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Contents:

• ‘THE GAY REVOLUTN,’ BY LILLIAN FARMAN
• THE GAY SUBTEXT OF J REVOLUTN
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

‘THE GAY REVOLUTN,’ BY LILLIAN FARMAN

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.

" tells the real-life story of lbian wrer Lee Israel, who rorted to fg lerary documents wh her close iend (a gay man named Jack), to make a livg. The 2016 drama "Moonlight" tells the story of Chiron, a gay Black man growg up Miami. 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. 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.

THE GAY SUBTEXT OF J REVOLUTN

“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.

” Hell, ’s taken jt as long to make a mastream LGBTQ movie that isn’t about pa and sufferg or trma or systemic homophobia. The actual breakg of ground is that the st is top-to-toe gay, gay, gay… and that’s pretty much where stops. When we talk about wantg to be seen, a lot of really mean that what we want is a gay versn of our ’90s rom-s when the genre was at s bt.

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.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

” Set 1981 South Ai at the apex of the South Ain Borr War, the film’s story of gay unrequed sire turns out to be a sg for somethg far more lethal s marrow. It’s 1981, South Ai, which means ’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effemacy is a sign of weakns, and beg gay is also illegal. Dever’s Amy has been out sce sophomore year, she jt hasn’t ever kissed a girl.

Her all-too-relatable arc volv the heartache of realizg her tomboy csh might not be gay givg way to a surprise bathroom hook-up wh a broodg emo cutie. He plays Hubert, a gay teen nstantly at odds wh his uptight sgle mother (Ann Dorval).

Wrten and directed by Argentian filmmaker Luc Castro his feature but, “End of the Century” is the natural scendant of lh romanc like “Weekend” and “Call Me By Your Name, ” and will certaly endure as one of the most evotive gay films of the . Not a gay story so much as a queer one (Sciamma’s extraordary “Tomboy” illtrated her distert strict fns of sexualy), “Beg 17” is shared between two teen boys growg up the emotnally vivid mountas of the French Pyrene.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Ford employed the same productn sign team that worked on “Mad Men, ” envisng a sexy midcentury LA teemg wh, y, hot gays, but also an irreprsible air of sadns that mt be what ennui looks like. Terence Davi’ rtoly well-penned but eply spairg film is a portra of World War I-era English poet Siegied Sassoon, who lived a fortably gay shadow life on the g of the Bright Young Thgs, settled to marriage middle age, and died a late-mted Catholic, bereft, 1967. In sence, ’s Davi’ gayt movie and certaly his most florid.