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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. “My name is Harvey Milk, ” the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California, memorialized Rob Epste’s The Tim of Harvey Milk, proclaimed 1978, ls than one year before his assassatn.
Fireworks gurated not only the private mythology of unrground experimental filmmaker Kenh Anger, but also the subversive exprsn of gay sensualy Amerin film, a torch rried to the early days of the New Queer Cema. A verable dictnary of homoerotic inography, the 1947 short is also, lerally, a home movie shot while a 20-year-old Anger’s parents were away for the weekend, and a transfixg view of the vlence and sed rapture of beg “different” the 1940s.