Hallmark Releasg Its 1st Gay-Led Holiday Film—Will 2022 Have More?

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• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Set post World-War II Germany, this Atrian drama follows Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) who's imprisoned several tim for beg gay and durg his time prison shar an timate relatnship wh his cellmate, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), who is servg a life sentence for murr. Directed by wife team Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, this film follows two bt iends, One and Lucy, as they face two major life chang: one is movg abroad and other out as gay. Based on a wild but te story, Potato Dreams of Ameri follows openly gay wrer-director W Hurley's move om Rsia to Ameri when his mother be a mail orr bri and marri a much olr and eccentric man.

Wolfe (Ma Raey's Black Bottom), wrten by Dt Lance Black, and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's productn pany Higher Ground, this film is a mt-watch this year, pecially wh Coleman Domgo as civil and gay rights in Bayard Rt. And next year is gog to be even the first major stud gay rom-, to queer-clive horror, to Harry Styl playg a queer p, the next year will have a ton of great LGBTQ+ ntent on the big screen. Billy Eichner wrote and starred this gay rom- wh an all LGBTQ+ prcipal st, cludg Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, Guillermo Diaz, and Le Macfarlane as Eichner's love tert.

The movie, which is beg lled the first gay romantic edy by a major stud, jt wrapped filmg and is schled to h theaters Augt 22, 2022. Tells the story of bt iends Jane and Lucy, when one of them gets a promotn to move to London and the other out as gay. — Mathew RodriguezThe InspectnActor Jeremy Pope has been stealg scen both on stage (Choir Boy) and on screen (Hollywood) for several years now, but never have his talents been ployed as brilliantly as they are  The Inspectn, Elegance Bratton’s tobgraphil feature but about his young adult years, when he joed the Mar to pe homelsns and try to rekdle his actured relatnship wh his homophobic mother.

A Jarhead-style trag film that foregrounds the homoeroticism that has always unrgird ary spac, The Inspectn is a dazzlg g-of-age tale about trma, rilience, faial strife, and personal growth. If LGBTQ+ media reprentatn had reached s current levels , say, 2007 stead, I’m nvced Billy Eichner’s gay rom- would have been a box-office smash.

Basilly, image the moviegog experience of the 2000s wh none of the sual homophobia and that’s what was like to watch Bros a crowd theater.

The film jumps between World War I memori, a stt a mental stutn, a seemgly endls stream of gay love affairs, and one sexls marriage to pat a vividly plex portra of an unr-acknowledged but unniably signifint queer hero. — Rendy JonCloseAfter the ntroversial misstep that was Las Dhont’s 2018 but Girl, the 31-year-old director has ma a triumphant rebound wh his sophomore effort Close — a heartbreakg, timate tale about the makg and breakg of young iendship. Pri Month every June, and is a great time to celebrate the history of LGBTQ+ cema and watch great lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr movi wh your bt queer iends.

Netflix, Prime Vio, HBO Max and Hulu (as well as the other streamg servic) offer dozens of new and classic LGBTQ+ movi to watch this is leadg the way wh Fire Island, a hilar-lookg new gay rom- starrg some of the hottt queer talent workg today.

Wh good queer relatnship advice hard to fd this post-"Don't Say Gay" moment, there is a lot to empathize wh this story of a bisexual woman Brooklyn left reelg after breakg up wh her long-term (Paramount+)Directed by leadg trans directors the Wachowskis, Bound was the first sign that the were trs to watch before they ma The Matrix.

Fire Island (Hulu, premierg June 3)In 2022, we are gettg not one but two gay-themed rom-s om major studs (Billy Eichner's Bros later this year). We n gmble that took this long, but we nnot hold that agast this new take on Pri and Prejudice, set amid the gay hedonism of Fire Handmaid (Prime Vio)Though directed by the straight Park Chan-Wook, The Handmaid's lbian bona fis are tablished by the fact is an adaptatn of the semal novel Fgersmh. It tells the story of unrground ball culture the late '80s, and how s (mostly) Black and Latx gay and trans participants try to survive a racist and homophobic society.

It may lack the explic sexualy of some other films on this list, but mak up for sheer homoerotic (Hulu)In a world where some are tryg to spl the "T" om the "LGB, " and where homophobic legislatn is back on the book across the U. The story of Bra's Lbians and Gays Support the Mers group remds that Pri Month is not jt a celebratn, but a prott. BenedictnOn June 3rd of 2022, two films featurg lic nstctns of muni of gay men were released on the very same day.

One you've surely heard of (Fire Island, which I'll get to later) — and the other was Benedictn, a film that barely seemed to register spe beg helmed by one of our great queer filmmakers, Terence (who directed Rachel Weisz and Cynthia Nixon to arguably their greatt performanc The Deep Blue Sea and A Quiet Passn, rpectively) utiliz a bpic of Brish poet and rated WWI bat veteran Siegied Sassoon (played by Jack Lown his youth and Peter Capaldi olr age) to offer a wdow to the dramatic liv of aristocratic gay men the 1920s. This is where I firmly stand, generally: was an extremely funny, often very sightful movie that served better than was & QueerCome at , Bros: Billy Eichner opens up about his big gay Hollywood rom (that's very, very good)I saw twice 24 hours, and was thoroughly entertaed and ocsnally very moved both tim.

Fire IslandWhat more uld you possibly ask for than a loose, queer adaptatn of Pri and Prejudice that's set at the hedonistic gay vatn statn of s tle and featur an all-LGBTQ st pl plenty of sex, dgs and Marisa Tomei-imprsns? Kicked out of his mother's New Jersey home at the age of 16 for beg gay, Bratton was homels for nearly a before cidg to jo the Mar, where he would end up servg as a bat meraman. The latter experience gave him the ial tools that led to his reer filmmakg, but his entry pot to also serv as the premise for The Inspectn, a look at a young gay man (Jeremy Pope, who has already been nomated for a Goln Globe and a Spir Award for his performance) stgglg to survive boot mp the era of "don't ask, don't tell.