From lbian superhero to a gay g-of-age horror, here are 12 LGBTQIA+ shows and movi on Showmax this Pri Month.
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BT GAY MOVI AND TV SHOWS
I-D Magaze lled “the most important LGBT film you will see 2018… through the character of Xolani we are troduced to a world where homosexualy is still simply not an optn. ” The excsive protts agast the film laid bare the rampant homophobia that remas parts of South Ai. The film has a 97% crics ratg om Rotten Tomato, wh Variety ravg, “South Ain tr Oliver Herman mak his masterpiece wh this btal but radiant story of young gay sire on the Angolan war ont… tablishg him que plaly as South Ai’s most val ntemporary filmmaker… Both a shiver-lite exploratn of unspoken sire and a srgly brilliant anatomy of whe South Ain masculy.
Paapa Essi was nomated for a 2021 Bt Actor BAFTA for his role as Arabella’s gay bt iend Kwame, while I May Dtroy You won the 2021 GLAAD Media Award for Outstandg Limed or Anthology Seri, as well as 18 other awards, cludg BAFTAs for Bt Mi-seri and Bt Actrs (Coel). This rivetg profile chronicl Cohn’s life om the late 1950s as chief unsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy, when he first began wieldg polil power, through the 1980s, when he beme a darlg of the Reagan Whe Hoe, a rabid anti-homosexualy activist and polil mentor to Donald J. Child star Zackary Arthur (Transparent, Kiddg) mak his anchise but as Jake Wheeler, a quiet gay kid who buys a vtage Chucky doll at a suburban yard sale, throwg an idyllic Amerin town to chaos as a seri of horrifyg murrs begs to expose the town’s hypocrisi and secrets.
The film has a 97% crics ratg om Rotten Tomato, wh Variety ravg, “South Ain tr Oliver Herman mak his masterpiece wh this btal but radiant story of young gay sire on the Angolan war ont… tablishg him que plaly as South Ai’s most val ntemporary filmmaker… Both a shiver-lite exploratn of unspoken sire and a srrgly brilliant anatomy of whe South Ain masculy. Paapa Essi was nomated for a 2021 Bt Actor BAFTA for his role as Arabella’s gay bt iend Kwame, while I May Dtroy You won the 2021 GLAAD Media Award for Outstandg Limed or Anthology Seri, as well as 18 other awards, cludg BAFTAs for Bt Mi-seri and Bt Actrs (Coel). Closer to home, Showmax also has the rerd-breakg gay weddg special, Somizi & Mohale: The Unn; the Osr-shortlisted The Wound (Inxeba); and Die Harvters (Die Stropers), which screened Un Certa Regard at Cann, not to mentn popular lol documentary Skeef and gay rom No Hidg Here.