Turns out, Barbieland isn't as gay as s queer fans had hoped

Contents:

• THE ADVENTUR OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DERT (1994)A CLASSIC AMONGST CLASSICS, THE ADVENTUR OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DERT FOLLOWS DRAG QUEENS MZI DEL BRA (HUGO WEAVG) AND FELICIA JOLLYGOODFELLOW (GUY PEARCE), ALONG WH THEIR RECENTLY-WIDOWED TRANS IEND BERNATTE BASSGER (TERENCE STAMP), AS THEY TAKE THEIR SHOW ON THE ROAD ASIE WRER-DIRECTOR STEPHAN ELLTT'S HILAR, SURPRISGLY SENSIVE ROAD MOVIE. THE ASIE OUTBACK WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER PRISCILLA. THE FILM WON BT COSTUME DIGN AT THE 67TH OSRS, AWARD TO LIZZY GARDER AND TIM CHAPPEL. ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999)FILMMAKER PEDRO ALMODóVAR'S POIGNANT MELODRAMA ABOUT WHAT MEANS TO BE A FAY REMAS ONE OF HIS MOST BELOVED MOVI. WHEN HER SON DI A EAK ACCINT, MANUELA (CECILIA ROTH) SETS OUT TO BARCELONA TO RENNECT WH THE FATHER HE NEVER KNEW — A TRANS WOMAN NAMED LOLA. ALONG THE WAY, MANUELA FDS NEW MEANG TO THE WAYS SHE N MOTHER.CHOSEN AS THE OFFICIAL OSR SUBMISSN FOR SPA, TODO SOBRE MI MADRE WON BT FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (NOW, BT INTERNATNAL FEATURE FILM) AT THE 72ND OSRS. THE BIRDGE (1996)A REMAKE OF THE 1970S FRENCH FARCE LA CAGE X FOLL, DIRECTOR MIKE NICHOLS AND WRER ELAE MAY'S BOUNDARY-BREAKG EDY IS A FLAMBOYANT CELEBRATN OF THE JOY OF BEG GAY A WORLD THAT ULD THK OTHERWISE. ROB WILLIAMS AND NATHAN LANE STAR AS A MIAMI CLUB OWNER AND HIS DRAG QUEEN PARTNER, WHO AGREE TO PLAY STRAIGHT TO MEET THEIR SON'S NSERVATIVE -LAWS (GENE HACKMAN AND DIANNE WIT). THE BIRDGE WAS OSR-NOMATED FOR BO WELCH AND CHERYL CARASIK'S PRODUCTN SIGN.BOUND (1996)THREE YEARS BEFORE THE WACHOWSKIS RELEASED THE MATRIX UPON THE WORLD — A FILM THAT SELF HAS BEEN REEVALUATED AS A TRANS ALLEGORY — SISTERS LANA AND LILLY MA THEIR FILM BUT WH BOUND. THE NEO-NOIR PER STARS JENNIFER TILLY AS VLET, THE GIRLIEND OF A MAFSO, AS SHE STRIK UP AN AFFAIR WH AN EX-N, CORKY (GA GERSHON), AND TOGETHER THEY HATCH A SCHEME TO STEAL LNS OM THE MOB. THE FILM'S MOST MEMORABLE SEX SCENE ARRIVED WH HELP OM THE FEMIST WRER AND SEX TOR SIE BRIGHT, WHO CHOREOGRAPHED THE SEQUENCE YEARS BEFORE TIMACY ORDATORS WOULD HELP REFE SEX ON SCREEN. BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR (1999)THERE'S A REASON DIRECTOR JAMIE BABB'S ROM- SATIRE HAS BEEN REVISED AND REEVALUATED THE S SCE WAS RELEASED, BEG A BONA FI CULT CLASSIC. NATASHA LYONNE PLAYS AN ALL-AMERIN TEENAGER WHO IS SENT AWAY TO A NVERSN THERAPY MP N BY CATHY MORIARTY AND RUPL CHARL. CLEA DUVALL -STARS AS LYONNE'S REBELL LOVE TERT, WH A ST THAT CLUS MELANIE LYNSKEY, EDDIE CIBRIAN, AND MICHELLE WILLIAMS. CABARET (1972)ONE OF FILM HISTORY'S MOST FAMO LOVE TRIANGL. SET BERL THE LEAD-UP TO WORLD WAR II, DIRECTOR BOB FOSSE'S MIL STARS LIZA MNELLI AS SALLY BOWL, A BARET SGER AT THE K KAT KLUB WHO BE ROMANTILLY ENTANGLED A '30S-ERA THROUPLE WH OPENLY-GAY PROFSOR BRIAN ROBERTS (MICHAEL YORK) AND THEIR SHARED LOVER, PLAYBOY MAXIIAN VON HNE (HELMUT GRIEM).CABARET EARNED 10 NOMATNS AT THE 45TH OSRS, CLUDG BT PICTURE, AND WON EIGHT AWARDS: BT ACTRS (MNELLI), BT SUPPORTG ACTOR (JOEL GREY), AND BT DIRECTOR, AS WELL AS FOR CEMATOGRAPHY, EDG, PRODUCTN SIGN, ORIGAL SRE AND SOUND. CAROL (2015)THIS ADAPTATN OF PATRICIA HIGHSMH'S 1952 NOVEL THE PRICE OF SALT, SELF SEMAL TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, WAS MORE THAN 60 YEARS THE MAKG. UNTIL DIRECTOR TODD HAYN FALLY BROUGHT THE STORY OF A SHY MANHATTAN SHOPGIRL (ROONEY MARA) AND THE FORBIDN AFFAIR SHE STRIK UP WH AN OLR HOEWIFE (CATE BLANCHETT) TO THE SCREEN THE SUMPTUO, ELEGANT CAROL. CAROL EARNED SIX NOMATNS AT THE 88TH OSRS, CLUDG BT ACTRS (BLANCHETT), BT SUPPORTG ACTOR (MARA) AND BT ADAPTED SCREENPLAY FOR WRER PHYLLIS NAGY. THE COLOR PURPLE (1985)DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG'S FILM ADAPTATN MAY HAVE RTRAED THE ROMANCE BETWEEN CELIE (WHOOPI GOLDBERG, HER BREAKTHROUGH ROLE) AND HEADSTRONG BLU SGER SHUG AVERY (MARGARET AVERY), BUT SHUG REMAS SENTIAL TO CELIE'S DISVERY OF SELF. THEIR RELATNSHIP IS MA FAR MORE CLEAR-CUT ALICE WALKER'S 1982 PULZER PRIZE-WNG NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME.THE COLOR PURPLE EARNED 11 NOMATNS AT THE 58TH OSRS, CLUDG BT PICTURE AND BT ACTRS FOR GOLDBERG. AVERY AND -STAR OPRAH WEY, MEANWHILE, WERE BT SUPPORTG ACTRS NOME.DERT HEARTS (1985)DERT HEARTS WAS GROUNDBREAKG TELLG A LBIAN LOVE STORY, AIMED AT LBIAN DIENC, AND DIRECTED BY A LBIAN (FILMMAKER DONNA DECH). BASED ON JANE RULE'S 1964 NOVEL DERT OF THE HEART, THE DRAMA TAK PLACE 1959 RENO AND CENTERS ON THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN A STRA-LACED PROFSOR (HELEN SHAVER) LOOKG TO START A NEW LIFE AFTER HER DIVORCE AND THE REEE ARTIST (PATRICIA CHARBONNE) WHO AWAKENS SOMETHG HER. THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE TWO IS PALPABLE, AND DERT HEARTS HAS LONG BEEN NSIRED ONE OF THE MOST ROMANTIC FILMS OF ALL TIME. EVERYTHG EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)AT THE CENTER OF FILMMAKERS DANIELS' MULTIVERSE-HOPPG EVERYTHG EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE IS A BETIFUL STORY ABOUT QUEER INTY AND ACCEPTANCE AND GRIEF: JOY WANG (STEPHANIE HSU) IS QUEER AND JT WANTS HER FAY TO ACCEPT HER GIRLIEND, AND HER MOTHER, EVELYN (MICHELLE YEOH), N'T. WHICH, SOMEHOW, EVENTUALLY LEADS TO YEOH AND JAMIE LEE CURTIS FALLG LOVE A UNIVERSE WHERE HUMANS HAVE EVOLVED TO HAVE HOT DOG FGERS.EVERYTHG EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE WON SEVEN OSRS TOTAL: BT PICTURE, DANIEL KWAN AND DANIEL SCHEERT WON BT DIRECTG AND BT ORIGAL SCREENPLAY, YEOH WON BT ACTRS, CURTIS WON BT SUPPORTG ACTRS, KE HUY QUAN WON BT SUPPORTG ACTOR, AND PL ROGERS WON BT FILM EDG. A FANTASTIC WOMAN (2017)ACTRS DANIELA VEGA IS A REVELATN DIRECTOR SEBASTIáN LEL'S STIRRG DRAMA, WHICH SHE PLAYS A WARS AND ASPIRG SGER, MARA, LIVG SANTIAGO AND VERY MUCH LOVE WH HER OLR PARTNER, ORLANDO. WHEN ORLANDO DI SUDNLY, MARA BE A TARGET OF SPICN AND RISN OM HIS FAY AND GENERAL DISCRIMATN FOR HER BEG TRANS. THROUGH ALL, SHE MT MATA HER INTY AS A FANTASTIC WOMAN.CHOSEN AS THE OFFICIAL OSR SUBMISSN FOR CHILE, UNA MUJER FANTáSTI WON BT FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (NOW, BT INTERNATNAL FEATURE FILM) AT THE 90TH OSRS. FIRE (1996)FILMMAKER DEEPA MEHTA'S TIMATE DRAMA IS BOTH AHEAD-OF-S-TIME AND TIMELS, MARKG THE FIRST TIME A MASTREAM BOLLYWOOD FILM CENTERED A LBIAN RELATNSHIP. RADHA (LEGENDARY INDIAN ACTRS SHABANA AZMI) AND SA (NANDA DAS) ARE BOTH STUCK LOVELS MARRIAG TO TWO CEL AND ZEALO BROTHERS. IN BONDG OVER THEIR SHARED PA, THE WOMEN DISVER SOMETHG MORE AND EMBARK ON A PASSNATE AFFAIR THAT NEHER ULD HAVE PREDICTED.FIRE ISLAND (2022)IT ONLY TOOK 200 YEARS TO FALLY GET THE GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE OF OUR DREAMS. SPA NIGHT DIRECTOR ANDREW AHN HELMS THIS LOOSE ADAPTATN OF THE CLASSIC EDY OF MANNERS, STARRG JOEL KIM BOOSTER AND BOWEN YANG AS BT IENDS AT THE CENTER OF A VERY MORN, VERY QUEER AND VERY JANE ATEN-Y ROM-. FIRE ISLAND FEATUR MORE DRAG QUEENS AND SHIRTLS DANCE PARTI THAN MISS ATEN ULD HAVE EVER IMAGED, BUT THE MR. DARCY CHARACTER — PLAYED BY CONRAD RIMORA — IS JT AS DREAMY.MORE: DIRECTOR ANDREW AHN TALKS FDG QUEER JOY ON 'FIRE ISLAND' (EXCLIVE)FUNERAL PARA OF ROS (1969)JAPANE FILMMAKER AND MIXED-MEDIA ARTIST TOSH MATSUMOTO DIRECTED ONLY FOUR FEATURE FILMS ACROSS HIS NEARLY 35-YEAR REER, THE MOST CELEBRATED OF WHICH WAS HIS FIRST: FUNERAL PARA OF ROS. INSPIRED BY OEDIP REX, MATSUMOTO'S ARTHOE MASTERPIECE IS SET THE UNRGROUND GAY BAR SCENE OF 1960S TOKYO, FOLLOWG THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF A TRANS HOSTS, EDDIE (THE ANDROGYNO IN PîTâ), AND HER FELLOW QUEENS. A PRODUCT OF THE JAPANE NEW WAVE, THE FILM PH THE BOUNDARI OF CLASSIC FILMMAKG, MERGG DOCUMENTARY ELEMENTS AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQU TO CREATE SOMETHG DACLY SGULAR. GOD'S OWN COUNTRY (2017)
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

THE ADVENTUR OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DERT (1994)A CLASSIC AMONGST CLASSICS, THE ADVENTUR OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DERT FOLLOWS DRAG QUEENS MZI DEL BRA (HUGO WEAVG) AND FELICIA JOLLYGOODFELLOW (GUY PEARCE), ALONG WH THEIR RECENTLY-WIDOWED TRANS IEND BERNATTE BASSGER (TERENCE STAMP), AS THEY TAKE THEIR SHOW ON THE ROAD ASIE WRER-DIRECTOR STEPHAN ELLTT'S HILAR, SURPRISGLY SENSIVE ROAD MOVIE. THE ASIE OUTBACK WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER PRISCILLA. THE FILM WON BT COSTUME DIGN AT THE 67TH OSRS, AWARD TO LIZZY GARDER AND TIM CHAPPEL. ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999)FILMMAKER PEDRO ALMODóVAR'S POIGNANT MELODRAMA ABOUT WHAT MEANS TO BE A FAY REMAS ONE OF HIS MOST BELOVED MOVI. WHEN HER SON DI A EAK ACCINT, MANUELA (CECILIA ROTH) SETS OUT TO BARCELONA TO RENNECT WH THE FATHER HE NEVER KNEW — A TRANS WOMAN NAMED LOLA. ALONG THE WAY, MANUELA FDS NEW MEANG TO THE WAYS SHE N MOTHER.CHOSEN AS THE OFFICIAL OSR SUBMISSN FOR SPA, TODO SOBRE MI MADRE WON BT FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (NOW, BT INTERNATNAL FEATURE FILM) AT THE 72ND OSRS. THE BIRDGE (1996)A REMAKE OF THE 1970S FRENCH FARCE LA CAGE X FOLL, DIRECTOR MIKE NICHOLS AND WRER ELAE MAY'S BOUNDARY-BREAKG EDY IS A FLAMBOYANT CELEBRATN OF THE JOY OF BEG GAY A WORLD THAT ULD THK OTHERWISE. ROB WILLIAMS AND NATHAN LANE STAR AS A MIAMI CLUB OWNER AND HIS DRAG QUEEN PARTNER, WHO AGREE TO PLAY STRAIGHT TO MEET THEIR SON'S NSERVATIVE -LAWS (GENE HACKMAN AND DIANNE WIT). THE BIRDGE WAS OSR-NOMATED FOR BO WELCH AND CHERYL CARASIK'S PRODUCTN SIGN.BOUND (1996)THREE YEARS BEFORE THE WACHOWSKIS RELEASED THE MATRIX UPON THE WORLD — A FILM THAT SELF HAS BEEN REEVALUATED AS A TRANS ALLEGORY — SISTERS LANA AND LILLY MA THEIR FILM BUT WH BOUND. THE NEO-NOIR PER STARS JENNIFER TILLY AS VLET, THE GIRLIEND OF A MAFSO, AS SHE STRIK UP AN AFFAIR WH AN EX-N, CORKY (GA GERSHON), AND TOGETHER THEY HATCH A SCHEME TO STEAL LNS OM THE MOB. THE FILM'S MOST MEMORABLE SEX SCENE ARRIVED WH HELP OM THE FEMIST WRER AND SEX TOR SIE BRIGHT, WHO CHOREOGRAPHED THE SEQUENCE YEARS BEFORE TIMACY ORDATORS WOULD HELP REFE SEX ON SCREEN. BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR (1999)THERE'S A REASON DIRECTOR JAMIE BABB'S ROM- SATIRE HAS BEEN REVISED AND REEVALUATED THE S SCE WAS RELEASED, BEG A BONA FI CULT CLASSIC. NATASHA LYONNE PLAYS AN ALL-AMERIN TEENAGER WHO IS SENT AWAY TO A NVERSN THERAPY MP N BY CATHY MORIARTY AND RUPL CHARL. CLEA DUVALL -STARS AS LYONNE'S REBELL LOVE TERT, WH A ST THAT CLUS MELANIE LYNSKEY, EDDIE CIBRIAN, AND MICHELLE WILLIAMS. CABARET (1972)ONE OF FILM HISTORY'S MOST FAMO LOVE TRIANGL. SET BERL THE LEAD-UP TO WORLD WAR II, DIRECTOR BOB FOSSE'S MIL STARS LIZA MNELLI AS SALLY BOWL, A BARET SGER AT THE K KAT KLUB WHO BE ROMANTILLY ENTANGLED A '30S-ERA THROUPLE WH OPENLY-GAY PROFSOR BRIAN ROBERTS (MICHAEL YORK) AND THEIR SHARED LOVER, PLAYBOY MAXIIAN VON HNE (HELMUT GRIEM).CABARET EARNED 10 NOMATNS AT THE 45TH OSRS, CLUDG BT PICTURE, AND WON EIGHT AWARDS: BT ACTRS (MNELLI), BT SUPPORTG ACTOR (JOEL GREY), AND BT DIRECTOR, AS WELL AS FOR CEMATOGRAPHY, EDG, PRODUCTN SIGN, ORIGAL SRE AND SOUND. CAROL (2015)THIS ADAPTATN OF PATRICIA HIGHSMH'S 1952 NOVEL THE PRICE OF SALT, SELF SEMAL TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, WAS MORE THAN 60 YEARS THE MAKG. UNTIL DIRECTOR TODD HAYN FALLY BROUGHT THE STORY OF A SHY MANHATTAN SHOPGIRL (ROONEY MARA) AND THE FORBIDN AFFAIR SHE STRIK UP WH AN OLR HOEWIFE (CATE BLANCHETT) TO THE SCREEN THE SUMPTUO, ELEGANT CAROL. CAROL EARNED SIX NOMATNS AT THE 88TH OSRS, CLUDG BT ACTRS (BLANCHETT), BT SUPPORTG ACTOR (MARA) AND BT ADAPTED SCREENPLAY FOR WRER PHYLLIS NAGY. THE COLOR PURPLE (1985)DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG'S FILM ADAPTATN MAY HAVE RTRAED THE ROMANCE BETWEEN CELIE (WHOOPI GOLDBERG, HER BREAKTHROUGH ROLE) AND HEADSTRONG BLU SGER SHUG AVERY (MARGARET AVERY), BUT SHUG REMAS SENTIAL TO CELIE'S DISVERY OF SELF. THEIR RELATNSHIP IS MA FAR MORE CLEAR-CUT ALICE WALKER'S 1982 PULZER PRIZE-WNG NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME.THE COLOR PURPLE EARNED 11 NOMATNS AT THE 58TH OSRS, CLUDG BT PICTURE AND BT ACTRS FOR GOLDBERG. AVERY AND -STAR OPRAH WEY, MEANWHILE, WERE BT SUPPORTG ACTRS NOME.DERT HEARTS (1985)DERT HEARTS WAS GROUNDBREAKG TELLG A LBIAN LOVE STORY, AIMED AT LBIAN DIENC, AND DIRECTED BY A LBIAN (FILMMAKER DONNA DECH). BASED ON JANE RULE'S 1964 NOVEL DERT OF THE HEART, THE DRAMA TAK PLACE 1959 RENO AND CENTERS ON THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN A STRA-LACED PROFSOR (HELEN SHAVER) LOOKG TO START A NEW LIFE AFTER HER DIVORCE AND THE REEE ARTIST (PATRICIA CHARBONNE) WHO AWAKENS SOMETHG HER. THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE TWO IS PALPABLE, AND DERT HEARTS HAS LONG BEEN NSIRED ONE OF THE MOST ROMANTIC FILMS OF ALL TIME. EVERYTHG EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)AT THE CENTER OF FILMMAKERS DANIELS' MULTIVERSE-HOPPG EVERYTHG EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE IS A BETIFUL STORY ABOUT QUEER INTY AND ACCEPTANCE AND GRIEF: JOY WANG (STEPHANIE HSU) IS QUEER AND JT WANTS HER FAY TO ACCEPT HER GIRLIEND, AND HER MOTHER, EVELYN (MICHELLE YEOH), N'T. WHICH, SOMEHOW, EVENTUALLY LEADS TO YEOH AND JAMIE LEE CURTIS FALLG LOVE A UNIVERSE WHERE HUMANS HAVE EVOLVED TO HAVE HOT DOG FGERS.EVERYTHG EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE WON SEVEN OSRS TOTAL: BT PICTURE, DANIEL KWAN AND DANIEL SCHEERT WON BT DIRECTG AND BT ORIGAL SCREENPLAY, YEOH WON BT ACTRS, CURTIS WON BT SUPPORTG ACTRS, KE HUY QUAN WON BT SUPPORTG ACTOR, AND PL ROGERS WON BT FILM EDG. A FANTASTIC WOMAN (2017)ACTRS DANIELA VEGA IS A REVELATN DIRECTOR SEBASTIáN LEL'S STIRRG DRAMA, WHICH SHE PLAYS A WARS AND ASPIRG SGER, MARA, LIVG SANTIAGO AND VERY MUCH LOVE WH HER OLR PARTNER, ORLANDO. WHEN ORLANDO DI SUDNLY, MARA BE A TARGET OF SPICN AND RISN OM HIS FAY AND GENERAL DISCRIMATN FOR HER BEG TRANS. THROUGH ALL, SHE MT MATA HER INTY AS A FANTASTIC WOMAN.CHOSEN AS THE OFFICIAL OSR SUBMISSN FOR CHILE, UNA MUJER FANTáSTI WON BT FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (NOW, BT INTERNATNAL FEATURE FILM) AT THE 90TH OSRS. FIRE (1996)FILMMAKER DEEPA MEHTA'S TIMATE DRAMA IS BOTH AHEAD-OF-S-TIME AND TIMELS, MARKG THE FIRST TIME A MASTREAM BOLLYWOOD FILM CENTERED A LBIAN RELATNSHIP. RADHA (LEGENDARY INDIAN ACTRS SHABANA AZMI) AND SA (NANDA DAS) ARE BOTH STUCK LOVELS MARRIAG TO TWO CEL AND ZEALO BROTHERS. IN BONDG OVER THEIR SHARED PA, THE WOMEN DISVER SOMETHG MORE AND EMBARK ON A PASSNATE AFFAIR THAT NEHER ULD HAVE PREDICTED.FIRE ISLAND (2022)IT ONLY TOOK 200 YEARS TO FALLY GET THE GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE OF OUR DREAMS. SPA NIGHT DIRECTOR ANDREW AHN HELMS THIS LOOSE ADAPTATN OF THE CLASSIC EDY OF MANNERS, STARRG JOEL KIM BOOSTER AND BOWEN YANG AS BT IENDS AT THE CENTER OF A VERY MORN, VERY QUEER AND VERY JANE ATEN-Y ROM-. FIRE ISLAND FEATUR MORE DRAG QUEENS AND SHIRTLS DANCE PARTI THAN MISS ATEN ULD HAVE EVER IMAGED, BUT THE MR. DARCY CHARACTER — PLAYED BY CONRAD RIMORA — IS JT AS DREAMY.MORE: DIRECTOR ANDREW AHN TALKS FDG QUEER JOY ON 'FIRE ISLAND' (EXCLIVE)FUNERAL PARA OF ROS (1969)JAPANE FILMMAKER AND MIXED-MEDIA ARTIST TOSH MATSUMOTO DIRECTED ONLY FOUR FEATURE FILMS ACROSS HIS NEARLY 35-YEAR REER, THE MOST CELEBRATED OF WHICH WAS HIS FIRST: FUNERAL PARA OF ROS. INSPIRED BY OEDIP REX, MATSUMOTO'S ARTHOE MASTERPIECE IS SET THE UNRGROUND GAY BAR SCENE OF 1960S TOKYO, FOLLOWG THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF A TRANS HOSTS, EDDIE (THE ANDROGYNO IN PîTâ), AND HER FELLOW QUEENS. A PRODUCT OF THE JAPANE NEW WAVE, THE FILM PH THE BOUNDARI OF CLASSIC FILMMAKG, MERGG DOCUMENTARY ELEMENTS AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQU TO CREATE SOMETHG DACLY SGULAR. GOD'S OWN COUNTRY (2017)

The new film Fire Island, streamg June 3 on Hulu, is a great place to start: the rom- centers on two bt iends who head to New York’s famed gay vatn statn for a memorable weekend wh their group of iends. Paris Is Burng (directed by Jennie Livgston) documents New York Cy’s ballroom scene durg the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and the Black and Late gay and trans ball walkers, queens, and fed fai at s heart. This subtly W Anrson-que romance is also a powerful story of faial and muny love—wh a big, gay weddg as the cherry on top.

A major ntributor to Natasha Lyonne’s legacy as a “straight gay in, ” and an sential part of queer non, But I’m a Cheerlear (directed by Jamie Babb and wrten by Babb and Brian Peterson) is a slightly surreal story set a pastel-hued gay nversn mp. Maybe Brokeback has bee somethg of a cliché sce s rerd-breakg premiere—but should that stop you om experiencg this piece of cematic history, and gettg a good, gay cry gog to boot? The fact that ’s also a gay love story between Lady Hiko (Kim M-hee) and her handmain Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri)—albe one that’s both sexy and kd of gross, received by some as self-referentially playful and others as “disappotgly boilerplate”—is jt gravy.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

Rafiki brilliantly shows both the peril of gay love Kenya, where homosexualy is illegal, and the vivid, unntaable joy of a star-crossed, whirlwd romance. If the first 20 mut of Kajillnaire are among the bleakt thgs you’ve seen, the rt is an creasgly geo and lorful romp about disverg you have the power to ci who you will bee, breakg cycl of generatnal trma, and the healg force of love—pecially gay love wh Ga Rodriguez-LoCicero.

In a time of queer cema that’s posively saturated wh g-out stori, Csh is a breath of h, othy air that says, “gimme a teen rom-, but make gay! ” Awkward artist Paige (Rowan Blanchard) and sctably ol jock AJ (Auli’i Cravalho) mt work together to tch a myster guerilla artist this adorable triumph for sappy gays, people who had their first kiss on a school trip, cidly unathletic people forced to play sports agast their will, and, ankly, everyone else, too. ‘Weekend’ (2011)After bailg early om a party at a iend’s hoe, Rsell (Tom Cullen) ends up at a gay nightclub, where he meets Glen (Chris New).