8 Gay Directors Whose Movi and TV Shows You Should Know

Contents:

• 8 GAY DIRECTORS WHOSE MOVI AND TV SHOWS YOU SHOULD KNOW
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

8 GAY DIRECTORS WHOSE MOVI AND TV SHOWS YOU SHOULD KNOW

Her sophomore effort was the HBO movie Bsie, a bpic on the legendary Blu sger and bisexual in Bsie Smh.

Today, the former is nsired a landmark work of gay cema and ntu to be one of his most beloved films. One of the earlit openly gay directors, John Waters boasts a prolific body of work, most of which clus inic mils and cult edi. " The film follows the explos of a closeted gay Korean Amerin teenager who works at a spa to help his fay only to disver a sexual unrworld at his new job.

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

Jamie Babb is perhaps bt known for her but feature, 1999's "But I'm a Cheerlear, " the beloved queer classic that tells the story of two teenage girls who fall love at a gay nversn therapy mp. Brish wrer-director-producer Andrew Haigh is perhaps bt known for his ntributns to the HBO seri "Lookg, " which follows a group of young gay men San Francis. While his but feature was "Greek Pete" 2009, Haigh broke out two years later wh "Weekend, " a film about two gay men who have an extend one-night stand and explore the meang of nnectn the morn era.

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

Many of Van Sant's films explore homosexualy through subtext, examg the relatnships of margalized outsirs. While queerns is often subtextual his films, Van Sant explored homosexualy at the foreont of "Milk, " a historil bpic about Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected polician.

Hayn' but feature "Poison" was even more ntroversial for s overt exploratn and pictns of homosexualy, but earned him two Film Inpennt Spir Award nomatns for bt director and bt first picture. The film stars his good iend and equent llaborator Julianne Moore as a 1950s suburban hoewife who learns her hband is gay and embarks on an affair wh her Black garner. Guadagno is probably bt known for "Call Me By Your Name, " a gay love story that tak place durg an Italian summer the 1980s.

His 1976 but feature, "Sebastiane, " was ntroversial for s overt pictns of homosexualy. Outsi of his work, Jarman was a proment public figure Bra and advoted for gay rights durg the AIDS crisis.