one-act Noel Coward play (the gay wrer expand the screenplay), this ni the possibily of realistic nsummatn, elevat the tratn impossible love, and als wh the sts of turng hont people to liars. Why ’s gay: Although “Mommie Deart” was negatively received at the time of s release, attracted a strong gay fanbase pretty much immediately, due to Dunaway’s performance, which was received by many as mp — most famoly, the inic “no wire hangers” scene.
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Why ’s gay: What’s gayer than a movie wh Lren Ball beg stalked by a closeted mil buff than also that same movie segueg to an out-of-nowhere stage mil medley a la “Sg’ the Ra’s” entr’acte, featurg Ball speak-sgg onstage while beg lifted and twirled around by a pack of male dancers? Why ’s gay: Those who had already read queer cu “Top Gun” three years earlier saw some the story of Dalton (Patrick Swayze, his first major film after “Dirty Dancg”), as a “oler” imported to a Missouri small-town bar om New York to impose orr. But they’ll also see themselv the spectacular rilience of Cher’s imperfect Rachel Flax, whose volatile outbursts are as gay as her bt l (“Don’t do anythg I wouldn’t do — or do anythg I would!
” But what really ph to the gay film non is Ga Gershon’s hammy performance as bisexual star dancer Cristal, and the love/hate chemistry she builds wh Berkley, which arguably sgle-handly lifts the film om so bad ’s good to jt pla good. Shop owners Karen and Barry beme fully immersed the gay muny Los Angel while simultaneoly hidg what they did for a livg om their fay and their vout Jewish Imatn Game (2014)Directed by Morten TyldumWhat is The Imatn Game about? Moonlight is a g-of-age story that follows the life of Chiron, a black gay man growg up urban workg-class Miami, Synopsis: A look at three fg chapters the life of Chiron, a young black man growg up Miami.
While there have been LGBTQ+ characters other animated films, Out sets self apart by havg a gay character the central Synopsis: Out is about a young gay man named Greg who hasn’t e out to his parents, but has plans to move wh his boyiend. The protagonist is Cameron Post, a teenage girl who is disverg her own homosexualy a small nservative Synopsis: Cameron is sent to a gay nversn therapy center for teens once her fay disvers she is secretly volved a romantic same-sex relatnship wh her girliend.
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * 2010 gay film *
For margalized groups, tthful reprentatn film is imperative, even lifavg, and today’s stormy polil climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgenr people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetilly — and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like bee they live we’re a long way om total clivy and gay movi sans stereotyp, the film dtry has ma recent stris centerg LGBTQ+ characters. Courty Everett CollectnMoonlight (2016)Based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alv McCraney, Moonlight buted to high cril praise for cematography, storytellg, and s portrayal of black gay male inty. For the ocsn, Val’s father Armand (Rob Williams) attempts to pass as a straight person spe his life as a gay Miami drag club owner and relatnship wh the club’s star attractns (Nathan Lane).
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.