Here's our list of the Bt Gay movi and LGBTQ+ TV shows of the year that was 2022 — and what a queer year was!
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IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay upl. * best gay new movies *
In Brish wrer/director Geia Oakly’s but film, a high school gym teacher named Jean (Rosy McEwen) is livg 1980s England when the Conservative party, led by Margaret Thatcher, announced Sectn 28, which prohibed the “promotn” of homosexualy as a “pretend fay relatnship.” This new law means that if Jean is disvered, she’ll be fired om her teachg posn. Night Shyamalan’s latt thriller starred Ben Aldridge and Jonathan Groff as two gay dads who travel to a b wh their dghter for a ltle rt and relaxatn. After was origally supposed to be a Disney movie, Netflix soped up this stant classic about a gay supervilla and his shaphiftg sikick based on the award-wng graphic novel om ND Stevenson.
Somehow the movie is even gayer (and dare we say, better) than the amazg book, and arriv wh some of the most betiful animatn and one of the most powerful msag about seeg yourself and others for who they are you’ll see. Of an Age is a tenr gay drama set Atralia the summer of 1999.
Is Barbie gay the new movie and why is rated PG-13? The 2023 film starrg Margot Robbie has already generated a lot of discsn. * best gay new movies *
It’s already sted to bee a gay drama classic.
Rt assured, there are still plenty of cematic treats on the horizon: We’ve got an Atralian ballroom romance, a Bayard Rt bpic, Pedro Pasl playg a gay wboy, and loads of lic queer horror. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cab tells the story of a gay uple (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) and their adopted dghter Wen (Kristen Cui) as they grapple wh an impossible ultimatum: sacrifice someone or else the world will end. Hontly, the whole thg sounds like Booksmart meets, well, Fight Club, and that’s exactly the kd of energy queer-themed teen edi — TBDDavid Lee / NetflixRarely has there been a bpic stg cisn as perfect as tappg Tony and Emmy-wng actor Colman Domgo to play gay civil rights activist Bayard Rt, a man who was an enormo fluence on Mart Luther Kg, Jr., among other key lears, but who mostly worked behd the scen.
So if you make him a gay wboy a short film directed by Pedro Almodóvar — who, by the way, was once poised to direct Brokeback Mounta — I’ll s up straight my chair and pay rapt attentn.